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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1956
Page
1
President Eisenhower on Wednesday night pledged no United States involvement in the Middle East conflict. He condemned the British and French decision to send forces, signaling a stance to localize the crisis and avoid broader escalation.
President Eisenhower spoke in Philadelphia at 8 30 pm outlining U S strategy on the Suez Channel crisis and urging UN action to end hostilities He criticized British and French vetoes and promised U S efforts to localize fighting while seeking a just resolution The broadcast highlighted Eastern Europe unrest and hopes for Russia’s withdrawal bringing a broader peace effort
A Trendex nationwide poll finds 4.6 percent of voters changed their presidential choice. Of those, 67 percent now favor Eisenhower and 33 percent Stevenson. Shifts top in the Middle West at 7.5 percent, Far West 6.4 percent, East 3.2 percent, and South 1.9 percent. Israel favored over Egypt by 19.6 percent to 16.1 percent with 64.3 percent neutral.
Adlai Stevenson canceled two upstate New York addresses in Syracuse and Rochester while preparing a national TV and radio talk on his view that Eisenhower policies have brought the world to the brink of war. He planned further remarks elsewhere.
Adlai Stevenson asked major networks for equal time to reply to President Eisenhower. He urged a Pittsburgh or Buffalo broadcast from Memorial Auditorium or Pittsburgh Hunt Armory, urging support to end conflict in Egypt and Israel and criticizing Eisenhower Dulles policies. Mutual granted free radio time tonight.
Iowa no passing zones on hills and curves will stretch 150 feet next year to 950 feet. Safety Engineer W Q Price said 1957 model cars are lower shrinking sight distance. He cited a gradual rise in average speeds as a contributing factor.
Cedar Rapids man Harold Fleming 49 died in a foggy three car crash on Highway 64 east of Marion. Neil Deen 19 and Marvin Ozburn were injured, with Deen in critical condition and Ozburn in fair condition. Fleming was service manager for Culver Motors and survived by his wife Amarita Ernst Fleming. Continued on Page 2.
The Rt Rev Msgr Dorance V Foley rector of St Patrick s Church Dubuque and dean of the Dubuque deanery was named president of Loras College by Archbishop Leo Binz. The appointment takes effect November 19. He will be succeeded at St Patrick s by Rev L V McDonough from All Saints Cedar Rapids with the deanery post moving to St Joseph s Dubuque. Edmund J Becker transfers to All Saints Cedar Rapids from St Joseph s Earlville.
A Cedar Rapids family, Mr and Mrs Richard Havlik and their nine month old son, who have lived in Egypt for two years, fled bombed Alexandria Wednesday and are en route to Naples until peace returns. Havlik is with Robert H Ray Company in Texas. Relatives in Cedar Rapids were informed by cable.
In Cedar Rapids a group purchases the 76.32 acre Nechville farm on Cottage Grove avenue SE. Cyrus C. McCalley signs for the unnamed corporation. plans call for a residential district with one acre minimum lots along Indian Creek. Mr and Mrs Nechville stay until March 1 1958 with part possession by March 1 1957. Surveys begin for platting.
The State Department bans U.S. citizens from travel to Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Syria unless deemed in the United States best interests. It reports 1,888 Americans evacuated and 4,878 remaining. Air Force and Sixth Fleet units are aiding evacuations as they land.
Vienna reports that Imre Nagy has been ousted as Hungarian leader and Zoltan Tildy named to replace him. Hungary reportedly withdraws from the Warsaw Pact and seeks neutrality while Soviet troops attack around Budapest and at key airfields. Nagy asks the UN to protect Hungary’s neutral status and informs missions in Budapest.
Egypt claimed British and French bombers blocked the Suez Canal by sinking an Egyptian warship near Lake Timsah, while French defense said carriers moved toward canal ends. Eden called the action a police action and urged UN peace efforts. Dulles to press for a UN cease fire.
Two Cedar Rapids mothers escorting their children on Bever avenue SE were seen soap-splashing a parked car windows as their kids begged treats. The scene followed a local Halloween incident amid a broader news backdrop of Middle East tensions and international diplomacy.
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