Hayride Tragedy Kills Youth In Iowa Crash
A church sponsored hayride near Inwood Iowa ends in a fatal wreck when a stock truck overturns into a five foot ditch nine miles southwest. Gilmore James Van Beek 22 dies instantly. About 22 youths were injured and treated with several hospitalized at Sioux Falls and Canton.
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Inwood
Iowa
Sioux River Hills
Iowa - South Dakota
Gilmore James van Beek
Arthur van Beek
Hull
Here
Sioux Falls
S.D
Inwood Christian Reformed Church
E.T. Baker
Anton Kampen
van Beek
Baker
Henrick Kraayenbrink
Florence Faber
Vera Tillstra
Connie Kollis
Bill Kollis
Polk Jury Indicts Six on Liquor Violations
Polk County grand jury indicted six persons for liquor law violations in a crackdown prompted by Iowa Bureau of Investigation findings. County Attorney Ray Hanrahan planned to release names after arrests, while a simultaneous report criticized key clubs as criminal havens and potential graft sources. Penalties for the indictments range from 300 to 1000 dollars.
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Des Moines
Polk County
Iowa
Ray Hanrahan
Iowa Criminal Bureau of Investigation
Howard Eide Hanrahan
Chicago Altar Boy Fatally Burns Lighting Candles
A 13-year-old altar boy, Paul Sanders, died after his cassock caught fire while lighting candles at St Viator's Church in Chicago. Reverend Edward Gorman rushed to help and smothered the flames with an overcoat, but the boy died about 12 hours later. The incident occurred before an 8:00 a.m. Mass and the boy told his father he dropped a match on the altar before the blaze.
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Chicago
Edward Gorman
St Viator’s
Paul Sanders
Paul
Roy Sanders
Wage increase plan targets 96 000 Teamsters in 22 states
James Hoffa president elect and Teamster negotiators outline a program proposing 42 cent hourly wage and benefit increases over three years for members in 22 states. The plan envisions 15 cents Feb 1, then 10 cents yearly for two years, affecting about 96,000 members directly and setting patterns for roughly 500,000 others.
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Chicago
James Hoffa
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Teamster
Hoffa
John T. O Brien
Teamsters
National Labor Relations Board
Teamsters Union
Rudy Schroeder & Son
Madison
Wis
Bowman Dairy Co
NLRB
Bowman
Schroeder
Wisconsin
Eisenhower estimates 1958 defense budget tied to missile arms
President Eisenhower on his Pennsylvania farm discussed a 1958 defense budget likely to top 40 billion dollars as he plans to respond to Soviet peace proposals. White House aides note a final figure is not yet set but expected soon. Hagerty said Brunadge and other officials will refine numbers for the State of the Union message and budget plans.
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Gettysburg
Eisenhower
Russia
White House
James C. Hagerty
Percival Brundage
Nikolai A. Bulganin
State Department
Hagerty
Kremlin
John Foster Dulles
Washington
Soviet offer of aid seen as opening move in new cold war
Western observers view the Friday Afro-Asian solidarity conference as a potential launch of Soviet influence. Apushavan Artyumanyan offered factories hospitals with no strings, urging seizure of foreign property to gain leverage while delegates hailed the gesture. The gathering was informal not binding and terms would require diplomatic work.
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Cairo
Kenya
Afghanistan
Apushavan Artyumanyan
Egypt
Soviet Union
Africa
Asia
Mrs. Frank Meredith Dies Former Crawfordsville Resident
Mrs. Frank Meredith, longtime Crawfordsville resident, died at her Los Angeles home after a stroke. She was the former wife of Washington publisher Wake Neal and later married Frank Meredith. Burial was in Greenfield Iowa, her former family home. She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Helen Branton of Los Angeles, and her widower, Mr. Meredith.
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Frank Meredith
Los Angeles
Greenfield
Iowa
Meredith
Wake Neal
Washington
Crawfordsville
Helen Branton
Neal
Kansas
California
E. W. Stewart 80 Dies in Denver Colorado
E. W. Stewart 80 of Denver Colo died Thursday night in Denver He was brother in law of the late Mae Jeffrey and he and his wife visited Washington often to attend her funeral in October They had many friends here The only survivor is his widow Martha Walker Stewart of Denver
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Mae Jeffrey
Washington
Martha Walker Stewart
Denver
Washington County Hospital board dinner notes staff reappointments
Washington County Hospital board and spouses attended the annual dinner at the hospital and nursing home. After dinner the board authorized a special committee to study long term patient services while reappointing the medical staff for the coming year.
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Washington County Hospital Board
Ernie Wagner
Robert Wiley
M. L. Brown
Joe Jones
Keith Stewart
Dick Ross
Harry Levy
Harris Jones
Washington Iowa man in NIH metabolism study diet
Darold L. Powers of Washington Iowa serves as a guinea pig in National Institutes of Health metabolism tests in Washington DC. He follows a special diet as researchers study how his body handles food substances while he serves two years in lieu of military duty for religious reasons. His meal includes omelet with asparagus and rice bread and butter cherry gelatin salad milk and cherries. Powers is a University of Iowa graduate class of 1956.
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Washington Post
Washington, D. C
Darold L. Powers
Washington, Iowa
National Institute of Health
Darold
University of Iowa
FFA Members Visit Waterloo Deere Plant
Twenty Washington Future Farmers of America visited the John Deere Tractor Manufacturing plant in Waterloo on Friday. Arrangements for the trip were made through the Farmers Implement Co of Washington. The group traveled to Waterloo driven by Robert Miksch Doyle Jarrard Robert Ruppert William Wulf and Frank Friese. SALT LAKE CITY UP Aft er opening a two foot square hole in the roof of a local cafe by drilling 28 holes with a brace and bit burglars were unable to crack a heavy safe escaped with $3 from a juke box and an undetermined amount of punch board money.
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Washington
Future Farmers of America
John Deere Tractor Manufacturing
Waterloo
Farmers Implement Co. of
Wasterloo Inc
Robert Miksch
Doyle Jarrard
Robert Ruppert
William Wulf
Frank Friese
Salt Lake City
Loveless Holds Key To Iowa Politics In 1958 Race
Des Moines may see Democratic Gov. Herschel Loveless as favorite for re election due to sound financial judgments and weak Republican opposition. State Comptroller Glenn Sarsfield forecasts a stronger balance sheet, with taxes yielding higher than expected and the rain day fund limiting Loveless veto power.
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Des Moines
Herschel C. Loveless
Iowa
Loveless
Glenn Sarsfield
Sarsfield
Eleven Coal Miners Die In Amonate Mine Blast
Rescue teams pulled 11 bodies from Pocahontas Fuel Co. Mine No. 31 near Amonate West Virginia after a gas explosion 500 feet underground. The disaster prompted a four way inquiry by federal and state mining agencies the company and the United Mine Workers.
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Amonate
Pocahontas Fuel Co
War
W.va
Federal Bureau of Mines
West Virginia Department of Mines
United Mine Workers
Urban growth warned as crisis potential rises
University of Wisconsin professor Dr. Coleman Woodbury told the American Association for the Advancement of Science that rapid city growth could trigger a real crisis. He projected U S population reaching 220 million by 1975 and warned about decentralizing shopping, urban blight, and financial strain on cities.
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Indianapolis
Coleman Woodbury
University of Wisconsin
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Woodbury
Flood Evacuations Continue as East Carmi Faces Rising Waters
Floods from four hours of heavy rain push Little Wabash rise in East Carmi Illinois forcing about 40 families to evacuate by motorboat. More families are threatened while a radar station shelters evacuees. Weather systems bring heavier downpours across Illinois Indiana and California with lakes freezing and fishermen stranded on ice.
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East Carmi
Ill
Illinois
Southern
Little Wabash River
Mount Carmel
Princeton
Ind
Mississippi River
Gulf Coast
Washington
Oregon
Pacific
California
Rockies
Crescent City
Calif
Great Lakes
Ilinois
Indiana
Midwest
Lake Winnebago
Wisconsin
Boys Sentenced For Vandalism At School
Two teenage boys were sent to Eldora state training school for 1500 in damages at May Goodrell Junior High School on Dec 7. They were captured Dec 11 attempting to enter Tiana's Restaurant. One boy, 15, was urged to receive psychiatric treatment after placing a concrete block on a Rock Island track. An 11 year old was held at the Polk County juvenile home pending a hearing.
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Des Moines
State
Eldora
May Goodrel
Joseph E. Meyer
Rock Island
Polk County
Girl Recovering From Surgery Delayed By Father's Church Group
Judy Pippen an 11 year old girl in Richmond Indiana recovered from emergency appendectomy performed after Sheriff served a custody summons on her father who had refused medical care citing his sect beliefs Officials at Reid Memorial Hospital said she was mostly in bed but began light post operative exercises.
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Richmond
Ind
Judy Pippen
Reid Memorial Hospital
Judy
Edward Cordell
Pippen
Full Tabernacle of God
Weather Chronicle Iowa: Frigid Northeast with Light Snow Risk
United Press reports mostly fair weather tonight with colder northeast temps near zero to 10 above and 20 to 20 above in the southwest. Sunday will be partly cloudy and cold with highs in the 20s region wide, then partly cloudy and warmer Monday.
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United Press
Iowa
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Colorado
E. W. Stewart
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Hospital Board of Annual Dinner
C. A. Boice
W. S. Kyle
J. M. Lloyd
T. M. Mast
M. L. McCreedy
G. E. Montgomery
G. J. Nemmers
C. W. Beckman
D. G. Sattler
Kalona
E. D. Miller
Wellman
J. R. Miller
G. H. Scanlon
W. RK. Vetter
C. E. Schrock
G. S. Anderson
H. M. Korns
Darold Powers
FFA
Waterloo Deere
William Amos
Main B. Harrison
Arnold W. Young
Bishop, Va
W.A. Fullerton
Woodrow Evans
U. S
Salk
Elsie N. Ward
Jonas Salk
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