Livestock Judging Opens At West Liberty Fair
After two days of cold weather and light crowds officials at the 11th annual West Liberty fair began livestock judging this morning. The sky cleared and the forecast called for partly cloudy conditions with a warmer trend tonight and Tuesday. Jalopy racing opens tonight in the first of two programs, with modified jalopies planned for Wednesday evening. Time trials start at 4:30 p.m.
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West Liberty
Mississippi Valley
Muscatine Fair Winds Up Weekend Events
A Muscatine county fair weekend drew crowds despite cool, rainy weather. Open judging showcased beer dairy swine and junior sheep classes while 4H teams competed for state fair advancement. Midy Rockwell won 100 and a New York trip in the Patent Review contest, and Judy impressed on Ted Mack’s show.
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Mark Mosier
Washington
Columbus
Waterloo Dairy Canavess
Muscatine Journal
Midy Rockwell
Milton Rockwell
West Liberty
New York
Faye Judy
Ted Mack
Jihe Myron Floren
Barts
Shpmem
Grove
Nip Fai
Durant High School Bond
Gheoyl Cavier
Varnan Caries
Nichols
Dick Cornick
West Jabecy
Doe Lang
Scotlich Lunes
Wilton
Shepherds
Walton Will ‘Enieriain
Hurl Elder
Muscatine
Keith Jordan
Merritt “Conklin
Byron’ Hafner
Letts
Mabel .Cunninghams
Vernon Brown
George Dunker
Lee Cereco
Tuekday
Tubb
Teeselay
Muscatine Chamber of Commerce
Clyde Essex
Atalis
Judy Rockwell
West Liberty High
Miss Rockswell
Miss Rockwell
Manay
Judy
Myron Floren
Journal
Haiti Troops Pressing War On Exile Invaders
Reinforced government troops push to drive exile invaders from the northeast Mont Organise area near the Haiti Dominican border. Airlifted fresh troops, jammed highways with militia, and reports of clashes accompany claims of Mustang aircraft losses and renewed rebel attacks led by Gen. Cantave against President Duvalier’s regime.
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Port Au Prince
Mont Organise
Santo Teminey
Leon Cantayes
LOFCR
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Monts
Yepor' isin-Porl Au
Prince
Cantave
Francois Davalier
Statjer
Tebely
Mont
Appeal Filed Over Detergent Death Ruling
Des Moines area case sees Ena Zimmerman an Alcoa plant accountant appeal to the Town Supreme Court after a district court set aside a $59,009 jury award for Zimmerman relating to a household detergent death involving son V. The appeal seeks to overturn Judge Matthew Westrate's ruling ordering a new trial.
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Moines
Bettonflert
Supreme Court
Pier
Ena Zimmerman
Alcoa
Davenport
Zimmerman
Matthew ‘Westrate
Westrate
Military Leaders Back Nuclear Pact With Safeguards Assurances
Washington reports that Air Force General Curtis LeMay and other service chiefs supported the treaty banning atmospheric and space nuclear tests, provided strong safeguards and continued underground testing. They demanded modern laboratories, readiness to resume testing, and robust monitoring of Sino-Soviet activity as conditions for their approval.
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LeMay
Lathe Air Force
Geni. Maxwell
Taylor
Richard B. Russel
D-Ga
Senate Armed Services
Earle G. Wheeler
Army
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Adm
David L. McDonald
Naval
David M. Shoup
Tee Marine Corps
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Atomic Energy
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Meredith Given Diploma At Calm Commencement
Meredith James Howard Meredith, a 30 year old man, graduates from the University of Mississippi in a tense campus scene. U.S. marshals and soldiers provided security estimated at five million dollars as 2,500 whites and Meredith's family watched under tall oaks in a scene echoing the prior year’s violence.
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Uiey
James Howard
Meredith
St Nowa
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Vasith
U.S
Ole Miss
Yiol
Aholt
Shenandoah boy dies in auto crash near Highway 48
David Lowman, 16, of Shenandoah, died from injuries suffered when a car carrying him and others went off Highway 48 and struck a utility pole about three miles northeast of Shenandoah. Driver was Mike Crowley, 18, of Westborn, Missouri. several others were injured.
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David Lowman
Here
Mike Crowley
Westborn Mo
Shaft Drilled to Reach Men Imprisoned Six Days
Rescue teams in Hazleton Pennsylvania lowered supplies to three coal miners trapped 400 feet underground after a wall collapse. A six inch shaft breakthrough confirmed the men were alive and in contact, with plans to bore a 28 inch hole to reach them. The workers, led by Ralph Ditzler and coowner David Fellin, reported through a microphone that they were all okay, while one man sustained slight injuries.
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David Fellin
Jongs
H. B. Charmbury
Ones
Tom
Ralph Ditzler
Fellin
Anna
Joe
Dave
Remy Thorne
Louis Bova
Bova
Sheppton
Imad
Sehnyakill County
Nazleton
Philadelphia
Charmbury
Gordon Smith
State Secretary of Mines
Feline Ayer
John Biros
Baruch at 93 Expresses Faith in U.S. Future
New York obituaries report Bernard M. Baruch, aged 93, declares he still has faith in the country’s future and confidence that difficult problems can be solved if the nation uses the intellect and reason it possesses.
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New York
Bernard M. Baruch
Four Dead In Weekend Iowa Car Mishaps
The Associated Press reports four deaths on Iowa highways over the weekend. Victims include Faer E. Thode of Des Moines and Ralph G. Bissey Jr. of Chicago, plus Fort Madison youths and others injured. Thode died in a three car crash near Des Moines when a stopsign violation by Frank Washburn led to a collision. Washburn and his wife escaped injury.
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Associated Press
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E. Thode
Des Moines
Ralph G. Bissey, Jr
Chiccaro
Jerry L
Thompson
David
Joseph Cullen
Fort Madison
Thode
Oak Hill Road
Edward Harold Parks
Portland
Ore
Ypatrolmen
Frank Edward Washburn
Cedar Rapids
Oak Vil
Parks
William Joseph Shaw
Washburn
Tor Leo
Shaw
Mercy Hospital
Bissty
Nanette
Gregory
Chicago
Polaunes
Kingball
Neb
Fairfield
U.S. Highway
Bissey
Jefferson County Hospital
Air Force
Richard D. Auge
Robert Jon Manka, Jr
George F. Coppgate
Michael Francis Perry
Glenn Richard Miller
Crash fatal to two on motorcycle near Springfield
A Cedar Rapids man and a woman returning from the Illinois State Fair were killed in a Walsh crash about 20 miles west of Springfield. John W. McQuitty, 33, and Annabelle Newman, 32, rode a motorcycle that collided head on with an automobile driven by Nell McCarthy of Philadelphia. Cass County Coroner Joseph C. Lintner called it a fatal head-on crash.
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Cedar Rapids
Yowa
Ilinois
Trace Trail of Currency Fingerprints in British Train Robbery
Scotland Yard experts scanned 18 fingerprint sets found at the hideout used by the Great Wain robbery gang days ago. They aim to identify more of the men who got away with 28 million pounds as fingerprints match records and clues point to a West London house where the gang planned the raid. Police recovered 678.79 dollars and 282,520 in two zipped grips after tracing a couple and a dapper man with a black Austin car seen with the vehicle days after the robbery.
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St. Heller
Jersey
Channel Islands
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Naliomvide
Richard James
Aulac
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