Congress Debates Tax Cut Bill and Budget Notes
Rep Noah M Mason introduces a 10 percent income tax cut aiming to free three billion dollars for taxpayers. He cites possible offsets from foreign aid cuts or Hoover Commission reforms, while staff forecast a two billion dollar year-end surplus. Postal issues arise as Denaldson backs higher rates with adjustments for class two. Uniforms witness Samuel Leider collapses under cross examination and invokes the Fifth Amendment amid probes into a nine million dollar bond deal linked to Joey Abrams.
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Noah M Mason
Mason
Tax Writing
Treasury
Hoover Commission
Congressional
Jesse M. Denaldson
Truman
House Post Office Committee
Samuel Leider
New Jersey
Leider
Senate
Joseph
Joey) Abrams
Britain and Soviet Union hold first cold war summit in London
Prime Minister Eden and Foreign Secretary Lloyd met with Soviet Premier Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev at No 10 after an Arab-Israeli ceasefire announcement. Talks aimed to survey East-West fronts with a full-day visit and lunch at the Soviet embassy described as very well.
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London
Britain
Soviet Union
Middle East
Anthony Eden
Selwyn Lloyd
No. 10
Downing Street
Nikolai Bulganin
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Eden
Bulganin
Khrushchev
Gwylim Lloyd George
Centuries Ago Animals Faced Execution for Crimes
Historical accounts depict pigs horses and cattle being executed for alleged murders. The practice reflects evolving human beliefs about animal agency and law in past societies.
Markups on Bread and Pork Rise Sharply in 1955 Reports
The Agriculture Department said middlemen earned a record income per pound on pork in late 1955 while hog farmers saw prices fall to new lows. From 1946 to 1955 wheat and bread ingredients rose 20 percent in farmer prices, while processing and distributing charges climbed 87 percent. white bread consumer prices increased 70 percent in the period. The studies, ordered by Secretary Ezra Benson, probe whether food middlemen were getting an improper share.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Agriculture
Ezra T. Benson
Paintings Stolen in Monte Carlo During Royal Wedding Festivities
Robbers stole art worth about $100,000 from a wealthy doctor’s home in Monte Carlo during Prince Rainier and Grace Kelly’s wedding celebrations. The heist occurred Wednesday at 24 Boulevard des Moulins, with reports noting five paintings possibly including a Rubens and a Van Dyck. Police remained silent on the case.
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Monaco
Prince Rainier HI
Grace Kelly
Monte Carlo
Hotel de Paris
Boulevard Des Moulins
Reubens
van Dyck
Pella Couple Injured In Gas Explosion And Fire
An elderly man John Stursma eighty and his wife eighty one were hospitalized after a heating gas buildup under their one story home exploded causing walls to blow out and the roof to cave in Loren Perkey a neighbor rescued them from the kitchen authorities said the blast caused burns and shock.
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Pebla
Iowa
John Stursma
Loren Perkey
Pleasant Valley Home Destroyed by Fire
A Pleasant Valley family, Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Geist and five children, lost their home when sparks from a brush fire started the blaze. Mrs. Geist learned of the fire only when daughter Bill Carol, 12, arrived home from school and saw the flames.
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Pleasant Valley
Town
Delbert Geist
Geist
Bill Carol
District Kiwanis Guests Highlight Citizenship Work
Don Isett of Cedar Rapids and Walter Ingram of Iowa City spoke at the Kiwanis noon meeting. Isett praised attendance and the safety campaign using postal cards to report traffic violations, while Ingram outlined Kiwanis growth from Detroit to 4100 clubs and its youth development objectives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Isett
Cedar Rapids
Walter Ingram
Iowa City
Kiwanis
Bill Hammer
Isett
Ingram
Detroit
United States
Canada
Hawaii
Alaska
Ike's Atomic Plan Gets First Approval
President Eisenhower welcomed preliminary approval of an atoms-for-peace international agency charter after weeks of negotiation. Ambassador James Wadsworth said Russia dropped its veto demand and 10 other nations joined in approving the draft ahead of a planned 84 nation conference at the UN in September.
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Washington
Eisenhower
James Wadsworth
United Nations
White House
United States
Russia
Wadsworth
U.N
U.N. Security Council
Plan Meeting Friday On 4 H Beef Projects
An educational meeting for 4 H members and fathers with beef projects is set at the Farm Bureau building Friday evening April 20 at 7 45 p m. Tom Robb announces Tom Wickersham and Don Rinner will speak with refreshments served.
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4-H
Farm Bureau
Tom Robb
Washington County Extension
Tom Wickersham
Iowa State College At
Ames
Don Rinner
Washington County Beef Association
Extension Service
Beef Association
Robb
Oil dealers form credit group in Washington
Washington bulk oil dealers held a meeting at the Legion hall to organize a credit association. Twenty three dealers discussed delinquent accounts and related problems and plan to incorporate after legal steps. Walter McCorry of Belle Plain explained similar Iowa groups. Clark Griggs was named chairman with a nine member board.
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Washington County
Legion Hall
Washington
Walter McCorry
Belle Plain
Iowa
Benton Counties
Jim Harriet
Iowa City
Iowa Oil Jobbers Association
Clark Griggs
Wellman
Jim Evans
Everette Miller
Glenn Wilson
Bob Pogge
Riverside
Walter Messer
Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier wed in Monaco church ceremony
Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III married in a largely French liturgy at the Cathedral of St. Nicholas. The ceremony followed civil vows, with Grace emotional and Rainier attentive as bishops and priests spoke of duty and hope for a united family.
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Grace
Prince Rainier
Philadelphia
Cathedral of
St. Nicholas
Rainier
Rome
Giles Barthe
John A. Cartin
Israel Egypt agree to cease fire under UN peace mission
UN announced Israel and Egypt have agreed to a complete cease fire along their borders under Hammarskjold led mediation. The accord, effective from 6 p.m., aims to prevent clashes and avert a broader Arab Israeli war while signaling progress from the UN mission to the Middle East.
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Jerusalem
Israel
Egypt
United Nations
United Nations Truce Supervisory Organization
Middle East
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Hammarskjold
Security Council
Mideast
Hammarskjeld
Noré
David Ben-Gurion
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Cairo
George Smith
United Press
Tel Aviv
U.N. Security Council
Ben- Gurion
Gaza Strip
Funeral Friday for Mrs. J. R. McCreedy
Mrs. J R McCreedy 86 of 308 West Second Street died Wednesday after an illness of one week. Funeral services set for 2 p m Friday April 20 at Jones Funeral Home with Rev Halsey Wakelin officiating. Burial in Elm Grove Cemetery. Survivors include six children eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren plus a sister in Los Angeles.
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J. R. McCreedy
West Second Street
Jones Funeral
Halsey Wakelin
Elm Grove Cemetery
Jo Ann Iden
Washington County
John
Susanna Younkin Iden
John Robert McCreedy
McCreedy
Washington
Journal
Kate Gallagher
Los Angeles
Calif
Clarence W. Goff To Open Real Estate Firm
Clarence W. Goff announces the opening of Goff s Real Estate office across from the court house in an office next to Earle Libe Insurance. The event is set for Saturday April 21. Goff trained in real estate in Des Moines and previously ran implement businesses in Washington and Wellman. He is inventor of the Red Dog tractor hitch with nationwide distribution and also farmed fifteen years.
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Clarence W. Goff
Washington
Goff
Court House
Earle Libe
Mr. Goff
A.ib
Des Moines
Wellman
Milton Sanchez 56 Dies in Milan Illinois
Milton Sanchez age 56 dies suddenly at his home in Milan Illinois. Funeral services set for Saturday April 21 at 2 PM at Jones Funeral Home with Dr Walter Scheuermann officiating and Elm Grove Cemetery burial. Born August 3 1899 in Hanna City he was the son of Sheridan and Elizabeth Sanchez. Survived by his wife Kathryn Miller married October 26 1935 in Ottumwa Iowa.
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Milton Sanchez
Milan
Jones
Walter Scheuermann
Elm Grove Cemetery
Mr. Sanchez
Hanna City
Sheridan
Elizabeth Sanchez
Ottumwa
Kathryn Miller
Washington
Izaak Walton Proxy To Speak Monday Evening
Les Benesh of Davenport state president of the Izaak Walton League will speak at a ladies night meeting of Chicagua Chapter Monday evening at the Washington YMCA. Reservations for the dinner meeting should be made as soon as possible. The steak dinner will be served at 6 30 p.m. Monday April 23 followed by the program.
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Les Benesh
Davenport
Izaak Walton League
Chicagua
Washington Ymca
Jury Deadlock Forces Retrial In Iowa Murder Case
In Independence Iowa jurors failed to reach a verdict in the second degree murder case of Charles Tudor 27 of Winthrop after more than 10 hours of deliberations. The judge ordered a retrial in the September term. Tudor is accused of shooting Gordon Merritt in front of Tudor's home January 4 with a .22 pistol.
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Independence
Iowa
Charles Tudor
Winthrop
Tudor
Gordon Merritt
Walker
Blair C. Wood
Waterloo
Edwin Wackerbarth
Wackerbarth
Wood
Scouts Present Circus Saturday Night in Warhawk District
About 1500 Scouts from Johnson, Washington and Iowa counties will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday in the State University of Iowa Field House. With 500 adult volunteers, the program features acts such as Colossus First Aid Acrobats and Sars in the Night along with wild animals, mass bicycle and clown acts. The Cubub segment includes 200 young cubs offering insights into their spontaneous ingenuity. Tickets are available through Cub or Boy Scouts and chairman Fred Moore.
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Iowa City
Johnson, Washington
Iowa County
Warhawk District
State University of Iowa
Don Mathers
Fred Moore
Scout Circus
Munro Shintani
Colossus
Dale Bentz
Cubub
A. E. Odegaard
Glen Jablonski
Harry Boldt
G.R. Fink
Herbert Scott
Congress of Clowns
James Osborne
Harold Parker
Robert Lind
Moore
Industry Fund Drive Reaches Crucial Stage
Washington's drive to raise 100000 for a new industrial promotion fund intensifies with Friday seen as pivotal. Volunteers reorganize calling lists, form new committees, and plan a Saturday kickoff as April 24 approaches to fund the McCleery Calendar Factory purchase.
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Washington
McCleery-Calendar
Chamber of Commerce
Washington Industrial Corporation
Westside Man Killed As Car Misses Curve
Dale Herman Kruse 20 of Westside was killed when his car missed a curve on U.S. 30 seven miles east of Boone and crashed into a ditch. He was alone in the vehicle and an Iowa State College student at the time.
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Boone
Dale Herman Kruse
Westside
U.S. 30
Here
Iowa State College
Short courses draw foreign students to Kansas State College
Manhattan Kans. Kansas State College offered special short courses in agriculture to students from 22 foreign countries last year as part of its international program in agriculture education.
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Manhattan
Kan
Kansas State College
Steelworkers preview wage demand in Gary speech
United Steelworkers President David J. McDonald outlined a plan for substantial wage increases and a guaranteed annual wage in a Gary address to businessmen and the union's 30 member executive board. He sought five day weeks and supplemental unemployment benefits as part of the platform with contracts due June 1.
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Gary, Ind
David J. McDonald
United Steelworkers Union
USW
Pittsburgh
McDonald
Gary
Basic
Four Miners Trapped After Sunnyside Mine Cave-In
Rescue crews labored overnight in the Kaiser No. 2 mine at Sunnyside Utah to reach four miners buried by a coal vein collapse caused by a sudden gas compression. The trapped workers were Joe Otterstrom 55 Lloyd Allen Heath 36 Lovell Marion Golding 30 and Joseph Archuletta 43. Three others escaped as rescuers rotated in shifts to avoid delays.
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Sunnyside
Utah
Kaiser Steel Co
Joe Otterstrom
Lloyd Allel Heath
Lovell Marion Golding
Wellington
Joseph A. Archuletta
Dragerton
Archuletta
Heath
Golding
Kaiser
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