Aiken predicts Democrats unlikely to push farm price reforms
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman George D. Aiken says Democrats in the new Congress may discuss restoring rigid 90 percent parity supports but expect no serious changes to the flexible price support program enacted last summer. He notes Republicans risked little by their stance and cites leaders like Harold D. Cooley and Lyndon B. Johnson backing efforts to revert to high supports.
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Washington
George D. Aiken
Senate Agriculture Committee
Congress
Vermont
Allen J. Ellender
D-La
Aiken
Harold D. Cooley
House Agriculture Committee
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Tex
Martin credits Ike campaign with saving Republicans
House Speaker Joseph Martin says President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon boosted GOP turnout, preventing a worse defeat. Johnson reacts to GOP criticism, urging civility as the election ends. Martin predicts Eisenhower will run again in 1956, stating the President will answer duty’s call.
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Washington
House
Joseph W. Martin Jr
Eisenhower
Massachusetts
Richard M. Nixon
Martin
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson
Nixon
Texas
Democratic Congress
Rites Monday for Mrs Ola Jacobs
Mrs Ola Jacobs 86 died at 3 10 a m in the home of her daughter Mrs H R Sitler 221 North Iowa avenue Funeral services set for 2 p m Monday at Shermans funeral home
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Ola Jacobs
H. R. Sitler
Iowa Avenue
Sherman
Cow’s milk drop prompts Oklahoma veterinary alert
In Fairview Oklahoma veterinarians report a healthy cow began yielding less milk triggering investigation. Experts say stress heat or nutrition may be factors while urging farmers to monitor herd productivity and consult local extension agents for herd health checks.
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Fairview
Okla
Farm Home of Leonard Marie Destroyed in Fire
A seven room farm house north of Washington occupied by the Leonard Marie family burned to the ground Friday afternoon. Firemen could not stop the flames, heat from an overheated stove is suspected. Mr. Marie was in a nearby field when the fire started and advised he had no insurance. The Wolfe family of Washington owned the house and insurance covered the structure. Fire alarm was set at about 3 p.m.
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Leonard Marie
Washington
Farmers Mutual
Marie
Leo and
Vera Wolfe
Suspects Held in Washington Station Robberies
Two Washington break ins reported last night at Washington Oil Co and Dale's service station. A waffle iron reportedly missing from the first. about $29.50 taken from the second. Muscatine police held three Burlington suspects Harley Huse man Robb Young and Charlotte McCleasky on suspicions.
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Washington
Washington Oil Co
Ray Stalder
Dale
East Washington
Muscatine
Harley Huseman
Robb Young
Charlotte McCleasky
Burlington
Woman's iron excess due to swallowed baling wire
Examination shows the patient Bessie suffered iron overload after swallowing a piece of baling wire about four inches long. Medical staff treat the complication as an unusual ingestion case and monitor her recovery.
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Bessie
Rate Your Town Meeting Planned At Lincoln School
Final plans for the Rate Your Town meeting at Lincoln school Monday evening were announced by Mrs. Robert Day chairing the planning committee. R. E. Shannon will moderate the panel with Mrs. Weldin Day Vet ter Kehoe on the panel. Public invited.
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Lincoln School
Robert Day
R. E. Shannon
Phil Weldin
Day
Keith Vetter
L. J. Kehoe
Tom Carson
Mae Davis
Roger Sherman
Mary Gale Letts
Washington
Two Children Burned In Oil Stove Blast
In Iowa City two Floyd children were among six people hurt when an oil stove exploded in a Thursday night fire at Mrs. Harold Pints’s home. Janice Pints seven and Billy ten were in critical condition. siblings Michael six and Tony five along with uncle Emmet Ballhagen five were seriously hurt.
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Iowa City
Floyd
Janice Pints
Billy
Harold Pints
Joe Wagenknecht Stricken By Poliomyelitis In North Xenia
After a week of illness thought to be a cold Joe Wagenknecht son of Mr and Mrs Herman Wagenknecht was diagnosed with polio One leg is affected and he must remain in bed and quiet under medical care.
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North Xenia
Joe Wagenknecht
Herman Wagenknecht
Proclamation Declares November 7-13 1954 American Education Week
Mayor W. H. Smart proclaims American Education Week in Washington from November 7 to 13 1954. Public school visitations are planned with programs at two elementary schools Tuesday night at the high school Thursday evening and at the junior high next week. The proclamation emphasizes citizenship education amid the global struggle between democracy and totalitarianism and urges citizens to support teachers and schools in promoting the American way of life government of the people by the people for the people.
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W. H. Smart
Washington
Washington Teachers Association
National Education Association
American Legion
United States Office of Education
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
Bill Smart
French jail 13 leaders of Arab outlaws in Algiers
French authorities jailed 13 leaders of a fanatical Arab group in Algiers after a violent revolt that left at least 10 dead. Foreign Legionnaires helped round up organizers in Oran while troops hunted a 1,250 strong uprising in eastern Algeria. About 175 suspects were also detained for ties to the terrorists who call themselves The Army of God.
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Algiers
Algeria
Turgot
Oran
Oth Cials
Army of God
France Will Not Reopen Saar Talks With West Germany
Paris announced France will not send a diplomat to Bonn to restart negotiations on the Saar pact with West Germany. French spokesman said certain points of the London and Paris Saar accords remain unfinished and Adenauer’s coalition faced internal revolt over rearming Germany.
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Paris
France
Saar
Bonn
Konrad Adenauer
Pierre Mendes-France
Jean-Marie Soutou
Adenauer
London
West Germany
Free Democrats
Refugees
Germany
Davies Seeks Public Record On Firing Over Russia Showdown
The State Department refused to publish the Davies case file after John Paton Davies Jr. was dismissed by Secretary Dulles for lack of judgment and reliability. Davies urged a preventive showdown with the Soviet Union in 1950, a notion Eisenhower opposed, while a security board found his continued employment not clearly consistent with national security. Davies, 46, faces no pension but may recover contributed funds. he had eight prior loyalty investigations and was cleared each time. General Walter Bedell Smith praised Davies as a capable officer during his Moscow posting.
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Washington
State Department
John Paton Davies Jr
United States
Russia
Davies
John Foster Dulles
Department
Soviet Union
Eisenhower
Foreign Service
Joseph R. McCarthy
R-Wis
Dulles
Dulies
Walter Bedell Smith
Moscow
Wife of diplomat arrives in London after Russia exit
Mrs. Betty Jane Sommerlatte and her husband Karl, once stationed at Moscow, landed in London as they head home under U.S. orders to stay silent about her Moscow arrest. The embassy said she must not comment on the Red police incident while reuniting with their son Robert in Switzerland.
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London
Betty Jane Sommerlatte
Russia
United States
Moscow
Washington
Scandinavian Airlines
Stockholm
Sweden
Sommerlatte
Karl
U.S
Robert
Switzerland
Washington Stores to Close on Veterans Day
Washington merchants voted by mail to close most stores on Veterans Day November 11. Chamber of Commerce board members, in their weekly meeting, approved closing in line with poll results.
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Chamber of Commerce Board
Washington
Cadillac Presented To Coach Evashevski
In Iowa City Forest Evashevski received the first 1955 Cadillac from state supporters at a pep rally for the Iowa Purdue homecoming. The car, funded by Iowa contributors, was praised as a show of backing for his teams. Evashevski joked about his wealthy father-in-law and deflated talk of coaching while Brechler faced political controversy over campaign funds.
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Iowa City
Forest Evashevski
Evashevski
Iowa
Evy
Paul W. Brechler
Brechler
Republican Party
Democrats Demand Recount in New Jersey Senate Race
Democratic leaders plan to seek recounts in at least four counties and possibly 19 after urging court action to impound ballot boxes and voting machines. Hudson and Essex are excluded as Republicans already requested similar measures. Case leads Howell by 3,157 with 860,813 to 857,656 in unofficial totals. Officials will meet Monday to certify results.
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Trenton
N. J
New Jersey
Clifford P. Case
Hudson
Essex
Election Board
Case
Howell
Keokuk Father Jailed For Striking Girl
Roy Frame, 31, Keokuk, was sentenced to six months in county jail after pleading guilty to striking his 6 month old daughter Theresa who suffered a skull fracture. Frame claimed he struck the infant after being awakened by her crying when she refused a bottle of milk. He had earlier pleaded innocent to assault with intent but changed his plea before District Judge G L Norman.
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Keokuk
Roy Frame
Theresa
Frame
E. C. Albert
G.L. Norman
Debate on formal resolution to censure Sen. McCarthy
The Senate opens debate on a formal censure resolution backed by a committee report targeting Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. The six member panel led by Arthur V. Watkins heard 13 witnesses in late summer hearings before the chamber planned a post-election vote.
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Washington
Senate
Joseph R. McCarthy
Wisconsin
McCarthy
Ralph E. Flanders
RVI
Army-McCarthy
Flanders
MccCarthy
Wisconsin Republican
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Wayne Morse
Ind-ore
William F. Knowland
Richard M. Nixon
Arthur V. Watkins
Utah
Francis Case
Frank Carlson
Kans
Edwin C. Johnson
D-Cole), John C. Stennis (D-Miss) and Sam J. Ervin Jr
Watkins
Ralph W. Wicker
Walter Winchell
Knowland
Mt. Pleasant Driver Appeals Conviction
Milton Becker of Mount Pleasant appeals a reckless driving conviction tied to a three car crash nine miles south of town on September 12 that killed four people including Irma Youel and Blanche McBroom. Becker was fined $100 and a hearing for the appeal is set for later this month.
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Mount Pleasant
Iowa
Milton Becker
Justice of the Peace
Rudolph Eckey
Becker
Here
Irma Youel
Fort Madison
Blanche McBroom
Weather Summary From UNITED PREGE IOWA
Generally fair Sunday with partial cloudiness and mild tonight. Overnight temperatures 30 to 38. Sunday high near 60. Continued fair and mild Sunday night into Monday.
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United Prege
Iowa
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