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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1936
Page
9
Hollywood crowds press for signatures at previews premieres and social events. Stars fear for safety and property as mobs surround exits, with guards and tricks to trap celebs. Clark Gable comments on risks and plans to dodge crowds while fans push for autographs and keepsakes.
Funeral services were conducted in Keota for L. D Shaffer who died of a heart attack and Jacob Hagist who passed after an operation in Washington county hospital. Shaffer leaves a wife Mary Carris and three daughters Ruth Norris Ilo Hagist and Iris Peipper, all of Keota. Hagist, reared locally and later living near Washington, leaves wife Florence Teets, daughter Mrs Arnold and son Paul, plus three sisters and two brothers including Mrs B Holmes Keota Emma Hagist Mount Pleasant Mrs J R Van Winkle Long Beach William Hagist and Henry Hagist Wellman.
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 city hall superior court room. Townsend club No. 7 meets Friday at 7 30 p.m. at Mrs J E Ceysler 1502 Fourth St NW. Perry Oliver and Dorothy Hoff man both of Cedar Rapids wed by Justice Grunewald. City council orders $60 dues for Iowa League of Municipalities and grants Milwaukee railroad permission to install automatic signals at Second St and Ninth Ave SE. National Union for Social Justice unit No. 9 meets at Joe Barnett 418 First Ave W Thursday at 8 p.m. Sunshine Mission to host William H. Smith of Lincoln Neb Thursday and Friday with Rev T J Hinkin directing music. Cedar Rapids Airhawks to meet at city hall club room 7 p.m. Friday with film Sixteen Hours Across the Continent. C H Brayton reports tool kit and wrenches worth $6 stolen from his car near the powerhouse dam while Brayton fished nearby.
Scott Mosher 66 of 113 A avenue NE received a thirty day jail term in police court with the sentence 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, described as a Negro of 412 Seventh avenue SE, was fined 25 dollars and costs for disturbing the peace. The Shrine stag picnic is scheduled at Sokol camp Center Point Friday with a program of games and a free dinner starting at 2 p.m. Shrines without transport can ride from the temple. those with cars should pick up passengers at the temple.
The Cedar Rapids Sangerbund schedules a Friday night gathering at Ben Hur hall with all members urged to attend to discuss future activity plans. A committee with Dubuque Sangerbund reps met this week to plan a concert for late October. A family picnic is set for Sunday August 16.
In July Cedar Rapids reported five scarlet fever cases including two carried from June. All five were released from quarantine by August. July also saw four diphtheria quarantines released, one infantile paralysis case, and one spinal meningitis case. Placardable diseases included chicken pox mumps and measles with thirteen whooping cough cases. Seventy one deaths occurred and health board expenditures reached 2785.48 dollars.
Millard Berry of Come and Beula Nash of Nichols secured marriage licenses in a local filing, indicating a forthcoming wedding.
John Dostal, longtime Iowa theater assistant manager, will oversee the Capitol theater in Marshalltown starting Friday. He has nine years in local theater work, including stints at the Cedar Rapids Iowa theater and the Paramount, with a return to the Iowa theater in recent years. A. H. Talbot, Iowa theater manager, said a successor has not yet been chosen.
Action on the application of Steve and Alex Varvaris for transferring their class B beverage permit from 306 Third avenue SE to 329 Twelfth avenue SE, the former The Last Round-Up, was paused as the Safety Commissioner W C Benesh and Assistant City Attorney Harry S Johnson questioned the transfer amid an investigation and due to a prior transfer by the same applicants a year earlier.
Local fishermen report several catches on the Cedar River. George Zvacek of 30514 First Street SW hooked a mud catfish weighing 24.5 pounds from the Second Avenue Bridge. Edward Kotaska of 1406 K Street SW landed a blue channel catfish weighing 6.5 pounds from the First Avenue Bridge.
The Quasqueton board of education hires Alice Lucile Nicola of Washington Iowa as mathematics teacher for the consolidated school completing this year’s teaching staff. Other teachers include Superintendent L H Neilsen Rossie music and commercial Bertha Friesen 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 Town Falls first and second Charlotte Abbey Waterloo.
City council members and planning commission attendees urged a public hearing on extending class B residential zoning along First Avenue E from Seventeenth to Twenty-seventh Street. Proponents argue area homes may better suit apartments. plan commission backs hearing on both sides to Twenty-seventh.
The United States produced 519 feature length films in 1935. Of these 244 were from original screen plays, 41 from stage plays, 142 from novels, 3 from biographies, 37 from short stories, and 52 from miscellaneous sources.
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