UVC backs only two incumbents and three newcomers
The United Voters Club endorsed five candidates after a stormy two hour session targeting City Manager Richard Custer. Lourigan Whiteside Copen were chosen for council while Hamelink Tyson were endorsed for school board amid attacks on taxes and foresight.
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The
United Voters Club
Richard Custer
Joseph Lourigan
Ansley Whiteside
Tarry Copen
Joseph Hamelink
William Tyson
UVC
R. Merrill Rhey
Gordon McAleer
Frances Jaeschke
Independent Good Government Organization
Lourigan
Whiteside
Tyson
Hamelink
Rhey
Copen
McAleer
Jaeschke
Faith Based Overseas Aid Drive Urges Public Support
Public service announcement urges giving to international relief through Protestant One Great Hour of Sharing, Catholic Bishops' Fund, and the United Jewish Appeal Passover Appeal. It notes cooperation with The Advertising Council to promote voluntary overseas relief efforts.
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America
Bishops’ Fund
United Jewish Appeal
Advertising Council
Death of Polish Communist Leader Bierut Shocks Europe
Polish radio reports Boleslaw Bierut died in Moscow at 64 after influenza and pneumonia followed by heart complications. A veteran party chief and former president and premier, Bierut led Poland’s Communists since World War II and helped organize the postwar government with Moscow’s backing.
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Warsaw
Boleslaw Bierut
Moscow
Bierut
Polish Communist Party
Poland
Polish Republic
Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev
Vasilenko
Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences
M. Felgin
Ministry of Health
A. Markov
Soviet Comunist Party
Felgin
Berlin
Munich
Vienna
National Council
Red Army
Kremlin
Plan Reply To Southern Manifesto Plan
Senator Humphrey proposed circulating a declaration backing the Supreme Court school integration ruling to counter a Southern manifesto condemning it. He said many more lawmakers would sign, while Senator George warned against forceful action risking states pulling out of public schools.
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Sen
Humphrey
D-Minn
Supreme Court
House
Sen. George
D-Ga
George
Dixie
Senate
Russell
Congress
Chatham
D-Nc
Congress Extends Excise Tax Rates For One Year
The House approved a one year extension delaying tax cuts on corporations and consumer items like beer whisky and cigarettes to April 1 1957. The measure 366 to 4 now goes to the Senate while a subcommittee urged new levies on tape recorders record players tubeless tires and gas operated garbage disposal units.
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Washington
House
Senate
Eisenhower
Ways and Means
Congress
New Hampshire Goes to Polls in First Presidential Primary
About 120,000 voters cast ballots in Manchester as Kefauver and Stevenson vie for the Democratic nomination. Eisenhower leads the GOP, with Nixon and Bridges each receiving a single write‑in in Ellsworth. Kefauver appeals for votes while Stevenson misses the campaign.
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Manchester
N. H
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Adair Stevenson
Democratic Party
Richard M. Nixon
Millsfield
Stevenson
Eisenhower
Ellsworth
Nixon
Sen
Styles Bridges
R-Nh
Kefauver
Adlai
New Hampshire
New England
Tennessee
Robert Taft
GOP
Cyprus Strikes Continue In Cyprus Island Standstill
In Nicosia Cyprus a two day anti-British strike keeps commerce near a halt as Cypriots protest Britain's exile of Archbishop Makarios. A few shops open then close as protests spread. Turkish Armenian quarters stay open while patrols strengthen. US urges resumption of talks and Greece presses its case for union with Cyprus.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Britain
Makarios
union-with-Greece
U. S. State Department
Washington
United States
Spyros Theotokis
Mediterranean
Greece
Anderson Dies of Burns From Belle City Plant Fire
Norman L. Anderson aged 26 died at St. Mary's Hospital from burns suffered in an industrial accident on February 28 at the Belle City Malleable Iron Co. plant in Racine. He died today.
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Racine
Norman L. Anderson
St. Mary’s Hospital
Belle City
Washington GOP aims quick passage of farm bill strategy
Republican leaders map White House plan to speed a finished farm bill to the President. House GOP Leader Martin says to substitute Senate bill for its own price support bill and push flexible price provisions in conference. Ellender cautions on politics. Johnson and Knowland favor slower pace after marathon sessions.
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Washington
Congress
White House
House
Martin (Mass
Senate
Martin
Sen
Ellender
Louisiana
Agriculture Committee
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Knowland
California
Atomic Reactor to Be Built in Thailand
An experimental atomic reactor for Southeast Asia will be built in Thailand after a treaty signing between U.S. Secretary of State Dulles and Thai Foreign Minister Prince Wan Waithakon. The agreement signals regional nuclear research cooperation and Thailand's role as a Southeast Asian power hub in this field.
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Thailand
Bangkok
Southeast Asia
Dulles
Prince Wan Waithakon
Truman daughter plans small quiet Missouri wedding
Margaret Truman and Clifton Daniel announced engagement and a quiet wedding in Independence Missouri next month. The 32 year old daughter of the former President and Daniel of the New York Times are both single and expect to marry at Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church. Daniel, 43, is an assistant to the foreign news editor at the Times and is the son of a Zebulon North Carolina druggist.
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New York
Margaret Truman
Missouri
Truman
Clifton Daniel
The
New York Times
Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church
Independence
Daniel
the Times
Miss Truman
Margaret
North Carolina
E. C. Daniel
Zebulon
DRAFT CALL DOUBLED AS WAR PLANS GROW
The Army asked for 12,000 draftees for May, doubling quotas of prior months. Vice President Nixon held private talks with President Eisenhower on his political future and met GOP leaders on legislative matters. Rep. Thomas J. Lane pleaded innocent to tax evasion charges totaling 38,543 dollars for 1949 to 1951. Greece urged UN General Assembly to act next fall on Cyprus dispute with Britain.
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Richard M. Nixon
Eisenhower
Nixon
Boston
Thomas J. Lane
D-Mass
Lane
United Nations
N. Y
Greece
United Nations General Assembly
Britain
Cyprus
Rents Hall To Tell Version Of Fires
Morris Piper rented a hall in Oregon to present his account of five fires on the Piper farm near Mount Morris Illinois. The fires destroyed a $35 000 barn and four smaller buildings on Henry and Cora Piper and their son Morris Piper.
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Mount Morris
Ill
Henry
Cora Piper
Morris
Morris Piper
Oregon
Study Delay In Booster Shots
Washington The Public Health Service endorses plans of some states to postpone booster Salk vaccine shots to free supplies for youngsters awaiting first and second shots. The service stresses the final decision rests with state and local health authorities and calls the postponement a temporary measure due to supply limitations.
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Washington —i
Public Health Service
The
Health Service
Milwaukee Moves Toward Nike Defense on Lakefront
The Milwaukee buildings-ground committee recommended city approval of a lease granting the army about 20 acres at Maitland Field for a Nike antiaircraft defense battery. The full common council will vote on March 20.
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Milwaukee
The
Common Council
Maitland Field
Skyhook Balloon Launch At Iowa City Surges Into Sky
In Iowa City scientists launched a football field sized Skyhook balloon after a one hour delay due to crowding and a wind shift. The balloon rose at 7 47 a m CST with cables attached and mooring freed after a 7 degree reorientation. A northeasterly wind pushed the ascent as four packages of new equipment aim to measure cosmic rays at the edge of space.
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Iowa City
Iowa
Weather prospects for Kenosha with mild changes
Partly cloudy skies and little temperature change expected in Kenosha tonight with a low near 20 and a high in the mid 30s tomorrow. Sewage treatment plant reported a high of 26 yesterday and a low of 14. downtown Kenosha read 31 before noon as sun rose at 6 07 a.m. and set at 5 55 p.m.
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Kenosha
American Motors
Unloaded Gun Ends Life of Indiana High School Student
A 16 year old Somerset High School junior was killed at school in Marion Indiana when a gun he believed unloaded fired a single shot while he waited for his cue in a class play rehearsal. James Minnick told classmates the weapon would not fire after removing shells from a .32 caliber revolver. He died hours later at Marion General Hospital.
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Marion
India
Somerset High School
James Minnick
Marion General Hospital
Citizenship marks end of long ordeal for Baltimore grandmother
Mrs Ma trona G Karpuk 62 a button sewwer who spoke little English took the oath of U S citizenship in a near empty Baltimore courtroom The occasion ends a deportation scare dating to 1954 when she was ordered removed to Russia She had faced questions about party membership and IWC ties but passed the naturalization test with her Army major son Anton Karpuk Jr allowed to stand beside her
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Matrona G. Karpuk
United States
Russia
Karpuk
Poland
Communist Party
International Workers Order
Sen. Beal
R-Md
Congress
Anton Karpuk Jr
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