Eisenhower Open to Summit Meeting to Test Soviet Sincerity
President Eisenhower said he favored a top level Four Power conference to clarify world tension and judge Russia’s sincerity. He noted no firm summit plan yet and preferred a neutral host and a three day span. He warned decisive progress would not happen quickly.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Russia
Eden
Britain
Premier Faure
France
Marshal Bulganin
Chiefs of State
Eisenhower cautious on Salk vaccine speed to end polio
President Eisenhower acknowledged public pressure over the Salk polio vaccine release. He said scientists may have cut a corner but remains confident the vaccine will eventually end infantile paralysis. He noted safety checks delayed distribution and declined to comment on embargo details. He pledged to help any American child unable to pay for vaccination.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Public Health Service
Parke-Davis Laboratories
Detroit
Tot Confuses Pills for Candy and Dies in Chicago
Three year old Linda Basile died after swallowing sleeping pills she mistook for candy. Her mother found the pills missing and questioned six siblings. Linda admitted taking them. She was rushed to a hospital but died. The doctor estimated she swallowed 17 pills prescribed for the mother.
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Chicago
Linda Basile
Linda
Central City Sues County Over $400 Tax Funds
Central City files suit to recover about $400 from the county street fund. The dispute stems from a two year old agreement to pay the county $6,500 for bridge approach work connected to a $121,000 farm to market bridge over the Wapsipinicon river. The current council contends the town owes only $2,500 while the board of supervisors insists on $6,500.
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Cedar Rapids
Board of Supervisors
Central City
Wapsipinicon River
Paul Smola
Francis Pruss
Frank F. Bates
Bates
Miles Sutera
Henry J. Hood
Martin Wiley
Central City Council
Cedar Rapids High Schools Name 12 Boys State Delegates
Cedar Rapids high schools select 12 youths to represent their schools at Hawkeye Boys State to be held at Camp Dodge June 5 to 13. Delegates include Bob Brown and Todd Stastny of Wilson, Louie Fairchild, Curtis Winger and Bob Waite of Franklin, Jim Turner of Immaculate Conception, Robert Glass and Jay Sigmund of McKinley, Jim Murray of St Patrick, William Colbert of St Wenceslaus, and Beverly Taylor and Bob Hamed of Roosevelt.
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Cedar Rapids
Census estimates U S population at 164 595 000
The Census Bureau on April 1 estimated the United States population at 164 595 000. This figure reflects nationwide growth and serves as the basis for federal funding and statistical analysis by government agencies.
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U.S
Washington
Census Bureau
Committee To Judge Confused by Fax Case Study
Gov. Hoegh named a 12 member interim tax study committee to review Iowa tax structure. Members include Sen. Henry Heideman Rep. Jay Colburn Louis Boudreaux and Robert Johnson with four members from each house. The group aims to report within 60 days of the January 1957 session.
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Des Moines
Leo Hoegh
Henry Heideman
Rockwell City
Jay Colburn
Harlan
Louis Boudreaux
Cedar Rapids
Robert Johnson
University of
Bulganin urges careful reply to Western notes on Big Four
London dispatch reports Premier Bulganin telling an eight nation Communist bloc conference in Warsaw that Russia will study Western proposals for a Big Four leaders meeting. Tass cites him criticizing U S bases near the bloc and U S policy toward Communist China while noting Paris arms accords alter the international scene.
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London
INS
Bulganin
Russia
Moscow Radio
Warsaw
Tass
U. S
China
Jap Ferries Collide in Deadly Inland Sea Disaster
In thick fog off Takamatsu two ferries, Shinn Maru and Udaka Maru, collided causing a panic aboard. Of 840 aboard, 159 were dead or unaccounted, 681 saved, and Shinn Maru sank within minutes after a gash opened in its side.
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Takamatsu
Japan
Willis Adams
Junction City
Wis
U S Farm Delegates to Visit Soviet Union Planned
The U S State Department announced that a group of American farmers will visit Russia about the same time as a Soviet delegation comes to the United States. The Russians will travel as an official delegation to avoid fingerprinting, with costs borne by the Soviet government.
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Washington
INS
State Department
U.S
Iowa
Russia
Department
Lincoln White
White
Fuel Transport Explodes After Crash In Iowa City Area
A head on collision between a gas transport and a car pulling a trailer on Highway 218 near Oak Crest hill killed a woman, severely burned the victim identified as Mrs. Amanda Mayman of Miami, and may have left another person missing. The transport driver escaped with minor injuries as flames burned for hours. Firefighters from Hills Riverside and Lone Tree battled the blaze.
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Iowa City
Here
Oak Crest Hill
Hills Junction
Amanda Mayman
Miami
Eldon Miller, Inc
Hills
Riverside J
Lone Tree
Cedar Rapids group hears dog issue debate at first meeting
The citizens dog ordinance committee held a three hour session with 11 residents. Opinions ranged from confinement and licensing to a more permissive approach as members plan to invite two experts, Larry Andrews and Ross Howard, to speak next week.
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Cedar Rapids
Citizens
Japs Protest 5. Gunfire by Fuji Sitdown
Scores of Japanese villagers and left wing labor leaders staged a sitdown on Mt Fuji to protest army artillery practice. Police guarded the area as American troops stood nearby. The protest aims to halt planned firing through May over shells crossing pilgrim trails. About 200000 climb Fuji annually.
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Fuji
Cedar Rapids Man Dies After Mobile Crash
Leonard Curtis Collins 41 of Cedar Rapids died in Mobile Alabama hospital from injuries suffered Friday night when his car collided with a semi on Highway 90 west of Mobile. He worked for Iowa Manufacturing, recently bought a Bertram home, and is survived by his wife and a son. Funeral services will be Thursday at 2 p.m. in Brown Service funeral home Birmingham Alabama.
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Cedar
Cedar Rapids
Alabama
Collins
Charles C. Collins
Brown Service
Birmingham
Ala
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Today's Index
Waat Farm
Inez Robb
Eae
Hoegh
Johnson
Boudreaux
Pensick and Ford Company
House
Senate
Edward Oppendahl
R-Renwick
W. J. Johannes
Dashton
Blythe Conn
Burlington
Jim Henry
Carson
X. T. Prentis
Rmt. Ayr
Herman Knudson
Rclear Lake
Wilbur Molison
R Grinnell
Frank Elwood
Rcresco
Johannes and
Henry J. Graven
Maloney
T. M. Ingersoll
Robert O. Daniel
Thomas Collins
Ruppert Bingham
Richard W.beebe
Akay
James H. Maloney
R. D. Hunting Wholesale Lumber
Internal Revenue Department
Partnership
Internal Revenue Bureau
Secretary of the Treasury
Graven
Reginald V. Walker
John Randall
Irma Bachman
Paul Points
On Time Transfer Company
Farmers’ ‘Cooperative Exchange of
Lawrence K. Cole
Durant
Ronprfane
Laura Turner
Pythian Sish
Dairy Ladies Clas
Nellie Douglass
Dorothy Scott Miller
Hiroshima
Yoshitaka Ishimoto
Soviet
Russ Wiley
Larry Andrews
National Humane Society
Washington, D.C
Joseph Sadowsky
Linn County Humane Society
Andrews
Ross Howard F
Wayne, Ill
Max Widmer
Howard
Denver
Oklahoma City
Illinois Cities
Citizens’ Committee
Milo Sedlacek
Sadowsky
F. C. Williamson
W. Howard Moyer
C.R. Man
Mobile
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