Increase In Valuations Shifts Tax Burden On Utilities
DES MOINES Iowa Tax Commission reports 1956 taxable valuations for utility properties totaling 34741 632 854, down 10 504 214 from 1935 figures. Power and telephone valuations up sharply, railroads and interurbans slightly lower. Comparative figures show large company totals across power firms, telephone firms, railroads, and the Pullman and Railway Express concerns, with ongoing court action over Iowa Power and Light Co valuations.
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Des Moines
Iowa Tax Commission
Power
Railway Express Co
Pullman Company
Railway Express
Iowa Power and Light Co
Iowa Supreme Court
Rock Island
United Telephone Co of
Newton
Central Town Telephone Co of
Cedar Rapids
Central Telephone Co of
Lincoln
Neb
Western Electric and CWA Reach One Year Pact
Western Electric and the Communications Workers of America agreed on a one year contract for 18,000 telecom installers nationwide. The deal includes a general wage rise of 8 to 12 cents per hour plus fringe benefits, with initial union demands higher and company offers averaging 7.7 cents per hour. Current pay ranged from 1.38 to 2.36 dollars per hour.
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New York
1Western Electrict Co
Communications Workers of America
Naion
Don’t Score Here Conquelutys To Date 655 195K
Fragmentary OCR notes list numbers, injuries, accidents and damages with values and place names. The readable bits show fatalities and financial totals but lack coherent context or a clear event description.
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Conquelutys
Drowns At Conway Near Lenox
Charley Cason Jr., 16, drowned while swimming with his brothers in a pond on his parents farm near Conway nine miles southeast of Lenox. The junior at Clearfield High School went under and his body was recovered about 30 minutes later.
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Conway
Lenox P
Charley Cason Jr
Lenox
Clearfield Hngh School
Third In Contest At State Fair Sheep Shearing
Des Moines Hollis Perrin of Corning placed third in the State Fair sheep shearing contest Sunday. Ted Sprouse of Bloomfield was first. Orville Wray of Maryville Missouri was fifth.
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Des Moines
Hollis Perrin
Corning
Ted Sprouse
Bloomfield
Orville Wray
Maryville, Mo
Today's Chuckle By the time most men behave themselves
Witty observation noting that by the time men mature enough to act properly the window for action has closed, presenting a humorous take on delayed responsibility and social behavior.
Expect Decline In New Car Inventories
DETROIT Auto-Motive News says 1956 model inventories should fall to about 550000 by August end after a March 1 peak of 904000. Sales stay steady to strong, with stocks likely to be slashed in September and level off in October toward 450000 by Oct 1.
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Detroit
Auto- Motive News
Hot Weather Forecast Stretches Across Iowa And Nebraska
Forecasters predict a heat wave in Southwest Iowa with highs near 95 to 100 and elevated humidity. Sunday reached 98 in Council Bluffs while Sioux City neared 100. Clarinda posted 61 low, with a 70s forecast tonight. Nebraska also faces warm temps, scattered showers, and rainfall totals ranging from one tenth to one inch east.
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Iowa
Council Bluffs
Sioux City
Clarinda
Dubuque
Nebraska
Albuquerque Dukes Bus Crash Injures Ten Players
A Greyhound charter carrying 19 Albuquerque Dukes players overturned on US 887 five miles west of Wallenburg Colo. Ten players were badly bruised and cut. pitcher Al Osorio and outfielder Leonard Vandehey were hospitalized with serious injuries. The team planned to proceed to Pueblo, with a doubleheader likely postponed. The crash occurred when loose gravel caused the bus to strike a culvert and tip onto its side.
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Wallenburg
Colo. P
Albuquerque
Swift
Pueblo
Swaft
Minneapolis Firm Buys Sargent Feed
Minneapolis firm International Milling Co. buys Sargent & Co the Iowa livestock and poultry feed leader. Sale includes the main plant in Des Moines and plants at Algona Fremont and Monmouth, VyLados Laboratories not included. International will expand Sargent feeds across the Midwest.
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VyLados Laboratories, Inc
McDonald
International
Sargent
Midwest
Research Funds For River Bug Problem In Iowa
Governor Leo Hoegh announced about 2500 dollars in state funds to support research aimed at eliminating a river bug problem along cities on the Mississippi River. The plan targets insect mitigation and related studies.
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Des Moines
Cies
Mississipp River
Leo Hoegh
Eisenhower calls Soviets to publish tests openly
President Eisenhower urged the Soviet Union to publicize nuclear tests in advance during a Pebble Beach address. He cited a recent Soviet detonation with a yield under a megaton and cited AEC data on test yields. The commander-in-chief also revealed the Soviet testing site in southwest Siberia near India and the Barents Sea area.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Pebble Beach
Cali
Eisenhower
Soviet Union
Russia
Atomic Energy Commission
White House
Commission
United States
Bikini
Pacific
AEC
Lewis L. Strauss
Sibena
India
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Demo Public Affairs Post To Brightman
WASHINGTON 4 Samuel C Brightman director of publicity for the Democratic National Committee since 1952 was named Monday to serve also as director of public affairs In the latter post Brightman will take over duties formerly handled by Deputy Chairman Clayton W Fritchey who is serving as press secretary to Adlai Stevenson the party s presidential nominee Brightman is a former Washington correspondent for the Louisville Courier Journal
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Samuel C. Brightman
Democratc National Committee
Brightman
Clayton W. Fritchey
Adla Stevenson
Washington
Louisville Courier-Journal
Admiral Corp Announces Price Hikes on Appliances
Admiral Corp. said price increases ranging from 10 to 30 dollars on refrigerators freezers and electric ranges take effect August 23. The rise reflects mounting material and production costs as cited by the company.
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Chicago
Admiral Corp
Carnival Spirit Fades as Pupils Return to Class
Children arrive for the first day of school amid morning hustle and eager staff. Mothers and fathers accompany kindergartners and first graders while older students greet new classmates. A lone dog trots away as nine months of learning begin with a cheerful board message.
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Donnie
Kenneth Mackey
Pamela
Albert Spanel
Pamela Haines
Ronnie Donoho
Lonesome Dog
Black Dog
725 Iowa Schools Reopen Aids Pupils on Monday
Des Moines reports most small town and rural schools resumed Monday with about 725 of roughly 800 high schools in operation for the new term. Larger city schools plan Sept 4 after Labor Day. Weston two room school welcomed 33 pupils and captured a busy scene as students arrived, with several local youngsters among them.
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Des Moines
Cites
Pottawattamie
Weston
Accommodations for Snackers at United Nations
United Nations headquarters in New York agreed to expand for visitors and diplomats after the surge of American snackers. The 18 acre East Side complex drew around five million visitors last year, with eight of ten being American residents abroad. In its early days the delegates' dining room served the public, diplomats, visitors and tourists, with about 1,000 daily snack bar users in the first two weeks.
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United Nations
N.Y. P
U.N
Manhattan
Army of Ribblers
U.S
Hoegh Defends Use Of Planes For Official Trips
Des Moines Governor Leo Hoegh defended using National Guard planes for official duties and drought, hail surveys, and state appearances. He rejected political trips as a use case, noting a recent Des Moines to Long Beach trip for an Iowa picnic and that he returned the plane to the adjutant general. he and his wife paid their own travel costs on other legs.
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Des Moines
Leo Hoegh
San Francisco
Herschel Loveless
Hoegh
Loveless
National Guard
Washington
Long Beach
Calif
Iowa
Fred C. Tandy
Mayor Woodward Calls Council Meet
Mayor Carlton Woodward Jr scheduled an 8 pm Monday regular business session after the City Zoning Commission recommended denying a rezoning for a potential site of an $184,000 Army Reserve Training Center. The mayor indicated the matter would likely be referred to Council study, delaying the proposed Center’s planning.
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Carlton Woodward Jr
City
Woodward
Five Nation Committee To Cairo Seeks Talks On Suez
Egypt plans to reply Tuesday to the Menzies committee request for talks on the Suez Canal. Nasser expected to meet the five nation group in Cairo with no obligation to accept the plan, while insisting broader Suez issues be discussed. Britain and France prepare for possible force if negotiations fail, and Moscow diplomacy downplays a Western war over Suez.
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Egypt
Menzes
Nasser
Robert G. Menmes
Caro
Menzies
London
Moray
Mennes
Suez
Imda
Britain
France
Southampton
Moscow
Six-way plan to cut Iowa traffic deaths approved
Governor Hoegh sanctioned a six point program to curb Iowa road fatalities through year end. State Safety Commissioner Moyer outlined tougher enforcement against minors buying liquor, stricter prosecutions for DUI and license suspensions, church and club drives against speeding, rapid court reporting and license actions, broader use of local and national guardsmen for traffic control, and parental supervision of teen drivers. If unnoticed progress fails, Iowa could reach 707 deaths this year.
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DES Moines
Iowa
Leo A. Hoegh
Clinton Moyer
Hoegh
Towa
Moyer
State Safety Department
Hus Pian
Specife
President Eisenhower to End California Vacation
President Eisenhower will end his Pebble Beach golf vacation Tuesday and fly to Washington to prepare for his re election campaign and government duties. White House secretary Hagerty said the president and Mrs. Eisenhower depart Monterey Naval Air Station at 8 30 a m aboard Columbine II for a roughly nine hour flight.
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Pebble Beach
Calif
Eisenhower
Washington
White House
James C. Hagerty
Eienhower
Naval Air Station
Monterey
Columbine Iil
Decatur County Attorney Killed in Iowa Crash
Three people died in weekend highway crashes in Iowa including Warren R. Marpe 34 county attorney of Lamon who was killed when his car collided head on with a car driven by Cecil Blake near Clarinda. Mrs Marpe injured. Other fatalities and injuries occurred on Highway 14 and 25 as trucks and pickups lost control or were struck by passing vehicles.
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Associated Press
Decatur
Iowa
Warren R. Marpe
Lamon
Highway 2
Clarinda
Cecil Blake
New Market
C. E. Richey
Clarion
Richey
Headon
Marpe
Blake
Clamada
Salvo of Shots Fired at Umpire in Miami Baseball Game
MIAMI Fla Nobody touched umpire Dink Lester after an amateur baseball game Sunday but a motorist fired four to six pistol shots at him on a nearby street according to police. Lester said a driver blocked a parking lot exit and then sped away.
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Miami
Fla
Lester
Fred
Khrushchev Turns Up in Usual High Spirits
Khrushchev appeared at Leningradskaya Station with high spirits to greet Soviet President Voroshilov home from a five day goodwill visit to Finland. Reporters were kept at distance and could not seek comment on rumors in London and Paris about his fate or status.
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Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Leningradskaya
Klement Y. Voroshilov
Communisty Party
London
Paris
Labor Leaders Near Endorsement of Democratic Ticket
FORREST PARK Pa and AFL-CIO leaders Munday reported moving toward an outright endorsement of the Democratic ticket in the November election as they did in 1952 but some within the 15 million member union urged a cautious approach to avoid a full commitment.
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Forrest Park
Afl-Cio
Munday
Tcket
Spray City to Kill Mosquitoes Petition City Action
About 150 residents pressed the Council to combat a mosquito infestation in Council Bluffs. They urged spraying the entire area, estimated at 10,424 acres, at $2 per acre totaling about $20,848, but City Manager Li M. McConnell said no funds were budgeted for mosquito control.
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Council Bluffs
Dick Whited
Papillion
Neb
Public Works Department
Li. M. McConnell
Heart Attack Fatal To Greenfield Coach Omar Ray Dies On Golf Course
Omar Ray, 41, Greenfield High School football coach, died of a heart attack while playing golf Sunday. Ray coached last year at Greenfield and previously at Brooklyn Knownville Runnells and Britt. Funeral services set for Wednesday at Greenfield Methodist Church. He leaves a widow and two teenage sons.
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Omar Ray
Greenherg High School
Ray
Greenfield
Brooklyn
Knownville
Runnells
Britt
Greenfield Methodist
Ins
Highway 100 Paving Starts Tuesday in Iowa
Iowa State Highway Commission officials said paving of Highway 100 from Treynor to Council Bluffs will begin Tuesday morning. Booth and Olson Construction Co of Sioux City, the contractors for the 11 5 mile strip, set up headquarters on South Omaha Bridge Road and will start at Treynor, working westward.
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Iowa State Ieeway Commission
Council Bluffs
Treynor
Booth and Olson Construction Co
Sioux City
South Omaha
Labor Day Patrols Across Des Moines Area
Des Moines area patrols will deploy Iowa National Guard jeeps helicopters and planes along with highway patrol cars for Labor Day operations. Gov. Leo Hoegh urged continued safety measures and state-led enforcement as crews conduct patrols on highways and major routes over the holiday.
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Des Moines
Yowa National Guard
Leo Hoegh
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