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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Nov 17, 1957

Page

7

Philippine voters rebuke anti American slate in 1957 polls

Manila voters rejected the Laurel Recto ticket and other anti American figures in a display of pro US sentiment. President-elect Garcia will confront inflation and debt while seeking foreign investment and moral renewal in government. ambassador Bohlen signals acceptable aid but demands reform.

Manila INS Philippines Sam Asia United States U.S Jose Laurel, Jr Claro Recto Laurel Washington Dewey Gridley Manila Bay Nacionalista Recto America Laurel-Recto Carlos P. Garcia Ramon Magsaysay Charles E Chip” Bohlen Moscow Garcia Magsaysay

Free Diabetes Tests Offered Linn Residents

Community wide diabetes detection drive begins today across Linn county with free tests for men women and children. Sponsored by Linn County Medical Society with Dr H Lloyd Miller as chair the program partners hospitals laboratories and industrial plants to identify unknown diabetics and provide early treatment opportunities.

Linn Cedar Rapids Linn County Linn County Medical Society Phil Crew H. Lloyd Miller Higley Laboratory Security Laboratory St. Luke's Mercy Hospitals

Industrial Output Dips to Postwar Low in October

Washington AP The nations industrial production fell in October to 142 percent of the 1947-49 average, the Fed reported. The index, down two points from September and four from October 1956, shows mills factories and mines output. Non durable goods held at September levels while durable goods and minerals declined. construction rose to a new high and retail sales faded moderately. Wholesale prices barely moved from mid October to mid November.

Washington Federal Reserve Board

Boat Not Stolen as Patrol Vessel Sinks at Dock

Coast Guardsmen reported a 40 foot patrol boat missing in Galveston Texas. The craft sank while moored to the docks after leaking. It was raised and pumped out and found to be intact.

Galveston Texas

Lou Breuer Named Admissions Agent for USAF Academy

Gazette staff writer and U S Air Force Reserve major Lou Breuer has been appointed as a representative of the director of admissions for the United States Air Force Academy. He will assist qualified youths with initial applications and guide high school students in selecting preparatory subjects. The parttime post covers Eastern Iowa and parts of Illinois and Wisconsin.

Lou Breuer Gazette U. S. Air Force Reserve United States Air Force Academy Iowa Toether Illinois Wisconsin

Labor to Seek Civil Rights Legislation Say Meany

AFL-CIO President George Meany pledged labor will push for civil rights laws that meet the times. At the Labor Conference on Civil Rights in Chicago he urged action against quota systems in colleges and supported ending bigotry in education and society. Senator Paul Douglas urged Eisenhower to end college quotas undermining science and national interests.

Chicago Afl-Cio George Meany Labor Conference On Civil Rights Meany America Paul H. Douglas D-Ill Charles S. Zimmerman Civil Rights Committee Jewish Labor Committee Douglas Eisenhower Douglas Anderson Illinois Democrat Jonas Salks

Meany Calls Civil Rights a Moral Issue in Labor Stand

Meany frames civil rights as the nation's top moral problem and emphasizes a union brotherhood with no artificial barriers of race creed or color. He vows to press for a comprehensive law meeting current needs.

Meany

Irish airline drops glamor girl hostesses

Miss Pat Blake of Aer Lingus said glamor girls are not wanted as hostesses on European routes. She is seeking pleasant personalities with poise and the ability to speak foreign languages for flight duties.

Dublin Ireland Pat Blake Aer Lingus Miss Blake

Lake View High drops nativity scene due to weather

Principal J Trimble Boyd of Lake View High School says removing the outside nativity display was driven by cold carpentry conditions and not by church state separation protests. The school will keep a lighted tree and wreaths with outside workers handling the decorations.

Chicago J. Trimble Boyd Lake View High School Boyd Lake View Illinois American Civil Liberties Union ACLU

Refugee Kidnaping Probed in Vienna

Police investigate two cases of refugee kidnapping in Vienna. A Yugoslav refugee and former Croatian Fascist officer says he was assaulted by Yugoslav agents Thursday night and freed himself after a fight. Authorities also probe the November disappearance of a Czech refugee journalist.

Vienna

TV sales soar in Miyagi as rats fear vibrating sets

In Miyagi prefecture sales of television sets surged this month after a salesman claimed the devices emit vibrations that drive away rats. Company officials learned of the ploy Friday and investigated the curious sales boost.

Tokoyo Miyagi Prefecture

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