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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1956
Page
4
Partly cloudy with snow chances in far northwest and southeast zones. Highs 25 to 50, lows around 18 to 29 in northwest and 30 to 40 in southeast. Local river gauges, birding hours, and multiple civil cases and ordinances noted along with a fatal car crash report near Clinton.
Iowa Attorney General-Elect Norman Erbe praised local law enforcement at the Justices of the Peace and Constables Association annual gathering in Des Moines. The group elected new officers and named Waterloo as the 1957 convention city.
Mrs Stewart Holmes 60 died in a Cedar Rapids hospital after a brain hemorrhage as she stepped from a car returning from a Yugoslav State dancers performance at Cat auditorium. She was active in Cedar Rapids cultural life and survived by her husband Stewart Holmes two sons James and William four grandchildren and a brother How ard Scarf. Burial at Oak Hill. Turner chapel services to be announced.
Services for Clarence T. Giere will be at 1 30 p m Wednesday in the Barta Ilesser chapel with Rev. Engstrom of St Mark s Lutheran church. Burial at Linwood cemetery. Eva C Nye Bailey widow of Harlun Salley will have a graveside service at Oak Hill cemetery at 1 30 p m Wednesday conducted by Dr Harry M Gage.
Funeral services announced for Sadie Branmen in Clareneys home and for Mantua resident at Mechanicsville with burial in Mechanicsville. George EB Alcorn aged 98 buried in West Union cemetery after services. Grace Marie Williams daughter of Lloyd Ham and wife of Walker resident honored with funeral at Rowley Presbyterian Church.
Yugoslavia’s Mladen Ivekovic told the General Assembly that Hungary violated good faith by moving former Premier Imre Nagy into Red Romania, denying he acted of his own free will. He urged Janos Kadar’s government to invite UN Secretary General Hammarskjold to Budapest now, and resisted a US backed plan to send observers into Hungary or neighboring states.
Washington report notes the second inaugural ball will cost nothing to attend, while Chicago reports Methodist Membership Tickets at 15 dollars including tax. The church’s office says membership rose to 9,444,820, up 1.4 percent, with 1,285 preparatory members and 11952 Lon, the year’s figures. The Jan. 21 event is at the guard armory.
City officials and insurance spokesmen examined measures to curb Cedar Rapids employee accident rates deemed excessive. A safety program with a safety director and department seminars may be studied further, with talks, posters, and payroll inserts offered. Cedar Rapids shows 116 accidents among 8,500 workers in the year ending June 30, higher than Dubuque’s nine among 6,000.
Opera star Ezio Pinza was rushed by ambulance to Greenwich hospital after a Monday heart attack described as a coronary occlusion. He was placed on the critical list and had previously suffered a heart attack in Cervia, Italy, last August, which affected his mobility and led him to pause his singing career.
Contracts totaling 108,891 for Noelridge primary school construction were approved by the Cedar Rapids school board. General Viggo M. Jensen Company of Iowa City bid 146,757, Mechanical Tom Bowker and Son 42,160, Electrical Paulson Electric 9,974. steel should arrive in February with a possible June occupancy and completion by August 15. The school will be leased in Noelridge addition beside the north side city park with six classrooms, four kindergartens and a multi purpose room.
Budapest radio reports the Hungarian Red Cross chief Dr Gyvorgy Killner ordered food relief distribution halted while awaiting clarification of aid delivery disputes. In Fairfax Virginia John Kasper, noted anti integration activist, is arrested on charges of reckless driving after speeding to Washington.
Big Falls Minnesota reported a fatal accident as Oscar Z. Fox of Waterloo Iowa was killed when his pickup skidded on a patch of highway near the Canadian border while en route to pick up a load in Hungary observer discussions faltered after India rejected a plan.
Mrs. Carl C. Kesler, a 1931 graduate, spoke on Coe College's founding and early years using lantern slides. She traced the 105 year history from December 5, 1831, by Rev. Williston Jones to the present and shared timeless hopes for Coe's future. A Woodrow Wilson Centennial address by Prof. Samuel P. Hays followed.
Three year old David Hauk son of Mr and Mrs Elmer Hauk of 1942 Third street NW was injured by a car at L avenue and Third street NW. He was taken to Mercy hospital treated and released. The driver Dorothy Michalec of 130A Third street NW said the child ran in front of the car. Police reported.
Footlighter officials announced extended performances of The Rainmaker on Friday and Saturday evening this week. A special student rate of 1 will apply to the added shows.
Captain Kurt Carlsen, famed for the Flying Enterprise, aided crews during a Brooklyn Pier 37 explosion. His vessel Flying Enterprise No. 2 was alongside Pier 29, helping fight fires from debris as ships pulled away. Carlsen rose to prominence in 1952 for steering his storm-wrecked ship through peril.
A Waubeek couple and a Dubuque man were injured Monday afternoon in a head-on collision on highway 13 near Central City. Virgil and Mrs. Fisher were northbound when their car hit Aloysius Blaser's southbound vehicle on the viaduct. Mrs. Fisher suffered head lacerations and an arm injury. Mr. Fisher was pinned and freed. They were taken to St Luke's hospital. Blaser went to Mercy hospital in fair condition.
President Eisenhower will discuss the 1957 legislative program and foreign policy with congressional leaders in Washington on December 31 and January 1. The meetings were postponed from December 13-14 because some participants will attend a NATO meeting in Paris.
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