Collins Visit to Viet Nam at Grave Time
SAIGON Viet Nam AP President Eisenhowers special representative General Lawton Collins arrives to coordinate US agencies and seek order in Non Communist South Viet Nam ahead of a 1956 election. He faces a fragile Diem government split by army unrest and plans land reform while countering communist influence.
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Collins
Viet Nam
Saigon
Eisenhower
J. Lawton Collins
Southeast Asia
Truman
George C. Marshall
China
White House
U. S
Army
Cellini
South
Ngo Dinh Diem
Nguyen van Hinh
Ninh
Diem
Vietminh
National Assembly
Townsend Plans Movement to Implement His Pension System
Dr. Francis E. Townsend urged immediate action at the Iowa Townsend clubs convention in Cedar Rapids. He proposed a labor-union Townsend club triumvirate to push the Townsend Plan nationwide and claimed it would abolish poverty and end public evils. About 75 delegates elected 12 directors for the state board led by Mary Dean as chairman after a tied ballot.
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Francis E. Townsend
Cedar Rapids
United States
Townsend Clubs
Iowa
State Board of Directors
C. B. Calhoun
Sioux City
A. C. Blunk
W. M. Holmes
Oskaloosa
Clark Beaver
Lacasta Gamble
Maymie Davidson
Des Moines
George Deaver
Annabelle Coover
Cedarids
Mary Dean
Waterloo
le Thompson
Mt. Vernon
Ray
Cedar Rapids Bank Clearings Rise for Week Ended Nov 6
Bank clearings in Cedar Rapids totaled 6,250,971 for the week ended November 6, up from 5,026,103 a year earlier. The week ended October 30 posted 5,874,340 in clearings.
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Cedar Rapids
Clearing House
Southeast Zoning Changes Discussed at Monday Hearing
Public hearing at 7:30 p.m. Monday in McKinley high school will cover southeast Cedar Rapids zoning proposals. City Plan Commission members will explain the plan and listen to citizen suggestions as the series continues. The revisions affect areas south and east of First Avenue and north of the Cedar River with multiple family and industrial changes outlined by Planning Director Tom Moore.
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Cedar Rapids
McKinley High School
City Plan Commission
First Avenue
Cedar River
Plan Commission
Tom Moore
Mt. Vernon Road
Moore
Eighteenth Street
Fifth Avenues
First Avenue E
Twenty-ninth
Thirty-second Street
Thirty-fourth Street
Fortieth Street
Bruce Street
Memorial Drive
Maritime Union Agent Shot at Cairo Dock
Gordon Knapp of St Louis, a National Maritime Union organizer, was shot at a Cairo Illinois dock after arguing over tow assignments for six barges. He was treated for a non serious arm wound. Police may file assault with a deadly weapon charges. 14 men aboard 4 barges were allowed to leave with a petroleum cargo.
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Cairo, Ill
Gordon Knapp
St. Louis
National Maritime Union
CIO
Cairo
Earl Shepherd
Knapp
Kishwaukee
George Banta
Shepherd
Eighth Street
The
Industries
Twelfth Street
Marine Engineers
Texas
Eighth
Standard Commercial
lCity
Charleston
W. Va
Japs Warned Against Lure Of Red China
Tokyo reports warn that Communist China and Russia are intensifying a campaign to sway Japan from Western ties. Educator Shinnosuke Abe cautions against Red blandishments while observers note Japan as Asia’s key industrial center and a potential turning point for U S military strategy in the region.
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China
Tokyo
Japan
Peiping
America
Shinnosuke Abe
Mainichi Shimbun
Asia
U. S
Okinawa
Russia
Red China
Discussion on New C R High Schools Monday
Citizens' advisory committee for public schools will meet at 8 p.m. Monday in the Board of Education building at 346 Second Avenue SW. Superintendent Clyde Parker and a Leo A Daly architect will present current planning for two new senior high schools and explain how planning group recommendations are integrated into the overall plans. Any interested citizen may attend.
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Citizens’ Advisory Committee
Board of Education
Second Avenue
Isupt. of
Clyde Parker
Leo A. Daly Company
Omaha
Abbott Lipsky
Chicago Hosts First Big City Mass Feeding Drill
Chicago Civil Defense tested civilian support for a bombed city with a mass feeding drill. Bernice Barth led 500 Red Cross volunteers cooking mulligan stew and coordinating at four safety rendezvous as 10 000 evacuees simulated emergency.
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John Barrow
Chicago
INS
Famiilies
Red Cross
Mom
Bernice Barth
The
Red Cross Canteen Service
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Lester Trunecek
1641 Memorial Drive
Marilyn = eal
Holland
Mich
Michigan State Hospital For
Kalamazoo
Louis Maurice Smith
Maritime Union
Eh EA Myela
Merchants Bank
Dial
John Monaghan
Robert Schahne
Far East
South Korea
Associated Press
Peter Makarewicz
Geraldine Annese
Norwood
Mass
C.R
Defense
Anthony J. Mullaney
Girl Scouts
Liquid Petroleum Industry
Mullaney
Standard Appliance Company
Park Oy
CAPRI
Admiral
PHONO
Panama
Westinghouse
Philco
Emerson
Magnavox
Motorola
Bishop Sheen
Channel 9
Standard Appliance CO
Tenth Street
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