Chou En Lai Details Blood Bath Claim and Criticism
Chinese Premier Chou En Lai stated that one sixth of those accused as counter revolutionary by Peiping were executed in the early years after liberation, calling it one of history’s largest blood baths and noting varying post-arrest outcomes. He also warned of pro-American sentiment among intellectuals and framed U.S. actions as threats to world peace.
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Tokyo
Chou En-lai
Peiping
Chou
Mao Tze-tung
Warsaw
Red China
Mao
United States
Korea
New
China
Power Companies Seek U S Help For Proposed Atomic Reactor
Northern States Power Co of Minneapolis seeks seven million dollars in government aid for a 25 million dollar reactor project. NSP, Allis-Chalmers, and ten utilities plan a 29.8 million dollar program with AEC support, aiming to start operation before June 30, 1962.
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Washington
Northern States Power Co
Minneapolis
Earl Ewald
Northern States
Joint
Congressional Atomic Energy Subcommittee
R.M. Casper
Milwaukee
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co
C.B. Graham
Allis-Chalmers
Ewald
Atomic Energy Commission
Minnesota
Nebraska
Iowa
Wisconsin
South Dakota
Missouri
NSP
AEC
Casper
Argonne National Laboratory
Chicago
Eisenhower opposes price and wage controls in inflation fight
President Eisenhower declares strong opposition to price and wage controls as a method to curb inflation. He urges business and labor leaders to show restraint, and says wage increases should match productivity gains or address extreme hardship. He warns that controls risk socialism and notes no plan to cut U.S. forces or alter nuclear policy. He defends the Supreme Court and supports continued nuclear testing for peaceful use.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
United States
U.S
Japan
Congress
Britain
Supreme Court
Special Commission
State Department
Justice Department
Loomis Named in Iowa Highway Land Appraisals
Iowa Highway Commission paid 22 800 for a 7 acre Waterloo site and 42 292 for a 40 acre parcel used for a maintenance garage. Appraisers testified the prices reflected fair market value and severance damages, confirming the commission’s purchases amid legislative scrutiny. Loomis denied involvement and did not vote on the reports.
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa Highway Commission
Emery Loomis
Waterloo
Commission
Robert Beck
Centerville
Loomis
Wilfred Prentice
Cedar Rapids
John JD. Ingraham
Council Bluffs
Wagner
National Bank Real Estate Assn
Kirk
Ingraham
Variety of Conservation Work Under Way in Washington County
A broad program of conservation work is underway in Washington County with gully surveys on farms in Wellman Riverside and Keota, pond and tile projects, contouring assists, surface drainage surveys, and planned stock ponds. A new Washington sewage plant, built by Spencer Construction, advances toward completion in October to serve up to 10 000 people. The plant features four 80 foot tanks and a rock filter with a complex piping network for the sewage purification cycle.
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Washington
Elm Grove Cemetery
Washington County Soil Conservation District
G. W. Rosenkild
The
Soil Conservation Service
Arden Goodwin
R. L. Godlove
Kenneth Jewell
Edna Foster
Wellman Area
Duane White
Mae Spessard
Ainsworth
Paul Rotenburger
Hazel Spera
F. W. Schnoebelen
Riverside
Ralph Peiffer
West Chester
Gordon Russell
Everett Green
Keota
Harry Jirsa
Richmond
Kenneth Hershberger
Wellman
Robert Greiner
Roy R. Miller
Kalona
C. F. Kessler
Rubio
Enos Yoder
Spencer Construction Co
First Hurricane Audrey Aims At Gulf Coast
The season's first hurricane, Audrey, a full grown lady with 100 mph winds, moves about 500 miles south west of New Orleans and 300 miles south of Brownsville. Gales extend 125 miles from center as forecast tracks push northward then northeast. Louisiana coast regarded most likely landfall area with Texas on alert. New Orleans Weather Bureau warns high tides and rough seas along the coast. Ships are told to remain offshore.
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New Orleans
Audrey
Texas - Louisiana
Brownsville
Tex
Louisiana
Texas
New Orleans Weather Bureau
Bank Robber Steals 2700 In McGregor Iowa
A gunman robbed the First State Savings Bank in McGregor Iowa Tuesday escaping with about 2700. A potential accomplice may have waited in a car. Cashier J J Goheen 70 pursued by car but the thief vanished. The bandit wore a dark brown suit and brown straw hat and used tape on his chin.
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Mcgregor
Iowa
State Savings Bank
J. J. Goheen
Goheen
Thef
Marie Becker
Kathleen Mills
Special Thursday activities at YMCA during summer
YMCA offers weekly summer events every Thursday with an Olympic Day at 10 a.m. for boys, ten track and field events scored by teams, and a pool swim. Additional activities include a father and son swim at 5 15 p.m., a family swim at 7 p.m., and a high school mixed swim at 8 p.m.
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YMCA
Benson weighs tighter controls on 1958 soil bank
Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson considers stricter limits for farmers in the 1958 soil bank acreage reserve program. A proposed rule would bar adding plantings elsewhere if land is deposited in the reserve. The program pays subsidies for reducing production of cotton, wheat, corn, rice and tobacco, with 28 million acres in reserves in 1957 and nearly 800 million dollars in payments to retiring acreage.
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Washington
Ezra T. Benson
Soil Bank
Benson
Agriculture Department
Showers Move Out Of State Today
Showers moved out of the state leaving cloudy skies and cool temperatures. Rain totals included Kanawha 1.14 inches and Burlington 0.84. Cedar Rapids 0.63, Des Moines 62 degrees, and highs in the low to mid 80s across the region with milder conditions inland.
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Towa
Kanawha
Burlington
Sac City
Gillman
Montezuma
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Mason City
Albia
Osceola
Haverhill
Spencer
Des Moines
Visitor Captain Townsend Detours Through Iowa
Captain Townsend, former suitor of Princess Margaret, traveled across Iowa by his English Land Rover. He stayed one night in Emmetsburg at Hotel Waverly paying $1.50, then continued southeast toward the Canadian border after crossing from Vancouver. Townsend kept his route secret but claimed the vehicle averages 45 mph and spoke of a fried chicken dinner at the hotel described as the best he had ever eaten.
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Emmetsburg
Iowa
Peter Townsend
Princess Margaret of England
Townsend
Canada
Vancouver
British Columbia
Waverly
W. F. Larson
Princess Margaret
Launches At Cape Canaveral Fire Two Large Missiles
Two large missiles were launched from Cape Canaveral within seven hours. The first, likely an Army Redstone, exploded after takeoff due to a mechanical defect. The second, possibly an Atlas or Jupiter IRBM, launched about 1 p.m. and reached 15 000 feet before veering east over the Atlantic, with observers deeming it highly successful.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Guided Missile Test Center
Air Force
Atlantic Ocean
Patrick Air Force Base
Army Redstone
Florida
United Press
Public Health Rushes Prep for Possible Oriental Flu Epidemic
U S Public Health Service speeds preparation amid fears of a new Oriental flu virus. Three outbreaks at Norfolk Virginia Newport Rhode Island and San Diego are not yet multiplying in communities. Officials warn it may take 4 to 6 weeks more observation to gauge risks and possible autumn winter spread.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Asia
Naval Stations
Norfolk
Newport
R.I
San Diego
Calif
Davis
U.S
Uit
Fertilizer Offered for Terrace Corn At Washington
Washington residents joining the avenue of corn promotion for the Iowa Mechanical Corn Picking Contest may obtain fertilizer for terrace corn from John Patterson & Son. The fertilizer is available at Patterson’s shop across from Fareway Store within the next week. Harold Jarvis, contest general chairman, thanked cooperators and noted further event plans are being developed.
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Washington
Iowa
John Patterson & Son
Patterson
Fareway
Harold Jarvis
Boy Seven Killed by Electric Shock in Grant City
Morris Pierce Jr., 7, died after being knocked from a 7 foot gate post by an electric shock in Grant City near his home. Authorities found his body in the front yard and said he touched an overhead conduit after climbing the post. The Sac County coroner Dr. C. E. Lierman said the shock knocked him off but did not electrocute him.
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Grant City
Morris Pierce Jr
C. E. Lierman
Sac County
Post Office Plans To Continue Many Present Services
Washington based report notes the Post Office will keep commemorative stamp sales, flags for veterans funerals, wildlife counts in rural areas, and other extras. Officials say these costs are small and the stamps bring in about 25 million dollars yearly from collectors.
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Washington
Post Office
Post Office Department
Agriculture Department
Becomes Father at 84 Protest Highlights Publicity
Washington reports James M. Pickens of Somerset Maryland welcomed a daughter born last Thursday at a hospital here. The 84 year old father protested publicity saying he is not a celebrity and does not want attention. He previously had a daughter from an earlier marriage and remarried at 81 to his French wife, aged 44.
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Washington
Hensmen
James M. Pickens
Somerset
Pickens
ASC Elections Slated During Next Two Weeks
Iowa farm producers in the ASC price support program will vote in the next two weeks for township committee men to administer the program. Ballots mailed to participants must be returned to county ASC offices by July 8. About 284,000 landowners operators and tenants eligible. turnout expected to exceed last year’s 58,000.
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Des Moines
Iowa
ASC
Max Soeth
Soeth
Weather Outlook for Iowa Through Monday
Partly cloudy through Thursday with scattered showers and thunderstorms along the southern border. Locally cooler except extreme west tonight. Low 48 to 58, high 78 to 86. Friday brings partly cloudy skies with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Five day trend: temperatures about 5 degrees below normal. Normal highs 83 north and 80 south, normals lows 60 north and 63 south. Precipitation ranged from light to moderate, with amounts from two hundredths to a quarter inch possible Sunday and Monday.
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Iowa
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En-Lai
U. S
Clears Loomis
Prentice
SCS
Herb Campbell
Oran Birkey
Lawrence Miksch
Willam Britton
John Broder
Katona
Gladys Vincent
Gertrude Stewart
Don Sieren
Don Kern
Wayne Stransky
Morton Carr
Paul F. Boettcher
Gulf
Bandit
Capt. Townsend
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