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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1954
Page
11
An AP survey shows Iowa lawmakers backing an expanded State Highway Patrol by about four to one, with broad support for a 65 mph daytime limit and 55 mph at night. Proposals include stricter enforcement, license suspensions, driver education, and more patrol pay to curb highway deaths.
Mt Vernon Iowa committee will meet to pick two candidates for Rhodes scholarships from Iowa. President Russell D Cole of Cornell College will lead the committee and two finalists will be named to compete in the Middle West district. Members include D T Nelson Luther College, Virgil Han cher University of Iowa, and Bill Carlson Iowa State College.
Upper Iowa University officials announced that Christmas vacations begin Friday December 17. The university will reopen offices December 21 and December 28 for general business. Students return to resume classes Monday January 3.
At a special Earlville Masonic lodge meeting Howard Hunt sr conferred the thirty first degree on his son Howard Hunt Jr. Family members including William Hunt the grandfather Merton Hunt the uncle Ernest Hunt Dall Hunt as deacons and Clarence Hunt Carl Hunt as stewards also participated in the rite.
George D. Miller age 55 of Clarence died suddenly Saturday in St. Petersburg Florida where he and his wife Fern spent the winter. He formerly operated a Clarence general store and earlier ran a restaurant. He belonged to Evangelical and Reformed church American Legion Mt Hope Masonic lodge. Survived by his wife. Services set for Tuesday in St. Petersburg with burial in Clarence.
Six Clayton County men will report Monday at Des Moines for induction into the army. They are William A. Morarend Guttenberg Edward L. Haugen Marquette Frank A. Kennicker North Buena Vista William A. Lundt Osterdock Vernon E. Moser Garber Eldon M. Marting St Olaf
Dr. G. V. Coughlan of Council Bluffs leads Iowa Medical Society opposing the Iowa Hospital Association stance. He argues the society's plan, based on AMA principles and Iowa law, is the only viable path to end a dispute over hospital labs and imaging services run by pathologists and radiologists.
The plan asserts compliance with American Medical Association principles and ethics, stating all physicians are required to follow them, and that Iowa state laws govern the duties of citizens. It emphasizes the physician in charge of each department as a key element of this scheme.
Jones County Sheriff Lewis Dreibelbis and a state agent investigated a Friday night break in at the Oxford Junction state liquor store. Seven cases of liquor were stolen, including two cases of pint bottles and five cases of fifths, entry gained through the rear with crowbars. Gale Peters and L. E. Christensen discovered the break Saturday morning.
Wittie Winkle, a prize cat in the Hawkeye State Cat club show, escaped Saturday night from his cage. He wandered the Savery hotel parlor until Erma Callison of Newton, serving as cat-sitter, traced him by his piano playing as he ran along the keyboard.
Benjamin Waters eighty of Sioux City died in a hospital from injuries after being struck by a car at an intersection on November nineteen. The driver was Gertrude Thieman thirty four of Sioux City. Police will submit the report to the county attorney for disposition. It was the eighth traffic fatality in Sioux City this year. Iowa’s 1954 toll stood at five hundred seventy.
A special election will be held Monday December 13 to form a Columbus community school district in Louisa county. Polls open 1 to 7 p.m. at Columbus Junction High School Columbus City Community Center Fredonia town hall Duncan's store in Gladwin and Oakland township schoolhouse.
Dr Francis S Chase of the University of Chicago will be the main speaker at the Tri State Administrators conference to be held at Luther College in Decorah Wednesday. Prof Stanley Johnston of Luther College education department is in charge of arrangements. About two to three hundred school superintendents and supervisory principals from Iowa Wisconsin and Minnesota will attend.
DES MOINES UP November was an almost ideal month for Iowa farmers completing the 1954 harvest, the Iowa monthly weather bulletin reports. Corn moisture tests showed the crop by November 20 close to normal in both moisture content and estimated bushel weight. Average moisture content 18.5 percent and average bushel weight 55.4 pounds. Temperatures averaged 41.5 degrees, four above normal. Rainfall was .24 inch, third smallest for November in 82 years, with snowfall a trace. Highest reading 77 at Sac City on the seventh. lowest 12 at Milford and Sanborn on the second.
WAUBEEK reports Mark Benest is a patient at Mercy hospital in Cedar Rapids. The notice notes his concurrent care at the facility.
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