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Newspaper
Council Bluffs Nonpareil
Location
Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1956
Page
1
Iowa ended the Memorial Day window from 6 pm Tuesday to midnight Wednesday with no motor vehicle deaths or drownings. Commissioner Clinton Moyer credited drivers and peace officers for a remarkable safety record while noting the need to maintain effort.
Ottumwa plant of John Morrell & Co. with 3600 workers faces possible permanent closing after last Friday shut down. UPWA union meeting Thursday aims to secure reliable contract assurances. company cites prior slowdowns and losses and prepares for all outcomes.
Secretary Benson announced that farmers in suitable areas may bank croplands this year under a 1.2 billion soil bank plan. Payments will reward reducing plantings of surplus crops including cotton wheat corn rice peanuts and tobacco with specific rates set for corn cotton wheat and rice and tobacco and peanuts to be announced soon.
Robert Dowling of City Investing Co. announced a national businessmen’s committee will form to back Gov. Averell Harriman of New York for the Democratic presidential nomination. Harriman avoided declaring active candidacy, while Dowling said he is viewed as a candidate pending evolving lines between active and inactive status. The committee is to be formed within 10 days to 2 weeks.
Washington Senate Reclamation subcommittee on Thursday approved a bill mandating federal agencies follow state water laws in the 17 western states. The vote was unanimous, signaling potential advancement in aligning federal water use rules with state regulations.
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A Canadian air mass cools Iowa with 45 degree low temperatures Thursday night. Mason City drops to 43 and Spencer records 0.02 inches of rain as highs reach 85 in Ottumwa and 76 in Mason City. Nebraska shows 83 in Lincoln and 40 in Chadron.
Marvin Glenn Stanislaus, 25, of Omaha, and Mrs. Charlotte Plooster, 23, of Christian Home, were listed in fairly good condition at Jennie Edmundson Hospital after Stanislaus' 1953 sedan plunged 200 feet down a bluff at KOLL Point in Fairmount Park. The car struck a ditch near Ninth Ave and High St. Traffic Capt. Eldon Winger questioned Mrs. Plooster, with police saying both will be questioned further in connection with the crash.
Secretary Benson is set to arrive in southwestern Iowa Thursday night to tour farming areas affected by dry weather. The secretary had postponed the tour three times and will visit eastern Nebraska on Saturday.
The last American, defending champion Joe Conrad of San Antonio, Texas, fell to Scottish champion Reid Jack 1 up in a 36 hole quarter final at Troon Scotland. Twenty seven Americans began the tournament Monday.
Todays Chuckie Schmidt announced his engagement to a widow. A friend questioned the match, but Schmidt replied that being her second husband may be better than being her first.
The Baltimore and Ohio National Limited derailed after hitting a boulder at a tunnel exit near Parkersburg West Virginia. Engineer J C Riley 62 of Grafton was found dead. fireman Paul R Hoeten 32 of Grafton was missing. The train from New York bound for St Louis traveled about 40 mph.
UAW Local 79 at John Deere Spreader Works in Moline voted unanimously to ratify a contract ending a 137 day strike at four Deere plants. The pact raises incentive standards, grants 1956 vacations to about 4100 striking workers, and sets a joint time study review by July 1 to resolve incentive grievances.
Danvers Massachusetts reports a Boston bound tanker carrying 3,500 gallons of Maine milk jackknifed on the Newburyport turnpike. Driver Jesse Bolles age 48 and his son Paul 12 escaped with bruises as traffic halted for nearly four hours while firefighters washed milk from the highway.
The Dun and Bradstreet wholesale food price index remained at $6.11 for both last week and this week with a $6.33 level a year ago. The highest point this year was $6.14 reached two weeks ago as foods showed mixed movements.
A hundred women began a campaign to keep the City Manager form of government, targeting Yes or No votes in the June 26 election. Jaycees leaders Hobson and Heithoff frame the push as protecting six years of progress and urge registration drives and personal calls.
Des Moines reports Joe Anderson, 70, once sentenced to life for first degree murder in Buena Vista County, has been paroled by the State Parole Board. He fatally shot Lara Jones at the Cobblestone Inn near Storm Lake on June 14, 1940, and his sentence was commuted to 90 years by Gov. Leo Hoegh in 1955.
Pittsburgh hosts the first joint contract talks with U S Steel Bethlehem Steel and Republic Steel joining the United Steelworkers at the bargaining table They stress each company will bargain separately while aiming for an early settlement The Big Three and USW plan further sessions in Pittsburgh and later New York with contracts expiring June 30 representing about 350 000 workers out of 650 000 in the basic steel industry
Council Bluffs CAP cadets could become goodwill ambassadors for the State Department and visit foreign lands for a month, but the local squadron needs a training center at the Municipal Airport requiring about 31 600 in funds. Residents are urged to donate to The Nonpareil to support building the CAP training facility and start the program.
Washington reports say Moscow plans to invite Gen. Nathan Twining to a Soviet Aviation Day on June 24 with possible reciprocal invitations to American officers. Officials note broader military exchanges may follow, amid policy tensions between easing ties and preserving allied vigilance against Soviet communism.
Kansas University dismissed 58 students for taking part in a raid on the Alpha Chi Omega Sorority house at Baker University in Baldwin. No names released. Dismissals vary with stipulations for readmission. About ten participants involved May 21. Sorority house damaged. coeds’ dressing rooms torn. fights occurred with Baker University students.
Iowa Democrats forecast no instruction to national convention delegates at large. Des Moines hosts 2,051 official delegates arriving for caucuses and the state convention may influence final selections. Names mentioned include Adlai Stevenson Kefauver Harriman Symington Truman Lausche Humphrey Johnson.
The House received a bill to impose the death penalty for heroin peddling called the slow death narcotic. It would apply to sales to teenagers or a third sale to adults, passed by voice vote. The Senate removed wire tapping but approved a substitute for tough prison terms using any communications facility in drug traffic.
Public Works Director Forest Grover announced Booth and Olson will start grading streets Friday morning if weather allows. The Hargrave Construction Co. of Cedar Rapids asphalt surfacing Sixteenth Avenue, with a 26 block resurfacing phase nearing completion. The contractor expects completion by mid next week.
Twelve states and the District of Columbia reported no traffic deaths on Memorial Day with Nebraska and Iowa among them. Ned H Dearborn of the safety council called the outcome encouraging and urged continued effort to reduce the July 4 toll as well.
DES MOINES. A noon split in central standard versus daylight saving time stirred a labor dispute as carpenters sheet metal and iron workers returned to site. Master Builders and unions weigh 8 am to 4 30 pm hours under standard or daylight time with a district court ruling sought to settle the matter.
Reports from New York persisted Thursday that Curtiss Wright Corp on the verge of a deal with Studebaker-Packard Corp that would aid the automaker’s finances and give the aircraft firm control of Studebaker-Packard.
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