Iowa Forecast and Local Birth Notices Weekend Summary
The Daily Record for September 29 1957 reports fair warm weather in Iowa with a Sunday wind in the northwest, highs 70 to 80, and mild conditions Monday. It lists multiple birth announcements from Cedar Rapids area families dated September 27 28 and funeral services for several residents across towns including Vinton Oelwein Decorah Garrison Williamsburg Knoxville and Iowa City. Ideker death noted at Iowa City VA hospital with services in Little Rock Ark.
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Iowa
Jook
Vinton
Joe A. Bergen
Fry-Holland
Big Grove
Oelwein
Anna Haskins
The
Presbyterian Church
Brant Funeral Home
Fairbank
Fred Goldsberry
Brantchapel
Decorah
Carlotta Haugen
Olson Funeral
Washington Prairie Cemetery
Garrison
Belle Army
Miller-Taylor Funeral Home
Iowa City
Neil Fitzpatrick
St. Patrick’s Church
St. Joseph's Cemetery
Williamsburg
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Charles Teggatt
Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery
Oman McSwiggan
Knoxville
Raymond Ideker
Veterans Hospital
Little Rock
Ark
Ideker
Beckman
City Briefs from New York and Local Notices
Staff members from Ernest Kosek and Company plan to attend the ninth national mutual fund sales convention in New York this week. Attendees include Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kosek plus Mr. and Mrs. Ludmil Prastka and Mr. and Mrs. Otto F. Kosek, with convention sponsorship by Investment Dealers' Digest. Also notes include Ruth Thompson ads for appointment services, a Cedar Rapids Hearing Society speech reading class schedule, Ruth Thompson's Beauty Salon contact, a Rotary Club talk by Gus Schrader, a quotation by Acheson on state power vs federal court orders, Julius Pietrzak M.D. opening an office at 1703 B Ave NW on October 1.
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New York
Ernest Kosek
National Mutual Fund
Ludmil Prastka
Otto F. Kosek
Investment Dalers
Igest
The
Cedar Rapids Hearing Society
Rotary Club
Gus Schrader
the Gazette
Sheraton-Montrose
United States
Acheson
Hoffa Collusion and Sun Valley Project Details Analyzed
Testimony before the committee describes Hoffa and Detroit lieutenant Owen Bert Brennan colluding with Henry Lower in a real estate venture near Orlando. The Sun Valley project used union funds and promised a “Teamsters model city,” despite a salesman calling it useless. Witnesses include George Fitzgerald who warned Hoffa and Lower against using union funds, while Kennedy noted the memo’s legal and practical concerns. The inquiry paused with no date for resumption, as Lower cited illness.
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Hoffa
Owen Bert Brennan
Detroit
Henry Lower
Lower
Florida
Teamsters Union
Teamsters
George Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Sun Valley
Hoffa and
Union i
Kennedy
Queen to view Les Girls at royal film performance
In London AP reports the queen will attend a royal film event next month featuring the light hearted American musical Les Girls. The production stars Gene Kelly Mitzi Gaynor and Kay Kendall.
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London
Gene Kelly
Mitzi Gaynor
Kay Kendall
Acheson backs troops order in Little Rock crisis
Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson said the United States must fix its internal racial problems before leading colored peoples abroad. He praised President Eisenhower for sending troops to Little Rock and noted the integration crisis damaged U.S. foreign relations.
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Washington
Dean Acheson
United States
Acheson
U.S
Little Rock
Eisenhower
Man Sits Down On Rattlesnake in Georgia
Fitzgerald, AP report says Leo Cook, a pulpwood worker, rested on a soft patch of grass and unknowingly sat on a rattlesnake. The snake’s head was beneath him and its tail rattled as he jumped up. He escaped unharmed.
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Fitzgerald, Ga
Leo Cook
Cooker
Cop with Sharp Memory Captures Two Holdup Men
Milwaukee officer with a sharp memory nabbed two holdup suspects wanted in a Kansas City bank robbery and an Oklahoma murder case. Oscar Plinska, 50, spotted an Illinois plate linked to the Kansas City bank crime, followed the car, confronted the suspects at a traffic light, and they surrendered. Fred Riley alias Ben Vernon Thomas and Williams Reese Johnston alias Ben Stephens were identified and taken into custody on fugitive warrants.
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Milwaukee
Kansas
Oklahoma
Oscar Plinska
Illinois
Kansas City
Plinska
Fred Riley
Ben Vernon Thomas
Williams Reese Johnston
Ben Stephens
Twin City
Nurse Susan Kingston, 102, credits faith in God
LEOMINSTER Mass. UPI report that Susan Kingston aged 102 who served as a nurse for 86 years says her long life is due to her unshaken faith in God. Her dedication spans decades in nursing service and faith as guiding principles.
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Leominster
Mass
Susan Kingston
Ex-Aircraft Worker Tells How He Kidnapped Crazy Boy
Everett AP report details 20 year old ex aircraft worker George Collins admitting a first degree kidnapping of 68 year old Lee Crary. Collins described the plan to ransom him for money, the trunk confinement, and the moment the boy escaped before Collins was arrested hours after the abduction near his father’s home in Everett.
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Everett
Wash
George Edward Collins, Jr
Lee Crary
Collins
Newswrer
Bob Twitchell
Snohomish County
Katherine Myers
Lynnwood
Crary
Lee
FBI
Jury Awards Man 16666 For Loss Of Kissing Ability
Norwalk Omio AP jury awards Ellis Dotson 16666 for injuries from a Dec 1 1955 Baltimore and Ohio railroad accident that impaired his kissing ability. Dotson, 44, of near Willard, sued for 25000 claiming farm work and speech were affected by the crash while employed as a brakeman. His wife Mildred testified the injury impeded his kissing.
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Norwalk
Omio
APA
Ellis Dotson
Willard
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Mildred
Parakeets Drive Bird Cage Boom in Homes
New York based Steelways reports a tenfold surge in parakeet numbers since 1951 fueling demand for bird cages. Annual cage sales may reach 12 million dollars to house about 14 million parakeets and four to five million canaries, with major builders using hundreds of tons of steel wire and plates annually for split level and Cape Cod cages and planning ranch and colonial parakeet homes.
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New York
Steelways
American Iron and Steel Institute
Unite States
White House
Cape Cod
Faubus faces pressure as Little Rock crisis deepens
In a period of national tension over federal troops at Little Rock nine, Governor Faubus claims legislators urged a special session while critics blame his National Guard action for delaying integration at Central High. Eisenhower signals concern, presses for orderly action while Faubus dodges direct blame and cites possible scapegoats. A Southern governors group plans talks ahead of further steps.
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Faubus
Central High
South
Little Rock
Larncr
National Guard
Newport
R.I
Eisenhower
Russell
D-Ga
Hitler
Southern Conference
FDA Warns of Door To Door Peddlers in Vitamin Racket
FDA cautions about door to door vitamin salesmen preying on hopeful buyers with cure all claims. The scheme inflates vitamin myths, targets sick or elderly, and charges high prices while claiming food lacks nutrition. FDA stresses legitimate vitamins exist but warns against deceptive pitches.
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FDA
Washington
Nea
United States Food and Drug Administration
George P. Larrick
Byrd questions army on stepped up riot training order
Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia asked Army Secretary Wilber Brucker for full details on an order directed at Southern Commanders for intensified riot training issued during the Little Rock dispute and later revoked. He seeks seven specific points including authority, recipients, locations, unit strength, areas of supposed rioting, training specifics, and any historical precedents since Reconstruction.
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Winchester
INS
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Army
Wilber Brucker
Little Rock
Brucker
Third Army
Atlanta
Fourth Army
San Antonio
Byrd
Senate Armed Services Committee
Stevenson Calls for Fast Little Rock Wound Binding
Adlai Stevenson urged that soldiers be withdrawn quickly from the Little Rock school crisis. He criticized President Eisenhower for not clearly enforcing school integration decrees and said the nation’s misfortune might have been avoided with a firmer early stance.
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Chapel Hill
N. C
Adlai Stevenson
Little Rock
Eisenhower
Central High School
Stevenson
Des Moines Squares Up For All Iowa Festival
DES MOINES AP More than 2,000 dancers from Iowa Nebraska Missouri and Minnesota converged at Veterans Memorial auditorium for the first All Iowa square dance festival. Sponsored by 35 central Iowa clubs the event featured men in jeans and embroidered shirts and women in colorful squaw dresses with festival chairman Mrs. Mike Horman hoping the shindig becomes an annual affair.
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Des Moines
Midwest
Veterans Memorial Auditorium
Iowa
Nebraska
Missouri
Minnesota
Mike Horman
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