Government Clears Cutter Flood Aid Effort
Government mobilizes funds and manpower for Northeastern flood cleanup after Hurricane Diane. Army Engineers estimate 1.6 billion in damages as Red Cross raises disaster aid to eight million dollars. Eisenhower orders rapid mobilization with Congress to reimburse later. 176 dead, 10,562 homeless, thousands damaged or abandoned.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
James C. Hagerty
White Oe
The
Red Cross
E. Roland Harriman
National Red Cross
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Storn
Diane
Philadelphia
American Bar Assn
Denver
White House
Army
Federal Civil Defense Administration
van Peterson
Czechs Plan Cut in Armed Forces
Vienna dispatch reports Czechoslovakia will reduce its armed forces by 34 000 this year. Radio Prague cites Geneva talks and improved international relations as reasons. Western estimates place Czechoslovakia around 240 000 soldiers with large reserves and police guards.
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Vienna
Austria
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Radio
Prague
Mili- Russia
All Stamp Buyers Subject to Raids by Iowa Official
Des Moines Iowa Tav ern operators face monthly raids regardless of what they do with federal retail liquor dealer stamps. Atty Gen Dayton Countryman announced that surrendering stamps does not avoid raids. He previously said stamp surrender is not a shield and that purchasing stamps signals intent to violate liquor by the drink laws. He will send lists of stamp buyers to local law enforcement for regular raids.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Dayton Countryman
Herbert Hume
Grandview Avenue
Charles Anson
Mike Martin
Hume
Muscatine
Highway 61
Anson
Muscatine Auto Salvage Shop
Federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Departments
Davenport
U.S
Edmund Carroll
Martin
Payments to Jobless In Flood Areas
The Labor Department reports that unemployment payments in four flood devastated states may exceed one million dollars weekly. Claims rise in Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island and Pennsylvania with the total possibly above 60000.
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Washington
Labor Department
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Pennsylvania
Ithe Department
Resignations Shake Argentina Cabinet Amid Church State Tension
Buenos Aires reports Jeronimo Remorino, a moderate figure in the church state conflict, resigns as Foreign Minister. Paul Mendes, secretary of technical affairs in President Peron's cabinet, also quits amid political upheaval.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Jeronimo Remorino
Paul Mendes
Juan D. Peron
Rodney Brannen’s Baby Beef Earns Grand Champion at West Liberty Fair
Rodney Brannen of Muscatine led the 1055 pound West Liberty-Eightball Angus baby beef to grand champion at the 93rd West Liberty fair with his 1 year old son of Russell Brannen. Janet Moeller of Durant won reserve with a 960 pound Hereford.
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Rodney Brannen
Sweetland Royal Busters Four-H Club
Muscatine
FFA
Russell Brannen
West Liberty
Journal
Sweetland Royal Busters
Janet Moeller
Farmington
Louis Danner
Patrick Johnson
Oxford
Delmar Frick
Stockston
Dale Schlueter
Durant
Wayne Wetzel
West Reserve
Hereford
Bion Hitchcock
Harlan Harvey
Letts
Darwin Riessen
Stockton
David Timm
Joe Kennedy
Musicatine
Kenneth Mather
West Branch
Hubert Pelzer
Atalissa
Gladys Swanson
Bob Harbaugh
Donna Schneider
David Dodder
Musccatine
Gene Nicewanner
Dean Vine
Nichols
Jerry Moeller
Tthird
Sell Flooded Car Says Motor Club
New Haven CT. The Connecticut Motor Club advised flood victims not to repair submerged cars. They estimate repairs could reach 1000 dollars with no guarantee of full functionality, urging owners to seek the best settlement instead.
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Motor Club
New Haven
Conn
Connecticut Motor Club
Countryman Mum on Davenport Liquor Case Actions
Atty. Gen. Dayton Countryman gave no immediate plan for further action in the Davenport liquor case. Bartenders Palmisano and Barr pleaded guilty to lesser charges and were fined $900 and $600 respectively. 59 bottles seized in the Davenport raids were ordered destroyed after a 2 1/2 hour conference with defense attorneys.
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Davenport
Dayton Countryman
Asst. Attys
Kent Emery
George West
Joseph Palmisano
Rock Island
Ill
Hartman’s
Glenn Barr
Emery
West
Useless Special Session on Redistricting Debate
Des Moines Rep. William Denham calls a special session on legislative reapportionment a waste of taxpayers money. Senator Duane Dewel urged Gov. Hoegh to call such a session, who said he would consider it if another subject is available. Denman accuses Republican leaders of hoax and broken pledges about action. He argues regular session would suffice for any reapportionment.
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Des Moines
William Denham
Duane Dewel
Algona
Leo Hoegh
Hoegh
Dewel
GOP
Senate
Denman
Steel magnate dies after long illness in Mannheim hospital
A steel magnate died in a Mannheim hospital late Wednesday night after a prolonged illness. The death was attributed to a heart ailment.
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Dies
Mannheim
Group of youths obstructs street with fake traffic box
A group of youngsters laid a garden hose across a busy Burlington street and attached it to a black box with red and white lights. Police did not authorize the stunt, but it slowed traffic as one resident noted.
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Burlington
Second polio shot to be given in 58 Iowa counties
Des Moines reports 58 of Iowa’s 99 counties will administer the second polio vaccination round for first and second graders next month. Counties vary in scheduling with some before September 9 and others the second and fourth weeks of September.
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Iowa
Des Moines
State Health Department
Jasper
Calhoun
Johnson, Hancock
Butler
Webster
Ida
Lyon
Health Department
Ralph Heeren
Department
Division of
National Advisory Committee
Heeren
Adams
Appanoose
Audubon
Benton
Buena Vista
Chickasaw
Clayton
Clin- Dallas
Decatur
Fayetes
Floyd
Fremont
Grundy
Hamilton
Jefferson
Jones
Keokuk
Kossuth
Louisa
Mahaska
Marion
Mills
Mitchell
Monona
Monroe
Palo Alto
Plymouth
Polk
Ringgold
Sac
Shelby
Story
Tama
Taylor
van Buren
Warren Washington
Winnerbago
Allamakee
Black Hawk
Boone
Cerro Gordo
Crawford, Dickinson
Dubuque, Lee, Linn
Marshall, Mosier, O’brien Page
Sioux, Union
Wapello
Wright Counties
Polio Vaccine Incident Blamed on Testing Weaknesses
A government report cites fundamental weaknesses in safety testing at Cutter Laboratories tied to live virus in some Salk polio vaccines. It says new standards provide safeguards before resuming vaccination and notes no proven contamination in Cutter’s process.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Cutter Laboratories
Cutter
The
Health Service
Schmidt and Una Schmidt Reunite After Divorce Bid
Airman Daniel Schmidt and his wife Una, believed to have remarried after her earlier union, were reunited in Oregon. Neighbors described the moment as wonderful, with the pair seen embracing at the Peters home and returning to seclusion, while Schmidt’s California divorce action was halted as the couple reconciled.
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Portland
Ore
Daniel Schmidt
Una
Oregon
Reds
Thomas
Mrs. Pet Care
Alfred Fine
Schmidt
Howard P. Welch
Sacramento
Red Bluff
Calif
Tehama
Alice E. Davis
Edith the Atlantic Hurricane Spins Toward U.S. Coast
Hurricane Edith, fifth of the year, churns in the open Atlantic. Forecasters expect winds to reach 125 mph or more by Saturday. At 5 am it centered about 1,500 miles southeast of Miami with winds near 80 mph and moving west-northwest at 13 mph.
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Miami
Fla
Edith
Gordon Dunn
Weather Bureau
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James A. Shannon
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