10 Oct 1954
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1954
Page
1
The Cedar Rapids City Plan Commission unveiled a long studied revision of the zoning map and ordinance. Four public hearings will precede city council action. the plan replaces five zone types with nine and adds off street parking and loading zone requirements for future residential commercial and industrial developments. Starved growth patterns and development over two decades drive the changes.
Adlai Stevenson denounces Eisenhower administration as 20 months of bluff and bluster. He catalogs Republican sins in a Hollywood Bowl speech, urging an accounting at the polls and criticizing farm price and Dixon-Yates matters. He cites alleged scandals linked to GOP officials.
The Gazette will print the zoning map for each of four city sections as informal public hearings are scheduled next month. The new maps go on display in Killian's windows starting Tuesday.
The Plan Commission proposes updated zoning to protect existing uses and limit encroachment, especially in single family districts that could house apartments. Hearings will be held in four city areas this November at high schools, with final recommendations to the city council after another required public hearing.
Denver report says President Eisenhower and Republican leaders fear voter apathy in the fall congressional campaigns. National Chairman Leonard W. Hall and top officials met with the President to map a campaign drive and plan a large precinct day rally to sustain Republican control of Congress.
Harry Boyd was elected Saturday as treasurer of the National Congress of Editorial Writers at a meeting in Asheville North Carolina. Paul Trescott of the Philadelphia Bulletin was named chairman to succeed Donovan Richardson of the Christian Science Monitor.
In Blackpool Churchill paused his Conservative rally to drain a glass of water. He then faced a silent crowd and smiled, saying he did it to show he could. The moment followed a speech by the Prime Minister noted for his brandy habit.
Governor Boggs ordered the arrest of Bryan W. Bowles president of the National Association for the Advancement of White People on charges of criminal conspiracy. Bowles led anti integration efforts in Milford causing the ouster of 10 Negro students. Brownell said federal law will be enforced and Bowles has prior charges including fraud. Bowles planned to return to Delaware from Baltimore.
Vietminh troops marched into Hanoi to end 72 years of French rule. Red forces had massed around the city awaiting the Geneva peace terms, with main units entering Sunday under Red military police watch. French and Viet Nam officials left the city in tears, abandoning it without a shot.
Donald T. Smith 37 of Parksville Missouri died when his semi trailer lost control and struck a bridge on highway 71 near Hamlin.
Dan L. Schwitters a 40 year old Cedar Rapids farm machinery dealer cycles 13 miles daily after his license was suspended for speeding. He rides from 4440 E avenue NE to John Deere firm at 1220 Sixteenth avenue SW, arriving about 7 10 each morning. The sign on his bike warns that suspension can put you on the street and into traffic hazards.
Hollywood AP reports Liberace and his brother George control an oil well 40 miles from Tulsa Oklahoma that is gushing. The well’s capacity is estimated at 100 barrels per hour according to the business manager John R. Jacobs Jr.
Jamaica was urged to prepare as Hurricane Hazel intensified to 125 mph with gales extending up to 200 miles north and 100 miles south. Forecasters placed the storm about 275 miles south-southeast of Kingston at 5 p.m. EST and expected it to move west and west-northwest over the next 12 to 18 hours.
In San Diego superior court Judge L N Turrentine admitted to probate the will of Mae Green leaving $15,000 to be held for Tommys care by Robert Majors until the dog's death. The 17 year old collie named Tommy was the beneficiary of the estate.
Mrs. Joseph Sidney Petersen defended her husband, a National Security Agency researcher, as innocent of taking secret papers. She said the case stems from an old off the books incident involving another official who left for a foreign ally. She claimed the government misinterpreted events and that the papers never involved the agency. Petersen, arraigned in Alexandria, waived a hearing and posted $25,000 bond, offering no plea.
The Defense Department plans a broad survey as it budgets 1.2 billion dollars for guided missiles through June next year. A top level committee led by Assistant Secretary Frank B. Newbury will review expansion of production facilities future missile research and allocation of missiles across services. Members include Admiral Arthur Radford and W J McNeil with focus on mass production readiness and potential shifts from current jet fighter and bomber programs.
Tom Ecker a 19 year old from Iowa City arrived in Greenville South Carolina after a 1000 mile sprint by hitchhiking. He aimed to travel 2000 miles and return for class on Monday with a $1 bet. Miss Rankin Suber Miss South Carolina kissed him for photos before the Furman South Carolina game. He plans to be in class at 8 30 a.m. Monday and expects to win $10 and a big meal.
Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson died at 11:45 a.m. after a heart attack struck him while shopping in a department store. The 62-year-old jurist, who served 13 years on the high court, collapsed near his secretary’s home as he returned from purchases. He had suffered a prior mild attack six months earlier and died of coronary thrombosis despite physician Dr Hill Carter’s efforts. He is survived by wife Irene, a son William E. Jackson, and daughter Mary G Bowdoin Craighill Jr. President Eisenhower and Attorney General Brownell offered condolences. Jackson’s career spanned government posts from 1934 to 1941, then the Supreme Court, and he led Nazi war crimes prosecutions at Nurnberg.
Washington AP reports the United States shifted from a statute mile to an international nautical mile nine days ago. The length changed from 6,080.20 feet to 6,076.10333 feet, deemed purely academic and not affecting instruments, maps, charts, or navigation procedures.
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