Eisenhower Open to Discussing Zhukov Visit
President Eisenhower, recalling his 1945 46 friendship with Soviet Marshal Zhukov, said he would discuss with advisers a possible invitation for Zhukov to visit the United States. He noted the recent Soviet leadership shakeup and his respect for Zhukov's past abilities.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Gregori Zhukov
Zhukov
United States
V.M. Molotov
Russia
Molotov
Germany
Hoegh Invites Free Media Time to Explain Budget Plan
Des Moines Iowa Gov Leo A Hoegh said he would welcome free radio or TV time to sell his budget program though not actively seeking it He may arrange time on a Sioux City station during a February visit He defended extending sales taxes to services and urged simpler books for firms noting a large portion of the budget would return to locals as property tax exemption replacements
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Des Moines
Leo A. Hoegh
Tim
Hoegh
Sioux City
Keb. 16
Businessman and Tax Commission
Latin study helps garage owner fix Italian motor bike
Norwich man Ted Moore said he learned Latin to repair a motor. A customer brought an Italian motorcycle and an instruction book in Italian. Moore used a high school Latin book to interpret the manual and get the bike running.
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Norwich
Conn
Ted Moore
Moore
Townsley Park Fair Board Plans Expanded Facilities
The Townsley Park Fair Board meets to discuss improvements at the grounds for the 1955 county fair. Plans include building bleacher seating, livestock show ring, scales and toilets with 12 outside cattle pens and junior feeding projects. Other events for August 8 to 11 include a carnival Morrell chorus livestock parade horse show tractor rodeo and Washington opening parade under Jaycees.
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Townsley Park
Herb Campbell
Bob Ross
Frank Kleese
George Horn
Milton Ross
Verne Knecht
Navy Skyraider Downed During Tachen Island Evacuation
A Navy AD Skyraider was shot down by Communist anti-aircraft fire while covering the evacuation of Chinese Nationalists from Tachen Island off Red China. The pilot Lt (J.G.) WJ Cheren and two crewmen were rescued with minor injuries and transferred to the destroyer Isbell.
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Washington
Tachen Island
Red China
East China Sea
Famosa Straits
U.S
Isbell
Navy
J.G
WJ. Cheren
Betty Lou Cheren
Coronado
Calif
A.J. Chelewski
Josephine M. Cherewski
Imperial Beach
R E. Drennen
Corene
S. Drennen
San Diego
More Corn Acreage Allotted in County
Washington county reports 1955 corn acreage allotment at 96 193 acres, up 4 74 from 1954. State total 9 636 620 vs 9 063 929 prior year. Compliance affects price supports and conservation cost sharing. Neighboring counties totals listed.
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Washington
Yaro Soika
ASC
Iowa
Sojka
Washington County
Johnson
Louisa
Henry
Jefferson
Keokuk
Plans Urged for Washington County Legislature Visit
Washington County residents planning to visit the state legislature on February 16 should contact their township chairman by February 14 to finalize arrangements. Extra cars will be provided, with contact to Mrs. Ray Whisler or the County Extension Office. The tour starts at 10 a.m. with a lunch at noon with the local senator and representative, followed by a Capitol tour.
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Washington County
Ray Whisler
County Farm Bureau
State Legislature
State Capitol
Senate Extends Veterans Education Benefits Bill
The Senate passed a bill to let about 1.4 million service members accumulate full GI education benefits amid a $390 million ten year cost. It preserves benefits for those who joined before January 31 and allows 1. days per day of service up to a maximum of 36 months.
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United Press
Senate
White House
House
Eisenhower
Petit Jurors Named for March Court Term
Petit jurors for the March term of court are listed with reporting time at 1 30 p m on March 14 before Judge J G Patterson. The roster includes Dale Atkinson Oregon Emma Barta Wellman Esther Blees Clay Donald Boyer and many others from wards precincts and counties.
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J. G. Patterson
Dale Atkinson
Max Bales
Oregon
Emma Barta
Wellman
Esther Blees
Clay
Donald Boyer
Wm. S. Britton
Kalona
Forest Brock
Edith Brown
Dorothy Campbell
Eugene Chalupa
Rosemary Chalupa
Marcella Cook
Sidney Coon
Highland
Donald Crone
Raymond Dautremont
Iowa
Bernice Donovan
Geneva Duskin
Katheryn Enfield
Walter Fisher
Robert Frevenberger
Brighton
Leona Faris
Leona Gardner
Doyle Gray
Everette Green
Albert Greiner
Hazel Harding
Edward F. Havel
Lillian Havel
Robert Havel
Amy Hesselschwerdt
Florence Holmes
Clarence Jarrard
Jackson
Alice Johnson
Tressa Johnson
Ruth Johnston
Dale W. Jones
Mildred Kennedy
Washington
Mary Kerr
Fourth Ward
Robert Knottnerus
School Elections Set for March 14 Across Iowa
Iowa voters must cast ballots on Monday March 14 to elect local district directors. Lester B Krabill county superintendent urges attendance and notes notices must be posted ten days ahead. Nomination papers require ten voter signatures for town and consolidated districts with deadlines and from 25 voters for the county board vacancy.
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Iowa
Lester B. Krabill
Washington County
Supt
Krabill
A B Neiswanger 1869 196? Dies After Long Illness
A B Neiswanger 86 lifelong Washington county resident died at 10 20 p m Tuesday after a long illness. He lived at 1109 South Iowa Avenue and suffered a stroke seven years ago. Funeral services are set for Thursday February 10 at 2 p m at Jones funeral home with burial in Elm Grove. He was born January 1 1869 near Noble Iowa married February 24 1891 to Bertha Morrison daughter survived by son Lloyd and grandson Rev David Neiswanger. sister Anna Waters and several siblings are noted with several siblings deceased.
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Abraham B. Neiswanger
Washington County
South
Iowa Avenue
Neiswanger
Jones
Elm Grove
C. R. Reed
Mr. Neiswanger
Noble, Iowa
David and
Mary Warfel Neiswanger
Bertha J. Morrison
Washington
Lloyd
David Neiswanger
Plymouth
Mich
Anna Waters
Detroit
Russia names Zhu kov defense minister as Bulganin pledges heavy industry
In Moscow the Soviet Congress confirms Marshal Georgi Zhu kov as defense minister amid sweeping leadership changes. Nikolai Bulganin becomes premier and vows to push heavy industry, arms production, and a five year plan while reformer Khrushchev sets the policy course.
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Moscow
Russia
Gregori K. Zhukov
Berlin
Georgi M
Nikolai Bulganin
Malenkov
Bulganin
Red
Germany
Molotov
V.M. Molotov
United States
School Boy Patrol Is Organized Here
Washington launches a limited school boy safety patrol at Lincoln School to aid students crossing highway 92. The effort involves Ed Polson Ray Stalder and M Robert Everetts with patrol supervisor Robert McLaughlin. Student officers include Hensel Horst Zager Richards Garrett Boudewyn. equipment funded by Washington Jaycees.
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Washington
M. Robert Everetts
Everetts
Lincoln School
Lincoln
Madison Street
South Second
South
Iowa
Ed Polson
State Highway Safety Department
Ray Stalder
Polson
Stalder
Supt
Robert McLaughlin
Fred Hensel
Cecil Horst
Bill Zager
John Richards
Carl Garrett
Stanley Boudewyn
Washington Jaycees
Destroy Fortifications As Last Soldiers Leave Tachen
Ta chen Island evacuations end as demolition blasts tear through fortifications. Nationalist troops load artillery onto landing craft while Marines and Army officers supervise the retreat amid mud, smoke, and continuous explosions.
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Tachen
Tachen Island
Liu Lien-chi
Liu
Sheppard’s Attorneys Seek Ohio Supreme Court Appeal
Attorneys for convicted wife killer Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard said they would file a direct appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court to secure his release on bond. The Court of Appeals ruled late Tuesday, for the second time, against him.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Samuel H. Sheppard
Ohio Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
New Drug Seromycin Promises TB Treatment Breakthrough
At a conference of Army Navy and Veterans Administration physicians the new antibiotic cycloserine known as seromycin was announced as a soil mold product related to streptomycin. It has shown impressive improvements in severe pulmonary tuberculosis cases.
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Atlanta
Army
Navy
Veterans Administration
Dr Sheppard Ineligible For Release In Murder Sentence
Dr. Sheppard remains ineligible for release after being sentenced to life imprisonment for the bludgeon murder of his wife Marilyn. The sentence stands as a legal outcome in the homicide case.
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Sheppard
Marilyn
Eisenhower cites education aid as nation needs
President Eisenhower defended a seven billion dollar school construction program today saying federal aid is vital to prevent schooling gaps and to provide emergency building to relieve a 340000 classroom shortage. He urged Congress to approve the plan while noting federal leadership should be limited to emergencies.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
House
Senate
Congressional Democrats
Federal
Treasury
Lister Hill
D-Ala
Earl Clements
D-Ky
Furniture Dealers Observe Anniversary in Washington
Bob Speed and Ray Minick mark their seventh year as Washington furniture dealers this week. They opened Kiple DePrenger Furniture on Feb. 15, 1948, occupying three floors at 109 East Washington Street. The staff includes Vera Shepherd, Clark Talbot, Merle Steele, and Fred Speed with active store operations led by Minick and Speed.
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Bob Speed
Ray Minick
Washington
Kiple & DePrenger Furniture Company
East Washington St
Merle Steele
Fred Speed
Weed and Pest Control Meeting Held Tuesday
County extension service sponsored meeting at the YMCA drew farmers. Iowa State College specialists Earl Raun and Dutch Sylvester spoke on corn borer forecasts for 1955 and new spraying guidance, including 12 pounds of actual DDT per acre, plus brush and weed control tips for pastures using basal spray.
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County Extension Service
YMCA
Earl Raun
Dutch Sylvester
Iowa State College
Raun
Sylvester
Dagmar Replaces La Rosa at Des Moines Auto Show
Dagmar the blond television star was hired to replace Julius La Rosa at the Des Moines Auto Show after La Rosa walked out and flew to New York amid a threatened 200000 lawsuit for breach of contract. Officials scrambled for 24 hours to secure a replacement and briefly considered Frank Parker before backing Dagmar.
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Des Moines
Dagmar
Julius la Rosa
la Rosa
New York
Frank Parker
Arthur Godfrey
Parkes
Cedar Rapids
Accord Reached On Big Labor Merger
In Miami Beach CIO President Walter Reuther and AFL President George Meany announce a satisfactory agreement on merger plans after day and a half of closed door talks. They say the unity committee will review sub committee proposals this afternoon.
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Miami Beach, Fla
CIO
AFL
George Meany
Walter Reuther
Weather Outlook for Iowa: Cloudy with Mixed Precipitation
Weather summary reports cloudy conditions in Iowa with freezing rain possible in the extreme southeast tonight. Thursday brings colder temps and a mix of snow sleet and freezing rain in the southeast, ending by afternoon. Overnight lows range from 5 to 10 in the extreme northwest to 23 to 27 in the extreme southeast, with Thursday highs 16 to 22 in the northwest and 22 to 28 in the southeast. Continued cloudiness is forecast Friday with a chance of snow or freezing rain in the southeast.
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United of Iowa
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