Night fires and weather notes from Cedar Rapids area
Fire crews battled grass fires on Drinkward Street NW and near Golf Street NE. Local weather forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with warmer temperatures in the southwest, cooler conditions west tonight and Monday, and limited precipitation. Births announced include several newborns in Lincoln Heights and Tenth Street NW, with numerous funeral notices across Independence, Center Point, West Amana, Manchester, Tama, Cascade, and nearby towns.
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Oakland Road
Fargo
Omaha
Leetereike
Miami
Washington
Iowa
Deaths of Cedar Rapids residents list services and burials
Obituaries for Peter W. Hansen 624 Eighth Street SE Cedar Rapids retired Iowa Steel and Iron Works employee died after a long illness born June 2 1893 in Denmark married Minnie Hornstein Sept 6 1916 in Vinton Ia survivors include wife son Wallace Hansen daughter Mrs Robert Lane siblings four grandchildren services set 1:30 p.m. Tuesday Turner chapel burial Cedar Memorial cemetery. Anna Veronica Handley 91 1029 Tenth Street SW Cedar Rapids died Saturday born Oct 20 1866 in Lawton Mish resident 45 years member St Patrick s church two sons four daughters survive services 9 a.m. Tuesday St Patrick s Church burial Mt Calvary cemetery Rosary 7:30 p.m. Monday Teahen chapel. Clinton Joseph Hughes 2531 A Avenue NE died Friday service 9 a.m. Monday St Matthew s Church burial Mt Calvary Cemetery. Rosary 8 p.m. Sunday Turner chapel.
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Peter W. Hansen
Eighth ‘Street
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Steel and Iron Works
Denmark
Europe
Minnie Hornstein
Vinton
Wallace Hansen
Robert Lane
Thora Halgren
Sturgiss
S.D
Herluf Hansen
Rapids City
Hansen
First Lutheran Church
Turner Chapel
Theodore Youngquist
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Anna Veronica Handley
Tenth Street
Lawton
Mish
Handley
St. Patrick's Church
David M
Silvester Handley
Veronica Harkins
San Clemente
Calif
Mary
Clinton Joseph Hughes
Avenue NE
St. Matthew’s Church
J. D. Kearn
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Friends m
Monsignor
Kearn
Services for Frank Dzaugis Held at Brady Mortuary
Frank Dzaugis 74 died Friday in a Cedar Rapids nursing home. Funeral services set for 11 a.m. Monday at Brady Mortuary conducted by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Maurice Sheehy. Burial will be at Mt. Calvary. Friends may call at the mortuary after 1 p.m. Sunday.
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Frank. Dzaugis
Cedar Rapids
Brady Mortuary
Maurice Sheehy
Mt. Calvary
Bank Clearings Rise for Cedar Rapids Week
Bank clearings for the week ending Saturday December 14 reported by the Cedar Rapids Clearing House totaled 7 647 675 dollars, above the 7 287 925 from the prior week ending December 15 1956. The week ending December 7 1957 recorded 7 210 510 dollars.
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Cedar Rapids Clearing House
tougher times expected for iowa business
Iowa's sales tax report shows slower tax totals in 38 of 99 counties for the quarter ending June 30, with Eastern Iowa counties Linn Tama and Washington posting declines. Des Moines and Waterloo saw modest gains while Cedar Rapids Davenport and Sioux City slipped. Anamosa edged Monticello in sales.
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Bruce Fishwild
Gazette
Iowa
Des Moines
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Sioux City
Woodbury
Black Hawk County
Linn
Tama
Washington
Allamakee
Lansing
Postville
Waukon
Rural
Benton
Belle Plaine
Vinton
Buchanan
Independence
Cedar
Tipton
Clayton
Elkader
Guttenberg
McGregor
Monona
Strawberry Point
Delaware
Manchester
Dubuque
Dubuque City
Dyersville
Fayette
Fayette City
Oelwein
West Union
Marengo
Williamsburg
Johnson
Iowa City
Jones
Anamosa
Monticello
Keokuk
Keota
Sigourney
What Cheer
Marion
Mt. Vernon
Louisa
Columbus Junction
Wapello
Muscatine
Musca Itine City
West Liberty
Wilton
Poweshiek
Brookslyn
Grinnell
Montezuma
Tama City
Toledo
Traer
Washington City
Wellman
Man With Ax Goes Berserk on Manhattan Subway
A 55 year old man identified as Earl S Lachenmaier of Brook ran through four cars of a Manhattan bound East River subway train swinging a Boy Scout ax at overhead handles. He threatened a woman and caused panic though no injuries were reported. Patrolman Paul Taormina subdued him at Wall Street station after the ax head snapped off the handle.
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NEW York
East River
Earl S. Lachenmaier
Brook
Lachenmaier
Paul Taormina
Wall Street
Soviet Moon Projects Boomerang and LVM Reported
The Moscow News reports two Soviet lunar schemes Boomerang and LVM Luna Venus Mars aim for a ten day moon flight and staged moon conquest. Experts Bakulev Isakov and Chebotarev note questions of human survival, with Laika data guiding further experiments.
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Moscow
Moscow News
A. Bakulev
Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences
P. Isakov
Chebotarev
Space
Moon
Earth
Fulcomer Named President of Iowa Family Relations Council
Dr. David M. Fulcomer of Iowa State College has been elected president of the Iowa Council on Family Relations. He succeeds Dr. Harold W. Nes of the University of Iowa.
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Des Moines
David M. Fulcomer
Iowa State College
Iowa Council On Family Relations
Harold W. Nes
University of Owa
Wills admitted to probate in Linn County court
Four wills were admitted to probate in Linn County District Court. Roy S. Hardendorf’s will names his wife Maude as sole heir with Guaranty Bank and Trust Company appointed administrator with a $1000 bond. Ethel M. Beach’s will names husband Herschel as sole heir and executor without bond. Lora E. Hepker’s will names daughter Emma M. Hepker as sole heir and executrix without bond. Marie J. Elliott’s will leaves specific jewelry and bonds to relatives and sets up a trust for 14 beneficiaries aged 21, with Merchants National Bank as executor and trustee.
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Roy S. Hardendorf
Linn County
Hardendorf
Maude
Guaranty Bank and Trust Company
Ethel M. Beach
Herschel
Emma M. Hepker
Lora E. Hepker
Marie J. Elliott
Patricia ‘Lindemann
Grace Elliott
Francis H. Bennet
Mary
Francis Bennet
Joseph
Peter
Candace
Michael
Patricia
Martha Elliott
Charles
Linda
Kathryn Thompson
Karen
Elaine Lindemann
Merchants National Bank
Holliday Files $1153 Damage Suit Against Two Defendants
Lawrence L. Holliday sues for 1152.96 in district court alleging negligence by Roy Reynolds with a semi trailer and by Robert W. Martin driving a car. The incident occurred August 28 in the E and R cafe parking area on Highway 30 W.
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Lawrence L. Holliday
Roy Reynolds
Robert W. Martin
Reynolds
Martin
Holliday
Highway
City Briefs Highlights From Local Toastmasters and Notices
A compendium of club meetings and civic notices in Cedar Rapids lists Junior Toastmasters speakers at the Optimist club YMCA for 12 to 15 year olds, Hawkeye Toastmasters at Bishop’s cafeteria, Accident Prevention Association, speech reading classes, Christmas party plans, Optimist speaker Dr. John J. Murray, Junior Chamber luncheon, and discharges and local business updates. Included are Christmas bonuses at Armstrong’s, a hospital condition update for Edwin Garnant, and other scheduled gatherings at various venues.
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Optimist Club
YMCA
Dennis Goettel
John Lemly
John Liss
Larry Mills
Don MacKay
Frank Mitralsky
Jim Peterson
Steve Robinson
Herb Kiel
Ted Bohr
Ronald Edwards
Bill Hamer
Dave Axline
ORCE
The
Cedar Rapids Hearing Society
John J. Murray
Coe College History Department
Roosevelt Hotel
Jaycee Council
Cedar Rapids Junior Chamber of Commerce
Bishop’s
Arrest of Cedar Rapids man on bench warrant
Herb Arrested 21 of 711 H avenue NW was taken into custody by Cedar Rapids police Saturday night on a bench warrant charging lascivious acts with a child involving a minor girl. Visiting in CR Dr S De fent of Excelsior Springs Mo visiting in homes of Andrew Dergos 1736 J avenue NE and Lillian Neff 1310 B avenue NE this weekend.
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Herb
Danny _ K.Herb
H Avenue
Cedar Rapids
C.R
Dr. S. Defent
Excelsior Springs
Andrew Dergos
J Avenue
Lillian Neff
B Avenue
Yugoslavia Ousts Newsweek Writer Over Book Excerpts
Belgrade officials expelled Allan Michie Newsweek correspondent after charging distribution of excerpts from The New Class by Milovan Djilas. He planned to depart for Germany. In Syria, Joe Alex Morris Jr. of New York Herald Tribune was expelled with 30 minutes notice, denied reasons or embassy contact.
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Belgrade
INS
Allan Michie
Newsweek Magazine
Yugoslavia
Michie
Milovan Diilas
Tito
Germany
Syria
NEW York (Ap
Joe Alex Morris, Jr
New York Herald Tribune
Middle East
the Tribune
Morris
Jesup Child Fatally Struck by Grandmother's Car
Cecil Lee Buttolph three of route one Jesup died from a skull fracture after his grandmother Henry Newton accidentally pressed the accelerator instead of the brake in the family driveway. He died about two hours later at Independence hospital.
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JESUP
Cecil Lee Buttolph
Route 1
Donald Buttolph
Independence Hospital
Henry Newton
Ray Adair, Tama Banker, Dies, 84
Tama Iowa Ray Adair 84 longtime bank president died at his home of a heart attack He led Tama State Bank and had moved to Tama about 1930 from Toledo where he also worked in banking He was a widely known figure in local finance.
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Tama (Ap
Ray Adair
Iowa
Adair
Tama State Bank
Toledo
In memory notices from Cedar Rapids builders group
The draft lists Camp Good Health Home Builders Association of Cedar Rapids and the Gazette Company with payments of 100.06 and 100.00. It also lists memorial contributions for Frank Kas par in Rocky Ford Colorado from Louise Leibert Cir ele King’s Daughters and a memorial gift for Frank W. Sremek Pere sees five dollars.
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Home Builders Association of
Cedar Rapids
the Gazette Company
Frank Kaspar
Rocky Ford
Colo
Louise Leibert Cirele
King’s Daughters
Frank W. Sremek
Pere
U S Envoy Calls for U N Special Session Over Hungary
The American envoy condemns Soviet and Hungarian actions in Hungary and warns of a U N special session to consider further steps. Ambassadors from Uruguay and a five nation committee back Lodge’s initiative as they await Prince Wan’s report on Soviet and Hungarian Communist conduct.
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Lodge
Russia
Hungary
Moscow
Budapest
Thailand
Prince Wan
U.N
United States
Enrique Fabregat
Case of the Sad Cow Heads to Court in Idaho
V-1 Oil Company of Idaho sues Arthur and Bernice Neilson of Inkom and the Union Pacific railroad for 11886 in damages after a Dec 6 highway crash near Pocatello. The company alleges the cow wandered onto the road, the driver crashed into a ditch, and rail workers left a pasture gate open, though the cow was uninjured.
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Pocatello, Idaho
V-1 Oil Company
Idaho
Falls
Arthur
Bernice Neilson
Inkom
Union Pacific Railroad
Soviet reshuffles defense ministries into new state committees
The Soviet Union reorganized its defense related ministries into new state committees and named former defense industries minister Dmitri F. Ustinov as deputy premier and defense czar. Observers note Ustinov is a production expert and until now a relatively unknown central committee member.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Defense Industries
Dmitri F. Ustinov
Ustinov
Communist Party Central Committee
Wounded Boy in Fair Condition at St Luke’s Hospital
Forrest Buckingham a 12 year old boy remained resting comfortably in fair condition at St Luke's Hospital Saturday night after treatment for an accidental .22 rifle wound suffered earlier in the day. He is the son of Mr and Mrs R L Buckingham of 3010 Cottage Grove avenue SE.
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Forrest Buckingham
St. Luke’s Hospital
R. L. Buckingham
Cottage Grove Avenue
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Craig
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Kloos
Glenn
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Drexler
Keith
Lewellen Drive
Slycord
Paul
Shaver’ Road
Newell
Darrow
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Howard
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Robert
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Bill
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Central City
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Benjamin Huber
Solon
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Patricia Mentzer
Edith H. Miller
Richard P. Miller
Helen Stoneking
Clinton Stoneking
Vivian Eldred
Robert K. Eldred
Genevieve J. Hoeger
Merlin J. Hoeger
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Fifteenth Avenue SE
City Park
Golf Street NE
Winthrop
Clayton Miller
Fawcett Funeral Home
Whitney Cemetery
Center Point
Flora Horak
Murdoch Funeral Home
Archie E. Cameron
Swanson Funeral Home
Mt. Hope Cemetery
Gladys Kirby
St. James Episcopal Church
Swanson Funneral
West Amana
Lena Miller
Iechurch
Kenneth Ritchie
Burnham and Wood Funeral Home
Mabel A. Hakanson
Methodist
Mt. Hope
Gill Funeral Home
Ray A. Adair
Harrison Funeral Home
Cascade
James Sullivan
St. Martins Church
Church Cemetery
Devaney Funeral Home
Anna Handley
Hughes Services
Dzaugis Services
Man With
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Third Avenue
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Beurle
Beatty Beurle
Empire
Arthur Beurle
Tom Merryman
Coe College
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Metropolitan Opera
Robert Nesbitt
Dallas Tjaden
Cee Promenade Orchestra
Fulcomer
South Side News
Progressive Lodge 343
CSA
CSPS
L. L. Holliday
Ambulance Emergency and Invalid Service, Inc
8Th Ave. SE
Novak Monument CO
John
Lapes
3Rd Avenue
Mt. Vernon Ave
Hawkeye
Hawkeye Toastmasters Club
Carrol Luckey
Jim Jarras
Milton Carlson
Byron Bell
Keith Ehlers
Ralph Hoover
Dean Miller
Tom Termohlen
Sheraton-Montrose
Bob Johnson
Chamber of Commerce
Creswell Pharmacy
Ave
Duane Hirsch
J. L. Dalton
Homer Stone
Chris Fedde
A. M. van Cleve
Johnson Ave
Community House
Exchange Club
Sheraton- Montrose
Nick’s
Harlan L. Roberts
S. D. Roberts
Third Street
Ft. Belvoir
Deloris Richards
N Street
Armstrong’s
Lloyd Douda
40Th St. N.E
Stanwood
Mechanicsville
Turner Service
Orner’s
Turner's
Joun
Turner & Son
Fifth Street
Della Hultgren
van Cleve's
1St Ave
Rotary Club
Wally Schwank
Bob Schulz
Bob Liddy
Glen Drahn
Coe
Pierson’s Florists
Ellis Blvd
N.W
Plan Commission
City Plan Commission
Jesup Boy
Iowa Memorial CO
T. B. Hlubucek
Mer
Pragita
Ambulance Service Company
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