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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1955
Page
3
Iowa readers see strong editorial critique of Congress delay on a federal highway bill. The piece notes highway funding scraps, gas tax comparisons across states, reapportionment debates, and potential 1956 campaigns. It highlights that highway needs rise as costs grow and urges action.
A roundup of national guards and Navy and Army Air Forces notices from Iowa communities. Soldiers, sailors, and Marines such as Dennis Garwood, David Linkemann, Kenneth Hochstetler, Robert Pike, and Don Doran are listed with postings at Camp Chaffee, Fort Bliss, Miramar, Mather, and ships like USS Rochester, detailing training, deployments, and transfer plans. Names, hometowns, and unit assignments appear across Kalona, Olin, Olla, Olin, Newhall, Waukon, and other towns.
Sheriff Lewis Driebelbis remains hospitalized at Mercy hospital with a liver infection and reports his condition as good. In North English the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs plan a picnic supper in the town park at 6 30 p.m. Anamosa brief notes listed. In Waukon new red stop signs were installed by the State Highway Commission. West Branch reports the former Methodist parsonage moved four and a half blocks to North Second street on the site of Jesse Hoover’s blacksmith shop, later purchased by the Hoover Birthplace Society. Hawk Eye reports Rev Dennis Schlossin to be installed as pastor of Trinity Lutheran church on Sept 4, succeeding Rev L A Sagert who moved to Independence. Schlossin previously led the Aurora Lutheran church for four years. North English resident George H Smith, who broke a leg, has returned home from St Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids.
Lt Col Charles W Kelso 40 a Brandon native becomes commander of the Third air transport squadron heavy 1703rd group at Brookley AFB Alabama He leads C 124 Globemaster II and C 74 transports between Brookley and Caribbean and North Africa He has 4500 plus flying hours and is Iowa State College 1940 journalism graduate He and Mrs Kelso have four children Other local military notes cover graduates and personnel at Great Lakes Norman OK San Diego Annapolis and Camp Chaffee Arkansas.
Clarenceall ground observer corps members are expected to attend a meeting at Memorial hall Monday at 7. A representative from the United States air force will be on hand to explain the ground observers program and its defense role. The program will cover logging and reporting aircraft and the filter center workings in Des Moines.
A prisoner named John Good dreams of a small broom shop with help from the State Commission for the Blind. He can make 15 to 18 inch brushes daily and supports his daughter with his wages. The shop, run with pride, has kept fires away and priced brooms modestly.
The Iowa District West of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod begins a six day convention at Walther League camp on Lake Okoboji. Rev G W Lobeck will preside for an expected 300 delegates. Dr John W Behnken will preach the opening sermon and discuss worldwide synod work. Delegates will elect members to the 1956 international convention and consider a proposed next year budget near $700,000, about $200,000 more than the current district budget.
Independence area biologists Robert Cleary and Fred Pierce conducted annual netting on the Wapsipinicon near Independence and Otterville. They used banynets with cheese lure and trap nets catching four northern pike weighing two to four pounds. Catches are counted and compared with prior years. Nets were set Monday and removed later in the week.
Special to The Gazette Edgewood Iowa The new addition to the Edgewood school will be dedicated Sunday Aug 28 at 1 30 pm The dedication will be in the new gymnasium auditorium The addition includes a gymnasium auditorium home economics kindergarten first grade room band room locker rooms athletic department offices heating plant and superintendent s office New lighting has been installed throughout and three grade rooms have been remodeled A vocational agriculture department has been added School opens Aug 30 with a half day session A faculty meeting will be Aug 29 New teachers include N E Christensen superintendent and James Languadoro social science and athletics.
An Ames article from the Geneva conference proceedings details a US method for large scale, low cost uranium metal production. Dr. H A Wilhelm notes materials and operations enabling replication. Work began at Iowa State College in 1942 at the "Little Ankeny" plant, producing over a thousand tons of uranium billet before transfer to industry in 1945.
Mason City AP Iowa led the nation in entries and awards in the fourth annual Cancer Crusade contest for newspaper editorials feature stories and cartoons Honorable mention awards went to Earl Hall Mason City Globe Gazette Walter Russell Muscatine Journal Leon S Barnes Northwood Anchor Jackson Baty Mitchell County Press Osage Tom D Conklin Nashua Reporter C D Line Gamer Leader Byron Hess Sioux Center News Eldon Pletcher Sioux City Journal Bob Artley Des Moines Tribune and H B Hook Davenport Democrat
A 1952 car stolen from the Bob Nall garage was returned Friday in Red Wing Minnesota where the thief abandoned the vehicle. The car contained about $200 worth of tools owned by a mechanic at the garage. The thief also abandoned a 1955 Chevrolet.
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