Firing Over Grimes Murder Probe Sparks Controversy
Chicago officials clash as coroner's chief investigator Harry Glos is fired after alleging a medical cover up in the Grimes sisters murder case. Police lab chemist Claude Hazen reportedly found evidence of sexual relations, a claim denied by earlier pathology findings. Police officials say death resulted from secondary shock and exposure.
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Chicago
Harry Glos
Coroner
Grimes
Walter McCarron
Glos
Grimes Sisters
Farlier
Patrick Deeley
Barbara
Patricia
Deeley
Claude Hazen
Police Crime Laboratory
Russians Include Women Scientists On Antarctic Trip
The Soviet Antarctic expedition includes women on ships with 3 women aboard the Ob and 8 to 10 on other vessels, while pigs are raised at Mirny base. American meteorologist Cartwright says several Soviet scientists will winter over and soil import and a garden project accompany the expedition. Mirny lies 1,400 miles from McMurdo Sound, equidistant from the Pole.
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Mcmurdo Sound
Antarctica
U.S
Gordon Cartwright
Newcastle
United Press
Indian Ocean
U.S. International Geophysical Year Antarctic
Little America
Cartwright
Mirny
South Pole
Rev Peterson to Speak at Fern Cliff Church
Rev Albert Peterson of Ottumwa Iowa will speak at the Fern Cliff Evangelical Free Church on Sunday February 17 at 10 45 am and 7 30 pm. He has long experience in evangelism from Billy Sunday era onward and the public is invited to attend.
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Albert Peterson
Ottumwa
Iowa
Billy Sunday
Fern Cliff Evangelical Free Church
Peterson
Death of Elderly Woman At Ocheyedan Nursing Home
State and local authorities investigated the death of 72 year old Mrs. Mabel Essig at a nursing home in Ocheyedan. A pathologist noted head injury could result from a fall. An inquest is scheduled for next Wednesday as the State Bureau of Criminal Investigation joins the probe.
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Sibley
Iowa
Ocheye
Dan
Arnold Schell
Mabel Essig
Scheu
Bessie McGranahan
Essig
State Bureau of Criminal Investigation
McGranahan
Cherokee State Mental Health Institute
Ashton
Ocheyedan
Infant Peterson Dies in Marshalltown Rites Held at Newton
The death of Gary Dean Peterson infant son of Mr and Mrs D Peterson of 402 N Avenue Marshalltown Iowa was announced Born February 12 burial took place at Mt Zion Cemetery Newton Survived by parents maternal grandparents August Laskowitz Newton paternal grandmother Dorothea Peterson West Chester great grandparents Charles Turner Newton and E C Turner Atalissa and Josephine Peterson Washington DC
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Iowa
Josephine Peterson
Washington, D. C
Iowa House Debates Driver Training for High Schools
A bill in the Iowa Legislature would require all high schools to offer driver training with both behind the wheel and classroom work. Graduates would receive a license at 16 if they pass. those who fail or opt out would wait until 18. The measure cites safety records and insurance premium reductions as support. Other proposals include unemployment benefit increases and a constitutional amendment process change.
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Des Moines
Iowa
LeRoy Chalupa
R-Pleasant Plain
Chalupa
Gromyko Replaces Shepilov in High Soviet Union Post
Moscow reports Dmitri T. Shepilov is removed as foreign minister after nine months in office amid Hungary and Poland upheavals. Andrei Gromyko is promoted to foreign minister as Nikolai Patelichev becomes first deputy. Shepilov, 51, previously Pravda editor, joins eight Central Committee secretaries. Gromyko, known to the West, has spoken at UN debates and attended major postwar conferences.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Dmitri T. Shepilov
Hungary
Poland
Andrei Gromyko
Soviet
Communist Party Central Committee
Shepilov
Communist Party
Pravda
V.M. Molotov
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Nikolai S. Patelichev
Gromyko
Middle East
Mayer Sale Attracts Large Crowd Near Washington
A large crowd attended the Les ter Mayer closing out sale northwest of Washington on Thursday. Commodity prices included corn 1.17 per bushel oats 1.18, alfalfa hay 0.61 per bale, and clover 0.59 to 0.60. Livestock sold briskly with shoats 175 pounds at 26.50 each, sows and pigs generating several hundred dollars, ewes with lambs at 27 per head, stock cows 110 to 152, and fat steer calves at 108. Auctioneer Bill Bruty and clerks John Butler and Calvin Wolf assisted.
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Lester Mayer
Washington
Farrow
Bill Bruty
John Butler
Calvin Wolf
West Chester Savings Bank
Blast Rocks Negro District in Clinton Tennessee
An explosion in Clinton's Negro district injures two and damages 30 homes and a Negro restaurant. Police say a dynamite filled suitcase left on a sidewalk caused the blast amid school integration tensions. Eyewitnesses pointed to a white man exiting a car as the possible perpetrator.
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Clinton, Tenn
Clinton
Alfred Williams
Jim Loggans
Clinton Courier-News
Ross Quits Defense Post After Furore
Thomasville Ga UP The White House accepted Robert Tripp Ross resignation with Feb 20 effective date amid an ethics furore over military fabric contracts linked to his wife and brother in law.Sen McClellan said probe would halt unless new evidence appears. Eisenhower remains satisfied with Middle East policy and congressional action. The president, suffering a scratchy throat, golfed at Glen Arven while on vacation.
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Thomasville
White House
Defense
Robert Tripp Ross
Eisenhower
Ross
James C. Hagerty
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Senate
Howard McC. Snyder
Glen Arven
Treasury
George M. Humphrey
Sprinkling Systems Urged by Loveless for Nursing Homes
Gov. Loveless backed legislation mandating sprinklers in all nursing homes and other measures to improve care. He cautioned against overreacting after the Council Bluffs fire that killed 14, noting potential closures must consider where patients go. Fire Marshal Herron cited the blaze would likely have been contained with automatic sprinklers. The governor said there was no negligence by Council Bluffs and a state inquiry continues into nursing home rules and fire laws.
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Des Moines
Herschel C. Loveless
Loveless
Council Bluffs
Ed Herron
Herron
City of
Boy Who Hit Teacher Goes to California
Des Moines Iowa Roosevelt High School senior Lance Wygren seventeen who struck teacher David Gonnerman after being told to stay after school has moved to California to finish high school and attend college. Parents report the decision followed a conference with school authorities and the student will live with relatives.
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Des Moines
Roosevelt High
Sudent
California
Lance Wygren
David Gonnerman
Gonnerman
Wygren
Farm Institute warns against political solution of problem
DES MOINES UP Farmers and businessmen warned that seeking political solutions to their problems has created a Frankenstein monster in government. National Association of Manufacturers president Ernest Swigert said inflation taxes and big government threaten both agriculture and industry. He urged reducing political tampering and warned against union wage demands and political misuse of taxation. Swigert heads Hyster Co. of Portland makers of heavy equipment.
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Des Moines
National Association of Manufacturers
Ernest G. Swigert
Portland
Ore
Swigert
National Farm Institute
Hyster Co
Davenport Police Hold Four for Break-Ins
Davenport Iowa police charged three men and one youth with breaking and entering after officers found 574 in silver and a gun in John Leroy Behning Jr s home 27. Also linked were William J Donnelly 19 Francis Garrow 26 and John Trainor 22. Donnelly faces a Dec 2 Micheel Dairy safe robbery charge.
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Davenport
Iowa
ULP
John Leroy Behning Jr
William J. Donnelly
Francis Garrow
John Trainor
Behning
Garrow
Trainor
Donnelly
Micheel Dairy
Senate Moves to Abolish Iowa Personnel Director Post
The Republican Iowa Senate approved by 24 to 14 a bill to abolish the state personnel director position, shifting patronage to state officials. Rex Weddle’s post would end July 4. Gov. Loveless could veto, with party lines likely to hold.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Senate
House
Herschel C. Loveless
Rex Weddle
Knoxville
Weddle
Loveless
George Marchi
Fort Dodge
Little Hoover Committee
Threat of Threatened By King Harry I of Harrisonia aired
Secret Service chief A E Baughman testified before a House subcommittee about a letter signed King Harry I of Harrisonia threatening President Eisenhower over a state formation. The sender was a 12 year old Harry Harrison who with playmates sought to form a new country. the incident ended with a severe lecture and the youth surrendering his claim to citizenship.
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Washington
Harry 1
Harrisonia
Eisenhower
Secret Service
A. E. Baughman
House Appropriations
Baughman
Harry I
Harry Harrison
Harry
Alaska
Rev. Genheimer to Speak at Prairie Flower Church
Rev and Mrs Don Genheimer missionaries to South Africa will speak at Prairie Flower Baptist Church Sunday. They will assist with the morning and evening worship services and the youth meeting Sunday evening under the South Africa General Mission.
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Don Genheimer
Prairie Flower Baptist Church
South Africa
Beck Told to Produce Personal Financial Records
Senate labor rackets investigators pressured Teamsters President Dave Beck to provide personal financial records from 1950 to date or face a subpoena. Beck, in Europe, plans to return by March 26. The committee aims to issue subpoenas for other Teamsters officials as it probes labor racketeering.
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Washington
Senate
Teamsters Union
Dave Beck
Beck
Europe
United States
John L. McLellan
D-Ark
Labor Rackets Committee
McClellan
Einard Mohn
Mohn
Contempt of Congress
Senate Permanent
Saccharin noted as far sweeter than sugar
A historical reference states saccharin is almost 500 times sweeter than sugar, highlighting its intense sweetness compared to conventional sweeteners.
Grinnell College Paper Names Edmund Morrison Business Manager
Edmund Morrison, son of Mr and Mrs E D Morrison Jr of Washington Iowa, becomes full business manager of the Scarlet and Black at Grinnell College. Appointed last December after January trial issues, he holds the post through February 1958 while a junior and state co chair of the college division of Young Republicans. He is a 1954 Washington High School graduate.
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Grinnell
Edmund Morrison
E. D. Morrison
Iowa Ave
Washington
Scarlet and Black
Grinnell College
Morrison
College Division
Young Republicans
Washington High School
Tickets Available For Red Mill Operetta At Washington High
Tickets for The Red Mill operetta by Washington High School vocal music depart will be sold by chorus members for March 7 and 8. Rehearsals led by Robert Ferrell have been under way. All seats are reserved with adult tickets at 1.00 and student tickets at 0.75.
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Vocal Music Department
Washington High School
Robert Ferrell
Nomination Papers Filed for Washington School Board
Nomination papers were filed this morning by supporters of two incumbent members of the Washington school board, Dr M J Cruise and Lee A Holland. They seek re election at the March 11 election with petitions signed by more than the required number. Polls at City Hall open from noon to after one p.m. on March 11. Two board members will be elected in the Washington district.
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Washington School Board
M. J. Cruise
Lee A. Holland
Phil Weldin
City Hall
Washington
Louisa County Democrats Rally For Parsons In Wapello
About 100 people attended a Louisa County Democratic rally in Wapello to back farmer Dean H. Parsons for state representative. Speakers included Jake More and Merle Hagedorn. Ralph Lowe opened the meeting as Don D. Waddell introduced the speakers. Parsons pledged to represent Louisa County. Doughnuts and coffee were served.
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Columbus Junction
Wapello
Dean H. Parsons
Louisa County
William D. Dillon
Jake More
Merle Hagedorn
Clay County
Ralph Lowe
Letts
Don D. Waddell
Mr. Parsons
Davenport teen pleads to reduced murder charge
Richard Castel seventeen year old of Davenport Iowa pleaded innocent to a reduced second degree murder charge in the Russian roulette slaying of seventeen year old Gene Wellendorf. Castel was bound over to the grand jury under ten thousand dollars bond and his attorney planned an immediate trial. The youth had been charged with first degree murder after the shooting last Friday. A coroner s jury urged the county attorney to continue the investigation.
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Davenport
Iowa
Richard Castel
Gene Wellendorf
Castel
Iowa lawmakers advance auto dealer control and highway plans
Senate and House motor vehicle committees backed bills to regulate auto sales and financing, require refunds of finance charges for early payoff, and bar franchise nonrenewal without just cause. Also moves to require county highway programs a year ahead, and to alter school board member elections and rural school enrollment thresholds.
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DES Moines
Senate
House Motor Vehicle Committees
Automobile Association
John Walker
R-Williams
Iowa Safety Commissioner's
Senate Highways Committee
County Board of Supervisors
Iowa Highway Commission
House
J. T. Dykhouse
Rock Rapids
Highway Commission
Dykhouse
Senate Schools Committee
Weather forecast for Cedar Rapids and region
United Press Iowa reports fair conditions with diminishing winds and a sharp cold snap tonight lows 12 to 20. Saturday and Sunday stay partly cloudy with highs in the 20s and light snow possible Sunday. Five day outlook shows average temperatures about 4.8 degrees below normal with minimal precipitation around Sunday and Wednesday.
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United Press
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
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Fayette
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Prairie Flower
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