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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1936
Page
13
Iowa farm tax bills rise 23.8 percent year over year before refunds. Rural districts pay $44,146,533 in taxes, with total real estate taxes at $87,676,951 statewide. Refunds from state sources may total $9,000,000, largely benefiting farmers.
Utility lawyers said they would again seek to introduce secret correspondence between President Roosevelt and Harold Ickes before the district supreme court as it resumes hearing the New Deal municipal power program. They argue the letters show the PWA fund was used to push private rate cuts, while opponents contend the case tests constitutional funding authority.
Mount Vernon students choose seven coeds for the annual Royal Purple beauty contest at Cornell College. Irene Bragg Katheryn Swain Virginia Hughes Margaret Hedges Rosa Lee Osburn Marjorie Mitchell Elaine Taylor are announced as finalists with Swain Bragg Hedges among past winners. Queen selection by George Petty will be revealed with the 1937 Royal Purple release in May.
Iowa State students favor optional army drill with 781 votes, 262 support mandatory training, and 245 feel informed enough to vote. The vote shows mixed views on the Veterans of Future Wars and its pacifist aims, with 454 backing and 674 opposing the VFW bonus plan.
Paul L. Sayre, a University of Iowa law professor, spends hours crafting weekly bedtime stories for radio. His Tuesday seven o clock program aims to ease children's worries with sugar coated morals and useful truths.
Miss Cecilia Rudin, English instructor at Cornell college, presents Stories of Hymns We Love recounting hymn origins and inspirations. The book covers eighty two songs from Luther to Payne, including Silent Night and Home Sweet Home, published by John Rudin Publishing of Chicago.
Bert Adams and William Bunn, University of Iowa graduates studying under Grant Wood, won a federal mural commission for the Dubuque post office. Bunn will depict a packet steamboat on the Mississippi while Adams portrays city landmarks. Each mural measures about six by eight feet and work should start this summer and finish within a year. Both artists conducted extensive historical research to prepare.
Ottumwa mayor Ed Manning urges Senator Vandenberg to include Iowa in a WPA investigation. He questions salary boosts for WPA staff, payments to a Democratic county chairman and a lawyer’s wife, and CPP campaign fund contributions, citing Iowa WPA administration under a Democratic postmaster.
Emil Solbrig of East Amana cherishes a three pound meerschaum pipe aged a century carved in a hunting scene. William Kunstler recarved figures in Milwaukee and valued the piece around 500 dollars when new. Solbrig keeps the pipe as a family heirloom with amber stems and a wooden stand for display.
Floyd Horton a farmer known as rural Casanova was denied a new trial and sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the poisoning of his wife Ella Horton 38. Judge Homer A Fuller called the plan a willful cold blooded plot and cited neighbor testimony as key to the verdict. Horton’s paramour Anna Johnston 38 already received a life term after pleading guilty.
Arrangements are set for the Linn county music festival in Center Point on May 3. The daytime program opens with the rural and grade chorus followed by each county school, with high placing soloists from state contests. Springville band closes afternoon, then a 200 piece Linn county massed band under William F. Vesely, Cedar Rapids Roosevelt, performs. Evening features 350 voices from mixed choruses under Miss Maurine Hamblin, Cedar Rapids Roosevelt. Admission is free. Linn County School Masters' club invites the public.
Humboldt County plans a May 14 bond election to extend the paved road system. Pocahontas County will set a paving bond date next week. Calhoun County votes on a $950000 paying bond Tuesday. Buena Vista votes May 6. Sioux Lyon and Ida counties circulate paving bond petitions.
Tipton Iowa The village of Rochester nine miles south of Tipton will mark its 100th birthday on July 1. Local groups led by the Rochester Community Club Golden Rule lodge No 24 A F and A M Ladies Aid and Missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal church sponsor the observance. Rochester helped shape Cedar county history serving as county seat in 1838 1839 while Iowa was still Wisconsin territory. It was a shipping point on the Cedar River with steamboats carrying mail and supplies before the county seat moved to Tipton.
In spring 1840 the village failed to attract railroad service and the anticipated great city did not come to be, ending the early boom outlook.
Kenneth Heimen dinger, a former Mason City high school grid standout, tackled fugitive W. W. Bingaman with a necktie, delivering him to officers after Bingaman fled Friday night at Clear Lake. Bingaman remains in Mason City jail on a grand jury charge for obtaining money under false pretenses, after escaping by leaping from a second floor courthouse office window and being stopped after a two block chase.
Construction begins this week on a new 70 by 200 foot school in Calmar costing about 80 000 dollars with a 37500 dollar PWA grant. The present 1898 building cost 11000 dollars. The new facility will have a central gym high and elementary wings, accredited high school courses, a commercial program, expanded athletics, and offices. Board members include Dr F A Hennessy president George Halverson Carl Nystrom E J Hackett W W Hazleton Walter Flaskrud secretary. Architect Charles Altfulisch Decorah contractor Scott and Company Albert Lea Minnesota.
Senator George Wilson moves his GOP governor bid into eastern and northeastern Iowa. The week features luncheons and rallies in Marshalltown Cedar Rapids West Liberty Muscatine Davenport DeWitt Clinton Maquoketa Wyoming Anamosa Monticello Dubuque Dyersville Earlville Manchester Independence Vinton LaPorte and Waterloo.
J W Dwyer 64 longtime Oelwein postmaster died at home from heart disease He moved to Oelwein in 1927 served as postmaster from 1933 to 1935 nationally active in county politics Born Georgetown Colo later lived Westgate and West Union Fayette County supervisor Funeral services planned Monday at 9 a m Burial at Westgate
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