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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1950
Page
2
City temperatures rise across the nation with highs in the 70s to 90s while Minnesota forecasts show mostly cloudy skies and possible showers. Wind, sunrise and sunset times are listed alongside August precipitation totals and yearly comparisons. Divorce petitions include Bernice P. Mayes versus Robert L. Mayes.
Washington reports a Communist prisoner told UN authorities Russia supplied weapons to North Korea as late as June 1950. Interrogations corroborate that Moscow sent equipment after 1949, with tanks and 76 mm and 122 mm cannons cited. Prisoner statements were not made under threats or rewards.
Willis F. Dirks 21 Monticello fined 125 dollars plus costs after pleading guilty to resisting an officer drunkenness and disturbing the peace. He was arrested near Pine wood tavern after allegedly fighting and offering stubborn resistance to police. Two other suspects received jail terms for drunkenness and disturbing the peace. Donald E. Myers 16 and Ray L. Clark 27 faced sentences for drunkenness and Clark also for disturbing the peace with an alleged assault on Esther Zervas. Emily and Charles O. McCollister faced fines for disturbing the peace after a late night argument at Tony’s Grill. Nassif, owner of the restaurant, testified.
Milton L. Herren 23 received 60 days in the county jail with 30 suspended after pleading guilty to driving with a suspended license. His brother Melvin 25 was fined $10 and costs for letting an unauthorized person drive. Police stopped Milton Friday. license suspension followed a prior drunk driving conviction.
Navy announced Cedar Rapids recruits will travel to Great Lakes Illinois starting Monday for basic training. Recruits from the eastern U S previously trained at Great Lakes while Midwest sailors moved to San Diego. The change follows the opening of a new recruit center at Norfolk Virginia and reallocates eastern recruits to Great Lakes.
The Cedar Rapids post office received and placed on sale 50 000 commemorative three cent stamps honoring the social branch of the U S government. Stamp arrival was delayed by more than three weeks. Visiting hours at St Luke s hospital are 2 to 3 30 and 7 to 8 30 p m daily with children under 14 barred from upper floors per hospital hostesses.
Polio cases involve families across Iowa with children admitted to Mercy and University hospitals in Iowa City and Cedar Rapids. Five year old Barbara Young remains in the polio ward with good condition but complications noted. Virgil Haudek dies at University hospital after polio illness. services scheduled for Monday in Charles City.
Arnold J. Lanny 28 of 1555 Fourth Street SE suffered a severe laceration to his upper right arm when his arm snagged a hammock hook while moving a Davenport from a house opposite police headquarters on Third Street SW. He was taken to St. Luke's hospital in good condition with possible surgery discussed. Police stated a tourniquet was applied before transport. Lanny, an employee of Kenwood Transfer Company, slipped while removing a screen to extract the furniture and was aided by a fellow worker before reporting to authorities.
Iowa briefs cover Brandon Mrs Norris Nielson preparing for a Copenhagen trip with her Cedar Falls father John Nielson and church changes in WAUKON and NORTH ENGLISH. Monticello pool closes as 1300 plus use free lessons. Marengo accident injures Rose Brumme when her car overturned near the courthouse.
Frank D. Green, 28, of Waterloo, was jailed in Linn County after a six month suspended sentence for desertion and abandonment was revoked. Green pled guilty on April 10 and received the suspended term. an order to take him into custody followed his violation of the suspension terms.
Judge M. C. Hamiel Friday dismissed a suit for declaration of rights and status brought by Louis Melsha against the Tribune Publishing Company. Filed Jan 11, 1949, the suit was dismissed on motion of the defendant.
Judge Floyd Philbrick rules for John G. Nelson awarding $847.98 against Victor L. Moravec and Roy H. Olson in a disclusionment of partnership and accounting case filed March 5, 1948. Judgment to be a lien on assets of Beacon Engineering Company.
The will of Fredericka Ehlers who died August 18 was admitted to probate Saturday. It directs a total of 550 dollars to six persons with the remainder to Irene E McMann and Marie Masteller. Don T. Hines is named executor with a 2000 dollar bond.
Dorothy L Hansen filed a separate maintenance suit against Merrill J Hansen. Phyllis P Hepker had a divorce case against Ocie D Hepker dismissed by the plaintiff Friday.
Caltech professor Hsue-Shen Tsien, head of the Guggenheim Jet Propulsion Center, is barred from leaving the United States amid federal raids on eight packing cases of documents bound for Shanghai. Tsien denies any classified material and cites plans to visit family in China. Immigration controls and customs seizure trigger investigation.
Ed R. Haldy of Cedar Rapids was elected president at the Beau ty and Barber Supply Institute of America forty sixth annual convention in Chicago. He is a partner with his brother Burt F. Haldy in the George P. Haldy Company. The institute represents over 1 500 members in the United States Canada Mexico Hawaii and Australia.
The White House said John W. Gibson resigns as assistant secretary of labor for compelling personal reasons. The announcement gave no further details and noted no conflict or investigation.
Tokyo dispatch reports 2060 Communist and fellow traveler workers fired from private power firms as security forces intensify anti subversive actions. Osaka patrols doubled. government eyes outlawing the Communist party and purging Reds from public life.
William Dean Barnhizer Jr., 25, of 1975 Second Avenue SE, was fined 100 dollars and costs with 50 dollars suspended after pleading guilty to leaving the scene of an accident. He admitted striking Burton H. Day’s parked panel truck at 1942 Washington Avenue SE Friday night and not staying to identify himself.
About 1,000 Belgian volunteers are set to join United Nations forces in a mission abroad. The contingent will reinforce peacekeeping operations and contribute to regional stability amid ongoing international tensions.
The AMSB keeps West Germany disarmed at least until 1953 amid fears of new Communist aggression. The board, staffed by US British and French officers, oversees research and industry to prevent militarization while noting German defense needs. Officials call the role futility, while East and West press dispute its aims and postwar aims.
Roy R. Downer 58 a linotype operator for Service Press and former Cedar Rapids Tribune editor died suddenly in a Cedar Rapids hospital at 1 45 a m Saturday born Oct 23 1883 at Mediapolis He is survived by his wife Elizabeth a daughter Mrs George Murray Des Moines a son John D Downer Tatoma two sisters Mrs Lucretia Abel California and Mrs John Niemier Fort Scott Kan and one granddaughter An elder of First Christian Church a past president of the Typographical Union and active in Boy Scouts services in Turner chapel with burial at Cedar Memorial pending the son’s arrival from Washington and friends may call.
Judging continued at Des Moines with Dwight Sickles of Sumner winning the FFA purebred Holstein heifer class and the Holstein heifer grand championship. Open classes saw Richard Luther and Mary Luther of Newton take top placings in market lambs, with Glen Wilson of Eagle Grove and John Halstead of West Union scoring in Poland China classes. Longer's and Renaud's calves and barrows earned several grand and reserve titles as Saturday’s events highlighted Hereford, Angus, Guernsey, and Chester White winners.
Berkeley California Regents vote 12 to 10 to dismiss 32 University of California faculty members who refused to sign loyalty oaths while four of the original 40 non signers later resigned or signed loyalty statements. Governor Warren was overruled on the action.
DETROIT AP. Three stories up Eugene Casey 23 fell from a painter's chair. Fellow worker Al Bodnar 40 reached out with outstretched arms to break the fall and was uninjured. Casey suffered minor injuries weighing 140 pounds. Bodnar weighed about 200 pounds.
Illinois Aeronautics Director Joseph K. McLaughlin requests the Civil Aeronautics Board reconsider its August 1 decision that shifted routes from Parks Airlines to Ozarks Airlines and Mid-Continent. He argues Parks should receive Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes routes, cites public inconvenience, and notes local cities plan to seek reconsideration and route unification.
Mrs Henry P O Neil formerly Teresa Whalen of Cedar Rapids died after a lingering illness in Des Moines. Survived by husband, two daughters, four grandchildren, sister. services and burial in Des Moines will be Monday.
A son was born to Mrs. Don DeFore in Los Angeles on Friday afternoon. Friday marked the Cedar Rapids film star Don DeFore's birthday. The DeFores have three other children, a boy and two girls.
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