Ten Die In Iowa Weekend Traffic Crashes
Weekend crashes in Iowa claim ten lives, including four in one two car collision near Spirit Lake. Victims include Fred J. Hamman and Alma Knickrehm of Peotone Illinois and Hilde Stinehart of Montgomery Iowa.
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Iowa
Spirit Lake
Fred J. Hamman
Alvina
Alma Knickrehm
Peotone
Hil
Grant Park
I Bi Stinehart
Montgomery
John Gerlach
Bellevue
Robert Muhlenbruck
Des Moines Clerk Foils Bank Robbery By Depositing Receipts
An assistant manager at Hills Department Store disrupted a Saturday night holdup at Valley Bank and Trust Co by pushing receipts into the night depository after being slugged by the suspect Robert Burns. Burns, who escaped after the deposit, left the money bag behind. bank staff confirmed the funds were safe.
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Des Moines
Robert Burns
Valley Bank and Trust Co
Burns
Hills
Williamsburg School Board Awards $603000 in Construction Contracts
At Williamsburg the school board approved contracts totaling 603000 dollars for a new junior and senior high school building and related construction work.
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Williamsburg
Stevenson Says He Won't Make Health an Issue in Campaign
Adlai Stevenson refused to use President Eisenhower health as a campaign issue though he stressed good health is vital for the presidency. He noted the office should not be diminished and left to Eisenhower to decide if he should run again. Stevenson spoke after California primary victory and planned to stay in Libertyville before a forest preserve picnic fund raiser.
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Stevenson
United Press
Chicago
Adlair Stevenson
Eisenhower
Sen. Estes Kefauver
California
Fauver
Libertyville
Midway Airport
New York
Averell Harriman
Kefauver
Harriman
Truman
Iowa Demos Map Price Support Plan
Midwest Democratic leaders ask the national convention to add a platform plank restoring full parity income to farmers and repeal flexible price supports. They back Brannan plan for direct production payments and extend school lunch and food stamp programs while discussing grain supply and overseas surpluses. Senator Kerr (D-Okla) urged patience with President Eisenhower and criticized partisanship, noting the country needs full leadership. States at the meeting included Iowa Nebraska Illinois Indiana Kansas Michigan North Dakota Minnesota South Dakota Oklahoma Ohio Missouri and Wisconsin.
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Des Moines
Midwest
Brannan
Robert S. Kerr
D-Okla
Eisenhower
Kerr
Republican Party
Iowa
Nebraska
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Michigan
North Dakota
Minnesota
South Dakota
Oklahoma
Ohio
Missouri
Wisconsin
Nation Endures First Big Heat Wave
The first major heat wave sweeps from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Seaboard with no relief in sight. Temperatures reach up to 106 degrees near the Canadian border and 108 in Cedar Rapids. Drowning incidents rise as beaches fill and several heat related deaths are reported.
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United Press
Rocky Mountains
Atlantic Seaboard
New England
East
Bismarck
Huron
Pierre
Minnesota
Redwood Falls
Midwest
Wisconsin
Debbie Anderson
Lake Wissota
Chippewa Falls
Wis
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Search For Killer Starts Near Riot In Theater At Chicago
A nationwide manhunt for a shotgun killer sparked a near riot at the Granada Theater in Chicago as police trapped a suspect inside. The shooter killed three, including Max Epstein and Lews Gates, while seeking revenge on the Epstein family. the target escaped.
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Chicago
Granada Theater
Lawrence Neumann
Neumann
North Side
Max Epstein
Lews Gates
John Keller
Epstein
Mickey Epstein
Gates
Khrushchev Accuses Stalin in New Report
Paris reports quote Khrushchev at the Moscow Party Congress accusing Stalin of sex perversion and murder of his second wife. France Soir and Continentale describe Stalin’s alleged killer role by Beria, posthumous trial hints, and criticisms of Malenkov and Voroshilov.
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Paris
Nikita Khrushchev
Josef Stalin
Europe
Khrushchev
France Soir
Continentale
Stalin
Lavrenti P. Beria
France
Soir
Nadejda Alibuyeva
Rome
Georgi Malenkov
Klimenti Voroshilov
U.S. State Department
Harriman Launches Democratic Nomination Bid After Primary
Gov Averell Harriman moves from inactive status to active candidate after the primaries. He plans a Denver meeting with Western and Midwestern supporters and seeks delegates from Oklahoma Idaho Iowa Kansas Nebraska Wyoming Utah to bolster a 90 vote base.
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Harriman
New York
NBC
Meet the Press
Roosevelt
Truman
Denver
Firing Squads End Lethal Civil Unrest In Argentina
Government says summary court martials and firing squads fatally wounded 41 rebels after a weekend Communist-Peronist counter revolt. Thirty-eight were executed at La Plata and La Rosa with three more fatally hurt. Leaders Valle and Tanco identified. arrests and trials continue under martial law.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
la Plata
Pedro E. Aramburu
Juan D. Peron
Here
Adm
Isaac F. Rojas
la Rosa
la Pampa
Eva Peron
Eugenio Fuenterosa
Aramburu
Adolfo Cesar Phillipeaux
Santa Rosa
Oscar Lorenzo Cogorno
Juan Jose Valle
Raul Tanco
Peron
Phillipeau
15Th Cavalry Regiment
Polio vaccine cuts polio cases by three quarters
Surgeon General Leonard Scheele reported 75 percent fewer polio cases among children vaccinated with Salk vaccine last year. He noted an attack rate of 6.3 per 100,000 in vaccinated children versus 29.2 per 100,000 in unvaccinated peers, and urged continued summer vaccination efforts.
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Chicago
Leonard Scheele
Scheele
The
American Medical Assn
Surgeon General
First Iowa Woman Minister Seeks Iowa Pastorate
Nancy Nichols 25 a native of Hancock Wisconsin and Iowa Wesleyan College graduate is expected to receive her pastorate in Mount Pleasant Iowa tomorrow. She is among the first women admitted to full ministerial status in the Methodist Church in the United States on a trial basis at the Des Moines conference. The conference also voted to boost annual gifts to Iowa Wesleyan and Simpson colleges by at least 3500 each and urged a 1 per member education fund.
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Mount Pleasant
Iowa
Nancy Nichols
Miss Nichols
Hancock
Wis
Iowa Wesleyan College
Iowa Des Moines Methodist Church
General Conference
Church
Minneapolis
Iowa Wesleyan
Simpson
Copper Named From Cyprian Brass In Ancient Rome
Ancient Romans used Cyprium aes or Cyprian brass for a mined metal on Cyprus. The Latin term evolved into cyprum and later the English word copper.
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Cyprus
Combination Party Planned at Ainsworth
A combination farewell and reception will be held at 6:30 Tuesday at the Ainsworth Methodist Church for Rev and Mrs Carl Stiefel and son who are leaving the community and a welcome for Rev C E McPherson of North English who becomes the new pastor. Mrs Larry Trotter and Mrs John Elliot Sr are committee in charge.
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Methodist
Ainsworth
Carl Stiefel
C.E. McPherson
North English
McPherson
Ainsworth Methodist Church
Larry Trotter
John Elliot Sr
West Chester Man Burned In Flash Fire
Max Van Winkle of West Chester, employed by McDougal and Hartmann Construction Co of Peoria, was burned on highway 92 near Washington while spray curing compound on wet concrete ignited by a roadside flare. He received treatment at Washington County Hospital and was released.
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West Chester
Max van Winkle
McDougal and Hartmann Construction Co
Peoria
Washington
van Winkle
Patient listens to market report as Mae Wheat visits
A Des Moines patient at Iowa Methodist Hospital was listening to a market report when a nurse named Mae Wheat walked in just as the May wheat quotations were read. The moment sparked a chuckle as two names aligned by coincidence.
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Des Moines
Iowa Methodist Hospital
Mae Wheat
Eisenhower Shows Rapid Postop Recovery In Hospital
President Eisenhower slept comfortably and walked 15 feet in his hospital room with two orderlies guiding him. White House officials said he is in full command and plans brief walks daily as his recovery from an intestinal operation continues, with full duties hoped for in about two weeks if no complications arise.
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Eisenhower
Ike
Leonard D. Heaton
Howard Snyder
White House
James Hagerty
Isidor Ravdin
John W. Schwartz
Reed Hospital
Gen. Heaton
International Soundphoto
Washington
James C. Hagerty
Hagerty
U S Oil Output Rises About 5 Percent Yearly
Over the last two decades oil production in the United States has grown at an average rate near five percent annually, signaling sustained expansion in domestic energy output and industry activity.
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United States
Darlington Hoppe Chooses Socialist Write In Campaign
Darlington Hoppe of Reading Pennsylvania will run as a write in for president on the Socialist Party ticket in the fall. Hoppe, the party's 1952 candidate, was chosen at the convention with running mate Samuel H Friedman of New York. They will not seek state ballot lines and will ask for write in votes instead. The 1956 Socialist platform criticizes Eisenhower foreign policy and calls for UN backed economic and social development.
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Chicago
Darlington Hoope
Reading
Penn
Socialist Party
Hoope
Hoppe
Samuel H. Friedman
New York
Socilasits
United Nations
Jet bomber spends 300 gallons fuel to taxi mile long distance
A modern jet bomber uses about 300 gallons of fuel merely to taxi from the parking ramp to the runway end, a roughly one and a half mile move.
Plan Annual Dinner Of Chamber Members
The Chamber of Commerce dinner for members is planned at the Washington Country Club on Tuesday June 26. Dinner starts at 6 30 p.m. Mrs Frank Melegari will serve. E F Butler of Maytag Newton will speak on The Changing World. Exhibits by local manufacturers open at 5 30 in the pro shop with reservations due by June 21 through four team captains.
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Chamber of Commergee
Washington Country Club
Frank Melegari
Nels Westermark
Clint Hense
Max L. Smith
Harold Jarvis
Hold McGrew Services At Columbus Junction
Funeral services were held at Stacy Funeral Home in Columbus Junction for Haley McGrew 71 of Columbus City found dead Sunday of a personal safety related gunshot wound. Victor Stacy Louisa County coroner said no inquest. Survived by widow daughter grandchild and two sisters. Born September 18 1884 in Kentucky. Married September 1 1921 to Ethel Stith.
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Columbus Junction
Stacy
Haley McGrew
Columbus City
Edwin D. Emmet
McGrew
A.J. Zion
Victor Stacy
Louisa County
Restopia Nursing Home
Kentucky
Marion
Sarah McGrew
Ethel Stith
Waldo Beck
Muscatine
Thomas Ashley
J.J. Haycraft
Clarkson, Ky
Fire Captain Responds to Alarm at Home
Charleston West Virginia Fire Capt. Kenneth Burdette on duty at station Four answered a headquarters call to 927 Woodhaven Drive his own address. A minor dryer fire damaged only the dryer's motor and did not affect other property.
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Charleston
W. Va
Kenneth Burdette
Woodhaven Drive
Beef Producers Plan Tour of County Farms
Washington County beef producers sponsor a summer farm tour Friday afternoon June 22. The tour begins at 12 30 p m at the Lloyd Marek farm with stops planned at the Charles Jefferies Claude Dann and Marion Stransky farms according to County extension director Tom Robb.
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Washington County
Tom Robb
Lloyd Marek
Charles Jefferies
Claude Dann
Marion Stransky
Iowa Five Day Weather Forecast Draws Warm, Scattered Thunderstorms
Iowa remains mostly fair and warm tonight with a few thunderstorms in the extreme north. Tuesday shows partial clouds with widely scattered storms in the west and north, cooler in the northwest but still warm in the southeast. Temperatures run 5 to 8 degrees above normal, with highs 85 to 95 and lows 65 to 72, then showers Tuesday night and Saturday with 1.5 to 2.5 inches possible.
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Iowa
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