Space Data Espionage Gets Airing
A senate committee heard how Soviet spies stole U S research data on anti missile missiles and space satellite platforms. Two confessed spies Greenglass and Gold described a web of collaborators and a 1947 Rosenberg link via Joel Barr and the Sperry Gyroscope Company in New York area.
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Jack Lotta
Philadelphia
INS
Senate
Commounists
U. S
Egypt
T Devid Greenglass
Harry Gold
Lewisburg
Robert Morris
Internal Security Subcommittee
Greenglass
New York
Joel Barr
Barr
Rosenberg
Sperry Gyroscope Company
Lake Success
Long Island
Tone
Phone Service Rates Will Be Raised Friday
Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas will see telephone rate increases starting Friday. Northwestern Bell official E H Knudsen cites higher costs, with residential one party and rural party line up 50 cents, private line 75 cents, business lines 2 dollars, and PBX trunks rising accordingly.
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Edar Rapids
Newt
Cedar Rapids
E. H. Knudsen
Northwestern, Hell Telephone Company
Bell
Towa
Telephone Company
Marion
Cedar Rapids -Marion
Cedar
Northwestern Bell
Minnesota
Nebraska
North Dalee
South Dakota
Knudsen
Dam repair planned at Palisades Park on Cedar River
The Cedar River dam at Palisades Kep ler State Park will be repaired with a new road to the west bank. Work starts Friday, with 21 prisoners to be used in the project funded by the prison labor program. Duration depends on weather, with riverbank slope replacement using local rock.
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Palisades Park
MT. Vernon
Cedar River
Palisades-Kepler State Park
Jerry Kann
Park Eustadian
Greenglass
Rosenberg
Rann
Halt Predicted in Living Cost Rise
Secretary of Labor Mitchell said the cost of living is leveling off and little change in the consumer price index is expected in the months ahead. He believes the steady rise over the last year has ended.
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Washington
Mitchell
Resigns as Garbage Boss Amid Senate Rackets Probe
Vincent J. Squillante steps down from a New York waste management post as investigators link the metropolitan area’s operation to a million-dollar-a-year private staff scheme. Testimony before a Senate internal security panel cited the New York Cartmen's Association and anti-Communist groups in the probe.
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New York
Vincent J. Squillante
Senate
Washington
Mexico
South America
N.Y. Cartmen's Association
Senate Internal Security
Vladimirident
James Rossetti
Rossett Poremsky
NTS
Anti’s
Ann d’Aria
Cedar Rapids Approves Ely Property Zoning Change
Cedar Rapids city council approved rezoning and a special permit for the Ely mansion and grounds at 2222 First Avenue E for insurance office use. The decision reverses the Plan Commission and signals First Avenue may become a commercial street toward Marion, with hearings to follow.
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Cedar Rapids
Ely
First Avenue
City Plan Commission
Ramer
Hunter Airport
southiWedar Rapids
Old Marion Road
Ejimerest Country Club
Ejimerest Country Club Likewise Won Council Tavar
Plan Commission
United Fire and Casualty Company
Ely Mansion
Insurance Company
Seotti McTintyre
Marion
Enarsnes
Plan Commission Advier
Jim Meaghan
Anc
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City
Lwe
Device Lets Blind Woman See Light In Breakthrough Test
Betty Corstorphine, 35, who has been blind for 18 years, tested an early electronic device at Cedars of Lebanon hospital in Los Angeles. Dr. John Button described the method as stimulating brain cells to create light flashes and promised further refinement could bring vision aids for the blind within years.
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Newark
Betty Corstorphine
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
Los Angeles
John Button
Button
Nude model halts work at Luton college site
Nude model posing for students at a Luton art school nearly stopped a $2 800 000 college building project as workers turnout slowed to watch. Draperies were drawn across the windows after foremen complained of interruptions to work.
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Luton
Enghind
INS
Lue Art School
Finwly
C. J. Skinner
Guilty Pleas in Melchior Robbery Case Dip to First Degree
Two men, Richard McFall and Alfred Pope, pleaded guilty to first degree robbery in the Melchior home invasion. Judge Maurice Sparling ordered probation reports and set sentencing for December 16. Co-defendants Louis J. Spivack and Wayne Gurke pled not guilty and face trial later.
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Hollywood
INS
Tun On
Lauritz Melchior
Rosbery
Maurice Sparling
Richard McFall
Alfred Pope
Louis J. Spivack
Wayne Gurke
U S Missile Status Hailed by House Chair Mahon
Rep Mahon said the United States is ready for operational production of intermediate range ballistic missiles after a closed review by the House defense appropriations subcommittee. Military missile chiefs presented an encouraging report, and Mahon called himself highly qualified to judge the service chiefs.
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Washington
Mahon
D-Texas
U.S
Sensamen
House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee
Leach Serviee
Mathen
Revision Eyed On Mortgage Insurance Plan
Federal Housing Chief Albert Cole said the administration weighs a new mortgage insurance plan to back up to 20 percent of loans for lower income families. The proposal aims to attract investment, expand credit, and supplement FHA 100 percent insured mortgages while offering flexible down payments and terms.
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Hugh Morris
Washington
INS
Albert Cole
Colr
Federal Housing Administration
FHA
Cale
Pia
President Heads For Washington
President and Mrs. Eisenhower ended cooperation Thursday and departed for Washington by plane from Augusta heading for Withington on official business within the week.
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Washington
Augusta
INS
Wid
Ginenhower
Pli
Professors Plan To Grade Colleges In Bid For Raises
Washington based story notes professors plan to rate colleges and universities using A to F grades to push for a 100 percent rise in faculty salaries. Ten women with expertise in grading and salaries will produce the scale guiding pay, with publicized low and high figures. The effort, led by the American Association of University Professors, cites median salaries around 36 000 dollars and top professors near 12 000 dollars, highlighting recent raises at Harvard Yale Swarthmore and state universities including Oregon Wisconsin and Alabama.
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Patricia Virgina
Washington
FLA
The
American Association of University Professors
Neferk
Harvard
Yale
Swarthmore
Oregon
Wisconsin
Alabama
Million-Dollar Farmersburg Bank Hold-Up Reported
A bank robbery at Farmersburg Savings Bank netted about $1,000 as the bandit described as a 33 year old man, 5 feet 8 with 145 pounds, fled in a 1949 black Chevrolet. Roadblocks and two highway patrol planes aided the northeast search, with a farmer paid $5 for helping hide the suspect’s briefcase. Authorities from the State Bureau of Criminal Investigation joined the case.
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Brelab Na
Oelke
Oolke
The
Gazelle
Oollie
Waller Blazek
Fayette County
Qelke
Farmer
Perry Hanson
Hanson
Farmersburg
Clayton County
AleGropor
al Des Moines
State Bureau of Criminal Investigaton
First State Savings
Mc‘Gregor
Anla Werg
McGregor
Farmersburg Bank Helen
Iowa
Railroad To Move Depot To Beverly
North Western plans to abandon its downtown Cedar Rapids passenger loop. A small depot will be built in Beverly to serve trains next summer, while freight service remains on First Avenue at Fourth Street. The move follows failure of a Sixth Street site plan and aims to keep freight operations intact.
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Cedar Manuds News
Cedar Rapids
North Western Railroad
Beverly
B. R. Meyers
Chicago
the Gazette
Sixth Street Road
North Western
Hlawkere Downs
Sixth Streets
First Avenue
Fourth Street
Meyers
Rock Island
Kate Shelley
North Western Mon
Omaha
Milwaukee
Ce Rapids
Sixth Street
New York
Ket
Gene Poet
Bankrobbery suspect linked to McGregor case
Authorities theorize a single robber of Farmersburg and McGregor banks, describing the suspect as similar in age, height, weight, and dark complexion. The Farmersburg incident involved a $1,000 haul and a masked, salesman-appearing bandit using a similar method to the McGregor robbery.
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Spud Lawrence
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