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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1950
Page
7
Iowa City will host the annual summer commencement in the fieldhouse with 866 graduates. The list includes Postville G N Doris Baltz and Norway PhD Ernest Montague among others, detailing degrees in G N B A M A and related fields.
Dillon Hall is named rural mail carrier out of Onslow. George French becomes assistant rural mail carrier after the resignation of Charles Blough who reached retirement age.
Democratic rally at Moose Country Club near Oelwein features Albert Veland urging united global security and UN backing to avert war. Eugene Kean of Dubuque criticizes Henry O. Talle’s record as Iver Christopherson Cedar Falls and Leonard Wegman Amosa discuss race for statewide offices.
Hartnett and Newton as superintendent of public instruction and Gale McLean for secretary of agriculture featured in the local ballot slate. D. D. Offringa of Cedar Rapids led in community singing at the gathering.
Winners in the Daily Day parade at Strawberry Point were Social Sisters with a miniature farm float first Meyers jewelry store with bride and groom second Methodist Youth Fellowship with a candle third F C O'Donnell with a canoe as most unusual entry.
Mr and Mrs Henry Buck and Mr and Mrs William Lass marked their 30th wedding anniversaries with a Sunday evening party in the Community building attended by over 125 people. The couples wed in a double ceremony in Hollingstedt Germany on August 6 1920.
Joyce Me ose McCaw, 9, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Warren McCaw, died of polio Saturday afternoon while being taken to University Hospitals in Iowa City. It was Belle Plaine’s first polio death in about ten years and the second case in the community this year. She was a fourth grade student and is survived by her parents and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Allen. Funeral services are set for Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Peffer funeral home.
Asbestos workers sometimes suffer from asbestosis caused by inhaling dust from the mineral.
The Iowa state CIO convention voted to bar members of the Communist Party and Fascist movements or their sympathizers from holding officer, executive board, or council roles. Vernon Dale, Ken neth Everhart, and several board members were re elected or named. A separate resolution condemned Communist influenced local unions and urged bans or expulsions for such members in international unions. Allan Kline praised U S agriculture while urging health programs and anti injunction actions.
Ten men will leave Thursday and fourteen Friday for pre induction physical examinations in Des Moines. The two groups are the first two calls from Cedar County.
The Iowa Taxpayers Association estimates 1951 property taxes will rise by 10 to 12 million dollars as budgets total about 168.7 million, up from 156.4 million in 1950. Of 1,490 budgets studied, 305 show decreases, with schools, cities, counties and boards showing varied changes. The tally covers over half of expected taxes.
Three teenage boys aged 15 and 16 admitted vandalizing the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house on the University of Iowa campus. Damage was estimated at 2000 to 3000 dollars. They will be sent to district court for a juvenile hearing. The interior suffered extensive destruction including broken records, torn books, a slammed piano, dismantled vacuum, ripped speakers, and plum juice staining walls and rug.
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