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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1955
Page
4
Saturday forecast shows mild conditions across major cities with fair skies. Normal April precipitation tracked at 0.59 inches year to date 3.15 inches. wind at 6:30 p.m. from NNW at 12 knots. Nearby notices list multiple obituaries and funeral services across Calmar South English Mechanicsville and Martelle with dates and burial locations.
The third annual Cedar Rapids Home Show near Hawkeye Downs wraps up today at the Farm Youth Center with 2 to 10:30 p.m. doors and a 4 p.m. matinee. Attendance to date reaches 23,400 over five days. last year totaled 27,000. Kay Stiles, representing Venetian Blind Service, won Saturday’s Queen of Queens contest and advances to tonight’s 8:30 final for a $100 savings bond.
A Cedar Rapids family lost nearly all their clothing when a Saturday noon fire gutted the kitchen of Donald S. Smith’s home at 1915 Hamilton Street SW. Firemen said glue used for a new countertop, ignited by a pilot light, caused a flash fire. the family was unhurt. Neighbors immediately organized clothing donations and some children were taken downtown for new outfits.
Cleveland reports the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers called off a strike against the New York Central east of Buffalo after government intervention. The union said the federal action arrived too late to stop members from potentially walking out as originally ordered, sending telegrams to observe the status quo and avoid action.
Eleven editors of student and youth papers refuse visits to the United States citing fingerprinting and visa form requirements. The State Department authorized Moscow visas March 19 1955 but plans to show American restrictions and closing educational tours are canceled. Soviet officials may use the incident to portray U S travel barriers.
Iowa plumbing contractors approved a nationwide public relations program planned by the National Association of Plumbing Contractors. The plan promotes newspaper radio and television advertising and sponsorship nationwide, stressing the emblem We Sell Install Service Guarantee. The Iowa association voted 46 to 1 at its sixty-sixth annual convention in Des Moines. Directors named include Carl Prey Fort Dodge Cletus Marsh Sioux City Jack Zook Waterloo and R P Matthews Cedar Rapids with state officers G H McGee Des Moines president W C Robinson Des Moines vice president Don Roden Council Bluffs treasurer and Lawrence Foley Davenport secretary. Three scholarship students Sven Jorgensen Round Lake Illinois James Eibel Gary Indiana and Charles Blunt Canfield Ohio were introduced. Des Moines was chosen as the 1956 convention site.
Mrs Winona R Avery 60 of East Pleasant Plain died en route to a hospital after a two car head on collision at Iowa 1 and 78 a mile west of Brighton. Her husband William Henry Avery was in very poor condition at an Iowa City hospital.
Three Cedar Rapids men were booked at the Cedar Rapids police station Saturday night on charges of drunkenness and disturbing the peace. Charles R. Novak 28 Henry J. Davis 47 and Donald L. Ackerman 46 were in a free-for-all fight in the 600 block of Twelfth avenue SE. Ackerman suffered a broken collarbone and was taken to the station after refusing a physician's advice to remain in the hospital.
Patricia Reading, 11, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Reading, was badly bitten and chewed on by a raccoon at Bever Park zoo after reaching into a cage to retrieve a medal. She received treatment at Mercy hospital and was released.
A 60-year-old Cedar Rapids man, Charles T. Biggs, was booked on a drunken driving charge after his vehicle collided with the Sixteenth avenue bridge railing. Witnesses described high speed on Fourteenth avenue SE, with the car swerving across the bridge and into the railing before stopping at Fourteenth and C streets SW. A passenger in the car was booked on a drunkenness charge.
Senator Mike Mansfield proposes revising the United Nations charter to strip the veto from any Security Council member that commits aggression. The Senate subcommittee on U N charter revision will hear testimony from Truman Hoover and Mrs. Roosevelt. Mansfield favors limiting veto use but not its complete elimination.
Former President remarks on U S policy in China and the strain it has caused with allies in Asia and Europe. He cites an agonizing reappraisal of foreign policy and suggests that reversals to sound Democratic policies are inevitable.
Washington mournful night as Sam Rayburn, aged 73, known as Mister Democrat, is hailed by over 3,000 cheering Democrats at a $100-a-plate tribute dinner in a large armory. Adlai Stevenson, Harry Truman, Eleanor Roosevelt and others receive applause while Rayburn, long speaker and 42-year veteran of the house, fans tears at the table.
Cedar Rapids area notice of the death in Macon Georgia of Mrs Lewis H Mounts former Cedar Rapids resident wife of Congregational minister and former Ballard Normal school teacher She and her husband taught at Ballard Normal and later at a Negro Baptist college in Macon They are survived by a daughter and a sister Graveside services set for Thursday at Oak Hill cemetery with arrangements at Beatty Bearle funeral home Cedar Rapids
Miss Anna J Menary 2925 J Street SW Cedar Rapids died at Cedar Rapids hospital at 6 05 p m Saturday after a long illness She was a Cedar Rapids resident and member of Westminster Presbyterian church Cedar Chapter 184 Order of the Eastern Star and charter member of Gethsemane White Shrine No 1 Surviving are sister Mrs Mary Minor and three brothers Sam Tom and Robert Menary all of Cedar Rapids who shared her home Funeral services will be held at Turner chapel at a time to be announced Friends may call after 6 p m Sunday
Bernard J Mc Laughlin of 717 Fifteenth Street SE died Saturday. Funeral Mass will be at 9 a.m. Tuesday at Immaculate Conception Church by Rt Rev Msgr William H Schulte with burial at Mt Calvary Cemetery. Parish Rosary to be recited Monday at 7 30 p.m. in Brady Mortuary. friends may call.
Funeral services for George M Stritesky of 1521 Third Street SW will be held Tuesday at 9 a.m. in St Ludmila's Church with Rt Rev Msgr Frank R Hruby presiding. Burial at St John's Cemetery. Rosary at 7 p.m. Monday at Brush Chapel. Friends may call.
Des Moines Sunday Register reports a state study found the 1951 truck reciprocity law costly. Charles Pitchforth told a House roads subcommittee the law reduced compensation tax revenue while license fees rose for in state and some out-of state firms. Senate moved to repeal the compensation tax and impose $5 annual tax on out of state trucks with a $25 filing fee.
A two month old Cedar Rapids infant Garrett Dean Wilson died on arrival at a Cedar Rapids hospital Saturday. Coroner Robert Brosh said no autopsy would be ordered as the child had been ill and hospitalized prior to the convulsions that led to death. The baby was the son of Lavista Wilson, 1021 Fourteenth Avenue SW.
Grace Leah Hoskins Brousard a Cedar Rapids widow of Louis Brousard longtime resident died Friday after a long illness Her services will be at 1 p m Monday in Beatty Bearle chapel with Rev Ralph B Colton of Sinclair Memorial Presbyterian Church Burial follows in Alice Cemetery Friends may call at the chapel
Services for Josephine J. Houser widow of Milo S. Houser and former Cedar Rapids resident who died in Hammond Indiana will be held at Turner chapel at 3 30 p m Monday Burial is in St Johns cemetery Friends may call at the chapel after 9 a m Monday
City briefs list numerous meetings and talks across Cedar Rapids venues including KP hall Roosevelt hotel Montrose hotel and Chamber of Commerce locations. Topics cover polio vaccine budgeting safety surveys zoning plans and colonial studies with various speakers and auction events.
A colorful two and a half hour ice show opened a four day run at Memorial Coliseum in Cedar Rapids. The Ice Vogues of 1955 feature Sheila Hamilton Ron Priestley Tom Collins Gladys Miller and other skilled performers with a chimpanzee act and Adagio Artists Jeanne Look and Ted Roman. The production includes black light effects patriotic and undersea sequences plus a cotton ball in the Old South finale.
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