Schwengel cites prestige inflation and debt as national problems
Davenport congressman Fred Schwengel met with Farm Bureau and NRA groups in a Monday visit, urging action on U S prestige, inflation, and farm problems. He criticized the Cuban invasion and Kennedys Khrushchev talks, urged restraint, and urged a balanced budget and item veto to tackle debt.
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Fred Schwengel
U. S
Davenport
Farm Bureau
N.F.O
Court House
Washington
Rotary Club
Schwengel
United States
Khrushchev
Berlin
Firemen Battle Huge Sierra Madre Forest Fire Near LA
About 800 firefighters planned a dawn air land assault on a fast growing brush fire near Mt. Wilson toll road in Sierra Madre California. The blaze has scorched over 650 acres threatening 25 homes. one shack destroyed and several were singed. Two firefighters injured.
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Sierra Madre
Calif Upi
US Forest Service
Los Angeles
Mt. Wilson Toll Road
Tim Hayes Purchases Harwood Insurance Agency
Tim Hayes announced the purchase of the T. W. Harwood Insurance Agency and will run as C M. Hayes Insurance Agency. Harwood retires after 20 years of service. the business will be based at 104 South Iowa Avenue in the rear of Grecian Jewelry.
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Tim Hayes
Harwood Insurance
Cloyee M
Tim) Hayes
T. W. Harwood Insurance Agency
C M. Hayes Insurance Agency
Hayes
Harwood
South
Iowa Avenue
Grecian Jewelry
Washington Community Chest Reaches $17,807.40 Total
Donations and pledges push the Washington Community Chest past six percent toward a $28,150 goal. With reserve funds exhausted, officials urge generous support as solicitors call to reach the year’s target.
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Washington Community Chest
Community Chest
Erbe urges efficiency through departmental cooperation
Governor Norman A. Erbe told the Iowa Bankers Association that breaking departmental independence and expanding a high speed data processing system in the statehouse will cut costs. Merging treasurer and comptroller accounting could save about 80 000 dollars annually, with further savings projected across agriculture, conservation, secretary of state, tax, public safety, public instruction and welfare.
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Des Moines
UPL
Iowa
Norman A. Erbe
Erbe
Iowa Bankers Association
State Board of Control
Statehouse
Agriculture
Conservation Commission
Secretary of State
Tax Commission
Public Safety, Public Instruction
Social Welfare
Soviet Demand Sparks Finland Talks on Defense Alliances
Helsinki reports the Soviet note asking Finland to join talks on defense measures against a possible West German and Allied attack. Scandinavian cabinets debated the request, with officials urging calm and hinting it may be a Berlin crisis move or a warning to avoid Western ties. President Kekkonen and Foreign Minister Karjalainen were out of the country when the note arrived.
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Helsinki
Finland
UPI
West Germany
Foreign Office
Berlin
Soviet Union
Urho Kaleva
Kekkonen
United States
Ahti Karjalainen
Hawaii
Global reaction to Soviet largest nuclear blast shocks world
United Press International reports worldwide anger and fear after the Soviet Union detonated the biggest nuclear device to date. Reactions come from Japan, Canada, Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Austria as governments, officials, and citizens decry the test and warn of fallout risks to health and food safety.
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Soviet Union
Russia
Tokyo
Hayato Ikeda
Japan
John Diefenbaker
Vatican Radio
Netherlands
Sweden
Tage Erlander
Gary Lewis Elected State DECA Officer
Gary Lewis a high school junior and distributive education student was elected state DECA treasurer at the state business meeting in Des Moines. He will attend the national leadership conference in Chicago next April as a delegate of the Iowa DECA Association and will help organize the state leadership conference in March. Local DECA staff member George Chambers and students Tony Mondia and Gary Preby also attended the Des Moines convention.
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DECA
Gary Lewis
Lillian Lewis
Shrum Lewis
Imistributive Education Clubs of America
Des Moines
Lewis
Chicago
Iowa Deca Association
Hy Vee
Tony Mondia
Gary Preby
George Chambers
Cross-Examination Shows Stump Denying Murder Guilty Denial
Ronald M. Stump testified under cross examination that he did research on the man who dated his former lover Jeanna Skultety but denied ever threatening him. He acknowledged checking Daly’s background via a credit report and neighbors, and admitted discussing a past relationship with Skultety while contesting the claim of a gun during a Jan 20 incident.
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Des Moines
UPS
Ronald M. Stump
Stump
Michael Daly
Daly
Sweethear Jeanna Jean Skultety
Miss Skultery
Retail Credit Co
Miss Skultety
Atty Lee Gaudineer
Guadineer
Gaudineer
Fallout From Russian N Test May Reach U S Soon
A government scientist said small amounts of radioactive debris from Russia's 50 megaton nuclear test could reach North America late Wednesday. By next summer strontium-90 levels in the United States may rise to 2 to 2 1/2 times pretest amounts, though still below prudent radiation limits. Weather experts mapped fallout patterns using high altitude winds via the World Meteorological Organization as air currents shift eastward toward North America.
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Khrushchev
Lina Merlin
Crime Against Humanity
Guardian
Manchester
London Daily Sketch
Free World
Paris Jour
North America
United States
Washington
UPI
Russia
Weather Bureau
Red
China
World Meteorological Organization
United Nations
Lester Machin
US Weather Bureau
Arctic
Machta
Khrushchev jokes about Soviet nuclear test size
Premier Nikita Khrushchev said Soviet scientists made a mistake by exploding a bomb larger than the 50 megatons he predicted. He joked he would not punish the scientists as the audience applauded. Western reports noted the blast may have reached 75 megatons, while the U S AEC cited about 3 megatons as initial guidance.
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Moscow
UPS
Nikita Khrushchev
Europe
Japan
Washington
United States Atomic Energy Commission
Russia
The
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Khrushchev
Soviet Communist Party
New York Times Plans Western Edition in Los Angeles
The New York Times will print a Western edition in Los Angeles starting in late 1962. Publisher Orvil Dryfoos said the edition will be printed simultaneously with the New York paper and aimed at Western readers. Andrew Fisher will manage the edition, which will be a six day morning paper with no Sunday issue.
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New York
UPI
New York Times
Los Angeles
Orvil EB. Dryfoos
The
Times
Drifoos
West Coast
New York Times News
Andrew Fisher
Dryfoos
Pressure Grows to Resume Atmospheric Tests After Soviet Blast
Washington reports renewed calls to restart atmospheric testing after Khrushchev’s admission of a larger than expected Soviet explosion. AEC estimated the blast at 500 megatons, while Khrushchev later claimed scientists overestimated its power.
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Washington
Cups
Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
U.S
Titan
Polaris
Henry N. Jackson
Joint Congressional Committee On Atomic Weapons
United States
Mechanicsville Seeks State Help On Stranded Street Project
More than 100 Mechanicsville residents urged state leaders to resolve a stalled paving plan after a Supreme Court ruling allowed the Iowa Appeal Board to reject the project. The 70 block effort, costing about 60 000 in general obligation bonds plus 200 000 in assessments, left streets torn up and resemble plowed fields. A tentative winter remedy meeting was set with officials including Auditor Chet Akers and Treasurer M L Abrahamson.
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Des Moines
UPS
Mechanicsville
State Capitol
Supreme Court
State Appeal Board
Iowa Supreme Court
Appeal Board
Erbe
House
Chet Akers
Oscar Strauss
Akers
Selden
M L. Abrahamson
Iowa Board of Appeal
London Observer records blast similar to Soviet tests
A London observatory reported shock waves this morning akin to Soviet nuclear explosions at Semipalatinsk. The Kew Observatory corrected an earlier claim, noting the disturbance matched Russian tests in timing and region but likely weaker than 15 megatons and possibly Earth tremor evidence from Swedish seismographs.
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London
UPI
A_ London observatory
Kew Observatory
Novaya Zemlya
Khrushchev Re-elected Leader as Soviet Congress Concludes
The 22nd Soviet Communist Congress ends with Nikita Khrushchev reappointed as first secretary and re-elected to the Presidium. The council reshapes its leadership, enlarges the Central Committee, and endorses a new program aiming for high living standards within 20 years.
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Moscow
UPS
Nikita Khrushchev
Russia
Khrushchev
Central Committees
Board of Directors
Central Committee
Two Tear Gas Duels Fought in Berlin
West and East Berlin police clashed twice on the border with tear gas. Communists tossed grenades over the wall at a West Berlin loudspeaker car. Western police answered with tear gas and smoke. No casualties reported. Friedrichstrasse border crossing remained quiet as US and Soviet tanks stood nearby.
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West Berlin
Friedrichstrasse Lorder
Berlin
Weather outlook Iowa fair with variable clouds
The forecast covers Iowa with northwest fair and partly cloudy conditions in the south and east through Wednesday. Warmer readings are expected in the north by Wednesday with overnight lows in the 30s to near 50 in the southeast and daytime highs from the 60s in the northwest to the 50s in the southeast. Thursday outlook calls for partly cloudy skies and little temperature change.
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D. C
Bob Kennedy
Washinon
Journal
Bob Elliott
Peace Corps
Nigeria
United Giving
United Press International
Diefenbaker
Nikita S Khrushchev
Sasaichi Yoshiyama
Nagasaki
Vienna
Institute of Meteorology
Copenhagen
Turku
Rome
America
Bikini
London Observer
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