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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1956
Page
2
Frigid temperatures and mixed readings across cities with wind and precipitation notes. Road patrols list speeding fines and violations along with several local obituaries and funeral notices for communities in Iowa and neighboring towns.
Dr. Elisabeth Sutherland head of ISTC home economics department was named president elect of the Iowa Home Economics Association at a Montrose hotel meeting. Dorothy Peterson of Des Moines will be succeeded in April 1957 with Florence Fallgatter as councilor and Dorothea Gienger as treasurer. Scholarships of 500 each were awarded to Lois Ingels Sherrill Roberts and Mary D. Roberts for two years of home economics study in Iowa colleges. The spring meeting opened with a Cedar Rapids Country club dinner and included sessions with noted speakers and panel discussions.
City briefs report Jack Prusek being released from University hospital Iowa City and returning home Sunday. Arthur Stirsky recovering at St Luke's hospital after surgery with possible visitors. Robert Babbitt fined 100 dollars for reckless driving in municipal court after speed on First street SW. Radio station WMT coverage Sunday 10 30 to 11 30. Pauline Murray returns home from Los Altos California after death of brother in law Edwin F Losch. Mrs Losch survived by two sons James P and Richard E Losch.
The Marx Engels Len in Stalin Institute in Moscow announced it will be renamed the Institute of Marxism Leninism. It dropped Stalin’s name because some of his works have been declared partly false.
Three Cedar Rapids men were charged with possession of obscene films and released Saturday as investigators probe circulation of pornographic movies. Terronez and Mingo waived to the grand jury after arraignment. Jones, Terronez, and Mingo released on bond or recognizance. A fourth man questioned but not charged. Detective Captain Kuba said more questions are expected. four reels described as filthy and obscene were found on Terronez.
Bever Park Zoo is open except for the rhesus monkeys. Parks Commissioner Don Gardner reports 20 rhesus monkeys contracted for this year to arrive May 18. Monkeys cannot be placed outdoors yet due to cold weather. Improvements include a sidewalk and railing near the animal cages.
Lumir J. Janko 42 of 133 Fortieth Street NE was fined 300 dollars and costs on a drunk driving charge. Janko pled guilty last Monday but sentencing was delayed. He was arrested by Marion police last January.
Harold Schladetzky of Cedar Rapids pled guilty to attempting to break and enter and was sentenced to a maximum five years at Fort Madison penitentiary by Judge Floyd Philbrick. He had faced forgery charges tied to cashing a stolen payroll check from the Royal laundry break-in on February 7. the forgery count was dismissed.
Joe Cortez of Cedar Rapids was released on a 500 dollar bond after pleading innocent to an assault with intent to inflict great bodily injury charge. He was arraigned in Judge Floyd Philbrick's court for allegedly entering Dawn Price's home and striking her. Price provided details to the county attorney.
Des Moines AP The State Board of Regents will request detailed budget information from institutions under its jurisdiction before acting on budget recommendations to the 1957 legislature. Secretary David Dancer said reports discussed at a two day meeting were incomplete and that campuses will later state their assumptions of need in dollars.
Nebraska Governor Victor Anderson will skip a Washington trip to urge President Eisenhower to sign the farm bill while Midwestern governors including Hoegh Kansas Hall and Foss South Dakota prepare to confer. The group aims to press for signing despite objections. NFO and various Democrats and Republicans urge approval citing farm income gains and regional benefits.
New York police staged an overnight roundup of narcotics users and sellers ending at dawn Saturday with 90 arrests. Seventeen of those arrested were women. One suspected peddler was shot and critically wounded in Brooklyn as he fled. About 150 narcotics squad members and 13 policewomen took part.
Ralph W. Anthony a Bertram road SE well driller and lifelong Cedar Rapids resident died suddenly while driving a truck on Twelfth avenue SE Friday funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday in the Barta Hesser chapel with Capt. Douglas W. Payne of the Salvation Army officiating Burial will be in Prairieburg cemetery Friends may call after 2 p.m. Sunday He is survived by a son Ernest of Cedar Rapids two daughters Mrs Walter Jarvis Mundelein Ill and Mrs Phillip Becker Dubuque four brothers Charles Cedar Rapids Riley Omaha James On Ohio and Fred Chicago and a sister Mrs John Matheney Vinton His wife Bertha Harper Anthony died in April 1955 He was born in Cedar Rapids on July 16 1896.
Word arrives of the death on Tuesday of Margaret Dennis Apfel of Westwood New Jersey daughter of Mrs. George Dennis. She formerly resided in Cedar Rapids.
Louis D Burkhalter Jr was chosen president of the Rotary club. Other new officers include Waldo Wegner as vice president Clyde Lindsley as secretary treasurer and Burns Nugent as sergeant at arms. New directors are Charles Johnson John Donnelly and Everett Pratt.
Grace Kelly prospects of becoming Princess of Monaco are bright but her film ban in Monaco draws attention. Her father John B. Kelly plans to give Grace and Prince Rainier a full movie theater for the palace with projection equipment seats and all. The gift would precede their wedding while Grace’s films remain barred in Monaco though shown nearby in Nice and Riviera resorts.
Van Nest, a longtime Iowa City barber, fired on Mrs. Kenney and others at Kenney's tavern after repeatedly seeking a ride to the same location. The 60 year old owner John Kenney fought back as witnesses and police described a tense scene. Mrs. Kenney was hospitalized after surgery, Van Nest underwent hospital care and remains under guard. County Attorney William Tuckier considers assault charges as investigators continue.
Baltimore and its transit union reached a two and a half year agreement after a 39 day strike and state seizure. The Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employers voted 1248 to 325 to accept a contract including a 20 cent wage increase and an extra paid holiday.
Des Moines reports Rev. John Nolin Iowa director of the Christian Rural Overseas Program says the state group will ship surplus grain for overseas aid. The CROP shipment includes 200000 pounds wheat 1000000 pounds corn and 500000 pounds rice due to arrive in Greece in late April.
Harold F E Walkner, 41, a Mason City junk dealer, was found guilty by a district court jury of buying and selling stolen property. Sentencing is set for May 25. Walkner remains free on a 1500 dollar bond. The indictment stated he bought a car from Jack Harriott, 21, for 60 dollars, knowing it was stolen. Harriott and Jerry Stoltenberg, 19, both Mason City, declined to testify. Harriott faces separate charges of car theft.
The State Printing Board awarded three contracts Friday. Verstegen Printing and Lithographing Company of Sioux City will print 2,000 copies of the Agriculture biennial report for 3,285 with the state supplying paper. Lake Mills Graphic will print 10,000 copies of an Iowa location campaign pamphlet for 288 with paper supplied. Art Press of Ames will print 69,660 highway maps for 750 with paper provided for county engineers.
Two Oakville men were seriously injured when their car rammed the rear of a stalled oil truck on Highway 99 north of Jack Wadell. The truck driven by F J Kienlen of Burlington had trouble engine and placed warning flags. The car’s top was sheared off and stopped in a ditch about 102 feet from impact.
Margaret Truman leaves New York by pink cloud for Independence Missouri where she will wed newspaperman Clifton Daniel on April 21. She jokes about the pink cloud as Daniel, a country boy at heart, declines to kiss her in public after the farewell.
Polk County Coroner Dr. Walter D. Anderson identified the man found in the Des Moines River as 58 year old John Francis Moore of Des Moines. Moore apparently suffered a heart attack and fell into the river.
A Cedar Rapids and Marion Council of Churches meeting will host a panel on Strengthening Our Christian Witness Through Council Work at 5:30 PM at St. Mark's Lutheran. Rev. Richard Engstrom chairs. panelists include Rev. James M. Webb, Rev. Gene Hayter, Russell Knapp, and Mrs. Pierre Tracy. Refreshments follow.
Philip Ilten of Trinity Congregation leads as president and student director of the Concordia College male chorus of Milwaukee which will furnish music for both services Sunday at Trinity Lutheran Church Cedar Rapids. Director Harold E. Albers conducts the chorus on a tour of Iowa Illinois and Wisconsin with Ilten performing solo numbers.
New York AP reports Victor Riesel, labor columnist, has worsening eye injuries from the acid attack outside a Broadway restaurant. Doctors treat him at intervals as he remained at St. Clare’s Hospital after the April 5 assault following his radio denouncement of gangsters in labor unions.
The Air Lines Pilots Association postponed a scheduled strike against Ozark Air Lines at the request of the National Mediation Board. The strike had been set for 11 59 p m CST Monday in Chicago.
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