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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1958
Page
16
Des Moines report shows cattle and hog receipts with mixed quotes for fat hogs and lambs. Live prices slide, with top hogs around 20.41 dollars and varying weights quoted in a consolidated market summary.
In Midlothian Texas a man named Gary Froning was swept from his collapsing home and flung 50 yards into a pasture. He suffered a minor cut and a gash but was otherwise unharmed. His daughter Gloria, 7, survived by crawling under a table as debris rained down and the wind lifted the couple.
Washington AP reports the Air Transport Association says airlines have pursued a mid air collision warning device since 1954. Efforts split between a propulsion based system and a collision avoidance system. Collin Radio Corp abandoned its PiV1 device after technical failures. Infra red tests continue with Aerojet General developing a heat principle sensor.
Iowa State College will continue with the quarter system as announced by President James H. Hilton. A Prefence Vote approved the plan with 395 faculty preferring the 3 term year and 28 voters for a 2 term year. Total ballots 834 of eligible voters.
Roxanne Dunlap will represent Hawkeye Girls State at Iowa State College on June 15 with the American Legion Auxiliary. Linn county delegates to a Thursday auxiliary meeting include The Mines and John Howett among others. District conference delegates for Dubuque on May 4 feature Afeses Lake Howee and McNulty with alternates listed. Marion Rural School reports one vacancy for teaching staff, with new hires in music and instrumentals. William Dougherty named chorus member for Showboat at Loras College. Funeral services for Mrs. Harley Reynolds will be held at Rhines Appleton. Kiwanis to host Dr. Louise Bertram from the University of Town for a parent role reading program. Local ad notes Pharma stock investments and shop savings at Sorg's. Weekend visits include Centerville residents with relatives in Marion and a bicycle accident injuring Mary Sue Wright.
Ford Metal Company reports first quarter 1958 net earnings of 22.7 million dollars or 42.5 cents a share, a decline from 100.5 million in 1957. Consolidated earnings and assets are detailed, with factory car and truck sales, inventories, and plant values cited. A separate note mentions a community meeting at Marion Baptist Church and postsponed congressional agriculture hearings in Ames.
The market showed mixed moves as profit taking dampened advance. Industrials and futures routed by lighter demand. declines in oats and soy dims paired with steady to higher corn futures.
The Cedar Rapids hog market shows a quarter decline for good No 2 butchers and sows with plant delivered quotes. Higher quality No 1 hogs and sows may fetch up to 50 cents above the base quotations while No 3 offerings run well below.
Mrs. Ed Win Mateusek 38 of Gelwein, employed at the Mental Health Treatment center, was shaken but uninjured after her car rolled onto its side following a skid and embankment impact on a hill north of town. The pickup behind was not involved and she returned home with no injuries. Hoosier is Winner of Legion Speech Contest. Reed Stewart, a Brazil high school senior, won the American Legion oratorical contest and a $4,000 college scholarship.
Washington AP reports Senator Church of Idaho was appointed to a Senate rackets committee succeeding Senator McNamara of Michigan after his resignation over a controversy involving a committee project. Church is identified as part of the Democratic pro labor wing.
A Tennessee jury convicted two Teamsters officials, W. A. Smith and William Reynolds, in a 1955 shooting case tied to racketeering accusations. The verdicts assign a one year sentence to Smith and outline Reynolds as a Knoxville Local 621 official.
Salinas California Melvin Russell Blair a 42 year old Army veteran was sentenced to 5 to 20 years in the penitentiary for trying to rob the Bing Crosby golf tournament of more than 40001 last January.
Gov. Herschel Loveless urged the State Board of Regents to grant a hearing at its May meeting on behalf of married University of Town students protesting a rent increase. He said the move would show the board sympathizes with students' financial problems and isn’t arbitrary. The students plan to sign leases at higher rates but will continue seeking a reduction.
An Indonesian government spokesman said the Sumatran rebel capital has moved from its mountain stronghold at Sukitting to Mount Manele, 28 miles southeast of Ratusane, amid government pressure. The report notes a regrouping by rebel forces as military units close in.
Officials of the Worn and Mardart ney Company of Philadelphia testified to a Senate committee that 120 to 125 instances of violence and intimidation marked a anti union drive. Leonard Bowther president and Bernard Borish counsel named Philadelphia locals for campaigns but said they could not identify who beatings or arson were committed. They described disruption of trucks and violence tied to recruitment attempts rather than a strike.
Marietta Georgia AP report says Lockheed Aircraft will run plants to use atomic energy for peaceful industrial heat. The firm already builds a nuclear powered plane for the air force and has formed a unit to supply heat producing reactors to industry.
In Cleveland an apparently new lung disease was reported after study of 27 patients. Dr. Samuel I. Rosen said it may be a penalty for modern living and may result from inhalants in insecticides detergents pills and other compounds. The condition known as pulmonary alveolar proteinosis fills air spaces with granular material. Symptoms include shortness of breath cough fatigue and weight loss with eight deaths among the 27 cases. Some patients have shown improvement or recovery while the first patient remains affected.
Diet and smoking habits are the main causes of heart trouble, not nervous tension. Dr. William L. Proudfit of the Cleveland Clinic says high pressure executives and others share risks with moderate to heavy smokers and those with fat-heavy diets. He notes that tension prompts poor eating, and that people across economic levels eat fried foods. Also: six Iowa school students won prizes from the Iowa State Medical Society for an essay on private medical care. top prize $100 to Norman Obervliet of Oskaloosa.
The Weekly Crop Report states oats seeding is nearly complete in the state, about a week earlier than last year and 4 or 5 days sooner than usual. Spring plowing is about 70 percent finished, with oat fields improving though moisture would help. About 5 percent of clover and alfalfa seedings were killed by the winter.
President Eisenhower warns that a Democratic backed plan to extend jobless benefits for 12 weeks would threaten federal state relations. He voiced opposition after a GOP congressional chiefs meeting with Senate Leader Knowland. The proposal would have the federal treasury pay the extension for workers outside or beyond state plans.
Stormy conditions sweep the northern Rockies and plains with heavy snowfall in Idaho and Montana areas and rain and snow across Wyoming Nebraska and surrounding states. The Weather Bureau advised stockmen to shelter livestock as cold air drives temperatures down across the plains. Temperature readings show Aberdeen at 21 degrees.
The Marion Chamber of Commerce is asked to sponsor a girls softball team by paying a 35 cent fee if the team can join the YWCA Cedar Rapids Softball Association league. The first game is set for May 15, with uniforms funded by merchants and school supplying equipment. Local leaders from Cedar Rapids and Marion plan to form a junior chamber group and improve traffic signals on Twelfth Street at Main. The annual Chamber dinner is May 8 at the Presbyterian church. community members may contribute to the Morrell family, who lost their trailer in a fire, with donations collected at the Legion hall.
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