Heavy Weather Strikes Wisconsin and South with Floods and Tornadoes
Heavy snows and rains lashed Wisconsin with rivers rising toward new crests as the Wisconsin River flooded Merrill Portage and Wausau. Tornadoes struck near Theodore Alabama and near Mobile area while warnings sparked in Illinois Michigan Indiana. High winds damaged lines in Crawford County Illinois and an Artesian well overflowed in Elkader Iowa.
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Merrill
Portage
Wausau
Pecatonica
Theodore
Ala
Mobile
Midwest
East Central
Illinois
Lower
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Indiana
Chester
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Crawford County
Mount Carmel
Iowa
Elkader
Farmers Seek Damages Over Flooded Iowa River Lands
Iowa City attorney Nolan says farmers along the river south of here will sue the federal government for flood damages despite a reduced discharge from the Coralville reservoir. He plans direct damage suits and a bid to have Congress fund flowage easements or land condemnations to cover future losses.
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EOWA
Lowa
oNeraanEt
C. Nolan
Action Committee
Coralville
E. M. Fry
Rock Island, Ill
U.S. Corps of Engineers
Fry
Washington
The
Corps
Nolan
Here
Corps of Engineers
Congress
Soviets Claim First Try At Anti Aircraft Rocket
Washington reports that the Soviet Union touted a downed U S aircraft by a remarkable anti air craft rocket. US intelligence sees the claim as possibly signaling an improved Soviet missile capability.
Hoffa Launches His Political Machine Rally
Teamsters President James R. Hoffa launched the unions new political action wing before 12 000 members at the International Amphitheater in Chicago. He pledged a formidable fundraising and education effort through Teamsters Volunteers in Politics to elect labor allies and urged against what he called dishonest reform bills and elite politicians.
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Chicago
UPI
Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
Hoffa
Griffith
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
International Amphitheater
Friends of Labor
Congress
TVIP
Union Magazine
Lulu Kyle 84 Dies in Washington County Hospital
Lulu K. Kyle 84 died at 3 25 a m today in Washington County Hospital after a serious illness since February 6 She was born April 16 1876 in Washington County and had lived in Washington since 1914 Funeral services are set for 2 30 p m Tuesday at Jones Funeral Home with Rev Vernon Elgin in charge Burial will be in Elm Grove Cemetery Survivors include two brothers Dr W S Kyle and Walter M Kyle a sister Luella K Patton and numerous nieces and nephews
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Lulu K. Kyle
Washington County
Jones Funeral Home
Vernon Elgin
Elm Grove Cemetery
Miss Kyle
James Harvey
Charlotte Simpson Kyle
Marion Avenue United Presbyterian Church
National Hospital Week Opens with May 8 Start
Washington County Hospital joins nationwide observance May 8 through 14 for National Hospital Week. Administrator Norman E. Jensen notes the theme The Hospital Many Hands and Many Skills highlights unseen staff behind patient recovery. He cites cooks records linen care labs X ray firms supplies and maintenance as essential duties performed by staff patients rarely see. He adds payroll costs dominate hospital expenses and automation cannot replace human care.
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Washington County Hospital
Norman E. Jensen
Personel
Assails Secrecy By Highway Commission
State Senator Jack Schroeder denounced a closed-door Iowa Highway Commission session as undemocratic while discussing three highway relocation projects. The Republican caravan rally in Grundy Center featured William H Nicholas promoting farm and senior citizen issues during the tour's final day.
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Grundy Center
UPI
Iowa Highway Commission
Jack Schroeder
Davenport
Highway Commission
Schroeder
Khrushchev says U S pilot alive will stand trial in Russia
Premier Khrushchev announced that U S civilian pilot Harry Powers captured after a May 1 incursion into the Soviet Union is alive and will face trial for spying. He said Powers confessed to crossing from Turkey to Norway via central Asia and was equipped with death by own action devices but did not use them.
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Harry Francis Powers
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Turkey
Soviet Union
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Supreme Soviet
Parliament
Pakistan
United States
Eisenhower
Washington
Klimenti Voroshilov
Leonid Brezhnev
Communist Party
Tass
Michelan Nedelin
Arta Keeckee
Anse
Enn Khrushchev
Peece
Rs. Khrushchev
Powers
Eisenhower to proceed with planned Russia visit
President Eisenhower still intends to visit Russia in June despite the shooting down of a U S weather plane over Soviet Armenia. Officials say a deeper East West rift at the Paris Big Four summit May 16 could alter plans, but no basic shifts in positions have been made. Khrushchev's sharp anti American remarks add tension as the summit looms.
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Washington
UPI
Eisenhower
Russia
U.S
Soviet
Armenia
Paris
Explosions In Japanese Explosives Dump Injure 241
At Yokosuka the blast hit four warehouses near the naval base leveling eight houses and severely damaging 29 more. A US sailor and nine others were injured as glass shattered across the area. Police suspect a night watchman Yamamoto caused the blast and may have died in the explosion. One officer said he was nearly certain Yamamoto acted by setting off the powder. Green, a naval crewman, sustained a minor leg injury.
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Yokosuka
Japan
UPI
Yasaburo Yamamoto
Yamamoto
L. A. Green
Rising Sun
Ind
Green
Chevalier
First Communion at St James Sunday
Twenty seven children will participate in the reception of the Holy Eucharist at St James Catholic Church service this Sunday at 8 30 am.
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St. James Catholic Church
Pre School Health Roundups Planned In Local District
Plans for preschool health roundups in the Washington Community School District include registrations for five year olds by Oct 15 1960. Birth certificates are required. Roundups run May 16 Lincoln district May 17 Prairie Flower May 18 Stewart with PTA hosts and mothers welcomed. Rural parents may attend any roundup and assignments will follow enrollment.
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Parent-Teachers Associations
Washington Community School District
Lincoln
PTA
Prairie Flower
Prairie Flower School
Stewart School
Rites for Mrs Darrow Sunday at Junction
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary C. Darrow 92 will be held Sunday at 2 p m at Stephens Funeral Home in Columbus Junction with Rev. George C Pennington presiding. Burial will be in Columbus City Cemetery. Mrs Darrow died Thursday in University Hospital Iowa City.
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Columbus Junction
Mary C. Darrow
Stephens Funeral
George C. Pennington
Columbus City
Darrow
University Hospital
Iowa City
Congress Debates Senior Health Plan Amid Budget Strain
Congress considers two major proposals to provide health care for most seniors. Welfare Secretary Flemming outlines the administration plan costing about 1.2 billion annually with federal and state subsidies. The President assails partisan delay as he delivers a substantial speech on policy.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
Eisenhower
Arthurs. Flemming
Flemming
House
Sen
Dick Clark
House-Senate
Royal Newlyweds On Honeymoon Cruise
Queen Elizabeth's daughter Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones depart London aboard the royal yacht Britannia for a five to six week Caribbean honeymoon valued at about 3000 dollars a day. Planes of Coastal Command monitor the 4000 mile voyage while crowds along the Thames bid farewell with confetti and flowers.
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London
UPI
Britannia
Atlantic
Princess Margaret
Antony Armstrong-Jones
High Seas
British Air Force
Peter Dawnay
Caribbean
Thames
Margaret
Dawnay
Armstrong Joneses
Armtrong-Jones
Clarence House
Buckingham Palace
Kensington Palace
Deported Assassin Mornard Freed After Four Months In Mexico
Jacques Mornard, linked to the Trotsky assassination, was released after serving four months in a Mexico City prison. He left for Cuba on a plane with two Czechs holding diplomatic passports, while Mornard used a Czech passport under an alias and planned to publish his life story.
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Havana
Cuba
UPI
Jacques Mornard
Iee
Interior Ministry
Mornard
Jacques M
Trotsky
Eduardo Ceniceros Rios
Mexico City
Federal Penitentiary
Five Day Weather Outlook With Temperatures and Rain
The forecast calls for a warmer start then a cooler end over five days. Temperatures range from highs of 60 to 65 and lows of 38 to 42 with average precipitation light to moderate.
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US Weather Bureau
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Andrea A. Grechko
Moto
Niikta Khrushchev
National Hospital
Nikita
U. S
Mander
Nikta S. Khrush
Chev
Red Court
Central Asia
Sverdlovsk
Central
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Meany
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James C. Hager
Russian
St. James
Mrs. Darrow
Junction
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