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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1940
Page
3
Miss Bernice Hopper of the Community Nutrition Service warns that many families cannot meet nutritional needs with their income. A case of four people shows a $80 monthly budget, outlining fixed costs and a plan to save, with guidance to form careful budgets and seek help from the service for budgeting basics.
LeRoy Kendall, a bricklayer at the La Plant Choate machine shop, suffered a severe electrical shock and was knocked unconscious after being struck by lightning. Mrs. C. H. Comport plans a month’s visit to Genesee, Pa., to see her parents and relatives. Bert P. Lindsay cut his right wrist when a bottle exploded at the fountain in his drug store. Donald Winters departed for Fort Pierce, Sr., to join William Hupp, formerly of Cedar Rapids.
On the way to Clarence a car skidded and overturned on a hill near Stanwood injuring Bohac Elizabeth Barbara with cuts and bruises while others were unhurt. During an inspection trip John Holmquest and William Trimble were badly injured when a gasoline motor car left the rails and tipped into a ditch near Wellman. The Cedar Rapids Bridge Company was the lowest bidder on the proposed new bridge over the...
Walnut river at Des Moines. The Burkhart farm south of the city reports a sensational oats crop averaging 52 bushels per acre. Local market prices include wheat 1, corn 56, oats 35, rye 65, barley 55, hay 14, straw 6.50, hens 11, eggs 16, hogs 8.30, steers 6.50, lambs 6.50. Bid was 175000.
On request of the other driver, Louis Williams, route 4, the judge absolved L. L. Riggs of a reckless driving charge after the involved crash. Williams had urged the court to drop the charge against Riggs.
Riggs claimed he was blinded by the early morning sun as he drove east on Third avenue and struck Williams who was northbound on Tenth street SE. Riggs took financial responsibility for the accident to Williams' satisfaction, per the judge.
The State Department on Friday backed German Embassy statements that there has been no noticeable increase in German consular and diplomatic staff in the United States. The embassy issued the denial in response to charges by the inter firm.
State commission declares a fifth column is forming in the country as Nazi agents are increasingly attached to German consulates and similar offices in the United States.
Market quotes list wheat 91 corn 87 oats 35 rye 50 barley 50 straw 8 hens 17 eggs 25 hogs 9.05 calves 10. Dr H M Gage of Huron college becomes president of Coe college succeeding Dr Marquis. Dr Joseph Fort Newton visits city with his brother after arriving from St Louis with his mother. Mr and Mrs Bohac and daughters Elizabeth Barbara and Mr and Mrs George Carberry had a narrow
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