Marion Sentinel (Newspaper) - August 5, 1954, Marion, Iowa Current Comment By Verne A vicious Cali fornia killer and condemned to die for his multiple be comes a national In the death cell he wrote the story of his It became a best current taste in literature having reached son of onetime City Com missioner Martin Were it possible to compile a record of the outstanding careers carved by many of the both meir and of old Wash ington when it was headed by the into the Emotional appeals late great Principal Abbie Ab effect repeated postponement of the book would be of genuine this fiends historical value The At Los we are influence of such an scientists who labor to devise educator never Her kind is atomic and bombs and sorely needed weapons are taking their work with the utmost They j Attorney General Brownell n v e preparing survival k i t s I wants congressional authority to i which will help them and their offer rewards of up to families to live off the land if j for information about the smug the other fellows bombs gling into or out of this country on Los Three wars I of atomic materials and weapons for security have made an or of specifications for trich of Uncle j ture of the Talk about lock It isnt Rome burning as Nero ing the barn door after the fiddles its the communists in ting our destruction as United States Senators wrangle endlessly over the methods of a colleague applauded by millions of wholesome has offend ed the sensitivities who tried of the same to save the and thought Alger Hiss was just a misguided school Teenaged boys and girls in Des Moines hold wild and poker playing The losing gamblers consider their losses debts of drive to Missouri in their parents steal liquor from retail bottle by drive sell the to pay those Is it juvenile or adult delinquency that explains such a picture SO SURELY as the sun rises today these United States of wrote Andrew Carnegie for the issue of the North American so sure ly will the sun rise one day upon these reUnited States of the The old Scotchman was pretty shrewd but its doubtful he fore saw todays Union as cemented only with Ameri can the while Eden and Dulles go their separate ways in dodging a mutual enemy the Kremlins WHERE HAS President Virgil Handier of the University of Iowa been these last twenty years that is Addressing the CIO state convention in Cedar Hancher voiced of the if not the tyran which the men on the hill Congress exercise over the ex departments of the federal The record of that the trend for years has been toward executive usurpation of legislative Roose velt gave it great Tru mans attempts to dominate eres were less successful but no less circle advisers at times actually have shown contempt for Con HANCHER thinks there must be determination of a bal ance between the peoples right to a voice in their governments policies and their right to render decisions on which lack the the knowledge or the competence to What does he Does he believe either of these rights should be restricted Many possessing the competence and required for preser vation of this Republic are ed by obvious voter indifference to governmental policies that have led this country into the multiple crises of But they do not deny the voters right to be in We still have our of Would Iowas 1 educa tor abandon it It must be 18 or 20 possibly since crews of crooked salesmen were chased out of Cedar Rapids by revelatory newspaper They used filthy deceptions exactly similar to those overlooked by the FHA Un til a congressional committee ex posed the Only the crooks condemned the com to No more fitting birthday party ever has honored a more deserving honor guest than that arranged for Herbert Hoover in Cedar West Iowa City and Ma next Tuesday and Wed The nonpolitical men and women who have planned the event horse is stolen TO QUOTE the late Will all you know is what you read in the you long since got the idea that the Western pow are trying to con vince West Germany of their friendly hope that it soon will be come a strong ally against the Day after day we read of allied eagerness for West increased It is confusing now to read that West under pressure of her former must continue to pay in monthly oc The Adenauer gov had sought a Thrifty Germans must writhe in pain as they observe the reckless of the occupying ours lore a A YOUNG PUBLICATION j i Linn Countys Own Newspaper VOLUME August 1954 THK MARION MARIA is shown unpacking Monday at the home of and Lloyd Fund for Victims Ii Of Recent Crash Reaches The Sentinels for the vic toms of the recent accident in Marion boys took nn up ward wock with several sizable donations coining Tlie balance sheet Previous balance A friend A friend Vernon Eleanor Hunting A friend A friend Cleveland Franklin Jake Sollberger Robert Hess family and Luse visited last week in Michigan and Indi City Chamber Asks Relocation of 94 Henry representing the Chamber of Commerces traffic appeared before the city council Monday night and asked the group to relocate high way Katz the highway be rerouted along Seventh to the road just west of the new REA building and then south along that road to the intersection with present The reasons given for the pro posed change are that the high is located on a narrow avenue with narrow turns in a congested The council decided to write the state highway commission a letter embodying the reasons for the change as well as the recom of the Chamber of Commerce J Attorney White appeared in behalf of Ruby and asked the council to give Powles clear title to a run ning through her The street is running j Architect Planning To Build Modern Home in Marion A Cedar Rapids architect is plan ning to build a new home in Mar according to the list of build ing permits at the city Edmund Whiting is planning to build his home at 3300 Adell for an estimated cost of The house is to be of modern de according to plans filed with the city The First Presbyterian church of It has never been Powles is asking for the clear title in order that she might cell a piece of land to the Marion school system for a site of a new The council received recommen dation from the civil service com mision concerning the fire depart ment The commission report stated that acting fire and James Reyn olds both passed their pro motional examinations that had passed his firemans the two men Katz also presented a petition had applied for the jobs of fire signed by several residents of both r chief nnd assistant fire The Seventh and Fifth avenues fa voi ing the Budget Hearing To have done a job One of highest church dignitaries just has been sentenced to 11 years in prison foi opposing the policies of Marshal Tito the communist dictator with whom we are playing footsies in the fat headed hope that he may some day help us against his pals in the k r e m H He recently renewed diplomatic with The Justice department and th immigration service plans for a strenuous drive to re turn Mexican wetbacks to the own from which they 11 legally sneaked into Mon than have been sent home in the last two s fine Now how about the millions of il legal entrants from European countries Now that the Cedar Rapid council and the railroads are about apart in their guess es as to the cost of repairing the B Avenue lets hope the jo mav get going before snow flies The bids for adequate will determine who guessed wrong IN NEWS ITEMS that Paul formerly of Cedar has been appointed to the Federal Reserve succeeding Rudolph an Interesting coincidence w completely Evans is a former Cedar graduate of Washington Only The city Marion will have to raise about more by taxa tion in 1955 than in according to the budget estimate filed by the The amount to be raised by tax tion for 1955 is estimated at Last year the estimate as The increase in taxable valuation f property in Marion will in all offset increase in otal The city estimates that it will ake about to run the gov in This is a slight over the estimate for 1954 f The city estimates that it will about income ther than and that they rill have an unencumbered bal nce of on The amounts the city is asking or the various departments and unds includes public muni recrea debt street road use ax liquor and agricultural The hearing on the budget will be held 12 at 7 in the city council took no action on the The council approved the plat and dedication of auditors plat 333 by and also deeded the lot 10 of the plat for a continuation of Seventeenth The council decided to receive bids for the proposed 12 blocks of concrete paving atthe meeting Aug Dale Herrens appeared before the council and asked to be allowed to install a private sewer on his property on Second avenue be tween Eighth and Ninth He told the council that he would assume all for the It is to be done under the supervision of the city A complaint was received from the Milwaukee railroad concern improper parking the The railroad said that peo pio park so as to block tiva drive way and causing the mail trucks to be unable to The council tinned the matter over to Police Chief Leighton cigarette permit was granted tc the new owner of the White way Hamill Property Owners Miist Cut Weeds j 4 All property owners must cut weeds on their in Neva Ful ler city announced Wed If land owner dont com the city or county will the weeds and charge costs against the the announcement for their new addi Building permits for six other new homes were also issued at the city They include William building at 1450 English at an estimated cost of building at 1600 Henderson drive at an esti mated cost of building at 1590 Henderson drive at an estimated costof Phil building at 1460 English at an estimated cost of John building a new home on a basement at 369 Fifth at an estimated cost of building at 880 Thirtieth at an estimated cost of Other permits issued include Raymond 241 Ninth Total to date 5 People Charged With Intoxication Week Five intoxication cases high lighted the court of acting Mayor Kisinger during the past The charges were filed against Cecil 3 who was finer Gerald Cedar given a choice of a fine or seven days in He was sentenced to seven Clifford re a sentence of 15 days in the county Richard Wick fine and Robert a The only other cases to appear in court were two for speeding vi Norris Cedar was fined and Ruth Cedar was fined SELL CAFE Cora Terrill and daughter Miss Pluma Terrill have sold their cafe known as Whiteway to Ham mil who took posses sion August The had operated the cafe foi than Richard Eleventh garage and Linn Coop Oil partition off Mildred 649 West Eighth add to George 1476 Tenth remodel and new Commerce Commission Allows Milwaukee to Stop COUNTY FAIR TIME HAS come and but the memory will linger for some in the minds of the many 4H youngsters who had in the many classes and shows at the But having and being at the fair is not all Here a group of youngsters sit on a foof locker and enjoy a cold drink in one of the From the left they are Joanne Nancy and Lee The two girls belong to the Hillsdale Hoosier 4H club and Singleton belongs to the Prarie Union 11 is the date srat by the Iowa state commerce commission for the discontinuation of daily train service between Cedar Rap ids and The allow the Mil waukee railroad to discontinue op was made by the commis sion at hearing at the Jones county court house in Anamosa on July The officially known as 23 and and unofficially called the have been op at a net loss to the Mil waukee railroad for several net loss to the company from May 1953 to April in was Had not the mail been hauled during this period the loss would have been for the same All revenue for the excluding were and expenses for the same period totaled The trains have been carrying an average of passengers per one way trip which brought a revenue of per The net loss pet one way trip to to the There will be freight service from Marion to Calmar on Wed and Fridays and from Cal mar to Marion on Thursdays and The company said there are sev eral busses daily serving most of the The trains stopped at 23 inter mediate stations during the Most of the objectors were from Anamosa and except one each from Cedar Rap Hopkinton and and also several railroad service or The objectors in the most represented by Warren Anamosa attorn None of the people present of objections to the discon of the passenger Substantially all of the written ob filed before the hearing expressed interest in the express service offered by the two The railroad indicated the ex press shipments would be handled on the freight advent of the highway post offices caused the curtailment of the mail contract which had been the main source of the LAST SUNDAY MARIONS foreign exchange Maria Landgraf of arrived in She Cedar Rapids by bus where she was met by and Lloyd Holmes and their Sue and and a large delegation from the Marion Kiwanis club who are her spo during her This picture shows the large group that met is eighth from the Former Resident Injured in Crash A former Marion Ed ward Central was one of two people injured when his car collided with another on a country onequarter mile east of the Jordan Grove church Mon The other injured person was Lumir also of Cen tral Ferreter was taken to a Cedar Rapids hospital Monday and re leased the same He reenter ed the hospital Monday evening for further treatment and was finally released Wyman was released after treatment for her Ferreter sufferd head cuts and Wyman pos sible chest The accident was caused by lack of visibility on the High weeds grew along each side of the road cutting down The accident occured on a bend in the narrow Old Settlers Day Set for 26 Officers of the Linn County Old Settlers association met Monday livening with the Lindahl of in Marion to make plans for the 64th annual Old Settlers The group set August 26 as the date and it will be held in the Marion City Lagerquist was named pro gram Harry Toms Died Wednesday In Marion passed away at Wednesday at the home of her Willis 999 Seventeenth following a long was born Calista the daughter of and La vona Jordan on October 1871 at Central She was graduated from the Central City schools md attended Grinnell col She taught school at Central City until her marriage on 1895 to They made their first home in Marion where ic was employed as a Messenger for the Express They moved to Cedar Rapids in 1934 from Chir cago and resided a 123 Sixteenth until they came to live with Sheets in Toms was a member of the First Congregational church of Ce dar Surviving in addition to Toms are two children Mrs Willis Lavona Sheets of Mar ion and Wayne Toms of Cedar Rapids two grandchildren Dale W Toms of Ohio and Winton Cedar and five great Also ing are a Lester Hatch of Cedar Rapids and two sisters Grasshoppers Becoming Serious In Linn County Grasshopper infestations a r c quickly becoming very to Linn county farmers in recent Two or three hundred 1urmorn in this county alone have spraying operations to get rid of the The grasshoppers first hit the grass and then move on to beans and The infestations were first no in but are now reported as far north Waterloo and Cedar The reason for the unusually heavy crop of the insects is last dry fall and mild The hoppers were able to lay their eggs and the mild weather did not kill them costs the farmer from 00 to 80 cents an Miss Irene Nelson Two 4Hers Given Sears Scholarships Irene Nelson and Kenneth Jor both of Marion are at the State 4H camp in county this week attending the annual leadership training conference for Iowa rural young This 0day conducted by the Iowa agricultural extension began Sunday and is being attended by delegates from most Iowa Miss Nelson is representing Junior Bureau anil Jordan the 111 of Linn county as delegates rum this Miss daughter of and Vernon Nelson R 3 aid has been active in Junior Farm for three years and last year served as of and James is a member of Squaw eek has been in 4H work for 11 years and was county boys president in Both of these Linn county campers have een awarded Sears foundation and Ellen Brookman of Min Memorial services will be con ducted at 2 Friday at the Murdoch Funeral Home by the Richard Wagner of Cedar Interment will be in the Memorial Park Belle Crane of Central City Friends may call at the Each days program guides the campers through activities of sor ious sports and All are fitted to gether in the program to give the rural young people an opportunity to develop talents for leader ship in groups and gain prac tice in leadership Springville To Hold Budget Hearing August 10 The Springville town council will hold a hearing for their pro posed budget for 1955 on 10 at The budget calls for to be raised by taxation and to be raised by other The council expects to have in an balance on The town of Springville expects to spend during 19 according to the budget esti The amounts for the various de and funds called for in the budget include public municipal rec debt road use tax and liquor
