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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1952
Page
1
Independence residents raise funds to pay for a portable respirator for Betty Eck, who has lived in an iron lung since her infantile paralysis diagnosis in 1940. The drive seeks to reduce reliance on the iron lung and aid emergency police use.
Red Russell, longtime Tama county public servant and leader in Iowa politics, discusses his career from county clerk to selective service appeals chair, his loyalty to the Republican Party, and his devotion to Boys Town as a recurring hobby. He notes his philosophy of meeting people and serving without abandoning ongoing duties.
The first Christmas seals funded Brandywine tuberculosis hospital. In 1917 Orr began saving seals but struggled to find 1907 1916 issues. After years of swapping, his collection is complete. In 1919 the National Tuberculosis Association took over sponsorship from the American Red Cross to fund ongoing tuberculosis fight.
Sealed bids due by 11 a m January 6 for sale and removal of government owned buildings and improvements in the Coralville reservoir project on the Iowa River between Cedar Rapids and Iowa City. Opened publicly at the Rock Island district office. Inspection by bidders. Information available from Rock Island office.
The Clayton County Ministerial Association will gather at the Evangelical United Brethren church in Monona on Monday. The session begins at 12 30 p m with a program and business meeting to follow.
Miss Bilon Ozyigit of Turkey, 25, visiting Troy Mills as guest of Mr and Mrs Paul Wilson, speaks on Fulbright aims and Turkey’s progress. She says communism has little appeal there and notes Americans seem busy while she tours Iowa City and Eastlawn dormitory.
Nellie Marie Crouse 16 of near Winthrop died Thursday evening in a two car crash. Funeral services set for Monday at 2 30 p m at First Lutheran church burial in Ryan Lutheran cemetery. She was born November 30 1936 and attended schools in Wyoming Castleton Ryan and Dundee before Winthrop high school where she was a junior. Survivors include her parents a sister Mildred 15 and grandparents Ernest and Mrs Diercksen.
Des Moines reports November's precipitation at 2.9 inches, the seventh wettest in 80 years. The wettest on record was 7.1 inches in 1931. Snow and rain ended a 75 day dry spell with heaviest snows in Mills to Worth county area. Temperatures averaged 38.7 degrees, with readings from the mid-70s early month to below zero on November 28.
The State Conservation Commission bought 850 acres of Green Bay bottom land in Lee County near the Mississippi south of Burlington for about 85 000. The tract, previously leased to the Izaak Walton League, will be enlarged with lakes and dikes to become a top duck hunting and fishing site, ready for public use next year.
About 300 delegates from 99 county associations will meet in Des Moines for a special session to decide the Iowa State Education Association’s stance on increased state school aid and a new retirement system for public employees. Hamilton G. Vasey will present the finance plan backing a foundation program with higher state funding for operating costs and school construction. Saturday will address retirement law changes urged by a legislative study committee.
The jury trial in Judge Shannon B. Charlton's court begins Monday over a $4,618.35 assault and defamation suit filed by Fred H. Schenke of Greeley against Donald Tibbett and William H. Holthaus. Schenke seeks $3,118.35 damages from each defendant and $1,500 for defamation against Holthaus.
Bennie Romesburg and Clarence Rowe, escapees from the Iowa state reformatory at Anamosa in 1951, were sentenced to five to eight years in the New Mexico penitentiary at Santa Fe for armed robbery. Sheriff Gaylord Stuelke said the FBI notified him of the sentencing and that the two fled in a dairy truck abandoned in Council Bluffs.
The Marengo Commercial club will hold its annual election of officers Tuesday evening during the December meeting at the Doose hotel.
Richard Gene Starr a Des Moines truck driver filed for annulment of his marriage to Wanda Mae Starr whom he wed last May 5 in Preston Minnesota. He says he believed she was 17 at the time but learned she was only 14 and he cites Minnesota law voiding such a marriage from the start. He says his wife refused to live in his Des Moines home and he has seen her only on occasional visits due to work away from the city.
Manchester rescinds curbside parking on Main and Franklin streets and on highways 20 and 13 in the downtown district from 2 to 6 a.m. during winter to aid snow removal efforts, per Mayor E. W. Williams.
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