Metro Planning Aims to Aid Linn County Towns
Small Linn county communities may gain more from a mutual study of common issues than Cedar Rapids as Hiawatha Mayor Fay Clark told about 50 residents at a Metro committee meeting. He urged cooperation to prevent factory town growth and improve zoning and planning across the region.
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Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Hiawatha
Fay Clark
Metro Committee
Roosevelt Hotel
Marion
Clark
Palo
Fairfax
Robert Caldwell
Winston Churchill Turns 88 With Egg and Champagne
London notes mark Sir Winston Churchill’s 88th birthday with a soft boiled egg and champagne. He lounged in bed reading papers as telegrams and greetings poured in from around the world while police managed traffic and well wishers signed a visitors’ book. Queen Elizabeth II sent a message, and former cook Mrs Landemar sent flowers. The celebration comes three months after his convalescence from a broken thigh suffered in Monte Carlo. The Daily Mail tribute recalls the public’s long doubt about his recovery.
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London
Winston Churchill
Britain
Monte Carlo
the Daily Mail
Churchill
Navy airmen miss family contact during Cuban blockade
At a Jacksonville naval air station news conference the navy described one airman who was three weeks late for supper because he had not contacted his family during the Cuban blockade. A spokesman explained the delay and its cause.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Navy
Jacksonville Naval Air Station
Riverside's oldest male resident dies at 92
William O. Sims, 92, Riverside's oldest male resident, died Thursday. He was a rural mail carrier from 1901 to 1933 and a 50 year member of the Masonic Order and the OES. His wife and son preceded him in death. there are no survivors. Services: Saturday at 10 30, Trinity Methodist church.
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Riverside
William O. Sims
Masonic Order
OES
Trinity Methodist Church
Model Boy Executed for Killing 3 Kin
Lowell Andrews twenty two died on the gallows in Lansing Kansas for the November 1958 killings of his father mother and sister. He fired twenty four shots using two guns claiming greed driven motive but the motive remains debated. Andrews was an honor student at a Kansas high school and a university sophomore at KU. His case drew legal challenges as professor James Ahrens sought habeas corpus stays with support from Washburn University and the Menninger clinic.
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Lansing
Kan
Lowell Andrews
Baptist Church
Andrews
Lowell
University of Kansas
Baptist College
Washburn University
Menninger Clinic
Topeka
James Ahrens
Ahrens
Iowa City Grain and Feed Co to Lose License
The Iowa commerce commission said it will revoke the warehouse license of the Iowa City Grain and Feed Co., Inc., after the firm did not appear at a hearing on the proposed revocation. The license was suspended July 19 for an alleged shortage of about 6,000 bushels of government grain.
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Des Moines
Iowa Commerce Commission
Iowa City Grain and Feed Co., Inc
Chafee Captures Rhode Island Governorship Victory
Republican John Chafee defeats incumbent Democrat John Notte in Rhode Island by 398 votes after finalizing 6168 absentee ballots. War wick residents' ballots helped swing the countywide result amid delays from a state law bar on opening servicemen’s ballots before Nov 21. Notte was seeking a second term as the state’s lone Democratic general officer.
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Providence
R.I
John Chafee
Rhode Island
John Notte
Chafee
Warwick
Notte
Rhode Island Tax Campaign and Notte Chafee Profiles
Rhode Island politics show Notte opposing a state income tax then vetoing a later alternative tax plan after initial support. Chafee campaigns highlight leadership concerns while noting Notte’s family, education, and military service. Notte, 53, has two children, Harvard and Boston University degrees. Chafee, 40, has six children, Harvard Law and Marine service on Guadalcanal.
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Chafee
Notte
Boston University
Guadalcanal
Harvard Law School
Oscar-winning screenwriter Charles Schnee dies at 46
Hollywood producer writer Charles Schnee who won the 1952 Academy Award for The Bad and the Beautiful died of a heart attack Thursday. He was 46.
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Hollywood
Charles Schnee
No Government Job For Coad Expected
U S Rep Merwin Coad plans to stay in Washington at least for now as his term ends with the new Congress. His wife Carol says he has no government job but has no immediate plans to return to Boone where he preached before politics began in 1956. Coad has been available for a Kennedy admin appointment but no offer is believed to have been made. The Sixth Iowa district was redrawn in the process.
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Washington
U.S
Merwin Coad
D-Ia
Congress
Coad
Carol
Boone
Christian Church
Kennedy
Iowa
Legislature Adopts 1961 Congressional Reapportionment
Article notes the 1961 legislative enactment of congressional reapportionment after the state lost one of its eight House seats. The move reflects redistricting shaping political representation and district boundaries within the state.
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Emerson
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Paul Reichle, Sr
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