Rhode Island Senator Green Seeks Century in Senate
Rhode Island's Sen. Theodore Francis Green, 87, freshly re elected to a new six year term, aims to be the first to serve in the U.S. Senate at age 100. The veteran Democrat, known as the Providence Brahmin, is famed for his vigor, wealth, and long public career in Rhode Island and Washington.
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Big J. and P. Coats Thread Company
Pawtucket
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Supreme Court
Brown University
College Hill
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Harvard Law School
Washington
United States
Stephen Hopkins
AP News
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Rhode Island Democrat
Linn County Retarded Children Week Opened with March Tour
The Linn county association for the mentally retarded launches its first Retarded Children's week with a Parents March through Cedar Rapids. Volunteers will visit homes, leave a four page pamphlet, and seek support for recreational and sheltered workshop programs. President James Colbert urges reading the pamphlet even without a donation.
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Dale Evans
Roy Rogers
National
Association For Retarded Children
Linn County Association
Cedar Rapids
Association
James Colbert
Drive Much
Traffic will surge by 1965 with 81 million U.S. cars and a 65,000 mile high stack if bumper to bumper. Call for prompt highway building to finance Eisenhower's $50 billion plan. Iowa car owners paid $51.87 average auto insurance in 1952. total premiums $55,721,535.
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United States
Highway McPartland Committee
American Automobile Association
Eisenhower
Iowa
Automotive Industry
New York State
Massachusetts
North Loven
South Dakota
Radio Engineers Hear Roberts on Ion Streams from the Sun
Dr W O Roberts, director of a Colorado High Altitude observatory, speaks to Cedar Rapids IRE on Ion Streams from the Sun at 7 30 p m in Collins Radio Company cafeteria. Slides and film illustrate solar prominences. Also shown is a film about aviation titled Flying With Arthur Godfrey.
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Colorado
Cedar Rapids
Institute of Radio Engineers
Collins Radio Company Engineering
Roberts
High Altitude
Harvard University
Harvard
Arthur Godfrey
U.S. and Canadian Immigrants Rise After World War II
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company statisticians report a postwar immigration surge to both nations. Immigrants to the United States average nearly 190000 yearly, about four times the prewar rate. Canada averages just over 100000, five times the 1930–44 period. Canada’s rate is higher per capita, about 7.7 per 1000, versus six per 1000 in the United States, with roughly half coming from continental Europe.
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Canada
United States
New York
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Statisticians
Europe
Crooks Rob Louisville Drug Store Owner
In Louisville thiefs stole 255 dollars and merchandise from J. C. Shacklette owner of a local drug store. They gained entry through a coal bin and left black tracks around the store.
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Louisville
J. C. Shacklette
Doctor hides extra phone for children scam
Hartford based Dr James L Corthouts found a method to sidestep the children on the telephone issue by ordering an extra line listed under Corthouts' Children. The eight Corthouts youngsters pay for it from their allowances.
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Hartford, Conn
James L. Corthouts
Corthouts
Smoke Hides Fire Hydrant In Minneapolis Fire
Thick smoke from a burning tavern hid a fire hydrant on the corner in Minneapolis. Firemen located the hydrant only by probing through the dense smoke by hand.
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Minneapolis
New Term Aims To Speed Army Mail At Fort Lewis
Second Infantry Division mail clerks learn a new army post office term to hasten letters home. Korean veterans avoid saying air mail and instead mark letters jet it to indicate urgent delivery.
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Fort Lewis, Wash
Army Post Office
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