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Downstream, Sioux City, Iowa and South Sioux City, Neb. were almost isolated by the floods. With only one road out of town still open and water in the streets rising near the second-story mark, South Sioux City all but gave up the fight. Mayor Wilbur Allen urged the entire population (5,557) to evacuate, keeping only the top floors of the high school open as a refugee center...
...Eisenhower forces had a majority in four district conventions, covering the center section of Iowa (including Des Moines). Result: eight district delegates for Ike. Taft men had control of two districts in the eastern end of the state (including Davenport), and two in the west (including Sioux City). Result: eight delegates for Taft...
...tried & true background for these familiar dramatics is the Custer expedition against the Sioux that ended in the disaster of the Little Big Horn. But, even during the massacre, the film hedges on its six-shooting action and offers only a distant and muddy-colored glimpse. Based on one of Ernest Haycox's cow-country novels, Bugles is nearly as empty of content as surprises. Forrest Tucker rings a few changes on the role of a comedy Irish trooper, arid Director Roy Rowland, by repeated applications of Hollywood oil, almost manages to keep the lumbering plot from creaking...
...Sioux City, Iowa. 4. Greenfield Hill...
Early next morning the President of the U.S. solved her problems. Harry Truman read the news story of what had happened, ordered a wire sent off to Sioux City: "Please advise the family of Sergeant John R. Rice that arrangements for burial in Arlington Cemetery have been authorized. The President feels that the national appreciation of patriotic sacrifice should not be limited by race, color or creed...