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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1948
Page
5
Local items from Cedar Rapids dated August 18 1948 note briefs on community events and notices. Short summaries provide quick updates on city happenings and public notices in the Gazette edition.
Senator B. B. Hickenlooper said the United States is making definite headway in decontaminating areas blanketed by atomic radiation. He warned there is no defense against blast and devastation and stressed prevention as the best approach.
Senator Hickenlooper warned that even near perfect interception cannot stop heavy destruction from a single bombing plane. He said no defense, preventive or otherwise, is that effective and noted that even ancient weapons like the bow and arrow can still serve as a threat on occasion.
Dale K. Darrah 53 of Tama died Wednesday morning in an ambulance en route to Marshalltown hospital after a 7 am stroke. In business here since 1937, he is survived only by his wife. Services set for 2 pm Friday at Harrison funeral home.
Van Horne farmer Francis Kueny participated in two farm auctions this week. He paid 275 dollars per acre for the Henry F Kruger estate farm seven miles southwest of Vinton on Monday, and on Tuesday sold a 120 acre farm two miles north of Vinton for 150 dollars per acre. John Scott of Vinton bought the second farm and plans to reside there. Tony Schmitz acted as auctioneer and the Vinton State Bank served as clerk for both sales.
Two Iowans were killed when two cars collided six miles northeast of Wilmont Minnesota at a junction. FE P Hanson and his wife Margaret of Garner Iowa died in the crash. Merle Voss of Wilmont and Milfred Kramer of Iowa Minnesota were injured. Hanson, former Hancock County sheriff, left a son and daughter.
Iowa national guard air units began moving to Rapid City South Dakota for annual aerial gunnery practice. The 132nd fighter group from Des Moines and Sioux City will fire over 10 000 rounds of live .50 caliber ammo rockets and bombs from F 51 fighters. Ground crews and supplies including Jeeps gasoline and ammunition plus 60 officers and men travel by C 47 transports to the Rapid City air base.
Betty Owens, 25, of Le Claire, was found badly beaten in a riverfront Davenport park by two men on Wednesday. She told police she had known the man she accompanied Tuesday night and was assaulted as her clothing was torn. She was taken to Mercy hospital. police seek the assailant.
Williamsburg district convention heard leaders stress Christian education. J W Behnken cited a 25000 pupil rise in Missouri Synod Sunday schools. Theo Eickelb erg urged modern age education. Concordia Milwaukee president L Rinker and Valparaiso’s Paul Bussert spoke for higher Christian education. C Hesse re elected district president and W D Oetting named first vice president.
Democratic candidates Guy M. Gillette and Carroll O. Switzer will join at the Midlands Conference August 30–31 at Edgewater Beach hotel Chicago to chart action on housing prices corruption taxes civil rights and foreign policy with hosts Paul H. Douglas and Adlai Stevenson and participants from Iowa Illinois Indiana Kansas Michigan Minnesota Missouri Ohio Nebraska North Dakota South Dakota and Wisconsin.
Services for S/Sgt. Vern E. Harper 21 killed on a flying mission over Schwechat Austria June 26 1944 will be held at 2 30 p m Thursday at Grace Methodist Church in Oelwein. Burial arrangements and survivor details follow in this wartime obituary styled notice.
Des Moines AP reports the 1949 plates cost about double the 1946 issue, with total expenses near 190000. Chief Leslie B. Chase cites higher material costs and production of over a million plate sets, using aluminum due to no steel bidders, with plates produced at the Anamosa reformatory and 80 percent aluminum use statewide.
Center Point mourns Pvt. Dorman Clifford Bowers killed February 27 1945 near Luxembourg. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Satchett funeral home with American Legion posts performing military rites at Dunkard cemetery. He was son of Mr and Mrs Harry Bowers Center Point and brother of Casper Bowers Toddville. Body arrives Friday morning.
At Morrell Packing in Ottumwa production halted for a fourth day amid a battle over return-to-work rules. Morrell says 614 workers passed gates and started departments, while the CIO UPWA claims gates were locked in a lockout. Union seeks unemployment compensation and cites slowdowns following contract expiration.
Police reported a large orderly crowd at the gates of the Des Moines plant as personnel crews moved through the office and scattered departments. Morrell workers filed 1,000 jobless benefit applications with the state commission, which will hold hearings to decide benefit eligibility amid a labor dispute and contract negotiations.
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