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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1936
Page
13
Hollywood autograph seekers swell crowds at previews and premieres. Stars fear for safety and property as fans push for signatures, sometimes tearing clothing and bumping into cars. Clark Gable warns of appearing in public in only his underwear if danger increases.
Funeral services were held in Keota for L. D. Shaffer who died of a heart attack and Jacob Hagist who passed after an operation. Shaffer leaves a wife Mary Carris and daughters Ruth Norris Iro Hagist and Iris Peipper. Hagist leaves Florence Teets wife and daughter Mrs. Arnold and son Paul with siblings B F Holmes Emma Hagist J R VanWinkle William Hagist and Henry Hagist.
The Minor reunion and picnic is set for Sunday August 9 at Daniels park. Townsend club No 2 meets Friday at 7 30 p m in the superior court room city hall. Club No 7 meets Friday at 7 30 p m at the home of Mrs J E Ceysler 1502 Fourth street NW. Perry Oliver and Dorothy Hoffman Cedar Rapids wed by Justice Grunewald. Dues of 60 for Iowa League of Municipalities due. Milwaukee railroad allowed to install automatic signals at Second street and Ninth avenue SE. National Union for Social Justice unit No 9 meets at Joe Barnett 418 First avenue W Thursday 8 p m. Sunshine Mission speaker William H Smith Lincoln Nebraska Thursday and Friday eve nings. Rev T J Hinkin to lead music.
The Cedar Rapids Airhawks will meet in the city hall club room at 7 p.m. Friday. The program includes the United Air Lines film Sixteen Hours Across the Continent.
C H Brayton of 422 Ninth Avenue SW reported to police that a tool kit and wrenches valued at six dollars were stolen from his vehicle parked near the powerhouse dam. Brayton was fishing nearby when the items disappeared.
Scott Mosher aged 66 of 113 A avenue NE received a thirty day jail sentence for intoxication in police court Wednesday but the sentence was suspended if he leaves the city. John McNulty 57 of 529 C avenue NE was fined 10 dollars and costs for intoxication. Henry Ross 47 of 412 Seventh avenue SE was fined 25 dollars and costs for disturbing the peace.
Shrine stag picnic set at Sokol camp in Center Point on Friday with games sports and entertainment starting at 2 p.m. A free dinner is served at 5 30 p.m. Shriners needing rides should go to the temple for pickups and those with cars are asked to pick up passengers there.
The Cedar Rapids Sangerbund met Friday night at Ben Hur hall for discussion of future activities. A committee with Dubuque Sangerbund representatives planned a concert for late October. A family picnic was discussed for Sunday August 16.
Five scarlet fever cases were reported in Cedar Rapids during July, including two carried forward from June, per assistant health officer James Vanda. All five released from quarantine by August 1. Diphtheria four under quarantine in July released by month end. One infantile paralysis and one spinal meningitis case reported in July. Placardable diseases included one case each of chicken pox mumps and measles and thirteen cases of whooping cough. Seventy one deaths in July and health expenditures totaling $2.
Millard Berry of Coke and Beula Nash of Nichols are issued marriage licenses.
John Dostal, former assistant manager of Cedar Rapids Iowa theater, will become manager of the Capitol Theater in Marshalltown effective Friday. He has nine years in theater work, helped open the Iowa, then moved to the Paramount, and returned to the Iowa years ago. A. H. Talbot announced no successor at the Iowa.
Action on the transfer of a class B beverage permit for Steve and Alex Varvaris at 329 Twelfth Avenue SE was halted by the city council amid a pending investigation. Safety Commissioner W C Benesh and Assistant City Attorney Harry S Johnson questioned the transfer due to a prior transfer by the same applicants.
Several anglers report good catches. George Zvacek of 305% First Street SW caught a mud catfish weighing twenty four and a half pounds from the Second Avenue bridge, believed largest this season. The next morning Edward Kotaska of 1406 K Street SW landed a blue channel catfish weighing six and a half pounds from the First Avenue bridge.
Quasqueton consolidated school adds Alice Lucile Nicola of Washington Idaho as mathematics teacher completing the teaching staff for the year. Other teachers include Superintendent L. H. Neilsen of Rossie music and commercial Bertha Freisen New Virginia Iowa home economics Helen Cover Bedford english and history Miriam E. Ingebrelson Cedar Falls seventh and eighth Mrs Gail Batten Indiana Pa fifth and sixth Margaret Schulz Sumner third and fourth Dorothy Stockdale Iowa Falls first and second Charlotte Abbey Waterloo.
The city council was urged by E. B. Cameron and Malcom V. Bolton with zoning committee support to advertise a public hearing on extending class B residential zoning on First Avenue East to Twenty seventh Street. The plan commission favored hearing rezoning on both sides to Twenty seventh Street and the council referred the issue to the legal department for opinion.
The United States produced 519 feature length motion pictures in 1935. Of these 244 came from original screenplays, 41 from stage plays, 142 from novels, 3 from biographies, 37 from short stories, and 52 from miscellaneous sources.
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