Quad-Cities Named on Atomic Target List
The government released for the first time the Official list of 70 critical target areas likely to suffer atomic attack. It names the Quad-Cities Davenport Moline East Moline and nearby Keokuk area as part of the targets, with Des Moines Dubuque Sioux City and Waterloo-Clinton County areas on a secondary list.
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Sioux City
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Omaha
Federal Civil Defense Administration
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Midwest Critical List Expands To Include More Cities
The defense agency released a revised list of 70 critical areas amid the hydrogen bomb scare. It adds Evansville Indiana and Wilkes-Barre Hazleton Pennsylvania while noting many other cities above 51 000 population are noncritical unless industrially important.
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Evansville
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Fire Ravages Two Farms Near Urbana
Lightning struck a barn on Delbert Harsisen’s farm seven and a half miles northwest of Urbana destroying a barn double corn crib and 2 garages. Wind spread flames to James Hoffman’s farm where barns machine shed and corn cribs burned and livestock perished. Firefighters from Urbana Walker Brandan Vinton and Howtey battled the blaze with seven trucks until after 7 am.
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James Hoffman
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Brandan
Vinton
Howtey
Cedar Rapids to Join 11-Center Civil Defense Warning Network
Cedar Rapids will be one of 11 centers in a new civil defense warning system aimed at cutting alert time for the entire state from 17 minutes to under five. The plan links Minneapolis regional HQ with Cedar Rapids fire department, using short coded warnings and rapid multi-county phone blasts.
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Cedar Rapids
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Linn County
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Austrian Tickets Reportedly Held By Mrs. McLean
Lausanne police say a Swiss ticket collector reported Mrs. Donald MacLean and her three children traveled Geneva to Lausanne to Zurich last week with rail tickets for Had Gaskin Austria. She was seen on a Lausanne Zurich train with one adult and two half tickets, supporting theories she entered Soviet territory via Austria.
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Donald MacLean
Zurich
Two Killed in Illinois Blaze Rages Through 8 Buildings
Wind driven flames swept eight buildings in Granite City late Thursday night. Two people died and nine were injured including four firefighters. About 140 people were left homeless with damage surpassing 200000 dollars.
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Granite City
Tlapy
Chinook Winds Roar Through Iowa Sparks Warm Night
A rare Chinook wind raced from Cedar Falls to Strawberry Point, lifting temperatures to near 92 and warming freight cabooses. Des Moines weather crews cite updrafts and thunderstorms as the mechanism, with cooler air moving in behind the front for a weekend temperature drop.
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Dick Yoakam
Iowa
Strawberry Point
Alwin Zwandiger
Gazette Corresponden
Zwantiger
Cedar Falls
Des Moines
St. Joseph
Lamont
Cedar Rapids
Sion City
Bismarck
McCarthy Orders Witness Ousted From Hearing Room
In a chaotic session Senator McCarthy forcibly had Abraham Unger removed from the hearing room after a dispute over questioning. The room was packed as Unger protested and was escorted out by marshals amid hisses from spectators.
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York
R-Wis
Abraham Unper
Unger
Polish U.N. delegate seeks asylum in United Nations
UNITED NATIONS N Y A Polish U N delegate Dr Marek Korowicz first alternate to the Polish delegation to the U N General Assembly bolted and asked the United States for asylum Friday Sources said he was a former leader in Poland and had no immediate relatives at home The group was aboard a ship en route here when officials discovered his defection and his passport was reportedly taken by his countryman observers said
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U.S
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U.N. General Assembly
Poland
Karowicz
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Protestant relief totals rise for Europe and Asia
New York reports Protestant churches in America sent relief supplies to Europe and Asia totaling 72 percent more in the first eight months of this year than in the same period a year ago.
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New York
Europe
Asia
Protestant Churches of America
Hoover Story series to begin in Cedar Rapids Gazette
The Hoover Story profiles J Edgar Hoover chief of the FBI and his record tenure. The three part series starts Sunday in The Cedar Rapids Gazette with continued coverage in Daily Gazette Monday and Tuesday.
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Daily Gazette
Republican ties cut with Warren Stephenson in DC
The Washington Post reports Republican groups in Washington have severed links with Warren E. Stephenson. He was dropped from the six member District of Columbia Republican committee and replaced as executive secretary of the District Republican club.
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Warren E. Stephenson
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Republican Committee
District of Columbia
District Republican Club
Kenya Supreme Court Hangs 44 Mau Mau Suspects
The Kenyan Supreme Court sentenced 44 Kikuyu tribesmen to death for killing a one year old child in the Mau Mau massacre at Larifa last March. Four others were convicted but given detention at the governor's pleasure. One defendant was acquitted.
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Kenya Supreme Court
Mau Mau
Larif
Ferguson accuses Adlai of appeasement policy
Chicago dispatch reports Senator Ferguson claims Adlai Stevenson supports an appeasement stance toward the Soviet Union. Ferguson denounces Truman and Acheson as naive, urges a hard line, and opposes any conference with the Russians on terms set by the United States. He criticizes Nixon for praising Truman’s Korea policy.
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Indians Seek Payment from U S for Land
Indian lawyers claim the United States seized their lands more than 1100 years ago and owe fair payment. The case involves Sac and Fox nations in Wisconsin Missouri Kansas Oklahoma with testimony about historic land loss and government claims. A trial will determine if compensation is due and set a price for the land.
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Sar
Fox
Cough Frodas
Mais
Wisconsin
Missouri
Inva
Mistapi
Kansas
Oklahoma
Trerners
Finnes
Wa St
Welcome Czech Bride to Iowa After Escape From Reds
A Czech bride, Mrs. Lennard Cloud, arrives at Sioux City airport with her husband after fleeing Communist danger. Officials and wellwishers greet her on the first reunion in four years, praising America as a land of happiness and opportunity for her veteran husband.
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Leonard Cloud
Sioux City
Czechoslovakia
Emina
Lennard Cloud
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Gow Wrliam “5
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Giniel
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Threat to halt return of prisoners in Korean truce dispute
Panmunjom reports say President Syngman Rhee's provost marshal warned Friday of disrupting the truce by stopping delivery of anti-Communist prisoners to Indian guards. The Red China and Korea tension centers on repatriation and lists of released prisoners, with US and allied personnel among those claimed or withheld.
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Panmubriom
Syneman Rhee
Ikan
Pagadi Tm Red China
Segui Korea
Munsan
Red Core
Niny
Nore
Superman Stunt Not for Larry in Columbus
A Columbus boy named Larry K posed on a second floor, wrapped a towel as a cape, and leaped hoping to fly like Superman. He admitted he failed as he lay in bed, nursing broken wrists and plaster casts while telling reporters to warn the kids that Superman may fly but boys cannot.
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