Weather and river forecast and local notices across Iowa
Iowa forecast calls for mostly fair skies with little temperature change through Thursday. highs around 80 to 85. The Mississippi River is expected to fall to below 20 feet in Dubuque and Clinton by weekend, with similar declines downstream. Fire and legal notices list intoxication and traffic penalties, plus several obituaries and births from Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, and nearby towns.
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Bellevue
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Muscatine
Seven-Point Plan Aims to Improve Iowa Schools
William G. Carr of the National Education Association outlined a seven point plan at the Governor's Lay Leadership Conference in Iowa City. He urged defining expected school service, measuring performance, funding improvements, keeping politics out, collaborating with teachers, using relevant data, and sustaining long term interest. Carr warned against miracles from a single conference and urged civic comparison to drive progress.
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Gazette
Iowa City
Iowa
William G. Carr
National Education Association
Washington, D.C
University of Iowa
Carr
Deaths Mrs Adella George 71 Cedar Rapids resident
Mrs Adella George 71 a Cedar Rapids resident of 34 years died at her daughter 424 First Street SW at 4 a m Wednesday after a long illness She was born Storm Lake July 24 1880 Surviving are a daughter Myrtle Snyder Schwartz and a brother Clarence Rawson both of Cedar Rapids Services by Rev Clifford Minor at Brush chapel 2 p m Thursday Friends may call The body will go Thursday evening to Wilkinson funeral home Clinton Mo for Saturday services Burial at Inglewood cemetery Clinton
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Cedar Rapids
First Street
Storm Lake
Myrtle Snyder Schwartz
Clarence Rawson
Clifford Minor
Brush Chapel
Wilkinson Funeral Home
Clinton
Inglewood Cemetery
Death of Jerry Kviz Former Cedar Rapids Resident
Jerry Kviz 56 died Sunday in a Cleveland hospital after moving from Cedar Rapids 40 years ago and from Czechoslovakia. Survived by three sisters Mrs. Spinka Cedar Rapids Mrs. Schemock Toronto and Mrs. Smid Czechoslovakia. Services at Janeba funeral home with time to be announced. Burial in Czech National cemetery.
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Jerry Kviz
Cedar Rapids
Cleveland
Czechoslovakia
Marie Spinka
Frank Schemock
Toronto
Frank Smid
Janeba
Czech National Cemetery
Local Cedar Rapids Baker Leo McElroy Dies at 55
Leo Charles McElroy aged 55 of 622 Third Street NW Cedar Rapids died in a local hospital at 8 a.m. Wednesday. Born in Marengo he was a longtime Cedar Rapids resident and baker at Peter Pan Bakery. Survived by his wife Matilda. Friends may visit Brady mortuary after 1 p.m. Thursday. funeral arrangements to be announced.
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Leo Charles McElroy
Third Street
Cedar Rapids
Peter Pan Bakery
Marengo
St. Patrick’s Church
Matilda
Brady Mortuary
Raymond N. Stark Dies in Riverside Calif Heart Ailment
Raymond N. Stark former Cedar Rapids resident died early Sunday in Riverside California from a heart ailment. Survived by wife Leona Bressler Stark a daughter Mrs Kenneth Shaylor of Sacramento a son Donald of Corona and four grandsons. Services and burial held in Riverside Tuesday morning.
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Raymond N. Stark
Cedar Rapids
Riverside
Calif
Leona Bressler Stark
Kenneth Shaylor
Sacramento
Donald
Corona
Services for Benjamin F Kraft Held at Trinity Methodist
Benjamin F Kraft of 311 Third Avenue SW dies Monday. Rev E H Widmann will conduct funeral Thursday at 1 30 p m in Trinity Methodist church. Burial in Cedar Memorial cemetery. Friends may call at Beatty chapel until 11 15 a m Thursday.
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Benjamin F. Kraft
Third Avenue SW
E. H. Widmann
Trinity Methodist Church
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Beatty Chapel
Services for Frederick R. Austin Held in Gainesville
Funeral services for Frederick R. Austin died Monday in Gainesville Florida will be Thursday at 3 30 p m at the Bar sta Hesser chapel with the Rev Clement D Loehr of the Winterset Methodist church officiating Burial follows in Cedar Memorial Cemetery Friends may call at the chapel
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Anna Shaw
Goettsch
Antioch Cemetery
Columbus Junction
Jessie Moore
Billings
Mont
Postville
Herman Heins
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Iowa City
Ida May Glick
Mercy Hospital
Cathout
Henry O’bannion
Veter
Frederick R. Austin
Gainesville
Fla
Barsta-Hesser
Clement D. Loehr
Methodist Church
Winterset
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Forest fires brought under control in Minnesota and South Dakota
Forest hangers, firemen, and volunteers halted timber and grass fires in Ely Minnesota and across the border in South Dakota. Fire fighting efforts cooled the blazes by Wednesday, preventing spread and damage.
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Ely
Minn
Minnesota
South Dakota
Mississippi Flood Eases By Muscatine
The Mississippi flood eased along the Iowa Illinois border with Muscatine reporting the crest passed and levees holding. River at Muscatine down to 20.9 feet, Clinton 20.6, Dubuque 20.9. guardsmen released in stages. Highway 61 flood closure expected to end by week.
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Mississippi
Iowa-Illinois
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Dubuque
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Clinton-Sabula
Burlington
Taft Campaign Blames Immoral Pact for Eisenhower Win
Taft campaign manager David S. Ingalls charged that Eisenhower’s Massachusetts victory resulted from an immoral alliance with Democrats. He claimed Democratic voters boosted the Republican primary, surpassing the Democratic primary vote, and argued Massachusetts is a Democratic state with a Democratic governor.
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Taft
Eisenhower
Massachusetts
David S. Ingalls
Condition of Wounded Youth Improves After Hunting Accident
In Iowa City Ralph Lumpa 22 remained hospitalized after a hunting accident with 25 blood transfusions given. His cousin Wayne Lumpa 18 said he aimed at a bird on a fence when Ralph moved into the line of fire, striking him in the back and injuring a kidney.
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Iowa City
Ralph Lumpa
Lumpa
Wayne Lumpa
Wayne
Ralph
Three Eastern Iowans Return From Korea Landings
Three Eastern Iowans among Korean War veterans arrived in San Francisco on Tuesday. They are Cpl. R. L. Christopher son of Cedar Rapids M/Sgt. Richard H. Van Sickel from West Union and Capt. Clarence R. Wiemen of Dysart.
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San Francisco
R. L. Christopher‘son
Second Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
Richard H. van ‘Sickel
West Union
Clarence R. Wiemen
Roosevelt and Willkie Forming a New Party Idea
Rosenman relates that FDR and Willkie considered uniting liberal elements from the Democratic and Republican camps into a new party. The plan faded after Roosevelt’s death and Willkie’s 1944 decline, with discussions never occurring directly between them.
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Court records Vivian Minor fined for drunken driving
Vivian J. Minor aged 50 of 240 Fifteenth Street NW pled guilty to drunk driving before District Judge Floyd Philbrick. She was arrested at 4:23 p m Tuesday after striking a boy on a bicycle at First and Third avenues SW. The 10 year old, Larry Krause of 1848 Eighth Avenue SW, was not hurt but his bicycle was damaged. Police said Minor lay in the street between her car and the curb when officers arrived. Preceding the crash she had driven into the curb blowing a tire.
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Fifteenth Street
Floyd Philbrick
First Avenue
Third Avenue
Larry Krause
Eighth Avenue
Stewart Enters Innocent Plea In Rape Case
James A. Stewart 23 of route 3 pled innocent before Judge Floyd Philbrick to a rape charge. Co-defendant Paul E. Whitters 18 of Blairs Ferry road NE was released on $5,000 cash bond after a bond reduction to that amount approved by the judge. Stewart's $7,500 bond remains in default and he is held in the county jail.
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Route 3
Floyd Philbrick
Stewart
Paul E. Whitters
Blairs Ferry Road
Ellis Park Road
Whitters
Courte
Linn Supervisors Take Up Routine Matters
The Linn county board of supervisors held a light session Tuesday. Only a few routine matters were approved, with most business completed at the morning meeting where the full board was present. Supervisor Martin Wiley attended the morning session but was out of the city for the afternoon session.
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Linn County Board of Supervisors
Martin Wiley
Wallace C. Gable Fined for Drunk Driving
Wallace C. Gable aged 59 of 2399 Twenty-fourth Avenue SE pled guilty to a drunk driving charge and was fined 300 dollars plus costs by Judge Floyd Philbrick. He had pled not guilty Monday but switched to guilty Tuesday after a Sunday Cedar Rapids arrest by the highway patrol.
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Wallace C. Gable
Twenty-fourth Avenue
Floyd Philbrick
Cedar Rapids
Highway Patrol
Patten Pleads Guilty to Car Theft Charge
Isaiah L. Patten Jr., 24, of 518 Seventh Street SE, pled guilty to operating a motor vehicle without the owner's consent. Judge Floyd Phil sentenced him to up to one year at the Fort Madison men's penitentiary. Patten had been charged with car theft on April 23, with the offer to prior plea negotiations.
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Isaiah L. Patten, Jr
Seventh Street
Men’s Penitentiary
Fort Madison
Floyd Philbrick
Patten
Plea Accepted in Car Theft Case
A Wednesday plea deal accepted by the state resolves the case against the defendant who admitted to the lesser charge of taking a car owned by Dote Mullinix.
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Dote Mullinix
Case Against City Dismissed by Judge
Judge M. C. Hamiel on Wednesday dismissed Effie M. Dennis’s $1,500 personal injury suit against Cedar Rapids for injuries from a Sept. 6, 1950 fall on a city sidewalk. Dennis failed to prove negligence by a preponderance of the evidence. costs taxed to Dennis. City Attorney C. W. Garberson represented the city.
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M. C. Hamiel
Cedar Rapids
Effie M. Dennis
Hamiel
Dennis
C. W. Garberson
Rifles Stolen From Cabin North of Viola
The sheriff’s office investigates the theft of two early model rifles from the Fred Witousek cabin north of Viola. Witousek says the break in occurred between April 16 and Tuesday when an outside window was broken and the inside latch unhooked.
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Fred Witousek
Viola
Witousek
Three suits filed and a warrant issued in Waterloo area
On Tuesday three account suits were filed: B J Moon v Matthew and Gladys Lytle for 174 81, Charles Maxwell v Jesse and Lorraine Robinson for 276 12, and Sisters of Mercy v Margaret F McNamara for 354 79. On Wednesday Waterloo authorities held Charles A Ritland 36 of 610 Third Ave SE on a warrant for desertion and abandonment. Walter Hoffman sued Erwin Lanning and DeWitt Kohl for 382 44 over a Nov 22 1951 Marion car crash. Edward J and John E Keenan Jr doing business as Franklin Institute Rochester NY sued Max G and Lorena Morgan for 70 on a contract.
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Lorraine Robinson
Sisters of Mercy
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Charles A. Ritland
Shird Avenue
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Ritland
Walter Hoffman
Erwin Lanning
DeWitt Kohl
Marion
Edward J
John E. Keenan, Jr
Franklin Institute
Rochester
N. Y
Max G
Lorena Morgan
Sundahl's Executions Died in Hatchet Slaying Case
Lincoln reports Roland Sundahl, 21, father of two, died in the electric chair on Wednesday for the murder of a carhop aged 16.
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Roland Sundahl
Court Rejects Presidential Seizure Power In Steel Case
Judge Pine ruled the seizure of steel plants during an emergency exceeded constitutional authority. He cited Article II limits, rejected implied powers, and said Congress—not the President—controls defense and welfare. The ruling warned against repeating illegal acts as legal precedent.
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Government route eyed over crisis and labor law option
The speaker urges Congress to pass a law to shield the nation from a threatened disaster and argues constitutional procedures can handle an emergency. Aiming for an 80 day injunction against a strike if the government adopts the T H law, preliminaries would take about a week. Murray notes a cease work order has the same effect as a strike and expects local bargaining to protect properties during a shutdown.
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Plans to repeal Iowa pension system under study
DES MOINES AP Plans are being considered to repeal the Iowa pension law for state and local employees temporarily. Louis J. Cook says the study committee will offer recommendations to the 1953 legislature. Nearly 80 000 Iowa public employees are covered. The plan includes repealing the present system or placing all workers under federal retirement. It also suggests re-enacting a straight retirement system and extending immediate federal social security benefits by refunding employee contributions for 18 months at a potential cost of eight million dollars or more.
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Iowa
Louis J. Cook
Special State Study Committee
Tuesiday
Cook
Ignition Key Proves Key To Start Abandoned Car
In Omaha a young man helped his date into a car and tried to start it. After several failed attempts and a push from a passing vehicle, a taxi helped but yielded no result. He finally checked the ignition, smiled in embarrassment, and drove away.
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Man builds bonfire after wife locks him out
Hartford police question William B. Darwin about a front porch bonfire to stay warm after his wife locked him out. He gives a quip about the cold and is placed in a warm cell by officers.
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Conn
William B. Darwin
Steel Strike Escalates Over No Contract Claim
The report notes a strike with no contract and thus no obligation to work. Workers press for a formal agreement while management cautions about disruption and pending negotiations.
Cedar Rapids Firms Report 30 Day Steel Supply
Cedar Rapids manufacturers say current steel stocks can run three weeks to 45 days with 30 days most common. Overtime would be cut if the supply problem lasts another week. They warn spotty inventories could bottleneck production due to shortages of specific steels.
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Cedar Rapids
West Union Actress in La Boheme Cast
Janet Frank daughter of K. C. and Mrs Frank of West Union performed in La Boheme at Illinois Wesleyan University Bloomington April 23 and 24. Frank, a junior, majors in voice at the university.
Senator Butler Watchful on Pine for President
Senator Butler of Nebraska suggested Democrats could do worse than to nominate Federal Judge David A. Pine for president. The remark was aired in Washington on Wednesday.
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ULP
Butler
R-Neb
David A. Pine
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