France approves Pflimlin Algeria emergency powers
The National Assembly backed Premier Pflimlin 475 to 100 granting emergency powers to the Algerian commander Gen. Salan amid the Moslem rebellion. The vote followed a unanimous confidence motion for the army of the republic as events in Algeria deepen political and military control.
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Paris
National Assembly
Pierre Pflimlin
Algeria
Raoul Salan
Charles de Gaulle
Army of
Salan
Algiers
all-Algeria Committee of Public Safety
Cedar Rapids School Board Accepts Resignations and Rotations
Three Cedar Rapids high level staff resignations Monday night pave the way for new posts. The board approved ten new teachers, two leaves, and new appointments including an elementary curriculum consultant and an audi visual education director. Departing are Roosevelt junior high principal Wilbur Carthey Baldauf the psychologist and James Ulum the Washington senior high assistant principal. Carthey Baldauf and superintendent Clyde Parker will join Oak Park Michigan and Winona Minnesota systems respectively, while Patricia Price Joyce Howard Jobyna Rankin and Duane Ohl resign.
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Cedar Rapids
Audi-Visual
Wilbur
Clyde Parker
Carthey
Celdar Rapids
Roosevelt
Baldauf
Ulum
Washington
Patricia Price
Roosevelt Junior High
St. Louis
Joyce Howard
Grant Wood School
Jobyna Rankin
Duane C. Ohl
Washington Senior High
Government agency asked for business statistics
Wen dell B. Barnes, the Small Business Administrator, said a businessman wrote to one of the government's larger agencies asking for business statistics. The note shows the ongoing effort to gather data to aid small firms.
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Washington
Wendell B. Barnes
Ballot Puts One or Two Pools on July Election
The Gazette will publish a ballot on whether Cedar Rapids should authorize one pool at Noelridge park or two pools at Noelridge and Van Vechten parks. The Junior Chamber of Commerce notes east side lacks a pool and estimates costs of $225,000 for one pool and $425,000 for two, about 5 or 9 cents per month per family. Voters are urged to clip and mail the ballot.
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van Vechten Park
Gazette
Chamber of Commerce
Eisenhower Votes in Pennsylvania Primary
President Eisenhower arrived by helicopter to cast a vote in the Pennsylvania Republican primary before heading to New York for campaign events. He briefed supporters and left immediately after voting.
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Gettysburg
Eisenhower
Pennsylvania
Ike Speaks on Economy Broadcast Across Multiple Channels
President Eisenhower's remarks on the nation's economy will be carried by Channels 2 and 7 at 8 30 pm and on KCRG TV Channel 9 at 10 30 pm. He then flies to Harrisburg by helicopter and continues to New York for a major address. He voted in a village hall with a hand ballot and refused to comment on Stassen. Stassen seeks Pennsylvania governor GOP nomination against Arthur McGonigle backed by the state party.
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Eisenhower
Kcrg-Tv
Harrisburg
New York
Barlow
White House
Cardinal Stritch Condition Improves After Stroke
Rome AP reports Samuel Cardinal, Stritch's American physician, says the Archbishop of Chicago seems certainly better than Monday when he suffered a stroke.
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Rome
Samuel Cardinal
Stritch
Chicago
Blind man dies after fall from building roof with dog
New York report says 69 year old blind John Gunning walked his dog on his building’s roof and fell five stories to his death Monday night.
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NEW York
John Gunning
Twins Reunite After 13 Years Believing Other Dead
Sophie Sauer and Alexandra Wegner, twins separated in 1945 while fleeing the Russian advance in Austria, embrace in Miami after learning both survived and were alive in the United States. An aunt in Vienna and a UP tip led to a telephone reunion, confirming they remain inseparable twins.
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Austria
Sophie “Za Za” Sauer
Alexandra “Agah” Wegner
Europe
Za Za
Miami Springs
Vienna
Agah
U.S
United Press
Salt Lake City
SUI Basketball Coach: Vancisin or Schaus?
University of Iowa selects new basketball coach to replace the late Bucky O Connor. Announcement expected within 24 hours. Gazette Sports Editor Gus Schrader bets on Joe Vancisin of Yale or Fred Schaus of West Virginia.
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University of Iowa
Bucky O’connor
Gazette
Gus Schrader
Joe Vancisin
Yale
Fred Schaus
West Virginia
Cedar Rapids Auto Buy Now Drive tops $434000 in four days
The Cedar Rapids Auto Buy Now campaign may reach $1 million in car sales as early totals show $434,404.91 after four days. Through Monday the average daily volume exceeded $100,000 with 274 vehicles sold, including 89 new and 185 used, across nine selling days.
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Cedar Rapids
Look-See Cedar Rapids Tour Opens Seats for 40 More
Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce invites residents to a 9 a.m. tour of the city on 14 chartered buses with 40 openings. About 465 have reservations. latecomers may join at 8:45 a.m. Tours cover homes, civic sites, schools and parks. noon meal at the baseball stadium costs $10. The 50 mile trip runs until 3 p.m. including 250 high school seniors and a Davenport Chamber group. Each bus has a Barker.
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Cedar Rapids
Chamber of Commerce
Bob Caldwell
Chamber
Davenport Chamber of Commerce
Youthful Angler Nets $685 Catch at Grundy Lake
Tracy City Tennessee AP recounts a young fisherman who reeled in a prize catch worth 685 dollars. The money, in banknotes dating back to 1902 from Denver to Tracy City, was seized by Billy Thomas at Grundy Lake.
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Tracy City
Tenn
Denver
Billy Thomas
Grundy Lake
West Germans urge closer ties with Communist states
Stuttgart report says the West German Socialists on Tuesday called for closer contacts with Communist East Germany and for diplomatic relations with Red China and other East European Communist countries.
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Stuttgart
East Germany
Red China
Annulment Sought by Rep Burdick After Short Marriage
Fargo AP reports Rep. Asher L. Burdick 79 seeks annulment of his Feb 28 marriage to Jean Rodgers Jackman 30 alleging a Reno divorce was inadequate and Virginia law voids the union. The suit filed by his son Quentin Burdick asks restraining orders and notes Burdick will not seek re election but backs his son’s run on the Democratic ticket.
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Fargo (Ap
Asher L. Burdick
North Dakota
Republican
Jean Rodgers Jackman
Burdick
Quentin
Fargo
Washington
Moth Hunt Bags Husband In Misdirected Strike
In South Amboy New Jersey Mrs Roman Fernecz used a hammer to swat a moth but struck her husband instead. He was found unconscious and later revived with a bruised finger. The moth remained at large as police investigated.
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South Amboy
N. J
Roman Fernecz
Fernecz
Governors Proclaim National Hot Dog and Pickle Weeks
Des Moines AP reports June is National Hot Dog Month and the last week in May National Pickle Week per Gov. Herschel Loveless proclamations. Secretary of State Melvin D. Synhorst commented that the two observances were not properly coordinated and joked that the governor should have linked them together.
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Des Moines
Herschel Loveless
Melvin D. Synhorst
Dulles Reaffirms U.S. Duty Amid Lebanon Crisis
Secretary of State Dulles said the United States will act to preserve Lebanon's independence if requested, stressing that Soviet threats do not bar U.S. duties. He outlined policy limits, noted Nixon's Venezuela trip, and announced plans for technical talks with Russia on a nuclear test ban within weeks.
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Washington
State Dulles
U.S
Dulles
Middle East
Congress
Lebanon
U. S
U.S. Middle East
South America
NATO
Russia
Trujillo Jr.'s love claim shocks Hollywood fans
Lt. Gen. Rafael Trujillo Jr. told a television audience he is in love with actress Kim Novak and plans a trip to Ft. Leavenworth, with a July return to the Dominican Republic. He also discussed divorce, child custody, gifts to friends, and a past link to Zsa Zsa Gabor.
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Hollywood
Rafael Trujillo, Jr
Kim Novak
Dominican Republic
Air Force
Kim
Trujillo
Missi Novak
Zsa Zsa Gabor
U.S. Army Command and General Staff School
Ft. Leavenworth
Kaw
Los Angeles
Coates
Zsa Zsa
Island Republic
Porfirio Rubirosa
Rubirosa
Paris
Gun and note found at Stemm Farm probe continues
Johnson County Sheriff Pat Murphy said death not yet ruled suicide. Clarence Stemm, 29, farmer with brothers, was found face down in a stock tank 11 miles southeast of Iowa City. He had a .22 caliber gunshot wound to the head but drowning listed as cause. A gun and note were found Monday afternoon as authorities investigate the shooting and drowning.
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the Gazette
Iowa City
Johnson County
Albert J
Pat” Murphy
Clarence Stemm
State Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Stemm
Here
Jerry Mosey
Sam Kelly
A. J. Murphy
Guard Craft Pilot Bails Out in Fatal Collision
A military jet trainer crashed into a Capital Airlines Viscount over the Potomac valley near Brunswick Maryland killing 12 aboard the passenger plane. Only Capt Julius McCoy survived after parachuting with severe burns. the trainer pilot perished.
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Brunswick
Capital Airlines
Chicago
Baltimore
Pittsburgh
Pfc
Donald Chalmers
Julius McCoy
Maryland Air National Guard
Six air collisions involve passenger aircraft since 1949
The report tallies six crashes with passenger planes, of which five involved military aircraft, resulting in about 300 deaths. Notable prior crashes include 1956 Grand Canyon United and TWA collision with 128 deaths, and 1949 near Washington with 55 deaths.
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New York
United Air Lines
TWA
Grand Canyon
Eastern Air Lines
Washington
Las Vegas
United
Air Force
Los Angeles
Neptune
Los Alamitos Naval Air Station
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Schaus
Caldwell
Socialist Call
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George Fagan
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