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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1952
Page
1
Rodney Lee Brodie, the Siamese twin, shows improvement after the 12 hour 40 minute separation operation. His brother Roger Lee remains in a deep coma with a hospital bulletin noting possible news on Sunday about removal from the critical list.
A C-124 Globemaster crash at Larson air base Moses Lake Washington killed 83 of 115 aboard while 32 survivors were rescued and hospitalized. Early reports fluctuated in casualty totals as officials and witnesses described a devastating scene with wreckage strewn over a quarter mile. The four engine transport, bound for Kelly Field San Antonio, crashed after takeoff in light snow.
City council unveiled a 214 million dollar plan to expand Cedar Rapids sewage treatment to double capacity and curb river pollution. The project shifts costs to users and major industries, with no tax increase and funds raised via higher sewage rentals. Planning proceeds with engineering firm Howard R Green and awaits formal action.
Dr. Andrew Ivy, central figure in the krebiozen cancer drug controversy, will receive a leave of absence from the University of Illinois while retaining his post as vice president of the college. State legislators said they would refrain from intervening if the leave is approved by the board of directors, following talks with Ivy and university officials. Previously President Stoddard had urged eliminating Ivy’s vice presidency, leaving him as a distinguished professor.
London dispatch reports Pravda criticizing Soviet industry for wasteful practices across heavy engineering construction agriculture and transport. It cites high administrative costs wasted materials fuel power and poor use of machinery amid negligent worker attitudes and ignored technical methods. The ministry of engineering reportedly doubled losses since 1951.
Sidney H. Paley, a Jersey City nylon pants maker known as Nylon Sid, receives a three year term from a U.S. consular court in Tangier for abducting and aiding the hijacking of $100,000 in American cigarettes from the Dutch motorship Combinatie off Spain. Elliott Forrest and six hooded men assisted the Oct. 4 attack, marking the first piracy case handled by an American consular court since World War II.
Moscow radio reports that American singer Paul Robeson Soviet journalist Ilya Ehrenberg and Canadian Reverend James Endicott received Stalin peace prizes each worth 25450 dollars. Ehrenberg led the Vienna world peace congress, Endicott once endorsed charges against U.N. forces in Korea.
The foreign office announced that normal diplomatic relations are resumed with Bolivia on Saturday even though the Bolivian legislature has not yet ratified the peace treaty.
Iowa slowly recovered from a Christmas ice storm as roads remained snowpacked and slippery. Power outages persisted in Cedar Rapids and some farms while utilities planned Sunday repairs. Temperatures forecast near freezing with another potential western storm early next week.
A Cedar Rapids man cited for failing to yield the right of way has his charge altered after a city attorney finds the ordinance invalid. The judge recalls a 1951 ruling that the right of way law mainly affects civil cases, not criminal penalties, prompting city changes to the ordinance.
The army will combat test 1500 pairs of sponge plastic mittens in Korea this winter with the new cold bar uniform. The single piece mitten holds thumb forefinger and three fingers in a leather palm guarded covering. Tests here showed the sponge mitten keeps hands warmer than woolen mittens.
President elect Eisenhower will meet Monday with four new administration officials and The Committee on the Present Danger to discuss his domestic and foreign programs. He plans two major messages: inauguration address and State of the Union. Attending lunch will be John Foster Dulles and other top appointees with Roger M. Kyes representing Charles E. Wilson.
An auto collided with a Greyhound bus at a highway intersection in Lagrange Indiana on Saturday night. Six occupants of the car were killed and 13 injured. The dead include four adults and two children. Police knew only the car’s registration, showing the name Morris of Battle Creek.
Four month old Siamese twins joined head to head with their deceased brother died in an operating room in Memphis as surgeons prepared for separation. The infants were John L. Flowers and John Edward Flowers, sons of Roosevelt and Maybelle Flowers, transported from Greenwood Mississippi by state patrol. No immediate cause could be given.
Boston report claims FBI identified a second participant in the Brink's armored truck robbery of January 17 1950. The note suggests most gang members may be known and indictments are pursued before statutes of limitations expire. A separate report says the FBI disproved alibi of Joseph Specs O Keefe who is imprisoned in Pennsylvania.
Cedar Rapids reports that National Oats Company plant workers, represented by Local 10 of the American Federation of Grain Millers, will receive a 10-cent hourly raise under a new contract. The deal adds vacation tiers from one to three weeks and pays juror duty differences.
Sen. Lehman of New York announced plans to introduce a health plan bill early in the new Congress. He cited President Truman's health commission report and prior recommendations as a basis to provide modern medical and hospital care to all Americans.
Most Cedar Rapids retail stores will close at 9 p.m. Monday and Tuesday for Christmas shopping. Regular hours resume Wednesday as advised by the Retail Merchants bureau of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce. The post office will open 2 to 5 this afternoon for Christmas mailers. Regular hours return Monday.
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