Army drops Memorial stadium site for Cedar Rapids reserve center
Public relations shift in Cedar Rapids follows neighborhood objections to a proposed army reserve training center. The move preserves recreational land and signals continued search for a suitable location with ongoing Army public outreach and community cooperation. The public is urged to stay supportive as officials seek a balance between national defense needs and civic recreation.
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Memorial Stadium
Cedar Rapids
Army
Keep Partisanship From Local Iowa Politics
The piece critiques the American Independence Party of Iowa and its push to inject party politics into local government debates in Des Moines. It argues for concentrating partisan effort on state and national elections and praises Marion Mayor George Brewer for his cooperative leadership and legacy. It notes Brewer's death and the need for a successor to foster intercity cooperation between Marion and Cedar Rapids.
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Hughes
Mechanicsville
American Independence Party of
Iowa
Robert Dilley
Des Moines
Independence Party
Marion
George Brewer
Cedar Rapids
Eastern Guided JFK Will Try To Woo the Midlands
President Kennedy plans a 10 state tour to heal the East West divide and shore up support in the West and upper Midwest. The piece argues his real goal is political reclamation to hold a solid anti Kennedy bloc in the Senate and protect leadership from non Eastern allies like Mansfield McGee Engle Cannon Moss Jackson McCarthy and Burdick.
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JFK
Midlands
Ashington
Kennedy
West
Upper
Middle West
Mississippi
Pacific Ocean
White House
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Senate
Gale McGee
Wyoming
Clair Engle
California
Howard Cannon
Nevada
Frank Moss
Utah
Henry Jackson
Washington
Eugene McCarthy
Minnesota
Quentin Burdick
North Dakota
Los Angeles
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Johnson
Midwest
South
Congress
House
John McCormack
Massachusetts
John Pastore
Rhode Island
Free enterprise under socialist skies in the Black Sea lands
Drew Pearson surveys Turkish and Soviet fronts from the Black Sea, noting Western listening sites atop Turkish hills and a shifting Soviet stance toward socialism and limited free enterprise. He argues Kennedy’s coexistence policy gains traction as reformist leaders emerge, consumer markets expand, and popular sentiment grows toward the United States in former Soviet bloc states.
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AMSMN
Turkey
Black Sea
Kennedy
American University
Lobster Turf Faces Russia and Local Factions at Sea
MEYARD HAVEN Mass The Russian small mesh net fleet off Cape Cod angers lobstermen by catching all sizes including egg bearing females. The inshore pot men skin divers and offshore draggers clash over lobsters. The piece argues egg bearing lobsters should be returned and notes the economic battle over jumbo lobsters and prices. The Russian question adds Cold War tension to local crustacean politics.
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Meyard Haven
Mass
Cape Cod
Maine
Massachusetts
Bay State
John Hughes
Martha’s Vineyard
Newburg
New Bedford
Sandwich
Plymouth
Cedar Rapids Jaycees Formed From YM Bureau Change
The Young Men's bureau of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce renamed to the Cedar Rapids Chapter of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce effective October 1, known as the Cedar Rapids Jaycees. Other notes mention 1953 batting champ Bill Birckicht of Link Belt Speeder, planned Sept. 8 war bond pep rally and Sept. 9 drive start, Iowa liquor control commission report of 177 stores selling $5,742,145 in war bonds, M R Heath elected president of the Iowa Council of Baptist Men at the 1932 retreat in Iowa Falls, and Cedar Rapids’ September heat with 94 degrees at 2:30 pm. First day school enrollment in Cedar Rapids schools totaled 9,623, down 24 from 1932.
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Young Men’s Bureau
The
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Liquor Control Commission
M. R. Heath
Iowa Council of Baptist Men
Iowa Falls
Ture
Arthur Deamer
How to Build a Bigger Booster for Spaceflight
The piece discusses the need for larger space vehicle boosters and the welding of imagination to engineering. It notes aerospace industry challenges in Steel magazine and stresses that success requires not just bigger parts but smarter design. An official warns engineers to decide how many humps are needed, not simply to grow the camel.
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Romania
Madison Avenue
Stalin
U.S
Steel Magazine
Aerospace
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She Gedur Rapids Gazette
William S. White
Damag
Mansfield
McCormack
Pastore
Drew Pearson
Ozer Turk
Kuzadsi
Greece
Pearson
Sochi
Khrushchev
Bulgaria
Hungary
Et al
Moscow
George Wallace
Alabama
Paul Hoffman
Red China
Paul Hoff
John Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Bill Birckicht
George Clark
Space
Newspaper Enterprise Association
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