Fear Students Kidnapped by Reds Reported Amid Chaos
British officials announced a relaxation of the trade embargo with Communist China and allied regimes amid a broader shift in policy. The move, challenged by the United States, would extend limited commerce to North Korea, North Vietnam, Tibet, and Macao, potentially doubling Peiping trade within a year while prompting strong protests from South Korea and allied observers.
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London
British Board of Trade
Britain
North Korea
North Viet Nam
Red China
Selwyn Lloyd
Tibet
Portugese Macao
Liesd
Russia
South Korea
Syngman Rhee
Rhee
Peiping
France
Suez Canal
U.S
United States
Norway
Denmark
House of Commons
China
Paris
Chincom
Committee For China Trade
Japan
NATO
Red
Radio Moscow
Diktat
Memorial Day Toll Falls Short Of Forecasts Across Nation
A United Press survey shows 93 traffic deaths during Memorial Day, below the 120 predicted by the National Safety Council. total deaths including other causes reach 146. Illinois records the most highway fatalities with 11, while two plane crashes and a wheels-off injury in Pa. accompany weather storms across the country.
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United Press
National Safety Council
Safety Council
Ned Dearborn
Illinois
Pennsylvania
California
Minneapolis
Weston
Neb
Jesse W. Meyers
Omaha
Susan Kay
Sherry Lee
Shippenville
West Twisters
Dallas
Tex
Fort Worth
Two Americans Vanish At Austro Hungarian Border
Two American students Myron Gilbert Walter Hair both 20 disappeared while they viewed the fortified border between Austria and Hungary near Burgenland. Australian companion Jane de Pedro said they hoped only to look across into Communist Hungary.
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Vienna
Myron A. Gilbert
Walterboro
S.C
Warren William Hair
North Augusta
Gilbert
Hair
Jane de Pedro
Europe
Miss de Pedro
Burgenland
Hungary
U.S
Budapest
United Press
de Pedro
Iron Curtain
Five Tornadoes Seen Over State During Memorial Day
Memorial Day in Iowa featured five tornadoes from near Council Bluffs to near Ames with no major damage. Highway deaths rose to 348 for the year as several traffic tragedies occurred, including a fatal car truck crash near Garnaville and a boy struck near New Hampton. Two other Iowans died in separate incidents, a swimmer at Springbrook and a tractor overturning on a Moville farm.
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Lowas
Iowa
Garnaville
New Hampton
Jacquelyn Scherf
John Scherf
Elkader
Alfred Boland
Elgin
William Goebel
Jackie
Boland
Scherf
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Billy Goebel
Peter Adams
Ionia
Adams
Little Jackie
Lowans
Richard de Lacy
Clinton
Springbrook Country Club
Leonard W. Kirkpatrick
Moville
Neighbors Help Ed Heck Farm Planting Efforts on Wednesday
Thirteen neighbors gathered at the Ed Heck farm eight and a half miles northeast of Washington to plant 32 acres of beans with three four row planters in about eight hours. Four neighbors assisted with 30 acres of oats while Mrs. Heck served lunch. The group included Leonard Horak Mark Campbell Henry Soucek George Horn Bill Crandall John Jeffreys Joe Martin Ray Niffenegger Bob Kron Clifford Horak Louis Horak Frank Sojka and Steve Wiggers. Fuel for tractors came from Farm Service Co.
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Ed Heck
Washington
Heck
Mr. Heck
Mrs. Heck
Leonard Horak
Mark Campbell
Henry Soucek
George Horn
Bill Crandall
John Jeffreys
Joe Martin
Ray Niffenegger
Bob Kron
Clifford Horak
Louis Horak
Frank Sojka
Steve
Radar Beam Burns Electronics Worker to Death
An electronics technician died after a one minute exposure to a radar beam at 10 feet. Autopsy showed his internal organs cooked by microwave rays. Two others treated for similar injuries and another case reported at Sandia Air Force Base, New Mexico.
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Los Angeles
Sandia Air Force Base
N.M
California Medicine
Bickharts to Show Missionary Pictures at Tabernacle
Rev. Fred and Eva Bickhart who recently returned from South Africa will speak and show pictures of their African mission work at the Christian Tabernacle Sunday at 7 30 p m The public is invited to attend and souvenirs will be available for everyone present.
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Fred
Eva Bickhart
South Africa
Christian Tabernacle
Rev. Bickhart
Methodist Services At New Hour Sunday
Washington Methodist Church moves morning services to an earlier hour starting June 2. Sunday school begins at 9 a m and worship at 10 a m with youth groups at 5 p m during the summer months.
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Washington Methodist Church
Take Over Duties As Christian Education Head at U P Church
Miss Nancy Dietrich has assumed the role of Director of Christian Education at the United Presbyterian Church in Washington. She arrives from Santa Ana California where she led the Christian Education program at First United Presbyterian Church for three years. Dietrich is Iowa born and a Monmouth College alum with a Masters in Christian Education from Pittsburgh Xenia Seminary. In Washington she will direct the full education program including church school youth work and weekday education.
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Nancy Dietrich
United Presbyterian Church
Washington
Dietrich
Santa Ana
Calif
First United Presbyterian Church
Miss Dietrich
Iowa
Monmouth College
Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Washington United Presbyterian Church
New Storms Strike Southwest States
Tornadic winds heavy rains and baseball size hail tore across the Southwest and extended into the central and northern Plains. Fort Worth Amarillo Texas saw over two inches of rain while Wichita Falls Texas suffered extensive damage and towns near Fort Worth Benbrook Ohio Bridgeport Decatur Weatherford reported tornado sightings.
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Plains
Fort Worth
Amarillo
Tex
Wichita Falls
Benbrook
Ohio
Bridgeport
Decatur
Weatherford
Hobbs
N.M
Iowa
Colorado
Windsor
Timnath
mid-Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes Region
Olean
N.Y
Hatteras
N.C
Nursing Homes Here Plan Open House Event
Three Washington nursing homes join statewide open house event Sunday to honor Iowa seniors. Bolar Rest Home at 108 East Second St led by Mrs Dora Bolar. The Pines Nursing Home at 903 East Washington St led by Mrs Ann Trojovsky. Washington Rest Homes at 215 South Ave. C led by Mrs Carrie Sump.
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Washington
Iowa
Bolar Rest Home
Dora Bolar
East Second St
the Pines
Ann Trojovsky
East Washington St
Washington Rest Homes
Carrie Sump
South Ave. C
Historic British rail cars abandoned for tourist trade
International tourists and Americans are targeted as third class British railway coaches and accommodations are abandoned to cut costs and attract visitors. This shift marks a move away from traditional rail tourism toward modernized amenities.
Quad City Groups Oppose Bridge Site Move
Davenport Iowa The Quad City Chambers of Commerce convened to oppose shifting one of three interstate bridge sites from Davenport to Muscatine The plan was proposed by Iowa Highway Commission Chair Robert Beck who favors moving the Rock River junction site and would seek federal approval with Butter noting late chances of success The sites at LeClaire Bettendorf would remain. Etc
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Quad City
Davenport
Iowa
Quad City Chambers of Commerce
Muscatine
Iowa Highway Commission
Robert Beck
Ames
Beck
U.S. Bureau of Roads
Mississippi
Here
Rock
Quad- Cities
LeClaire
Bettendorf
Commission
John Butter
Washington
Voters Approve Bonds for Wellman Building
In a Wednesday special election Wellman voters approved bonds totaling 29500 to build a new city hall and library. 238 votes were cast with 148 in favor and 90 opposed. The measure also allows the city council to supplement the project with additional city funds.
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Wellman
Flooding in Iowa Tied to Heavy Rains Across State
Iowa rivers crested at Marshalltown and Waterloo with minor flood levels as additional rain threatened. The Iowa River peaked at 13.9 feet twice and receded while the Cedar River stayed below flood stage. Rain totals from Thursday ranged from about 0.5 to 2.92 inches in multiple cities, with scattered showers forecast and cooler, drier air moving in.
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Iowa
Marshalltown
Weather Bureau
Des Moines
Iowa River
Iowa 14
Waterloo
Cedar River
Dubuque
Brooklyn
Burlington
Ames
Davenport
Toledo
Grinnell
Jewell
Lamoni
Two Washington Girls Seek Degrees at Coe College
Two Washington women, Beverly Wolfe and Carolyn Holland, will graduate with bachelor of arts degrees at Coe College Cedar Rapids on June 9 1957. Wolfe is active in campus groups including Alpha Xi Delta YWCA student council and honors societies while Holland led YWCA Crescent and student council activities. Guest speakers Dr Andrew C Ivy and Dr Daniel Kerr will receive honorary degrees.
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Washington
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Beverly Wolfe
E. R. Wolfes
Carolyn Holland
L.A. Hollands
Miss Wolfe
Alpha Xi Delta Social Sorority
Associated Women Students
Campus Ywca
Pan-Hellenic Council
International Relations Club
Crescent
Alpha Lambda Delta
Miss Holland
Kappa Delta Social Sorority
Ywca and Crescent Scholastic Honorary
Andrew C. Ivy
University of Ilinois
Daniel Kerr
Huron
S.D
Eight Men Arrested In Des Moines Raid At Mirror Lounge
DES MOINES UP reports eight men were arrested in a raid on the Mirror Lounge bar early today. Owner Nat Fidler faces a charge of operating a disorderly place while seven others are charged with intoxication and resorting to a disorderly place. Six were taken inside the bar. one was found sleeping in a nearby car.
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Des Moines
Nat Fidler
Loveless Signs Bills and Vetos Two Measures
DES MOINES AP Gov. Kerschel Loveless signed two bills into law and vetoed two others. He approved a gas tax reform package and a tax-exemption for checking accounts. He vetoed a spending cap for the State Board of Accountancy and a measure to empower the attorney general to hire assistants. The 1957 Legislature produced 314 laws, four became law without signature and three were vetoed.
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Des Moines
Kerschel C. Loveless
Loveless
State Board of Accountancy
Graham Says Modern Christians Rob God in Tithe Sermon
Billy Graham denounced religious slackness in a Madison Square Garden sermon calling on Christians to return to a 10 percent tithe for God's work. He warned that many ignore God’s demand for tithes and noted the distinction between a tithe and an offering. The New York Crusade drew about 17 500 people with groups from Chicagoland Youth for Christ and 700 visitors from Boston.
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New York
Billy Graham
Graham
Madison Square Garden
Chicagoland Youth For Christ
Boston
New England Fellowship
Monmouth Suspends Governor's Daughter
Monmouth College confirms the suspension of Pat Thomson, daughter of Wisconsin Governor Vernon Thomson, a freshman, for an incident in the infirmary involving cans of beer brought by her visiting boyfriend. The couple were suspended about three to four weeks ago. she may return in September. The boyfriend, a Chicago-area senior, will receive his diploma but cannot participate in graduation. Unnamed sources note a prior trip by Miss Thomson and her sorority to Madison for a visit to the governor’s mansion about six weeks earlier.
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Monmouth, HS
Monmouth College
Wisconsin
Vernon Thomson
Robert W Gibson
Pat Thomson
Gibson
Chicago
Thomson
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Madison
Wis
Khrushchev Reveals Huge Soviet H-Bomb Plan
In Moscow Nikita Khrushchev told visiting Polish reporters that Russia has perfected a very large H bomb deemed too dangerous to test because neighboring countries might suffer. A second account questioned whether he described its size or effects and noted a test was considered but not conducted.
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Moscow
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Communist
Russia
Khrushchev
YMCA announces revised schedule through June 17
Washington's YMCA released a revised activity timetable through June 17, noting the swim school operates June 3–7 with morning and afternoon swim canceled while evening hours stay same. June 8 observes Saturday morning schedule, no junior high swimming in afternoon, regular evening schedule. The pattern repeats June 10–14, returning to normal June 15, with the summer schedule starting June 17.
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Washington
Ymca Today
Weather forecast for northwest to southeast Iowa
Partly cloudy with a few thunderstorms northwest and southeast tonight. Cooler north and west tonight with lows 48 to 53 northwest and 54 to 58 southeast. Saturday partly cloudy and cooler with highs 62 to 72. Fair with highs in the 70s Sunday. Five day outlook through Wednesday shows 5 to 10 degrees below normal temperatures, light precipitation and variable weekend cooling with a normal high around 76 to 79 and lows 53 to 57.
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United Press
Iowa
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