Teens to Lead CAP Fund Drive for Training Center
Seventy seven youths met at Community Hall to organize a neighborhood campaign for 1600 dollars needed to finish the Civil Air Patrol training center at Municipal Airport. A drive committee including Sharon Ryall and Sharon Fleming, both 17, Charles Johnson 13, Ted Sheil 15, and Floyd Hughes 16, planned a 7 30 p m meeting at CAP officer Capt Ralph Gamble’s home to map tactics. The fund drive follows weeks of prior contributions and a 25 dollar boost bringing total to 103 dollars with more mail donations expected.
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Civil Air Patrol
Municipal Airport
Community Hall
Sharon Ryall
Avenue I
Sharon Fleming
Charles Johnson
Eighth Ave
Ted Sheil
Grand Ave
Floyd Hughes
Kenmore Ave
Ralph Gamble
CAP
Charles Baird
Council Bluffs
Baird
Capt
Gamble
Elfreda Hansen
Hazel St
Omaha
Miss Hansen
Voter Registry Opens Late for City Election
City Clerk Richard Bunten reported brisk registration at City Hall for the June 26 municipal election. About 100 new or address-change registrations were processed last week and another 30 this week as the office stays open until 3 PM Wednesday through Friday to accommodate late registrants. The deadline is noon Saturday.
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Richard Bunten
Don’t Score Here Fatalities and Damages Reported
The fragmentary item appears to note fatalities and damages with figures like 157,082 and 385, mentioning Comne Bluffs and a date in 1955. Readable names and full context are missing, but the piece centers on casualties and financial loss.
Sam Learns to Speak Up Over Pay Mistake
A comic vignette shows Sam receiving a dollar too much in his pay envelope and staying quiet. The paymaster discovers the error a week later and deducts a dollar. Sam protests, noting he stayed silent first time but will complain after a second overcharge.
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Sam
Six Children Die as Brooklyn Sand Pit Collapses
In Williamsburg New York a wall of sand crushed six children playing in aBrooklyn excavation near a highway underpass. An eleven year old girl alerted relatives and a post office worker raised the alarm as rescuers pulled out the injured and dead. Authorities investigate possible negligence and whether a watchman was posted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Brooklyn
Blocks Square
Williamsburg
Marie Stanskuhas
Marie
Dolores
Anatole Bykov
Before Dinner Mint For Detroit Dogdom
Detroit 2 mailmen plan a before dinner mint program to curb dog nuisance in the city. James H. Rademacher, president of the Detroit branch of the National Association of Letter Carriers, acted after learning that over 100 local carriers were bitten last year. Dog candy was distributed to carriers.
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Detroit
James H. Rademacher
Detroi
Natonal Assn
Contempt Action Against Robeson
Washington The House Committee on Un American Activities voted 74 to begin contempt of Congress proceedings against Negro singer Paul Robeson for refusing to answer questions about alleged associations. The panel also moved to hold Clark Foreman of the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee in contempt for not surrendering his passport as required by a subpoena.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Committee On UN
Baird Seeks Ballot Recount For County Board Race
Charles E. Baird Jr. seeks a recount of Keg Creek Township ballots after an apparent one vote loss to Dale Miller in the 1957 Republican Board of Supervisors race. The move follows a 10 vote error found in the official canvass favoring Miller and the plan to unlock and reseal the voting machine for verification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles E. Baird Jr
Elmwod Dr
County Board of Supervisors
Keg Creek Township
Arthur Biesendorfer
Baird
Dale Miller
Grove Township
Miller
Keg Creek
Robert C. Heithoeff
Atorney
East Potttawattamie
Heithoff
Henry Johnk
Mervin Knott
John Anderson
Ivan Olson
State Attorney General's
Bond Sale Shows Lower Rate Than Omaha City Plan
Council Bluffs sold its 1,250,000 school bond issue at a rate near 2.25 percent, better than Omaha's recent issue. The 20 year issue funds nine construction projects, with City National Bank and four others as buyers. The bid total cost is 318,692 dollars, yielding an effective rate of 2.2526 percent and annual payments of 78,435 dollars, promising less than a 2 mill levy increase now and potential reductions if real estate values rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
Omaha
City National Bank and Trust Co
Kansas City
Barr Bros. and Co
New York City
Equitable Securities Co
Hirsch and Co
McDonald, Moore and Co
Detroit
Mich
Council Bluffs Savings Bank
Halsey Stuart and Co
Imet
Northern Trust
Towans Pay Sailor's Fine and Free Him from Jail
Riley Dietz Jr. a sailor and son of Iowa state rep Riley Dietz, was released from Concordia jail after Iowa officials paid his $34.50 fine for reckless driving and license violation. Dietz had been jailed since May 22 for nonpayment under Kansas law, prompting support from Cedar Rapids Municipal Court Bailiff Maron Fatka and Clive justice George Lundberg to secure his release and return to base.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Riley Dietz Jr
Salor
Iowa Justices of the Peace
Assa
Jal
Concordia
Young Dietz
Scott County
Riley Dietz
Iowa
Kan Sas
Justice of the Peace Court
Kansas
Maron
Fatka
Cedar Rapids
George Lundberg
Clive
Lundberg
Iowa JP Group
Dietz
Tve
Sultry Heat to Grip Council Bluffs Week
Five day forecast shows high 90s to 95 with muggy conditions across the region. A few light showers possible late Friday or Saturday though most of the nation remains hot and humid with record temps in Chicago and many southern cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
Gulf
Mercury
Sioux City
Lamont
Prescott Accident Kills Bluffs Man
John R. Castilo, 42, of 2111 Fifth Ave., Council Bluffs, was killed Tuesday night when his truck tractor rammed a bridge a mile north and two miles east of Prescott. The vehicle struck the bridge, flipped over a 6-foot span and landed in the road beyond. Funeral services will be Friday at 2 pm at Lines Funeral Home in Corning. This was Adams County's first fatality of the year and the fourth since June 4, 1951.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prescott
John R. Castillo
Fifth Ave
Council Bluffs
Here
Corning
Castillo
Highway Patrol
Cormney
Adams County
U S Attorney Names Plattsmouth Lawyer as Chief Assistant
U S Attorney William Spire announced the appointment of Richard C. Peck of Plattsmouth as chief assistant. Peck, 39, is Cass County attorney for a second term, a 1942 UNL law honor graduate, and former Cass County judge and law clerk to Judge Joseph W. Woodruff. Peck starts July 1.
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Omara
U. S
William Spire
Richard C. Peck
Plattsmouth
Peck
Cass
University of Nebraska Law School
U. S. Creat Court
Joseph W. Woodruff
Tornex
Fusion Of Two Protestant Bodies In Omaha Merger Decision
Two historic denominations the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church near final approval for a merger to form the United Church of Christ. A June meeting in Omaha will decide. leaders say the union bridges long divides and preserves autonomous local churches within a unified fellowship.
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Omaha
George W. Cornell
NEW York P
America
Congregational Christian Churches
Anglican Church of England
Evangelical and Reformed Church
Hentage
United Church of Christ
General Council
Congregational
Truman B. Douglass
Bath
James E. Wagner
Philadelphia
Key to Open the Door Mentioned in Clarendon County
Sheriff T. Manning reports an escapee left a message claiming he made a key to open the door and will return. The sheriff also notes a gun missing from the car and identifies Ronald Johnny Edward Ard, jailed for auto theft grand larceny breaking and entering and related auto parts offenses.
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Manning
Clarendon County Sherff T
Jackson
Ili
Excapee 24
Johnny Edward Ard
Walnut District Reorganization Approved by Voters
A plan consolidating 15 districts into the Walnut Community School District won 625 to 15. Effective July 1, it will reduce Pottawattamie County districts from 33 to 44 and add about 40 students to Walnut School. One Lincoln Subdistrict No. 7 family opposed the merger. remaining Lincoln subdistricts will join other districts as directed.
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Walnut
Walnut Community
Pottawattamie County
Ernest Barker
Lincoln Subdistrict No. 7
Supt. Barker
Monroe
Clay Townships
Shelby County
Brighton Township
Cass County
Layton Township
Knox Township
Lincoln
Barker
County Board of Education
Railway seeks abandonment of 23 mile Iowa branch
The Chicago and North Western Railway asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to abandon a 23 mile branch line between Wall Lake and Schleswig in Iowa. The railroad said the line handles too little business to warrant continuance.
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Washington
Chicago and North Western Railway
Interstate Commerce Commission
Wall Lake
Schleswig
Iowa
Whalen Retires as Chicago Railroad VP After Milestone Career
Fifty years after starting as a water boy for a Milwaukee railroad construction gang here W J Whalen retires this week in Chicago as a vice president of the line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McGregor
W. J. Whalen
Milwaukee Railroad
Chicago
Senator George Leads Rally Behind Foreign Aid Bill
Republican and other senators voiced support for President Eisenhower's foreign aid request as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee prepared to tackle a $3.8 billion aid bill. The proposal falls $1.104 billion short of the president's request, with committee chairman George leading efforts to bolster the House total.
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Washington
Beii
Els
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Eisenhower
George
House
Eisenhower to Meet German Chief Amid Recovery
President Eisenhower, recovering from intestinal surgery, held a 25 minute White House meeting with key staff and signed 27 bills. He planned a hospital room talk with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer for Thursday and sent thanks to Mexican President Ruiz Cortines.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Walter Reed Hospital
Konrad Adenauer
Ruiz Cortines
James C. Hagerty
State College Grid Star Tweeten Killed In Auto Crash
P Ray B Tweeten a tackle on the Iowa State College football team was killed Tuesday night in an automobile crash five miles south of Washington. He would have been 21 next month and was majoring in dairy husbandry. His father William Tweeten operatest a dairy plant in Washington. The car, driven by Nancy Conner, 22, may have blown a tire on Highway 1.
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Washington P
Ray B. Tweeten
Towa State
Here
Tweeten
William Tweeten
Washington
Nancy Conner
Highway 1
Senate debate over foreign aid rise faces stiff odds
Washington sources report Sen. Lymon B. Johnson says Eisenhower has not proved its case for a Senate increase beyond the House figure. Senate Republicans warn restoration of cuts is possible but uncertain as White House talks target about 600 million versus George’s 500 million. The aid bill could reach the Senate floor next week.
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Washington
Lymon B. Johnson
Texas
Senate
Eisenhower
House
Sen
H. Alexander Smith
R-Nj
Leng
Clifford Case
Allott
Coles
Bender
Ohio
Dutt
Bush
Conn
Flanders
Ives
NYP
Kude
Calf
Payne
Mamme
Portel
White House
George
Lions Pick Bluff for 1957 Parley in Council Bluff
The state convention of Lion's Clubs elected six district governors and chose Council Bluff as the 1957 convention site. The Associated Press report from Waterloo notes tax actions closing the meeting and details the new governors and supporting measures.
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Lion's Clubs
Council Bluff
Associated Press
Waterloo
LRON
Coment
Dale Marmer
Mamon
Badger
Monteruna
Dale Juergens
Disared
Jon A Scheie
Paulina
Norma Lee
Ls M
Sendaran
Coron
Eve
State University of Town
Frito Firm Buys Building In Bluffs
The Frito firm purchased the vacant West Broadway building in Omaha from Skinner Mig Co. The deal enables planned processing and distillery work converting the site into a new facility. Company leadership in New York was renamed during the closing, with details unavailable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frito Firm
Bluffs
Sonparei
St Utin
Supe
Midwest
New York
West Broadway
Skinner Mig Co
Omaha
Mg Company
Dogwededd
Sindie Stats
Brock
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Freyd Hughes
Neil Durick
Civil Air Patrol Fund
Towa
Spe
Mint
Robeson
C.B
Towans
U.S
W. P
Senator George
Tke
Adenauer
Walter Reed
State College
Cincinnati
Cally
Lions
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