Benson Defends GOP Farm Program in Iowa Tour
Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson defends the Eisenhower farm program as sound during a barnstorming tour in Iowa. He cites rising farm population in prior years, low foreclosures, high farm values, and praises the family farm while predicting blessings if re elected. He notes postwar readjustment and aims to aid young farmers despite recent difficulties.
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Spencer
Iowa
Agriculture
Ezra T Benson
Farmers
Suez Talks Move Toward Formal Negotiating Principles
Britain's Selwyn Lloyd France's Christian Pineau and Egypt's Mahmoud Fawzi agreed on guiding principles for future Suez Canal negotiations. The trio met in a secret session to draft the formal agreement and planned to present it at a United Nations Security Council meeting.
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United Nations
N.Y
Britain
France
Egypt
Selwyn Lievd
Christian Pineau
Mahmoud Fawzi
United Nations Security Council
Car hits buggy injuring father and son near Kalona
Clarence Hershberger 43 and his son Robert 14 were taken to Mercy Hospital with injuries after a car collided with a horse drawn buggy one mile west of Kalona on Highway 22. The driver Fred L. Miller 17 escaped injury as the buggy was demolished and both occupants were thrown from the vehicle.
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Clarence Hershberger
Robert 14
Mercy Hospital
Kalona
Hershberger
Sheriff's Office
Fred L. Miller
Route Two
Riverside
Miller
Steers Stolen From Bryn Mawr Farm Near Cotter
Hugh Morris reports six prime red Shorthorn steers stolen from his feed lot between 5 30 and 10 p m Saturday September 29 valued at about 350 dollars each. Two heads were from a carload for Chicago show and four from a Kansas City show. A 1000 dollar reward is offered by Farmers Mutual Insurance for information leading to arrest. Sheriff Robert Lewis to continue the investigation.
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Bryn Mawr Farm
Bryn Mawr
Cotter
Mr. Morris
Colorado
Chicago
Kansas City
Morris
Louisa County
Robert Lewis
Denver
Kefauver Attacks Eisenhower Over Farm Betrayal
Democratic vice presidential candidate Estes Kefauver accused President Eisenhower of betraying the American farmer at a national corn picking contest in Columbus Nebraska. He contrasted Eisenhower’s 1952 parity pledge with current farm policy and questioned political morality.
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Neb
Estes Kefauver
Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
Kefauver
Eisenhower to test TV news conference with citizens group
President Eisenhower will host a 30 minute nationwide televised Q and A from the White House as about 100 Citizens for Eisenhower Nixon members ask questions. Helen Hayes plans to visit the president and is a finance chairwoman. Other speakers include Arthur Larson and Dorothy D Houghton. NBC will carry the event.
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Eisenhower
Citizens For Eisenhower-Nixon
District of Columbia
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Helen Hayes
White House
Miss Hayes
Women's Finance
Citizens For
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American Theater
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Dorothy D. Houghton
National Citizens For
NBC
Kefauver Bids for Iowa Votes During 12 Hour Swing
Sen. Estes Kefauver denounces the Republican farm relief program as an election ploy during a 12 hour 220 mile tour through the Corn Belt. He blames drought relief delays on the administration and links President Eisenhower to Ezra Benson while urging voters to beware of promises not kept. He calls for immediate action and criticizes politically tailored soil bank spending.
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Corn Belt
Agriculture
Ezra T. Benson
Soil Bank
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Eisenhower
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Kasson
Minn
Mr. Eisenhower
Seven Districts Join Mid-Prairie Reorganized District
Twenty three Iowa counties and 23 districts approved a Mid-Prairie reorganized district in a Thursday election. Seven districts voted against joining including Prairie Flower Maple Grove Salem Enterprise No 2 Independent and White Oak. Center district voters supported the plan 10 to 7 but won’t join due to noncontiguity. Board of directors will be elected to govern the new area with the district becoming effective July 1 1957.
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Washington County
Mid - Prairie
Lester B. Krabill
Mid- Prairie
Prairie Flower
Cedar Township
Maple Grove
English River Township
Salem
Jackson Township
Dutch Creek
Enterprise
Independent
White Oak
Center
Dutch Creek Township
Iowa
Mid-Prairie
Soviet discus star Nina Ponomareva held for shoplifting in London
Soviet athlete Nina Ponomareva surfaced from the Soviet embassy and was arrested at a London department store for shoplifting five hats. The 27 year old national champion faced Magistrates Court as her Soviet team mates disputed the provocation claim. The case prompted court action and questions about an upcoming Bolshoi ballet visit.
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London
Nina Ponomareva
Marborough Street
Clyde Wilson
Wilson
Nina
Bolshoi Theatre Ballet
Russia
Vyacheslav Molotov
Surrey
Plan Blosser Services At Wayland on Sunday
Abraham Daniel Blosser 76 died Thursday at his son LaVerne Blosser's farm near Wayland after a two year illness. Funeral 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Sugar Creek Mennonite Church. Rev. Simon Gingerich and Rev. Walter Stump officiating.
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Wayland
Abraham Daniel Blosser
LaVerne Blosser
Sugar Creek
Mr. Blosser
Harrisonburg
Martin
Elizabeth Lehman Blosser
Emma Gerig
Dennis
Tampa
Fla
Perry
South English
Sal
Concord
Tenn
Francis Dowling
Knoxville
Operation Is Fatal To Decorah Boy
Decorah Iowa boys death follows a Mayo Clinic trip for congenital heart disease. Steffen Lansing three underwent surgery in Rochester Minnesota but did not survive. Parents Mr and Mrs Jerry Lansing had learned a thin membrane separated the heart’s ventricles and feared fatal rupture. In three weeks neighbors raised 1200 dollars and about fifty donors pledged blood.
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Decorah
Iowa
Steffen Lansing
Rochester
Minn
Jerry Lansing
Steffen
Mayo Clinic
Pleasant Hill Church Marks 120th Anniversary
Pleasant Hill Christian Church observes its 120th anniversary with morning services and a noon cooperative dinner. Rev. Carlyle Smith of Washington Christian Church will speak at the afternoon service. Frank W. Sutton, pastor for almost four years, resigns after Sunday services.
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Pleasant Hill
New Farm Service Co Names James Fitzpatrick Manager
James Fitzpatrick is named manager of the Farm Service Co in Washington filling the vacancy from Jim Evans resignation. He and his family moved to 411 South Eighth Avenue Washington and bring years of experience in Iowa similar roles. He previously was field man for Howard County Farm Bureau and sales supervisor for Fayette Buchanan Farm Service Co and managed Yoeiery County Farm Service before.
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The
Farm Service Co
Washington
Fitzpatrick
South Eighth Avenue
Iowa
Howard County Farm Bureau
Fayette-Buchanan Farm Service Co
Washington County
Yoeiery County Farm Service
SOS Signals Spark Hope for Missing Air Force Plane
US search planes closed on an area 150 miles north of the Azores as repeated SOS signals from a MATS plane carrying nine crew members raised hope survivors might exist. Air Force officials confirmed distress signals from survival equipment aboard the missing aircraft.
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U.S
Azores
Air Force
Legens
Britain
United States
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MATS
Lakenheath Air Base
England
Married Minors May Buy Beer in Iowa
District Judge Tom K. Murrow ruled that a married person under 21 may buy beer in Iowa. He found Des Moines city ordinances banning under-21 tavern entry invalid for married persons under 21. The ruling did not apply to liquor purchases.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Tom K. Murrow
Murrow
Harry B. Grund
Grund
Belif
J. Jef Pasternak
Iowa Supreme Court
Cleaner H-Bomb Produced by United States Revealed
Atomic Commissioner Willard Libby announced a U S built cleaner H-bomb with reduced fallout. He described the Redwing test program and said efforts yielded a megaton weapon emitting less radioactivity while delivering the same energy.
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Washington
Willard F. Libby
United States
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Libby
U.S
Pacific Proving Ground
John Kerr Mehaffey Dies at 84 in Kalona
Kalona resident John Kerr Mehaffey 84 died at 8 am. Funeral services will be at 2 pm. Sunday at Peterseim Funeral Home Kalona. Burial in Sharon Hill Cemetery. Survived by wife Alice May Beck daughter Myrna Rozelle Mulcahy Taylor four grandchildren nine great grandchildren. preceded by son Howard Wray Mehaffey and nine siblings.
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John Kerr Mehaffey
Peterseim
Sharon Hill
Mehaffey
Samuel
Loretta Mehaffey
Alice May Beck
Myrna Rozelle Mulcahy Taylor
Whittier
Calif
Howard Wray Mehaffey
Plan Greiner Rites At Keota Church Saturday
Rodney Greiner 24 son of Mr and Mrs Richard Greiner of Keota dies in a farm accident. Funeral services set at St Marys Catholic Church Keota for 9 30 a m Saturday with Rev C S Kempker in charge. Rosary to be recited at Powell Funeral Home Keota tonight. Burial in St Marys Cemetery.
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Keota
Rodney Greiner
Richard Greiner
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
C. S. Kempker
Powell
St Mary's Cemetery
Coffman O F of Keota Dies at 72 at Home
Otha Franklin Coffman 72 died at his Keota area home after an illness since August when he suffered a heart attack. He was born August 25 1884 and married Nellie Hartman in 1908. Survivors include wife two daughters son a brother and three sisters. Funeral arrangements are pending at Powell Funeral Home.
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Otha Franklin Coffman
Powell
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Nellie Hartman
Knights of Pythias Lodge
Kathleen Fowler
Sigourney
Robert
Barbara) Derby
Des Moines
Jimmy
Roy
Edmonton
Alberta
Canada
Don Davis
J.A.L. Sehreckengast
A.B. Cupp
Weather Outlook From United Press Iowa
Generally fair conditions with light southerly winds tonight and Saturday. Partly cloudy in the west on Saturday, warmer east tonight, turning cooler in the extreme northwest Saturday. Low tonight 54 to 64, high Saturday 78 to 86. Sunday partly cloudy and cooler with a chance of scattered showers. Five day temps avg slightly below normal with normal highs 62 north 66 south and normal lows 39 north 43 south. Warm start, cooler by Sunday, then colder Tuesday with light showers Sunday and Tuesday.
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