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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1956
Page
7
Egyptian Ambassador Mohammed El Kouny said more than 50,000 volunteers for service in Egypt came forward in Russia during the last week. An embassy spokesman noted several thousand volunteered just Saturday, with stacks of telegrams and letters but officials barred photographers from viewing the lists.
Berlin AP reports Communist East Germany began construction of an atomic power plant. Heavy Industry Minister Fritz Selbmann announced the project but gave no location or completion date.
Oren Lee Staley president of the National Farmers Organization opened the second annual convention in Rea Mo urging family farmers to unite. He blamed the cost price squeeze on inequitable legislation rather than overproduction, calling for organized agriculture as the only hope for farmers nationwide.
Channel schedule listing programs for KCRG WMT KWWL WHEF including news weather and kid shows with time blocks 12:30 12:45 1:00 and 1:15 across Cedar Rapids Waterloo and Rock Island markets.
The speech denounces lack of bargaining power for agriculture and unfair practices by the packing industry and chain stores. It urges small business owners and workers to back farmers in seeking agricultural welfare, noting expected delegate support from NFO states.
Warsaw dispatch reports Polish Communist party leader Wladyslaw Gomulka slated to fly to Moscow Thursday for talks with Soviet Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev. The planned discussions aim to advance bilateral relations and address regional tensions.
A two alarm fire caused extensive damage to the F. W. Woolworth Company in Omaha's business district and forced the evacuation of the United States National Bank on Monday.
Four star Gen Alfred M Gruenther retiring supreme commander of the allied powers in Europe was named president of the American Red Cross effective Jan 1 The White House announced the selection by E Roland Harriman director of the Red Cross Gruenther will earn about 30000 salary plus military retirement pay and NATO pay totaling about 17000 yearly The move surprised due to reports of high salary offers and other top government or industry postsђ
John W. Coverdale of Waterloo was re elected as president of the Iowa Good Roads Association at its annual meeting in Des Moines. John Baldridge of Chariton was named vice president, succeeding Archie Nelson of Cherokee, with Herb Callison of Winterset elected treasurer.
A Moscow report says the Soviet Journal Party Life asserts socialism requires merciless repression of overthrowing classes. It also states Russia will not tolerate East European governments not subscribing to Marxist Leninist communism. Ruff vs Lane on the Wednesday Night Fight aired at 9:00 on Channel 9.
Kellis McCallister of Hurricane High School died after drinking a half cup of motor oil with a chaser of anti freeze. Doctors reported the death occurred Sunday night in a South Charleston hospital after he was admitted a week earlier. He drank the motor oil first and then about eight ounces of anti-freeze solution following a schoolmate dare.
General I D White of the Eighth Army approves a TV transmission station at Seoul with relay stations to broadcast programs to major troop areas along the armistice line next year.
In Manila Generoso De Guzman was sentenced to four years in prison for taking and eating a stray pig. Judge Ruperto Kapunan rejected his claim that a local custom allowed a hungry passerby to claim a loose pig. The incident occurred Tuesday and De Guzman pleaded his case as a traditional practice.
HOLLYWOOD UP Actress Diana Lynn and radio executive Mortimer Hall announced plans to marry on December 7 at the Beverly Hills home of his sister. It may be the second marriage for both.
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