26 Jun 1952
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Newspaper
Council Bluffs Nonpareil
Location
Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1952
Page
1
President LLG Wednesday vetoed a flagship 82nd Congress immigration bill calling it infamous. The measure would set country quotas, empower the attorney general to exclude and deport, end racial and sex discrimination, favor skilled aliens, and broaden screening while distributing quotas by nation.
Roy Campanella powered a fourth inning homer with two aboard to lift the Brooklyn Dodgers 3 1 over the St Louis Cardinals in the rubber match of a three game set. Carl Breitenstein, back from a no hitter, allowed eight hits for his seventh win against one loss. Gerry Staley took the loss giving up four safeties and six defeats on the season. Other afternoon games noted across the National and American Leagues with varied results.
Mrs. Lorraine Norton, 29, of Hastings, died Wednesday noon at Red Oak Hospital from burns suffered in a gas water heater explosion at her home on June 12. Second and third degree burns covered her body. Manscheid Funeral Home of Malvern is in charge of arrangements.
In Fargo North Dakota U S Senator William Langer R N D won renomination in a bitter Republican primary over freshman Congressman Fred Aandahl. With 951 of 2296 precincts reporting Langer led 48172 to 42726 Aandahl conceded Langer s writers. Aandahl served three terms as governor and is in his first Senate term.
The Council Bluffs school system plans a Fulbright act exchange with Britain for the 1952 53 year. Miss Ruth A Gordon will go to England, and Miss Joyce Veronica Grandage of Sheffield will join the local system. The arrangement marks the first foreign teacher swap for the district.
British exchange teachers including Miss Grandage will arrive in New York on August 7 and likely reach Council Bluffs on August 17. Both women plan to return to their native countries at the end of the 1952 1953 school year.
Harrisburg Gov. Fine reported that 20 Pennsylvania delegates polled after Tuesday’s Bershey meeting with Sen. Taft lean toward Dwight D. Eisenhower as a stronger candidate. Amarillo editor Gene Howe, 66, was found dead in his car on the southeast edge of Amarillo. Fine stressed the poll was not a swing indication.
Teen-agers ran a driving test on Sixth Street in Council Bluffs as part of a Junior Chamber of Commerce road event. The test included straight driving, S shaped maneuvering, parallel parking, a perception check, and a 20 mph stop within a 55 foot lane. County and city officials announced tax assessments and noted decreases due to credit restrictions.
Senate Public Works committee considers a postoffice measure funding a new facility for Council Bluffs with federal money. The package totals 5 465 301 for 1952, up from 4 772 334 in 1951, and includes grain tax schedules and bushel assessments. The bill, pushed by Rep. Ben Jensen, moves as emergency legislation with potential enactment before adjournment.
London reports that American school kids are less appealing than horned toads, but as they grow into women they become the world’s loveliest. Tom Downes says English girls remain dowdy, while American teens are loud and self expressive. He praises Virginia and North Carolina accents but notes some have a harsh twang.
Washington The Senate Commerce Committee declined to act on the renomination of Thomas C. Buchanan to the Federal Power Commission. Chairman Edwin C. Johnson said the move leaves Buchanan without a job.
In Parliament Clement Attlee charged the United States with imperiling Korean truce talks and risking war with China. He urged Britain should have been consulted before bombing North Korea power plants and said the government was kept in the dark about plans.
To head grocers MinM Fla and Vincent Le Browner of Des Moines, wail tale over Thursday as president of the National Association of Retail Grocers, succeeding Gerald Klomp of Ogden Utah.
A circulating rumor says the government is considering a directive to control all moving things. If control is impossible, tax it. if that fails, issue a billion dollars as a remedy. The piece frames the claim as gossip in today’s brief chuckle.
Congress joined in urging President Truman to apply the Taft-Hartley Act to end a three week steel stoppage. Lawmakers sent a formal request after a joint session, seeking swift government action to curb the strike and resume steel production.
Weather forecasts hint a cooler air mass between Norfolk and Omaha could ease the Council Bluffs heat by Thursday after a scorcher Tuesday. Thunderstorms may follow Wednesday afternoon with a drop in temperature toward the mid 60s. Debris cleanup continues from Monday night storms in Marcus Cleg Horn Larrabee areas as heat remains widespread across the region.
In Pusan on the second anniversary of the Korean War, a would be assassin fired a German pistol at President Syngman Rhee from five feet away. the cartridge misfired and the attacker, 62 year old Ryu Shi Tae of the Corps of Blood Justice, was seized. Two U.S. soldiers and 45 others died in separate bandit attacks near Pusan as rail lines were sabotaged.
The state boys 4H organization will elect four officers Wednesday at a business meeting during the annual 4H boys short course. About 1,000 delegates attend at the Town State semiete campus. Eight candidates include Robert Wise Nevada Larry Michael Westheld Kenneth Krause Storm Lake James Handrock Osceola John Fitts Walnut Dee Davidson Bedford Stanley Berry Albia and Ted Recker Watkins.
The House voted Wednesday to let wage aid price controls die July 31. The measure was subject to reconsideration.
Ottumwa mayor P Hersenel C Loveless, a Democratic gubernatorial hopeful, reported on Wednesday that he received $450 in contributions and spent $700 in the June 2 primary campaign.
A Wisconsin farm woman, 57, died when a timber from a barn tore through a door and crushed her chest as a violent wind storm swept southern Minnesota into western Wisconsin. The storm reached 94 to 95 mph at several locations and caused multiple injuries.
The VA canceled its four mile radius rule for appraisals on homes near airports pending nationwide depreciation guidance. VA field offices would forward appraisal requests within four miles of airports to Washington for action, a move blamed by some on January crashes at Elizabeth NJ. Secretary Earle Reynolds of the Chamber of Commerce criticized the potential barrier to GI home purchases.
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