USIA leadership reshuffle signals focus on propaganda
President Eisenhower taps Arthur Larson to a White House aide post to coordinate Cold War propaganda against Soviet campaigns including Sputnik era drives. George V. Allen will replace Larson as USIA chief, with Senate reaction mixed and talk of closer USIA State Department liaison.
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Eisenhower
Arthur Larson
U.S. Information Agency
White House
Larson
USIA
George V. Allen
Iran
India
Yugoslavia
NATO
Greece
James C. Hagerty
O’mahoney
Sputnik
Mansfield
D-Mont
Foreign Relations Committee
George Allen
State Department
Congress
Hagerty
Faye Emerson and Skitch Henderson Separate After Marriage
New York reports actress Faye Emerson and bandleader Skitch Henderson have filed for separation after seven years of marriage. A spokesman described their split as amicable and said they arrived for a property settlement following a year of unsuccessful efforts to reconcile.
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New York
Faye Emerson
Skitch Henderson
Filis
Miss Emerson
Henderson
Texiacal Inc Incorporation Notice for Cedar Rapids Iowa
The notice states Texiacal Inc incorporates under Iowa law on August 29, 1957 with perpetual existence. It outlines corporation aims including general contracting, real property, manufacturing, research, and licensing, authorized capital of 2 000 000 dollars and 20 000 shares at 100 each. It lists directors Arthur A. Collins Hill and L E Bessemer, officers including Arthur Gains president and S J Storm controller, with Cedar Rapids Iowa as principal place of business. The stockholders’ meeting schedule and officer structure are provided.
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Texiacal, Inc
Iowa
Ybos
Goat Place
Cedar Rapi Town
Alecke Corporation
Arthur A. Collins
J. Lynch
Police Seek Driver Of Car Carrying 215 Pound Pig
East Moline police searched for Sherman Van Crandall after he fled a stop with his wife and a 215 pound pig inside the car. Crandall and his legless wife were taken to the station. Crandall left and the pig remained. Louisa County Sheriff planned to return the animal to Wapello, as it did not belong to Crandall. Relatives planned to fetch Mrs Crandall.
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East Moline
Ill
Sherman van Crandall
Wapello
Crandall
Eee
Louisa County
Robert Lewis
Lewis
Services Set Friday For Decorah Woman
Decorah services will be Friday at 1 30 p m at Decorah Lutheran church for Mrs Clarence Olson 66 who died Tuesday evening at her daughter’s home Burial will be in Hauge Canoe cemetery Surviving besides Mrs Winger are three other daughters Mrs Otto Sechmick and Mrs Henry Echert both of LaCrosse Wis and Mrs Paul Wheiers of Santa Monica Calif
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Decorah
Decorah Lutheran Church
Clarence Olson
Lester Winger
Hauge Canoe Cemetery
Winger
Otto Sechmick
Henry Echert
LaCrosse
Wis
Paul Wheiers
Santa Monica
Calif
Administratrix Appointed for Dorothy Ione Smith Estate
Ernestine Smith named administratrix of the Dorothy Ione Smith estate in Linn County Iowa on October 9 1957. Creditors must present claims to the Linn County Clerk and debtors should pay promptly. Attorney Robert F. Wilson represents the administratrix.
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State of
Iowa
Linn County
Jas
Rrothy Ione Smith
Cour Rnestine Smith
Robert F. Wilson
Federal Verdict For Defendants Upheld in Appeal
The Eighth Circuit upheld a Cedar Rapids district court verdict in a fatal 1951 auto crash case involving Merchants Motor Freight driver George Meads and owner Barbara Kaisser. The court ruled last clear chance did not apply and affirmed jury verdict denying Floersch estates claims. Oral arguments were heard in St Louis.
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Eighth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
Cedar Rapids
Federal District Court
Merchants Motor Freight
George Meads
Barbara Kaisser
Tama
Gerard A. Floersch, Jr
Don Hines
Appen Court
Henry Graven
Iowa An
Mr. Floersch
Organization Committee For Iowa Study Named
Gov. Loveless appointed five of twenty one members to form the organization committee for the Commission for Study of Social and Economic Trends. Loren Hickerson was named chairman with Guy Gillette Howard Bowen Jim Croghan and Mrs Maurice Noun as members. The five will meet November 7 at the statehouse to draft the organizational plan and future subcommittees.
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Des Moines
Herschel Loveless
Loveless
Loren Hickerson
Iowa City
Guy Gillette
Howard Bowen
Grinnell
Jim Croghan
Woodbine
Maurice Noun
Statehouse
Fremont School District Receives Emergency Aid Funds
DES MOINES Iowa four rural districts pare down high taxes with emergency aid from a $50 000 fund created by the last legislature. The Babbitt Coppock Beacon and Fremont districts filed claims totaling 50 636 and will receive about 88 percent aid with Babbitt getting the largest share 47 824.
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Fremont
Des Moines
Babbitt Rural Independent
Polk County
Coppock Dis
Trict
Henry County
Beacon
Mahaska County
Winneshiek County
J. C. Wright
Babbitt
Wright
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Allen
John Scali
Washington
U.S
Russia
Capitol Hill
O’‘Mahoney
D-Wyo
Cuernavaca
Mexico
Elliott Roosevelt
William Crawford
San Diego
Faye
Skitch
Hawaii
Organization Committee For
Drapela
Mt. Vernon Ave
Russell
Velvet
LK. Tin
Jack Sprat Margarine
AMANA
Thrift
Foscat Mayer
Oscar Mayer
Oscar
Mayer
Alers
Chicago
Illinois
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