Allied Big Three Map Talks Soon
President Eisenhower, Prime Minister Churchill and French Premier Mayer planned a meeting soon. Mayer's overthrow in Paris casts doubt on the summit but Paris dispatches suggest a successor may attend. no date or place is fixed.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Churchill
Mayer
Paris
Bermuda
French National Assembly
France
James Hagerty
Russia
Hagerty
U. S
Great Britain
Ike
London
Queen Elizabeth
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
New Hampshire
New York
Cedar Rapids Board Hears Plea to Cut Home Valuation
Ernest Kosek asked the Cedar Rapids board of review to reduce his three acre Cedar Rapids Country Club area property from 22 670 assessed value to 12 000 claiming obsolescence and noting he bought the house for 20 000 in 1950. His attorney argued market value equals actual value and questioned assessor Scolaro s 37 785 figure. The board will inspect the premises before ruling. two appeals were filed this year among 30 000 properties.
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Ernest Kosek
Board of Review
Twenty-seventh Street Drive
Bosek
Kosek
Cedar Rapids
Linn
Cedar Rapids Country Club
Silliman
Scolaro
Towa
Supreme Court
Demands Mapped by Rail Unions for 1 Million Workers
Rail union leaders say they will demand extensive improvements in rules and working conditions for about 1,000,000 non operating employees including machinists clerks telegraph and other behind the scenes workers in new negotiations with the railroads.
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Washington
President Eisenhower nominates Nan Head for post
In Washington, President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the nomination of Nan to a key position. The move signals a push to appoint a qualified administrator amid ongoing domestic policy debates.
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Ashington
Fisnhower
Nan
Richard A. Gorton Wounded in Korea
Cedar Rapids youth Pfc. Richard A. Gorton, 20, a marine from Cedar Rapids, suffered a shrapnel wound to the leg and burns on hands and arms in Korea. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Gorton of 1123 Ninth Street NW, received notices. he served as radio man with a forward observer team near the Damar outpost after enlisting April 15, 1951 and arriving February 5, 1952.
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Cedar Rapids
Pfc
Richard A. Gorton
Koreaa
Lester Gorton
Ninth Street
Jhira
Damar
St. Patrick's High School
Quaker Oats Company
Marine Corps
Senator Smith Questions Ike Defense Budget Cuts
Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine assailed the Eisenhower defense budget’s airpower cuts. She questioned the plan to reduce air funds and the Atlantic Pact buildup, urging a full review by the new joint chiefs of staff and demanding urgent answers to 42 questions.
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Washington
INS
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Pentagon
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Ex NLRB Member Evades Senate Questions
Edwin I. Smith refused to reveal if he secretly belonged to the Communist party while serving on the National Labor Relations Board. He invoked the self-incrimination protection as senators pressed for details about his NLRB tenure under NIRA and the Wagner Act.
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Washington
Edwin I. Smith
Senate J
Communist Party
National Labor Relations Board
Senate
Internal Security
Smith
NLRB
Concentrated Cleanup Planned by City Officials
City crews planned a concentrated cleanup after Wednesday night’s tornado. Arborist Elmer Delaney, in charge, will use an abandoned quarry near Eigate Street NW off Ellis Boulevard as the dumping site for storm debris. Residents may haul trees and branches to the site, while removal targets first blocked streets and then parking debris. Officials estimate 500 to 750 large trees down citywide, with two weeks projected for property owner clearance. Delaney waived tree removal permits during the emergency and allowed private crews to operate to speed recovery.
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Cedar Ruplia
National Guard
Elmer Delaney
Delaney
Eigate
Ellis Boulevard
Pigifeentit
William
Carlton K. Smith
Kesman
Jones
Cedar Rapids
Delansy
Herted Is Property Co
Stuart Picked as Envoy to Canada
President Eisenhower nominated Robert L. Douglas Stuart a Quaber Oaks executive and Republican treasurer to be ambassador to Canada. The president also sent Admiral Robert B. Carney’s nomination as chief of naval operations and named Michael J. McDermott as ambassador to El Salvador.
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Highetaatchets
INS
Eisenhower
Robert L. Douglas Stuart
Quaber Oats
Republican National Committee
Canada
Senate
Robert B. Carney
el Salvador
Michael J. McDermott
Secretary of State
Boy Deported After Earning Diploma in Los Angeles
A 16 year old Mexican immigrant, Jose Rodriguez Toscano, said he came to seek an American education and better opportunities. He is held for deportation back to Mexico after attending St Turibius School and earning A and B grades. He crossed the border two years earlier following his father’s death.
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Los Angeles
Mexico
Jose Rodriguez Toscano
Tijuana
St. Turibius School
Explorers Aid Cleanup After Storm In Hawkeye Area
Thirty five Explorer scouts from the Hawkeye Area Council worked from 11 pm to after 5 am cleaning up storm damage. They started at Smulekoff's then cleared fire routes and bus lines from First to Fourteenth streets W and First to Sixth avenues SW. Red Cross urged storm victims needing housing food medical or hospital aid to call Linn County HQ at 13 2873, at 327 Granby Building. Chapter Chairman P F BezanSon said the disaster committee aimed to finish the survey by noon.
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Explorer Emergency Ee
Hawkeye Area
Hoy Scout Council
Smulekoff
First
Fourteenth Streets
First Avenue
Sixth Avenue
Red Cross
Linn County
Granby Building
P. F. Bezan‘son
Difference Between Tornado and Cyclone Explored
A Cedar Rapids near miss prompts explanation of tornado versus cyclone. Tornado is a funnel shaped violent narrow wind path. cyclone is a large circular storm system. Cyclones can span up to 900 miles. winds reach 130 mph, while the storm moves slowly.
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Cedar Rapids
Storm leaves damage and rescue efforts across the city
Citizens assist one another after a strong windstorm tears through the area. Neighbors help clear fallen trees and direct traffic while protecting homes. Damages include a shattered window at the Heth residence and a TV destroyed by debris. A woman suffers a likely broken finger. A monkey escape triggers a wide pursuit. Continued on page 2.
Boy Scout Hero Saves Sisters During Storm Night
Danny Hockaday rushed home by bus from Mem Stadium as a tornado approached. He woke his sisters Mary Jo and Ruth and led them to the basement, acting quickly as the cyclone struck their Cedar Rapids home.
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Danny
Adey
Harold
Hockaday
Fifth Avenue SE
Mem
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Junior Legion
Mary Jo
Ruth
Tornado Missed Cedar Rapids but Caused Wide Damage
A funnel cloud skirted Cedar Rapids on Wednesday night, damaging the Western Auto Transports building on Highway 30 and injuring seven at a nearby trailer camp. The storm, moving west to east at about 10 40 pm, felled hundreds of trees and left up to 000 homes without telephone service while officials assessed the debris and wind damage.
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Burtanek
Cedar Rapids
Third Avenue SW
Gazette
Kenyon
Vernon Heights
Bever Woods
Fifth Avenue
Nineteenth Street
State Weather Bureau
Cedar’ Rapids
Western Auto Transports
Highway 30
Weather Bureau
Waco
Texas
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C.R
Jim Ssolaro
Mitchell
Korea
Inez Robb Seeane
Margaret Smith
Labor Board
Stuart
Twister Tales
Purtly Street Foot End
Harold Heth
Heth
Maynard I. Glick
Chandler Street
Dorothy Prior
Oakland’ Road
St. Luke's
Danny Hockaday
City In
Darkness
St. Luke’s Hospital
Land
Son
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