Planning input from experts guides new high school projects
The article argues for broad consultation in planning two new high schools, citing local faculty from Iowa and private specialists. It stresses collaborative input from administrators, teachers, boards, and citizens to avoid past construction mistakes and improve future facilities. It also notes growing openness about mental retardation and calls for community support for county funding.
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University of Iowa
Iowa State
Coe
Cornell
Grinnell
Board of Education
Citizens School Committee
Linn County group seeks 20000 to aid disabled children
Over the next ten days the Linn County Association for Retarded Children plans house visits to solicit a $20,000 contribution. Formed two years ago this month, the group aims to remove three of every 100 children from an alleged forgotten world and restore them as useful, lovable citizens, citing progress against diseases like polio muscular dystrophy tuberculosis and cerebral palsy.
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Linn
Queen Mother Elizabeth Sees American Drug Store Wish Fulfilled
In Washington during her visit, Queen Mother Elizabeth expresses a wish to visit an American drug store and is granted access after learning the store is closed. Mamie Eisenhower accompanies her as she tours the displays, marveling at everyday American commerce and the novelty of such stores to a royal visitor.
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Mother Elizabeth
England
Washington
Mamie Eisenhower
Fried Liver Lunch Delays Senate Censure Debate
The Senate paused for a 45 minute lunch amid a crowded chamber as debates on censure of Senator Joe McCarthy continued. Senators Knowland Welker Chavez Johnson debated pace and travel plans, with one dissenter Idaho’s Welker demanding more time.
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Sen. Welker
Washington
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Joe McCarthy
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Herman Welker
R-Ida
Idaho
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California
Dennis Chavez
D-N.m
Ed Johnson
D-Colo
Australia
Paris
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People of the Week Bourke B Hickenlooper
Senator elect Bourke B Hickenlooper of Cedar Rapids named among People of the Week. Major Jack Ladd a Cedar Rapids mechanic now a piloting veteran of raids on Japan is noted. A Cedar Rapids pharmacy robbery ends with a $9 escape. Renovation of the city auditorium costing about 4000 is ordered.
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Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Cedar Rapids
Jack Ladd
Japan
Iowa
Iowa League of Nursing Education
Challed Pharmacy
Sixteenth Street
F. A. Challed
Old City Auditorium
Cedar Rapids Auditorium Company
A. L. Smulekoff
First Street
History Is Sad but Useful by Ben Ray Redman
The essay argues history is often sad as a record of human failure yet instructive for understanding current crises. It contrasts 17th century Russia with modern attitudes, cites Gladstone and Eisenhower, and notes history helps frame news and public rhetoric without imposing our own ideals.
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Korea
Indo-China
E.D.C
Geneva
London
Paris
Earth
Russia
Alfred Rambaud
Eisenhower
Churchill
William Ewart Gladstone
Great Britain
Dems Plan Broad Probes Against Republicans in Revenge Push
The Alsops report Democrats aim to scrutinize Republican claims and party conduct as means of political retaliation. Planned inquiries target the numbers racket, Dixon Yates contracts, public utilities, the Brownell Rover case, defense contracts, and alleged unfair political practices, signaling a sweeping probe strategy to expose GOP misconduct.
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Sen
Olin Johnson
South Carolina
Dixon-Yates
Joint
Committee On Atomic Energy
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Dixon- Yates
Rep
W. Sterling Cole
A.E.C
Lewis Strauss
Clinton Anderson
Strauss
Tee
Judiciary Committee
Estes Kefauver
Dixon
Yates
Brownell-Rover
Youngdah
United States
Leo Rover
Youngdahl
Owen Lattimore
Herbert Brownell
Harry Dexter White
Truman
Armed Services Committee
General Motors
Charles Ik. Wilson
Defense Department
National Republican Campaign Committee
Moscow
America
Joseph R. McCarthy
Bugs Baer Puts Ike In Position For Pins
The column humorously contemplates Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956, noting his popularity, possible nonrun, and impact on the GOP. It Wyoming-style jabs hint at political bets and satire about Ike as a political force and military figure.
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Ike
Personal Health by Dr Brady Reflects on Dental Advice
In a written reminiscence, Dr William Brady recalls a Nebraska dental society honor for his teeth preservation teachings. He notes a shift in attitude toward dentists and questions about balanced diets root scaling and periodic X rays while acknowledging the letter’s unexpectedly positive impact.
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Nebraska Dental Society
Dental Society
Nebraska
Michigan
Free Trade Ideals and Global Economic Imbalance
The author argues unilateral US free trade ignores global barriers and currency issues. He cites 1933 London talks, Morgenthau, Hull, and Moley, noting postwar recovery depended on European markets, barter with Soviet Russia, and continued tariff reductions to stabilize Western trade.
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O. Glenn Saxon
Yale University
United States
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