Housepainter Erbe accuses tax fieldman of fraud
Norman Erbe says a State Tax Commission fieldman submitted fraudulent expense claims while supposedly working on state duties. He handed evidence to Tax Commission Chair John O Connor, declined to name the employee, and called for investigation by the State Bureau of Investigation. Erbe seeks budget hearing changes and questions lodging allowances for out of Des Moines state workers.
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Interstate Bus Terminals Must Serve Negroes
Supreme Court ruling requires interstate bus terminals to serve Black travelers across state lines. Justice Black delivered a 7 2 decision while Justice Whittaker wrote a dissent. The case stems from Bruce Boynton fined for entering a white restaurant in Richmond Virginia. The ruling extends equal access in public facilities linked to interstate travel.
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Supreme Court
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Richmond
Four Sisters Die In Farm Fire In Michigan Home
Four young sisters aged 14 11 7 and 5 perished in a blaze at a farm house in Iron Center Michigan. Police said upstairs bedroom fire possibly started by playing with matches. The victims were Deanna Cathy Janne Cheryl daughters of Mr and Mrs William Scaboll.
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France's African Friends Seek Delay To UN Algerian Talks
United Nations in New York debates over Algeria's status amid French opposition. Congo Brazzaville and Chad push for postponement as African states within the French Community weigh independence timelines. Rebels demand UN supervision for a final referendum while Paris insists Algeria remains part of France.
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Paris
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Storms slam Northern Europe leaving floods and damage
A severe autumn storm battered Britain and continental Europe. London faced heavy property damage with rivers flooding banks and dozens of villages inundated. Holland Germany Belgium Denmark and France reported deaths and severe disruption as winds up to 800 mph battered towns and knocked structures from churches to ferries.
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Des Moines youths drown in pond at golf course
Two young brothers, Dave Stephens and Richard Stephens, reportedly vanished after dusk near Woodside Golf Course north of Des Moines. Their bodies were recovered from a pond later that Saturday. The boys, ages 14 and 12, were last seen before supper as their worried parents alerted authorities.
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Dave Stephens
Richard
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Stephania
Blake's Offering United Church Plan Surprises Clergy
Church leaders reacting to Dr Eugene Carson Blake's proposal for a wide reunion of American Protestant groups. He urged a four way merger modeled on India's United Church of South India, aiming to unite Presbyterians Methodists Episcopalians and Congregationalists and Reformed groups with about 200 million members.
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The Tragedy of a Little Boy and His Flashlight
In the Bronx a boy named Robert Ingraham ages eight, son of a building superintendent, becomes obsessed with a new flashlight. He searches dark stairwells and basements for days, sleeps with the light, and vanishes Sunday prompting a police search led by his worried grandfather.
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Bronx
Robert Ingrahant
Will
Olol
Robert
John Ingraham
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Christopher Kelly
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Titan Explosion Study At Air Force Base
The Air Force investigates the Titan intercontinental missile blast at Vannenberg Base California to determine why it exploded after fueling. Estimated damage ranges from four to six million dollars. A spokesman notes the incident marks the first Titan explosion at this base 110 miles east of Los Angeles.
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Castro Church Relations at Critical Level in Cuba
Tense relations between the Roman Catholic Church and Fidel Castro's government intensified as the church denied charges that priests accepted bribes to preach against the revolution. Reports, though unconfirmed, claimed Archbishop Enrique Perez Santamaría of Santiago was briefly detained and ordered to leave Cuba, while nine bishops including Manuel Cardinal Arttaia defended the revolutionary indoctrination program.
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Manuel
Arttaia
Costly Scout Rocket Plunges Into Atlantic
Wallops Island Va. A 72 foot Scout rocket with an inflatable satellite to test drag failed soon after lift off at 4 14 p m. The four stage vehicle weighed 38 600 pounds and rose well for 44 seconds before the second stage failed to ignite and it plunged into the Atlantic about 80 miles off the Virginia coast. Officials said recovery would be almost impossible and that wreckage would shed little light on the failure.
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Pluck 17 From Stranded Ship Off Michigan Coast
Coast Guardsmen rescued 17 men from the freighter Francisco Morazan after it struck near South Manitou Island. The 14 crewmen remained ashore amid immigration questions raised by Chicago and Detroit officials.
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Sweeping plan to cut 15 civilian Pentagon posts
A strategy by Sen. Stuart Symington would abolish 15 civilian positions across the Army Navy and Air Force to streamline Pentagon operations for a space age. The plan seeks about 8 billion dollars in annual savings, with funds likely redirected to weapons development and arms control.
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New Orleans boycott overintegrates schools despite flare up
In New Orleans the integrated elementary school boycott weakened as 17 white pupils attended William Frantz School where one Negro girl entered first grade. At McDonogh No 19 only three Negro girls in the first grade attended amid enlarged police patrols. Demonstrators taunted and women jeered as the Negro girl arrived. In Des Moines Ray Bryan is named executive secretary of the Iowa State Education Association succeeding Charles Marin.
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de Lesseps
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Willian Frantz
McDonogh
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Ray Bryan
Towa State Education Association
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Charles F. Marin
Towa State University
Boxing Probe Opens Despite Ill Witness
A Senate Antitrust subcommittee launches hearings on boxing racketeering despite the illness of key witness Joseph P. Barone hospitalized in Allentown. Liston manager Barone faces questioning on criminal influence in boxing earnings. Also noted, Philip Anderson Sheffer, 79, former dean of medicine at Washington University, died.
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Senates
Senate Antitrust and Monopoly
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Joseeph P. Barone
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Sonny Liston
Herman
Amie the Mink
New York
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Estes Kefauver
St. Louis, Mo
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School of Medicine
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St. Louis
Lumumba’s Men Clamp Dictatorship in Stanleyville
Mobutu announced action against Nile headwaters as reprisal for Egyptian or Sudanese aid. In Stanleyville the Lumumba loyalists imposed a Communist style regime, barring whites and unleashing violence on the trapped population. The UN reported whites barred, and Stanleyville’s white residents targeted by military police under Antone Gizenga’s local government.
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Joseph Mobutu
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Palvice Lumumba
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Oriental Province
Antone Gizenga
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Faith In Soviets Reaffirms Peaceful Coexistence Pact
Article notes China's Liu Shao Chi endorses peaceful coexistence with the Soviet Union during a Lenin Grad address as Moscow hosts top leaders. It cites Soviet leader Khrushchev on nuclear era deterrence and communists’ proof of capability to outproduce capitalist nations while promoting world peace and unity.
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