Weather and events roundup from the Midwest region
Partly cloudy and warmer in many areas with a risk of showers in the west. The forecast notes cooler northeast and extreme north, with Tuesday night lows 50 to 55 and Wednesday highs 60 to 70. The report includes births, divorces, police incidents, and funeral notices across Iowa, Minnesota, and neighboring communities.
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Reet
Aleessenfee Bisma
Tae Siekeee
Los Angeles
Miami
Sioux City
Iowa
School site plan faces mixed reviews in board debate
The board weighs a last call purchase of 34 acres on First Avenue with ties to the stadium area. Jensen votes no, saying full study of high school options is needed. others favor keeping land for future options including a possible elementary school. Borings show sandy clay foundations and a decision on architects to be taken in executive session before an open meeting.
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First Avenue
Stadium
Douglas Grant
Jensen
Jensenalone
Grant
Dr. Kesler
O. Waples
Ben H. Peterson
W. Sandoe Jordan
David W. Lehti
E. W. Lundquist
Citizens’ Advisory Committee
Death of Mrs E G Kieck Drowned in Cedar River
Mrs Ernest G Kieck 64 of 22 Blake Terrace SE drowned in the Cedar River near Ellis Park pavilion Monday night after a note indicated she planned to jump. The coroner ruled death by own action. Surviving husband and a sister live in Belle Plaine. She was a nurse graduate from Ottumwa Hospital with private services planned at Turner chapel.
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Ernest G. Kieck
Blake Terrace SE
Cedar River
Ellis Park Pavilion
John Ann Kieck
Cedar Rapids
What Cheer
Chicago
E. R. ‘Hammond
Belle Plaine
Kieck
Ottumwa Hospital
Turner Chapel
H. G. Schwegler
Godfrey Laughs and Exercises After Surgery
Boston AP reports television radio star Arthur Godfrey joked and laughed while exercising for the first time since Friday surgery. He used a bed frame device and his appetite returns with a lamb chop salad and fruit for luncheon. Godfrey sustained multiple hip fractures in a 1931 car crash.
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Boston
Arthur Godfrey
Sea General
Godfrey
Meany Warns of Reactionaries Seizing Policy
Chicago AP President George F. Meany of the American Federation of Labor warned that reactionaries and isolationists may seize initiative from President Eisenhower in foreign and domestic policy. He told the International Ladies Garment Workers union convention labor must mobilize its political strength for the final elections next year.
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Chicago
George F. Meany
American Federation of Labor
Eisenhower
Meany
International Ladies Garment Workers
Jinx Atom Test Finally Detonated at Yucca Flat
The Atomic Energy Commission finally set off the ninth shot of its current test program Tuesday at Yucca Flat, 650 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Delays due to high radiation and bad weather postponed the explosion four times, but the tower test produced the brightest flash of the series and a sky lit for several seconds with changing colors.
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Las Vegas
Atomic Energy Commission
Yucca Flat
Here
Nuclear test plane makes first flight through thermal envelope
A U S air force plane flew Tuesday through the thermal envelope around a nuclear fireball, marking the first successful flight through the hazardous area near a test detonation.
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Las Vegas
Atomic test fires artillery shell from army cannon
The AEC announced a nuclear device detonated on a 300 foot tower amid an air force crew training program. Forty seven aircraft participated in test phases with about 1000 armed observers in trenches two miles from the blast. observers in Bakersfield California Grand Junction Colorado and Idaho saw the explosion. Twenty three congressmen were among observers. Only one test remains in this atomic series.
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AEC
Air Force
U. S
Bakersfield
Calif
Grand Junction
Colo
Idaho
Army
Monnet Seeks US Europe Unity Report Ahead of Washington Visit
Jean Monnet chief executive of the Schuman plan says he will brief President Eisenhower in June on a potential United States of Europe. He will discuss binding federation plans despite Cold War strains and accepted Aachen's Charlemagne prize for European unification work. Monnet, head of the European Coal and Steel Community High Authority, anticipates an optimistic progress report.
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Luxembourg
Jean Monnet
France
Eisenhower
United States of Europe
Washington
Free Nations of Europe
Europe
Monnet
Aachen
European Coal and Steel Community
Dulles
U. S
Ohio Admission Voted by House
The House unanimously passed a bill to admit Ohio as the 17th state, setting its entry for March 1, 1803, the date of the first legislature meeting at Chillicothe. The action completes a long-fought congressional task begun 150 years ago and notes Ohio’s boundaries and constitution.
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Washington
House
Ohio
Congress
Chillicothe Congress
Awarded 170 154 For Loss of Arm in Minnesota Case
A district court jury in St. Cloud Minnesota awarded William Hallada thirty from Grand Forks North Dakota one hundred seventy thousand one hundred fifty four dollars for loss of an arm. Hallada claims the Great Northern railroad violated the railroad safety appliance act by failing to couple cars automatically after being knocked from a flat car near Lakota on October 16.
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ST. Cloud, Minn
Minnesota
William ‘Hallada
Grand Forks
N. D
Hallada
Eugene A. Berat
Minneapolis
United States
Great Northern
Lakota
Building Trade Talks Stall in Cedar Rapids
Negotiations between building trades unions and Cedar Rapids contractors remained at a standstill Tuesday as many contractors attended a Des Moines meeting of their state association. Talks were set to resume Wednesday and John Evans, business agent for the Building Trades Council, anticipated settlements after the Des Moines gathering.
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Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
John Evans
Building Trades Council
School Board Hears Panel on Student Discipline
The board endorsed the superintendent’s report on discipline in a district of about 12 000 pupils. Members stressed parent awareness, closer liaison with school staff, and early intervention to address behavior and maladjustment. Practitioner comments urged curriculum review, elementarylevel programs for advanced students, and stronger ties with social services and mental health resources.
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B. A. Jensen
W. Sandoe Jordan
Douglas Grant
Parker
Special Education Department
Eliot O. Waples
Ben H. Peterson
Mama
Papa
Peterson
Jensen
Child Welfare Bureau
Mental Health Center
Citizens’ Advisory Committee
Riverside Man Found Dead On Farm Near Riverside
Joseph Louis Libenguth, 68, was found dead about 2 30 p m Monday in a chickenhouse on his Riverside area farm. Officials believe heart attack caused death. he went to gather eggs at 12 30 p m and did not return. Services set for Wednesday at 9 a m in St Mary's church. Body at Sorden and Adams funeral home.
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Center Point
Viola May Abbott
First Christian Church
Satchett-Murdoch Funeral Home
Riverside
Joseph L. Libenguth
St. Mary’s Church
Sorden and Adams Funeral Home
Edith Craft
Romulus, Mich
Romulus
Ralph
Tams
Carl Liston
St. Patrick’s Church
the Gazette
Joseph Louis Libenguth
Convict Walks Away From Iowa Prison Farm
Des Moines area deputies search west of the city for Warren Joseph Bianco a 33 year old prisoner who escaped from the Clive prison farm. Bianco sentenced in 1937 in Des Moines on a filling station operator charge he is 5 6 about 145 pounds with a scar above one eye and a mysterious car was seen near the farm.
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Des Moines
INS
Clive
Warren Joseph Bianco
Bianco
Courthouse Plea Lines From Local Defendants
Merle E. Nelson pleads innocent to carrying concealed weapons with a $1000 bond. Cecil A. Witte, 29, of the Pullman hotel, faces larceny charges with $2000 bond for both men. Behrens charged with robbing Robert Burke last Saturday night. Witte accused of stealing about 300 cartons of cigarettes and a ham from West Side Sun Mart. he was an employee there.
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Ne Aeal Avenue
Cecil A. Witte
Pullman Hotel
Behrens
Robert Burke
Tenth Street
Witte
West Side
Sun Mart
Suit for 18000 Filed by Cedar Rapids Woman
A Cedar Rapids woman, Mrs. Carlyle C. Strang, filed an $18,000 suit alleging permanent neck and back injuries and chest and throat bruises from an Aug 29 1952 rear collision on Highway 149, north of Fairfax, caused by Leon Svoboda. The petition seeks damages for past and future pain and suffering.
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Cedar Rapids
Fairfax
Carlyle C. Strang
Leon Svoboda
Strang
Svoboda
Yeisley Will Admitted to Probate In Linn Township
Probate records show John F. E. Yeisley died May 5 and left a 292 acre Linn township farm to his grand nephew Arthur J. Yeisley. A Mt. Vernon house goes to Harley E. Yeisley and Emma J. Cardy, with an automobile to Harley Yeisley. The remainder is divided equally among Arthur, Harley, and Emma Cardy. Arthur Yeisley named executor without bond.
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John F. E. Yeisley
Linn Township
Arthur J. Yeisley
Mt. Vernon
Harley E. Yeisley
Emma J.cardy
Harley Yeisley
Arthur
Emma Cardy
Arthur Yeisley
Minor seeks marriage annulment in Rhode Island case
Jimmie R. Snodgrass aged 18 filed suit for marriage annulment against Dorothea Smith Snodgrass. The suit, brought by his father W E Snodgrass, notes the defendant was on parole from Rhode Island when the marriage occurred earlier this month and that she had no permission to marry.
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Jimmie R. Snodgrass
Dorothea Smith Snodgrass
W. E. Snodgrass
Rhode Island
Imarry
Marion man held on charge of deserting family
A. D. Mannen, 40, of Marion was jailed in Linn county on a desertion charge. Deputy Sheriff Pete Whittemore arrested him Monday night and he was to appear in court Tuesday afternoon.
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A. D. Mannen
Marion
Linn County
Mannen
Pete Whittemore
Saltonstall Details Postwar Military Spending Cuts
Saltonstall notes 98.6 billion for military funds with 59 percent to go to aircraft and maintenance. He says the Eisenhower budget plans reduce military spending by 2.3 billion in the new year to around 43.2 billion and cut new appropriations by 5.4 billion from the Truman budget request.
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Saltonstall
Three Keokuk Residents Reach Scotland by Air
Keokuk residents Robert Fisher an industrialist his wife and Henry Huis a banker flew a private two engine plane to Prestwick Scotland landing Monday French route later to Brussels then Paris for the Rotary International convention They left May 5 after a delay at Goose Bay Labrador and plan to attend the coronation in England before returning home.
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Keokuk
Atlantic
Prestwick
Scotland
Robert Fisher
Henry Huisa
Europe
Fisher
Goose Bay
Labrador
Brussels
Paris
Icgland
Betty Grable Suspended Again by Studio
Betty Grable is suspended for the third time in two years by 20th Century Fox after refusing a loanout assignment at Columbia Pictures on Monday. The Hollywood AP report notes the studio cited her refusal as the reason for the action.
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Hollywood
Betty ‘Grable
20Th Century- Fox
Columbia Pictures
Walters Elected President of Cedar Rapids Association
John B. Walters was chosen president of the Cedar Rapids Association of Life Underwriters at a Tuesday noon meeting in the Montrose hotel. He succeeds Frank Frambes and will lead Frank Carideo as vice president Lester W Turner as secretary and Cleo F Edwards as treasurer. New board members are Charles Galiher J A Marshek and Leon A Weber.
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John B. Walters
Cedar Rapids
Rewards Offered for Guerilla Chiefs in South Korea
The U S army announced rewards ranging from 200 to 1000 pounds of rice for capture dead or alive of eight guerrilla chiefs in inflation battered South Korea. The top prize goes to Lee a Sang listed as No 1 guerrilla leader. A thousand pounds of rice worth about 135 dollars.
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Seoul
South Korea
U. S. Army
Lee A Sang
Nebraska Turns Toward Turnpikes Created Authority
Nebraska lawmakers consider creating a state turnpike authority to build toll roads. The public works committee reported the bill unanimously to the floor, proposing a three member subdivision empowered to borrow money and issue bonds to fund toll road construction.
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Lincoln, Neb
Nebraska
Public Works Committee
Claire Hays Death Ruled Accidental
A coroner's jury ruled the death of 47 year old Claire Hays accidental after his body was found in a creek with a tractor and plow nearby on a What Cheer area farm. Funeral services are set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Methodist church in What Cheer with burial in North English cemetery.
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Claire Hays
What Cheer
Ronald E. Jennings
North English
Whyle Funeral Home
Ces
Gambling on Navy Transport Probed by Major Kuhn
Major George Kuhn of Springfield, IL, aboard the navy transport Gen. Simon Buckner, investigated reports of gambling among Canadian soldiers en route to Korea. When asked about stakes, a Canadian sergeant replied Dramamine, used against seasickness, as the wager.
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Seattle
George Kuhn
Springfield
Navy
Simon B. Buckner
Korea
New Allis Chalmers Contract Talks Open Again
United Electrical Union officials and Allis Chalmers representatives met in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday to push toward a new contract. James Matles of New York, the union’s director of organization, attended for the first time. Workers have been under the old contract since the company purchased the plant last September.
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United Electrical Union
Allis-Chalmers
James Matles
New York
Cedar Rapids
Doe's Benefactor Is Left in the Lurch
Milford Michigan, UP report says Alfred Masini, manager of Proud Lake recreation area, rescued a doe that fell through the ice on the Huron river. The animal escaped without gratitude as Masini pulled it to safety.
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Milford, Mich
Michigan
Alfred Masini
Proud Lake
Huron River
Masini
Lost Ball Leads to Pocketbook Rescue in Champaign
Two grade school boys fishing for a ball in a Champaign creek recovered a billfold lost three weeks earlier in a drain. The wallet contained $83 and was intact. The owner, a University of Illinois student, said the billfold slipped from his hands into the drain during the incident.
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Champaign
University of Illinois
Infant Hutzell Death in Osage Family
The infant son of Mr and Mrs Donald Hutzell of Osage died in a Cedar Rapids hospital. Survived by six brothers and three sisters, grandparents James Hutzell of Mason City and Hubert During of Osage. Body moved from Turner chapel to Victor for graveside services at 2 30 p m Tuesday.
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Donald Hutzell
Osage
Cedar Rapids
James Hutzell
Mason City
Hubert During
Services for Oma Huntley Held at Beatty-Barle Chapel
Oma Leta Huntley dies at home on Winton road NW. Services set for Thursday at 1 30 p m in Beatty Bearle chapel led by Rev F L Hinshaw of St James Methodist Church. Burial in Spring Grove cemetery near Covington. Friends may call at the chapel.
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Oma Leta Huntley
Ira Huntley
Winton Road
Beatty-Bearle Chapel
F. L. Hinshaw
St. James Methodist Church
Spring Grove Cemetery
Covington
Smith withdraws rezoning bid amid neighborhood opposition
Carlton K. Smith withdrew his plan to use a Mt. Vernon road SE lot for a Sun Mart grocery parking area after 14 objectors and 30 petition signers opposed the commercial use. The proposal would have required a special zoning permit in a presidential zoning area. No board action followed the withdrawal. Two other zoning deviations were approved: Al Cours may erect a lighted projecting sign at 404 Twelfth street SE in a commercial zone, and Ruth Thompson may build a reverse front house at 3200 Dairydale Court SE with a 17 foot rear yard.
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Carlton K. Smith
Mt. Vernon Road
Twenty-fifth Street
Sun Mart
Smith
al Cours
Twelfth Street
Ruth Thompson
Dairydale Court SE
City Briefs YMCA Camera Club Meeting Thursday Evening
The YMCA Camera club will discuss vacation pictures at a meeting Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Keen Teen room. Lions Club John Bickel to speak at Thursday noon Lions club meeting at the Roosevelt hotel on Sternwheeling on the Upper Mississippi. About 150 United Commercial Travelers met for breakfast at Bever park. next regular meeting June 5 at the Woman's club. Cedar Rapids Order of Ahepa elects delegates to Rochester Minnesota district convention Wednesday at 8 30 p m in St John s Hellenic Orthodox church hall. refreshments after. Harold Maser, 24, of 1955 B avenue NE is injured by a falling limb while on a Beverly construction site. taken to Mercy hospital in good condition.
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Camera Club
Ymca Camera Club
Keen Teen
YMCA
Lions Club
John Bickel
Lions ‘Club
Roosevelt Hotel
Upper Mississippi
Council 161
United Commercial Travelers
Bever Park
Woman’s Club
Order of Ahepa
Cedar Rapids
Rochester, Minn
St. John’s Hellenic Orthodox Church
Harold Maser
B Avenue NE
Beverly
Mercy Hospital
Stevenson Urges France Clear Vietnam Plan
Adlai E. Stevenson calls for France to issue a prompt clear declaration on Vietnam independence. He outlines six points to prevent a modern Hundred Years War, including Vietnamese self determination free elections and American policy participation. The remarks appear in Look magazine as part of his world tour reports.
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New York
Adlai E. Stevenson
France
Vietnam
Look Magazine
Stevenson
Indo- China
Korea
U. S
U S Destroyer Brush Hit By Red Shore Guns
The destroyer Brush was struck by enemy shore fire off Wonsan Korea on Friday injuring nine crew members. Six are in serious condition after a 20 shell salvo shattered the forward 5 inch gun mount. Brush resumed patrol after transferring the wounded. Capt Harold G Bowen Jr recently raised his flag as commander of Destroyer Division 22.
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Washington
Navy
Brush
Wonsan
Korea
Harold G. Bowen, Jr
Coronado
Calif
Bond Issues Fail in Oskaloosa School Election
In Oskaloosa two proposed school bonds failed in a special election. The $820000 senior high school bond lost 1554 to 1527, the third defeat for that proposal. The $500000 grade school bond was defeated 2364 to 693 amid a split among supporters. If both had passed the city would have exceeded the legal school debt limit of 820000.
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Oskaloosa
Young Mr Edison Drives Paper Wagon with Plow
Bobby Dodge, 13, an eighth grader from East Aurora New York outfits his Buffalo Evening News delivery wagon with a small gasoline engine. He uses the motorized wagon to deliver papers and on snowy days attaches a plow to clear sidewalks for customers.
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East Aurora
N. Y
Bobby Dodge
Buffalo Evening News
Bobby
Muscatine Man Drowns At River Spillway Dam
Albert Parker a 65 year old Muscatine man drowned at the spillway of government dam No 1 north of Muscatine while seining minnows in shallow water. Emmet Lee 77 swam out and pulled Parker back to the dam but Parker died before reaching shore.
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Muscatine
Albert Parker
Government Dam
Here
Parker
Emmet Lee
Lee
Robins Signal Winter Arrival in Deep South
In the Deep South, the appearance of robins is noted as a sign that winter has begun, reflecting a pattern of seasonal change observed by residents and naturalists.
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United States
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J. H. Bell
Knollwood Drive
Pleasanton
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Mr. Bolin
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J. W. Bolin
Davenport
Ursula F. Fitzpatrick
James T. Fitzpatrick
Roy Linder
Paula Potratz
Russell O. Sherman
Roma Trimpe
Marengo
Idella P. Emanuel
William L. Emanuel
Wilma B. Rice
Walter K. Rice
Esther Lavinder
Charles Lavinder
Superior Court
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Thomas Hendry
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Company No
406 Avenue NW
Ninth Avenue
Ninth Street
Frederick Schueler
Twenty-first Street
Robert Gillmore
George Meaney
Arlene Kohl
Johnson Avenue
Alice Dye
Paw Ya Point Road
Mason’s
Anthony Weber
Farmer
E. G. Kieck
Britain
Joseph E. Dynan
C.R
Beatty-Bearle
Parkler
Board of Education
Ir. L. Libenguth
Near Riverside
Murdoch Funeral Homes
Merle E. Nelson
Yeisley Will
Marion Man
Betty
Hass” Directors
Dial
Walters
Doe
Ecadt
Monahan Mortua
Hutzell Infant
Mrs. Huntley Services
Adlai
Red
Uniden
Illinois
Asia
Thailand
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India
Pakistan
All Asia
U.S
Young MR. Edison
John FE
Lapes
3Rd Ave
Liriaett
Sohn Bains & Son Funeral Directors
2Nd Ave
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