21 Dec 1952
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Newspaper
Council Bluffs Nonpareil
Location
Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1952
Page
1
A widow mother of five describes a brutal winter during a coal strike that shut company stores and left families desperate. Her two sons on top work lost jobs, Christmas vanished, and she recalls the day as a lasting scar, urging workers to seek dialogue over conflict to spare children from premature sorrow and loss of faith.
Washington reports a new general immigration law will take effect at 12:01 a.m. next Wednesday. The act, debated for three years, draws protests from major foreign governments and faces criticism from Atty. Gen. McGranery for ambiguities. President Truman criticizes parts of the measure as hindering foreign relations and maintaining an unbalanced quota system. Veterans groups object to bars on admissions for Nazis and fascists.
In downtown Des Moines contractors uncover more than 500 tons of new soft coal described as not worth handling. The coal, mined in the city for over a century, has been hauled to a city dump with no market found.
Secretary designee Martin P. Durkin outlined three main aims for the Labor Department after taking over next month. Strengthen the department to better serve workers, improve relations between labor and management to reduce production losses from strife, and amend the Taft Hartley Act to a measure acceptable to both sides.
Mrs. Franklin D Roosevelt and Chief U S Delegate Warren R Austen ended United Nations careers in postwar diplomacy. Roosevelt praised by Austen as the first lady of the war era, while Durkin, a Democrat allied with Gov Adlai Stevenson, outlined objectives in an AFL sponsored broadcast after resigning as AFL Plumbers Union head to join Eisenhower's cabinet.
Moses Lake Washington AP report notes civilian and military readers that most polio patients in hospital wards will be allowed to go home for Christmas. The piece also discusses IRS Bureau reorganization, political patronage concerns, and lawmakers plans for a new Ways and Means subcommittee.
A compact reader’s digest style item weaves disjoint notes from personal memories, wartime censorship talk, and holiday weather. It mentions Terry Hughes, 5, from Willow Avenue, with a memory fragment about polio and a hospital transfer, then shifts to a U N session scene, a Seoul airstrike line, and a White Christmas forecast for Council Bluffs with snow, wind, and icy roads warnings. It also covers Eisenhower’s upcoming meetings, a planned inauguration speech, and a State of the Union outline with key aides and officials.
Tunis dispatch reports Soviet Premier Stalin bowing to France as he marks his 73rd birthday. Decrees pledged. health concerns swirl amid slow activity and limited updates on his condition. Nearby, a Springfield Missouri report notes Robert Henry Best’s treason conviction amid a snowstorm and a major air disaster involving a Globemaster at Larson AFB.
Nearly 500 volunteers combed the Naperville area Saturday for traces of two missing children but found no tangible leads. Local authorities coordinated the search, urging residents to report any clues and extending the effort into the weekend.
In Chicago Rodney Lee Brodie the surviving Siamese twin woke enough to grab a yellow rubber lamb and ask a question while his brother Roger Lee remains in a deep coma after a 12 hour 40 minute operation to separate the head joined twins. Rodney is responding well and may be taken off the critical list. Roger remains precarious.
At the United Nations a Soviet bloc driven anti American propaganda surge dominates the waning hours of the General Assembly. A heated debate concentrates on defining aggression as the body plans an extraordinary session to wrap up before adjourning.
The Cuban Navy said ten retired naval officers, including a former navy chief, were arrested on charges of attempted rebellion against President Fulgencio Batista. The arrests came after four men were seized and farms raided in Maharoneck New York in a reported plot to stage a Christmas revolt.
Iowa ice storm outages linger as Northwestern Bell reports 21 towns without longdistance service and 420 circuits down. More than 1,250 rural phones and 155 town phones, many in Cedar Rapids, remain dead while 477 workers labor in the hardest hit Cedar Rapids area.
Allen C Brown reports Grover, city planning chief, expands Hare's recommendations for future CB additions. Proposes a comprehensive land-plat ordinance with 24 foot streets, eight inch sewer lines, hydrants every 350 feet, and complete plat details to city offices for approval.
Washington Sen Lehman says he will introduce legislation reflecting the main ideas of President Truman's Commission on the Health Needs of the Nation. The commission urged federal grants to states to extend voluntary prepaid health insurance and develop state health programs.
Washington crime probe into New York waterfront rackets confronts George Meany as he nears his AFL presidency. He faces evidence of payoffs bribes and alleged misconduct tied to the AFL longshoremen union led by Joseph P. Ryan amid claims of a vast waterfront racket.
Ambassador Loy W. Henderson will return to Tehran this weekend to renew efforts to break the British Iranian deadlock over payment for Britain's nationalized oil properties. He conferred with Secretary of State Acheson after Acheson’s Paris talks with Eden, and officials indicate some progress toward a solution.
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