Schools pay price as admissions tax hits activities
A Cedar Rapids editorial laments Congress failing to remove the admissions tax on school events. It quotes a high school principal noting athletics drama clubs and music rely on ticket income, while opera and symphonies were exempted. The piece urges lawmakers to protect extracurricular programs by abolishing the tax.
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Talle
Cedar Rapids
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Senate
Meeting on cut aid to Nationalist China sparks censorship row
Stassen and critics quote a meeting where Acheson and Jessup allegedly proposed halting aid to Nationalist China as peace move. State department denies and later partly confirms the meeting but refuses to disclose details. Lattimore urges release of remarks but officials refuse, citing off the record consent. The piece argues the gag rule limits public knowledge about Jessup and potential Communist leanings.
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Vandenberg
State Department
Acheson
Philip C. Jessup
China
Jessup
U. S
United Nations
Four South Korean Soldiers Enter Neutral Zone By Accident
Four unarmed South Korean soldiers wandered into the Kaesong neutral zone in a DDT squad seeking delousing supplies. U S command says the intrusion was accidental, a view shared by skeptical Communist negotiators though not impossible the men knew what they were doing. The incident blends danger with dark humor as the soldiers are called “good hunters.”
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Neutral Zone
Kaesong
United States Command
U.S
U.K
House of Commons
Go Easy on This Kind of Advice
A tongue in cheek sketch about parents dictating college courses for their children. It lampoons parental certainty and argues for letting students choose practical electives like Intermediate Mathematics Economics and Russian while noting many such plans backfire.
Eastern Iowa Exposition Opens At Alamo Grounds
The first annual Eastern Iowa Exposition opened at the Alamo grounds with steam sirens and a week of Wright biplane flights. The Ladies Auxiliary of the West Side Improvement club won $50 for best decorated floral parade car.
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J. F. Ball
Wright
West Side Improvement Club
Roger Swire
Iowa City
C. H. Boyce
Sibley
T. J. Davis
Marion
Iowa Exposition
Linville
Cosson
Matter Of Opinion: Who Is Your Favorite Author
Readers weigh in on the question who is your favorite author. Respondents name a range of writers from classic to contemporary, citing works and influences that shaped their reading tastes.
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Eroy Stewart
Eleventh Street
Erskine Caldwell
Ale Sissel
Ellis Blvd
Five-Percenter’s costly dinner fails to win air force contract
A Washington based five percenter, Fred Bridges, hosted a $342.92 lavish dinner in Dayton to woo Brig. Gen. Phillip W. Smith, only to trigger a canceled air force contract after his guests failed to appear. The story also notes a forthcoming Washington tabloid "Flash" and views on a bipartisan re alignment committee led by Sen. Mundt.
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Fred T. Bridges
Dayton
Ohio
Denver
Colo
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Phillip W. Smith
Biltmore
J. W. Chamberlain
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Generala
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Mrs. Smith
Washington
Baltimore
Reuben Bevins
John Blunt
Toronto
Canada
Victor Fox
Questions on British Election Shapes Postwar Policy
The article discusses likely modest shifts in Britain's foreign policy after the Oct 25 election, noting concerns about European defense and U S relations with Attlee versus Churchill. It outlines the Persian oil dispute, Labour’s narrow post-1950 majority, and explains Parliament composition and election mechanics in a summary Q A series from British Information Services.
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British Information Services
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Forum Declaration Backs Free Information Across Americas
Executives from 40 American newspapers and news services met at Northwestern University to discuss encroachments on information freedom in the Western Hemisphere. The declaration urged universal access to free speech and press, condemned La Prensa’s suppression in Argentina, and called on US papers to support press freedom across the Americas.
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Alberto Gainza Paz
la Prensa
Buenos Aires
German Arciniegas
el Tiempo
Bogota
Colombia
Argentina
American
Inter-American Press Association
United States
Americas
Pledge of Duty as Press Seeks Free Information Across Nations
A call by diverse newspaper leaders to uphold the duty of the press to uncover report and publish significant news with objectivity. The group warns that secrecy in government endangers freedom of information and cites fascist and totalitarian precedents while listing prominent editors and publishers supporting the pledge.
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Arciniegas
John S. Knight
Chicago Daily News
Detroit Free Press
Akron Beacon-Journal
Miami Herald
Alexander F. Jones
Syracuse Herald-Journal
Providence Journal-Bulletin
Basil Walters
A. T. Burch
Leon Stoltz
Paul Jacoby
Chicago Tribune
Mareshall Field, Jr
Richard Finnegan
Chicago Sun-Times
Joseph Pulitzer, Jr
Irving Dilliard
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Herbert Brucker
Hartford Courant
Erwin D. Canham
Christian Science Monitor
John Crider
Boston Herald
Tom Wallace
Louisville Times
James R. Wiggins
Washington Post
Dwight Young
Allona Roadcas O
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Chick Medi
Harry Boyd
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Dictators Fear Outside Influence In Music And Culture
The Omahas World Herald notes Peron in Argentina orders half of dance hall music to be Argentine while contrasting with Hitler and Stalin who condemn non German and cosmopolitan art. Xenophobia stems from fear that foreign influence could ruin regimes.
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Peron
Hitler
Stalin
Nehru Plays Footsie with Five United Nations
The piece notes India did not sign the complaint blank at San Francisco and portrays a tense stance toward the United Nations led by Nehru. It compares India’s position to an old abacus and Dayton adding machine and questions India's alignment with the U S.
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East River
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India
Ehru
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