Hogs Finish Week Down in Livestock Markets
Unofficial Monday receipts show cattle 22,000 hogs 19,000 and sheep 4,000 in Chicago. Butcher hogs and sows fell 25 to 75 cents weekly, with near record receipts Tuesday. Top Friday at 12.25, average 11.11 for barrows and gilts, down for 14 years. cattle and sheep prices mixed, with cash ranges noted across weights and grades.
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Chicago
USDA
Des Moines
INS
U. S
Cedar Rapids
C. R. Markets Prices for Poultry and Grain
C. R. Markets list hen turkeys toms and pullets with prices 25 cents. Game No. 2 priced at 1.16 dollars. Soybeans yellow No. 1 at 2.11 dollars. Native wool listed at 3 1/2 cents.
After Four Years She Still Can't Find Home
Mrs. William H. Stimpel told county commissioners she cannot locate her home after four years. The family house built in 1951 on an abandoned road has lost its name and address, making it difficult for milkmen and deliveries to reach them.
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Pittsburgh
William H. Stimpel
Grandma Moses Paintings to Be Shown in New York
New York sees an exhibit of about 40 Grandma Moses paintings at 16 East 57th Street from November 29 to December. Works include Never before shown pieces like July 4th and The Dead Tree replica from the Louvre. Notables mentioning support include Watson of IBM and Dr Otto Kallir of Galerie St Etienne. Eisenhower’s 1945 note is displayed.
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East 57Th St
Grandma
Eisenhower
Harry S. Truman
Winston Churchill
Adlai E. Stevenson
Grandma Moses
Dwight D. Eisenhower
White House
Truman
Louvre
Paris
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Louis Bromfield
Russel Crouse
Thomas J. Watson
Controlling Interest in National Tea Sold to Canadian
Garfield Weston of Canada bought a controlling stake in National Tea Company from John F. Cuneo for 22 million dollars. National Tea operates 13 states with about 575 million dollars in yearly sales and ranks among the largest U S food chains. Cuneo said H V McNamara would remain National president.
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Chicago
Garfield Weston
National Tea Company
John F. Cuneo
Weston and Associates
National Tea
U.S
Midwest
Weston
George Weston
Canada
Great Britain
Australia
India
Africa
National
North American
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Safeway Stores, Inc
Cuneo
H. V. McNamara
France Signs To Sell Israel Jets
Paris reports France signed contracts to sell Mystere II jets to Israel and has shipped 12 Ouragan trainers. Mystere II not yet shipped as final government approval is pending. Ouragans should already be in Israel but deliveries are overdue amid slow mass production and prior resumption of Egyptian jet shipments.
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Paris
France
Israel
Egypt
Holiday and travel notices from Marion region
A string of local social notes lists Christmas visits to Lemoore California and other travel clearances. Families from Marion and surrounding towns plan gatherings with relatives in Iowa and Illinois, plus a few hospital and surgery mentions.
Marion area church services and schedules list
Across churches Marion area details of services classes and meetings for Baptist Catholic Christian Free Methodist Methodist and Presbyterian groups including times for Sunday school morning worship sermons youth groups adult choirs and weekday activities plus upcoming installations and trustee meetings.
Church Schedule and Classes for Sunday Services
Prairie Chapel led by Rev Har D Green offers Sunday school at 9 45 morning worship at 10 45 with Rev Joseph Yates supplying the pulpit and Four H club members aiding during services MYF gathering at 7 30 p m The Seventh Day Church of God holds Friday prayer at 8 p m Sabbath school on Saturday at 10 30 a m preaching Saturdays at 11 30 a m except the first month young people lead the first Saturday service Pastor info includes Prairie Chapel and church names.
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Charles Moore
Girls’ Guild
Donna Thatcher
Rachel Booth Guild
Herbert Harford
St. Joseph’s Catholic
T. J. McElliott
William H. Blessington
Roy P. Fields
CWF
Free Methodist
J. P. Knepper
C. F. Olson
James P. Gable
Norman J. Waffle
Jean P. Hayter
Mr. Hauter
Cedar Rapids
Divine Worshi
Adam
Prairie Chapel
Har D. Green
Church School
Joseph Yates
Lisbon
Seventh Day Church of God
Gunfire repels IRA arms raid on Northern Ireland police station
Dublin, Belfast dispatch reports that the outlawed Irish Republican Army attacked a Northern Ireland police barracks at dawn, 10 to 20 gunmen blown in through a wall, but were beaten back by constables. One officer injured. raiders fled south across the border in two cars leaving behind arms and equipment.
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Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
Southern Ireland
Independent Republic
Moroccan Rebels Ambush French Ambulance Convoy
Rebels opened fire on a Red Cross ambulance convoy in the Riff mountains near Tizi Ouzli and Aknou, killing or wounding 17 French soldiers as French forces tighten the siege around the border triangle. The attack underscores ongoing disorder in the protectorate under Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef.
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Morocco
Riff Mountains
Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef
Protectorate
Spanish Morocco
Red Cross
Tizi Ouzli
Aknou
Iowa Crash Kills Cheyenne Couple
BEDFORD AP Frank Brain 68 of Cheyenne Wyoming died at a Maryville Missouri hospital after an auto wreck near Bedford Friday in which his wife was killed. The Brain vehicle westbound collided with Luther Steele 68 of Jasonville Indiana in an eastbound car. Steele and his wife Edith 65 were injured. Survivors include Brain's 95 year old father Albert Brain of Des Moines and seven siblings. Four daughters and a son also survive.
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Frank Brain
Cheyenne
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Maryville
Brain
Highway 2
Luther Steele
Jasonville
Ind
Steele
Edith
Moravia
Albert Brain
Des Moines
Earl
Hedrick
Lester
Sidney Helms
Martinsburg
Jonathan Chase
Russell
Annie
U S Plans New H Bomb Tests Next Spring
Rep Van Zandt confirms U S will resume high yield nuclear tests at Eniwetok next spring in the Pacific. He says the program aims to match or exceed Soviet weapon power and denies delays due to Geneva talks or atoms for peace.
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U. S
Eniwetok Proving Ground
Pacific
van Zandt
R-Pa
Congressional Atomic Energy Committee
Looked Suspicious in Lillington Court
County Recorder's Court Solicitor Neill Ross defends himself at his drunkenness trial saying accusers were misled by his usually red face.
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Lillington
N.C
ULP
County Recorder’s Court
Neill Ross
Allies Renew Demand for Captive Data
U N command in Panmunjom renewed its demand for accountability of 450 missing Americans from the Korean war plus details on 2 224 South Korean soldiers and 45 other allied prisoners. Rear Admiral Moore appealed to the Communist truce commission after Geneva talks.
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James A. van Fleet
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Chung Kook Rok
Geneva
U.S
China
U.alexis Johnson
Wang Ping-nan
Wang
Military Armistice Commission
Communist Commission
Syngman Rhee
Mark Clark
Dumpy the abandoned dog may go to Florida
Omaha AP reports Dumpy, a small black and white dog left under a no dumping sign, waited five days before a sympathetic woman took her to the Humane Society. A Miami man’s letter offers to cover all costs to ship Dumpy to Florida, and Sheriff Corrigan is exploring the possibility.
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Dumpy
Humane Society
Florida
Patrick Corrigan
Mitchell Runs For Illinois Governor Seat in Paxton
Stephen A. Mitchell former chairman of the Democratic national committee announced his candidacy for governor of Illinois. A Chicago lawyer since 1932 he is a close ally of former Gov Adlai Stevenson and served as campaign manager in 1.
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Paxton, Ill
INS
Stephen A. Mitchell
Democratic National Committee
Illinois
Chicago
Mitchell
Adlai Stevenson
FAO Backs Grapes and Grape Products Trade Push
The FAO voted to urge its 71 member nations to promote trade in grapes and grape products after substituting grapes and wine with grape products to avoid promoting drinking. France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Germany, and Greece supported wine’s inclusion. a Pakistan delegate questioned promoting drunkenness. The three day meeting stressed larger food support and concerted government action to reduce surpluses and malnutrition.
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France
Spain
Italy
Belgium
Germany
Greece
Nazir Ahmad
Pakistan
Britain
Sleuths To Quit Playing Teacher Truant Officers
EAST ST. LOUIS UP Private eyes hired to track hooky playing teachers will end by Dec 1 as the board of education suspends truant officers. Edwin G. Barmann cites AFL union protests and believes offenders learned their lesson. The private agency cost 825 dollars a month after absenteeism rose to 89 thousand for the last fiscal year. Elizabeth Crane says administrators should identify shirkers themselves.
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East ST. Louis
Edwin G. Barmann
Board of Education
AFL
Elizabeth Crane
Federation of Teachers
Barmann
Elmer Hill
Court Appoints Graham Lawyers In Murder Case
Denver report says District Judge Edward J. Keating appointed Charles S. Vigil to defend John Graham against a bombing murder charge that killed 44 aboard the airliner. Vigil will join John J. Gibbons and Paul Weadick as Graham's defense team after declaring him indigent.
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LLP
U. S
Charles S. Vigil
Colorado
John Graham
Edward J. Keating
Graham
John J. Gibbons
Paul Weadick
Kiss for Girl, 2, Spells Her Death
In Columbus AP report, Lewis P. Jones loses control of a car while homeward from a Thanksgiving visit after telling his wife to hold the wheel so he could kiss his 2 year old daughter Mary Lou. The child dies from injuries. The parents suffer minor injuries.
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Columbus, Ohio
Mary Lou
Lewis P. Jones
Army Promotion Spec For Doctors Dentists
Washington AP reports the army will speed promotions for doctors and dentists to encourage longer military careers. Under the policy, doctors and dentists may be temporarily promoted to major or lieutenant colonel one year sooner than other officers.
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Washington
Army
Rail desegregation knits knotty southern problem
AP dispatch reports that after the ICC order halting racial segregation on interstate trains and buses takes effect on January 10, railroads face complex issues. Executives warn mixing interstate and intrastate patrons in waiting rooms and cars may be hard to separate, with state laws complicating the task.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Supreme Court
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Thanksgiving Traffic Toll Figures Shock Police
United Press tallies 154 traffic deaths nationwide from 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Thursday with 12 fires and 26 other accidents totaling 192. Michigan led with 20 deaths. A 15 year old boy was killed by a falling piano in Mesquite Texas. Two Chicago area fires killed four, including 8 year old Joseph Bradley Jr who perished after rescuing siblings.
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United Press
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Mesquite
Tex
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Miss
W. F. King
Harvey
Mary Mangrum
Mary Ann
Margaret Baron
Thomas, Jr
Joseph Bradley, Jr
Denise
Byrd Considers Women on Antarctic Expedition
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, after peace with two men, departs for Honolulu en route to Auckland for his fifth Antarctic expedition. Welcomed in Dallas by models and hostesses protesting his remark about Little America. Byrd says Little America is lonely without women and notes 1,500 applications to join the South Pole voyage.
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Richard E. Byrd
Honolulu
Auckland
New Zealand
Antarctic
Dallas
Washington
Little America
Byrd
America
South Pole
Meter error leads to mistaken ticket refunds in council bluffs
Vernon Larson pled guilty to overtime parking charges but claimed a faulty meter. A city official said the meter was checked and marked OK, signaling the driver’s error rather than the meter’s fault. Larson received a $2 refund after the court inquiry.
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Vernon Larson
Honey Creek
A. J. Nielsen
Iwo
Larson
Nielsen
Eldon A. Winger
Willis Shrader
Shrader
Winger
Shoe Offer Rejected by AFL Workers in Six States
In a strike action, more than 60 AFL affiliated shoe workers at International and Brown Shoe Company plants across six states rejected a new contract offer. The action involves facilities in multiple locations, signaling potential further negotiations or labor action.
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INS
Strikin
AFL
International and
Brown Shoe Company
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