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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1948
Page
8
Virgil Andrew president of bus drivers local 638 AFL and K E Totten regional manager City Lines Chicago say negotiations are progressing satisfactorily. Meetings suspended this month due to holidays. Present contract expires December 31.
Torn weather notes list high and low temperatures across cities with precipitation totals. Iowa forecast calls for cloudy Thursday light snow Friday and clearing Saturday with little temperature change. Divorces and legal notices noted along with births and obituaries from towns including Tama Belle Plaine Iowa City Waterloo and Dysart.
Cedar Rapids city lines management and union officials agreed Tuesday to suspend further contract negotiations until the second week in January after a meeting held Monday.
Lloyd L. Burger 49 a former factory manager for LaPlant Choate Manufacturing died Tuesday night in a Des Moines hospital after a week long heart attack. A Cedar Rapids resident for many years he led the LaPlant plant 15 years and later became treasurer of Woods Brothers Manufacturing in Des Moines. Survived by wife Esther Walker two sons William at the University of Iowa and Wayne at home and a brother. Services and burial in Des Moines.
Mrs. Frank Vavricek 63, lifelong Cedar Rapids area resident, died Tuesday at home after a long illness. Born Oct 7, 1885 in Jimramov Moravia she came to the United States 60 years ago. Surviving are her husband three daughters two sons 15 grandchildren a sister and a brother. Services Friday at Brush chapel at 2 p.m. Rev Zdenek F. Pauk officiating burial Campbell Cemetery near Cedar Rapids. Call at chapel.
Cedar Rapids resident Mary Stumph age 63 died December 15 in a Long Beach California hospital after a long illness. She was born February 1 1885 in Austria Hungary and immigrated to the United States about 60 years ago. Survived by four daughters Eva Culdice Lucille Baker Alvin McMurrin and Robert Zika and a son Robert. Funeral held Wednesday at 2 pm in Cedar Memorial Chapel of Memories conducted by Dr Marion H Williams. Burial in Cedar Memorial cemetery.
Services for Mary Jean Bender four month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Adalbert Bender will be held at Turner chapel at 1 30 p m Thursday Reverend E W Waggazer of Bethany Lutheran Church will officiate Burial will be Cedar Memorial Cemetery Friends may call at the chapel
Anna Cecilia Dalton of 348 Garden Drive SE died Tuesday. Funeral services will be held at St Matthew’s Church at 9 a.m. Thursday with Rev. James Kearn presiding. Burial follows at Mt Calvary Cemetery. The Rosary is recited by Father Kearn at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Brady mortuary. Mrs Dalton was the widow of Edward F Dalton.
Funeral services for Mrs Herbert L Hinton of 112 Third Street NW will be held in the Rohn chapel at 2 p m Thursday with the Rev Waldemar Argow and the Rev G H Bamford officiating. Cremation committal will follow. Friends may call at the chapel.
Democratic chairman J Howard McGrath on Wednesday said Congress will likely pass a single package labor bill repealing Taft Hartley reinstating and revising the Wagner act. He said the party platform calls for repeal and did not rule out changes to Wagner as urged by Truman.
VFW post 9129 meets Thursday at 7 30 p m at the post club rooms. Jan Hus lodge No 51 1 C C F meets tonight at 7 30 in Sokol hall. Cedar Rapids Chess club meets in Collins Radio cafeteria at 7 p m today. Sgt John H McIIvor U S M C arrives for 20 day fur lough with parents. Salvation Army offers Christmas trees to families unable to pay with companies donating extras. Cedar Rapids Marine Corps recruiting office to raise one year enlistment quota after Jan 1 for 18 year olds. Christmas story hour at libraryThursday at 4 with Mrs Richard Miller leading carols. Rent control office hours Friday only until 12 15 p m at 801 803 American building. Baker Manufacturing workers with over two years service receive 25 percent bonus. Christmas Window decoration contest rules and ideas available from Playground and Recreation Commission. Gordon Fennell Company Christmas dinner dance Thursday in Roosevelt hotel Florentine room chaired by Miss Jeanne Kridler Miss Maureen Shea and Harold Kridler. Baxter Motors Baxter Implement and Brown Tire annual Christmas party with 100 employees and wives at Club Ced-Rel Al Keyes master of ceremonies.
Linn county supervisors urged the state highway commission to build a 24 by 120 foot continuous beam bridge over Indian creek on the extension of Tenth street just north of Marion. The span, costing about 33000 dollars, will include a two foot curb and six tenths of a mile of approaches. The project accompanies plans for a new Marion rural independent school. Also abandoned was the Hampton gravel pit between Whittier and Waubeek, returned to the Hamptons by quit claim deed.
Linn County acquires a paper shredding machine costing 393 dollars to clear storage space by destroying old documents. After January 1 the board of supervisors can authorize destruction of tax receipts five years old ballots six months old and records older than ten years, with auditor Otto Hanzlik seeking an order for records dated before December 31 1938.
Mary Nemer sues Irene Mrstik for 195.50 claiming damages from tenancy at 921 Seventh Avenue SE. She seeks 54.50 for repairs 3.50 cleanup 70 for subtenant conduct fees 40 rent 15 ouster costs and 12.50 moving expenses as reimbursement for alleged theft.
Defendants Vaclav Secl filed suit against Mr and Mrs William Weber seeking an original notice on the case and asking that the action proceed after the notice is filed. The filing centers on formal service requirements and court processing steps.
Plaintiff seeks a $290 judgment for farm rent incurred in 1935 and 1934. Defendants argue the claim should be for 1944 and that the action may now be barred by law. They move to dismiss the case.
Three wills were admitted to probate in Linn county district court Tuesday. Orville Hull Adams died November 26 and daughter Catherine M. Adams of Seattle was named administratrix with will annexed and bond set at 1000 dollars. Margaret E C Hutchinson died December 12 and Thomas Galloway was appointed executor without bond and sole heir. Frank H Rank died December 14 and Edith Sullivan was named executrix without bond and sole beneficiary.
J. W. Tubbs doing business as Transport Truck and Equipment Co sues Mes singer and Sons and Roy and J. L. Messinger seeking 2795 allegedly due on a truck sold July. The suit was filed Wednesday in district court.
Karl William Ellis Wednesday pled innocent to using a forged $100 check at Hunter Airport on October 5. Prosecutors say he passed the check for a flying lesson and received $35 in change.
Walter F. Nesper of Nesper Sign and Neon Company sues Howard Aldrich of Aldrich Shoe Hospital for 154.72 dollars alleging the balance due on an account for window lettering and a neon sign.
Linn county courthouse will close at 4 p.m. on Christmas Eve marking holiday hours and access changes for the public.
The Cedar Rapids Real Estate Board hosted its annual Christmas banquet and party for wives and office staff at the Roosevelt hotel. Marion H. Williams led the program as master of ceremonies with committee members listed including Robert L. Stonebraker and Mary Leone Bezdek. Decorations were by Bezdek Ferris Redman George and Mrs. Charles A. Siegfried. An unrelated note mentions ice hockey's popularity in England around 1900.
Cedar Rapids postal officials said the heaviest part of the outgoing mail rush was fading by Wednesday while incoming mail peaked. Tuesday’s incoming total reached 226 680 letters, about 3 000 more than the prior record. outgoing mail fell from Monday’s 360 508 but remained high at 237 177. Assistant postmaster Walter C. Anawalt noted longer mail pauses and rural carriers faced heavy loads on country roads.
An itinerant steelworker Herlindo Perez Arias, 31, confessed to the killing of 10 year old Roberta Rinearson. Psychiatrists from Cook County behavior clinic found him sane, declaring him insane by tests.
A Pueblo woman asked the Chamber of Commerce to arrange a yellow cake for an event, a request described as a cake of another color and highlighting unusual behavior by the chamber in handling it.
A woman ordered a Christmas cake with yellow icing and yellow roses to be delivered to Cedar Rapids friends. The Chamber arranged a bakery to bake the cake and asked for the color of the greeting to be green as requested.
At the 1946 Far East military tribunal session 28 defendants stood trial. Seven faced death, 16 received life sentences, and two earned lesser terms. Among the tried were Kimura Itagaki Matsui Muto, linked to actions in Malaya Burma Nanking and Singapore surrender.
Stephen J. Supina, 36, a former air force turret gunner who exploded a homemade bomb over U.N. headquarters last July, was released from jail after being sentenced to the time already served. He pled guilty to a misdemeanor on December 6 and said he wanted to wake U.N. to world peace.
The Marquess of Milford Haven, a leading British noble, denied engagement rumors with Sharon Douglas as he departed for London after a two month business trip to New York.
The papal Ring of the Fisherman, a renowned symbol linked to the pope, has a traced origin dating back to 1265. Historical records associate the ring with the papal office and its ceremonial use through centuries.
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