Hoover Commission Urges Overhaul of Government Real Estate
The Hoover Commission urged Congress and the President to curb mismanagement of federal property, noting 472 million acres of land and large building space with no up to date inventory. It sought broader GSA authority and stronger Budget Bureau coordination, while deeming many plants in reserve for war emergencies inactive or in poor condition.
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Washington P
Hoover Commission
Cone Press
New York City
Empire State Building
Herbert Hoover
GSA
Eisenhower
General Services Administration
Congress
Bureau of the Budget
Interior Department
Bureau of Land Management
Agriculture Department
Forest Service
John R. Lotz
New York Engineering Executie
Sacs
Sunshine Turns To Warmth With Possible Thunder Monday
The Weather Bureau predicts a return of sunshine followed by possible thunderstorms Monday night in the area. Temperatures rise to a low near 54 Monday with Tuesday partly cloudy and warmer. highs around 40. Monday saw readings from 53 to 76 amid an unseasonably cool spell in Iowa and surrounding states.
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Weather Bureau
Omaha
Towa
Spencer
Mason City Police Chief Allstat Resigns
Mason City police chief Allstat resigned after four years in office on Monday. Mayor Se Mendon appointed Police Captain Teo F. Risacher to fill the vacancy. Allstat served 27 years on the force and was appointed chief July 1, 11 Tusache1 er. Risacher has been police captain for nearly 20 years, joining the force in 1923.
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Mason City
B-Len BE. J. Alle Rint
Mason Citys
George Se
Mendon
Teo F. Risacher
Allstat
Tusache1er
Forer
Library Dedicated in Iowa City by Grand Lodge Leader
A pre 1900 Iowa story notes the dedication Monday of a new Masonic Library funded by a millennial dollar town project. The event marks the oldest standing Masonic lodge in Iowa and includes remarks by the Grand Lodge leader and local officials.
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Chdar Rapids
Nillian Dillar Towa Masonic Library
Oldtstaunding Svenr
Towa
Gas Tax Drive Nabbed 410 Trucks at Iowa Border
Iowa treasurer’s office staged a gas tax sweep on nine highways entering the state from Missouri. 410 trucks stopped June d. 18 387 gallons taxed at 5 cents per gallon, with overages from 20 to 240 gallons. One Neb. driver with four auxiliary tanks carried 500 gallons. most violators faced fines up to 100 dollars or 30 days jail. A Nebraska border drive is planned next as enforcement tightens ahead of new permit rules.
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Des Moines .P
Missouri
Varle I. Smith
Iowa
Smith
Grand Island
Neb
Witck
Chicago
Nebraska
Police arrest 120 Catholics after Buenos Aires riots
Federal police raided the episcopal palace in Buenos Aires and detained 120 men who had taken refuge there after clashes between Catholics and Peron supporters in the Plaza de Mayo. Priests were allowed to stay, while Cardinal Capello was absent due to illness. The Vatican warned against further anti church unrest possibly affecting relations with Argentina.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Episcopal Palace
Juan D. Peron
Metropolitan Cathedral
Plaza de Mayo
Santiago Luis Cardinal Capello
San Isidro
Carlos A. Gentile
Gentile
Lenter
Peron
Christ the King
VatiGan
Manhday
Vatican
Pope Pius Xif
Carla Maria Oliva Velez
Maria Zama
Vatican Press Office
Manawa Pumping Operations Down
Failure of the vacuum pump has temporarily halted pumping operations at Lake Manawa. Officials test replacement parts Monday and hope to have the pump back in operation this week. The site equipment at the Missouri River project is old and was linked to the Nar Casind Hotel fire in 1925.
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Lake Manawa
Old Conservation, Inc
Missouri River
Knights Of Columbus Growth In Philippines Highlighted
Des Moines reports supreme director Luke E. Mart in a Sunday banquet credits the Knights of Columbus with acting as a powerful growth force in the Philippines. He notes membership rising from 33 to 10,000 and cites a successful advertising program generating inquiries and email responses.
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Des Moines
Luke E. Mart
New Haven
Russians Accept Moscow in ties after Geneva conference
In Geneva on July 1 a conference led by international mediators resulted in Moscow accepting a proposed framework for peace ties. Russian representatives confirmed willingness to engage with Western partners, signaling a path toward revised security arrangements and dialogue.
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Moscow
Russia
Wester
Momdas
Geneva
Bids Sought for Southwest Iowa Road Repairs and Resurfacing
The Iowa State Highway Commission in Ames will open bids Tuesday for maintenance concrete pavement repairs across multiple Southwest Iowa projects. Items include Hwy 275 from South Omaha Bridge Road to Hwy 375, Hwy 375 to 16th Ave, and Hwy 273 junction in Council Bluffs, plus resurfacing on 14.6 miles of Hwy 100 from Carson to Griswold and several county routes in Cass Fremont Harrison Taylor and Union. Also listed are material stockpiles in Audubon Carroll Cass Fremont Harrison Mills Montgomery Pottawattamie Shelby Taylor and Union counties and additional repairs along Hwy 2 30 93 and 71 and other routes.
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Towa
Towa State Highway Commission
Ames
South Omaha Bridge
Sixteenth Ave
Council Bluffs
Nishnabotna River
Oakland
Avoca
Harrison County
Carson
Griswold
Carroll County
Lanesboro
Cass County
Anita
Fremont County
Morales
Shelby County
Portsmouth
Taylor County
Lenox
Bedford
Union County
Materal
Audubon
Carroll
Cass
Fremont
Harrison
Mills
Montgomery
Pottawattomie
Shelby
Taylor
Union
Sidney
Shenandoah
Missouri River
Missouri Valley
Woodbine
Crawford County
Pattawattamie
Monona County
Mills County
Emerson
Page County
Braddyville
Shambaugh
Southwest towans Home From Far East
Transport Gen. A. WW. Brewster arrived in San Francisco on Sunday with armed forces personnel from the Far East. The passenger list includes six Southwest Towans Ave residents and several others from Atlantic, Bluffs, Creston, Oakland, Shelby, and Mearhead, with ranks and names partially given.
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San Francisco
A. WW. Brewster
Towans Ave
Donald Jf Weber
Atlantic
Witham Kk. Dohse
North 34Th
Four Teenagers Die In Iowa Auto Crashes
Four teen aged persons died in two separate Iowa highway crashes on Sunday. Carol Bradley 16 and sister Joan 44 of near Fairbank. Russell Paine 3 of Fairbank. Karen Norris 16 of Sandyville. The Bradley sisters and Paine were en route to a wedding when their car struck a bridge abutment on Highway 190 southwest of Oelwein and plunged down an embankment bursting into flames. Karen Norris died when a fiance’s car driven by Ervin Birkenholz 18 of Knoxville failed a curve on Highway 92 east of Indianola. Carol Bradley trapped in the burning wreckage. others were ejected. Police noted reckless driving prior to the Indianola crash.
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Associated Press
Iowa
Carol Bradley
Joan
Raymond Bradley
Near Fairbank
Russell Paine
Leon Paine
Fairbank
Karen Norris
Russell Norris
Sandyville
Bradley Sisters
Paine
Highway 190
Oelwein
Norris
Ervin Lee Birkenholz
Knoxville
Indianola
Headdale
Debvein
Highway Patrol
Henry Warner
Birkenholz
Cutback planned on M48 medium tank production
Washington reports the Pentagon weighs a reduction in M48 medium tank output. Officials caution the cut would not be major, possibly under 20 percent, as current stocks suffice for regular Army units National Guard and overseas orders. Deliveries mainly from Chrysler Newark arsenal may ease in response to ample supply.
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Washington
Pentagon
Newark
Del
National Guard
Don’t Score Here Paralities Partie Fatalities and Losses
Fragmentary OCR text mentions fatalities and legal notices with names and figures. Key entities appear fragmented. The readable content hints at a local incident with casualties and monetary figures but lacks complete facts for a full summary.
Ridgway To Head Mellon Institute
Gen Matthew B Ridgway U S Army chief of staff will become chairman of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research on retirement June 30 He will succeed Dr Edward R Weidlein who remains president Ridgway led the 8th Army in Korea and later served as supreme allied commander in Japan
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Pittsburgh
Mellon Institute of Industrial Research
Matthew B. Ridgway
U. S. Army
Institute
Ridgway
Edward R. Weidlein
Weidlein
Gen. Ridgway
8Th Army
Japan
Auto output set to top seven million in 1955
DETROIT After GM and the CIO United Auto Workers pact, auto production is rising toward a 1955 record. Through June the total nears 4.3 million passenger cars, with track volume around 500,000 units and July to December expected to level off with new model shutdowns. Industry leaders, including GM’s Harlow Curtice, did not foresee seven million for the year.
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David J. Wilkie
Detroit
General Motors
CIO
United Auto Workers
Harlow H. Curtice
Addition To Wesley Acres Dedicated At Iowa Conference
A $120000 addition to Wesley Acres, a Methodist home for retired persons in Des Moines, was consecrated during the Iowa-Des Moines conference. Bishop F Gerald Ensley noted elder care as a relatively new church activity and urged expanding such kindly service. In the same service, 22 were ordained elders and deacons, including Deacons Waunalia Puthi McConnell and Terold J Levin, with Bishop Edwin E Vout delivering ordination messages.
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Des Moines
Wesley Acres
Iowa-Des Moines
F. Gerald Ensley
Edwin E. Vout
Aberdeen
Simpson College
Southwest Towans
Waunaila Puthi McConnell
Clarnda
Lawrence Garrett
Braddyville
Terold J. Levin
Strahan
Ray Ivan Martin
Blanchard
Kenneth Heflin Harlan
Des Moines Iowa Testimony In Hospital Case
Testimony in a hospital funding case focused on St Luke's Methodist Hospital Cedar Rapids as Blair the superintendent testified as the 23rd witness for the Iowa Hospital Association. He said over seven years ending August 71 St Luke's had operating income of 410,306 and expenses of 707132 with a 93,100 difference added to gifts federal funds and depreciation for a 2,736,607 expansion program.
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Des Moines
St. Luke's Methodist Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Towa Hospital
Blair
St. Luke's
UAW Secures Guaranteed Pay in GM Contract
In Detroit CIO United Auto Workers struck a three year deal with General Motors mirroring Ford gains. The agreement creates an employer funded supplemental unemployment benefit, a full union shop, and wage raises over three years. IBEW participation expanded to 35,000 workers with similar benefits. The plan includes 60 to 65 percent pay for 26 weeks, a $150 million trust, and enhanced pensions and holidays, while remaining terms rejected include stock purchase and paid separation.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers
General Motors Corp
Ford
Walter Reuther
UAW
Ford Motor Co
Harry W. Anderson
Anderson
Ucaw-Cio
VAW
Reuther
Onits
Manager Intern To Work Here
Charles Jackson of Estherville begins a two year city manager internship under City Manager L M McConnell. He will assist, attend University of Kansas seminars, earn 250 dollars monthly, and study sanitation routes and trash pickup goals for Estherville.
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Charles Jackson
Estherville
University of Kansas
Lawrence
L. M. McConnell
Jackson
McConnell
Sanitation
First Ave
Iowa States College
Ames
National Guard Training Camp Opens in Mud and Leaden Skies
The 32nd Wisconsin National Guard unit began its summer training in damp, overcast conditions at Camp McCoy Wisconsin. About 100 men arrived Sunday from distant cities, bringing the division's vehicles to the site for the weeklong session amid heavy mud and poor weather.
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Camp Mccoy
Wis
Wisconsin
32Nd National Guard
Foreign Aid Essential says Radford on Manpower
Admiral Radford told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that U S foreign aid is vital and self interested to counter Communist manpower. He urged support for President Eisenhower’s request of 37.5 billion dollars for foreign aid next year including 140 million in military assistance, arguing the United States cannot match the Soviet bloc alone. The hearing opened briefly in Annen and then moved to closed session with questions on military and economic aid funding for Yugoslavia India and the Near East.
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Washington P
Arthur W. Radford
Free Nations
United States
Anen Hearng
Find
Yugoslavia
Tim
Kremlin
Saif
Ac Acanomie Actone
India
Near East
Reprimand Recommended for Nebr Senator Klaver
A Nebraska select committee urged censure and reprimand of State Senator Sam Klaver for improper conduct. The six term Omaha senator allegedly sought $2500 from The Automatic Phonograph Operators Assn and paid ads to defeat a bill he drafted to tax coin machines, while denying the charges under oath. Klaver also runs a weekly newspaper, the Omaha Public Ledger.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
Sam Klaver
Omaha
Klaver
Anauragus
Sen Klaver
Adenauer Arrives in Washington for Talks with Eisenhower
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer arrived in Washington for talks with President Eisenhower and top officials. He said West Germans favor a close alliance with free nations to advance reunification, and he was greeted by Undersecretary Herbert Hoover Jr. and German and allied ambassadors before a luncheon meeting with Eisenhower.
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Washington
Konrad
Adenauer
West Germany
Eisenhower
Herbert Hoover Jr
Heinz Krekeler
Herbert Blanken
Woman Has Leg Amputation To Win Boyfriend’s Love
PORTSMOUTH England Dawn McFarland a 17 year old with polio had her left leg amputated below the knee to win the love of Gerald Manley a former British Army man stationed in Malaya. After the operation she received an engagement ring and planned marriage once she recovered and could walk and dance again.
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Portsmoutit
England
Dawn McFarland
Dawn
Gerald Manley
Gerald
Malaya
Fis
Cnreer
House Committee Approves 100000 for Red River Project
The House Appropriations Committee recommends an appropriation of 100000 to continue construction on the Red River of the North in Minnesota and North Dakota. The cut leaves 250000 less than the president's budget, and the panel did not allocate where the reduction should be applied.
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Washington
House
Appropriations
Red River
Minnesota
North Dakota
Prizes For Gadgets At State Fair In Iowa
DES MOINES cash prizes totaling 300 dollars will be awarded for top gadgets invented by farmers at the statewide farm exhibit during the State Fair from August 27 to September 3.
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Des Moines
Towa
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