14 Dec 1952
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Newspaper
Council Bluffs Nonpareil
Location
Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1952
Page
1
A retired minister reflects on a hotel lobby encounter with a young man offering a hundred dollar bill and ponders the rise of very young high earners. He links this to inflationary thinking, societal money worship, and the peril of sustaining war to prop up production, warning of a clash between money and youth blood.
DES MOINES The Iowa Republican Central Committee on Saturday rejected patronage scrapes and pledged a cooperative approach with officials and national and state committees. The policy highlights honesty, loyalty to Republican principles, and close cooperation across precinct to state organizations. Hugh Hale of Royal won a plane trip to the Washington inaugural. Clay County showed the largest Republican vote gain from 1948 to 1952.
Army Engineers announced bids for Gavins Point Dam on the Missouri River near Yankton South Dakota to complete embankment and build the spillway powerhouse substructure by January 30. If awarded early spring work would begin next year with main structures due for partial completion by 1955 and final finishes by November 1955. Gavins Point will regulate flood flows and generate power for the Fort Randall site upstream and is overseen by Col H S Miller of the Omaha district.
In Saint Paul a Great Northern locomotive halted as two men with six shooters leveled at the crew. A boy in cowboy attire, Larry J. Meredith, eight, declared he was playing Jesse James. A policeman intervened with a stern lecture about railroad yard safety.
A report notes a cautious AP survey on how women feel about domestic duties as the 1953 session nears. The piece implies many favor concentrated roles, signaling a cautious political climate.
Fourteen nations with strong fire power meet in Paris to bolster Europe’s defense against a possible Eastern attack. NATO ministers and high officers from North Atlantic powers gather at the Eiffel Tower for their second major conference of 1952 as U S Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Treasury Secretary John Snyder arrive in Paris before the end of the Truman administration.
The Inside: critical week for Christmas mail at the terminal with fragile balance. A storm in the East could be disastrous for getting packages to the West coast in time for holiday delivery per page 35.
At Offutt Air Force Base Hospital a pair of sisters who married brothers welcomed babies just three hours seven minutes apart. The Carter brothers are T Sgt Thurman Carter and S Sgt Andrew Carter, both from Midlothian Texas, with wives Wanda Roberts and Peggy from Manguma Oklahoma. The siblings’ second and third children, born in December 1950, mark the rapid succession.
Allen C Brown reports on city street spending and master plan notes by Hare and Hare Engineering. About $905,000 has been spent on new Council Bluffs streets over the past two years to improve east-west traffic, with funds allocated for paving Avenue A, Avenue B, and other streets. The article outlines proposed routes and resurfacing efforts to divert traffic from Broadway, including north-south connections on Thirty-fifth, Twenty-ninth, Twenty-first, Fifteenth, and Eighth Streets, and notes ongoing work and future improvements.
The United Nations in New York dismissed a top Russian staffer Nikolai Skvortsoy, labeled a Soviet spy by the American State Department. He served as personal aide to Constantine Zinchenko, the former assistant secretary general and senior Soviet official in the Secretariat.
The Good Samaritan Home in Tabor, established in 1950, grew from a Nazarene church project and an 1893 missionary school. Rev. Paul Worcester, his father, and long‑time residents describe the site’s evolution from a dormitory to a home for seniors, with the Nazarene church taking over in 1949 and the home forming around July 2, 1980.
A storm backdrop areas as New England digs out from record snow. A Vermont and Northern New York task force fights through heavy drifts with aid from Massachusetts and New York, while weather reports note subfreezing temperatures and routine conditions in the region. Officials reference espionage ties involving Skvortsov and Moscow, and a U. N. link in Russia spurring administrative actions.
Clarence Kelley 41 year old farmer near Chariton was shot and killed Saturday after an argument with his son Ronald 15 with the incident leaving the northern Vermont area cut off from communication. Officials reported widespread outages as heavy snow blanketed Vermont New York and parts of New England.
The sheriff refused to reveal specifics of the argument and shooting between a father and son during corn harvesting near the Kelley homestead. Coroner John Milnes reports four shots to the body and one to the head from a 22 caliber rifle. an inquest is set for Monday. The boy, held in Lucas County jail, claimed he killed his father after earlier disputes. both parents were divorced in 1945 and remarried.
Most city pupils begin a 16 day holiday this Friday with schools including public, Holy Family, St Patrick, St Francis and St Peter’s dismissing after classes and resuming January 5 Faith Lutheran ends December 23 noon to January 5 and Iowa School for Deaf runs December 20 to January 4
President Truman authorized Economic Stabilizer Roger Putnam to assume wage policy duties and redelegate to four public wage board members. The move aims to clear 12,000 pending wage raise cases as industry resistance and a boycott by the Chamber of Commerce and NAM challenge continued controls.
Stanton Mary Palmquist, 15, crowned queen of Stanton St Lucia Christmas festival attended by about 500 people. Attendants were Joan Swanson Roberta Nord Betty Larson and Rugene Anderson. Program featured traditional Swedish songs and dances.
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