Winter Weather: Midwest Temperatures and Snow
Sunday to Tuesday forecast shows colder air moving east with partly cloudy skies in the east and widespread snow showers possible in the north. Normal December totals are noted with daily highs in the 20s to 30s and several towns recording precipitation and barometer readings at noon. Multiple obituaries and local notices appear for Hook, Marion, and Cedar Rapids communities with funeral details and address lines.
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Ee Ear Rere
Heveeser
Paving Program for 1957 Closed in Cedar Rapids
Public Improvements Commissioner Swede Halvorson announced that no more petitions will be accepted for the 1957 paving project in Cedar Rapids. Remaining requests will join a possible second contract next year. He said the move would speed design work and aim for an early bid opening with clearer cost figures. Half of the gasoline tax receipts will fund resurfacing on older streets and the other half pavement, about $167,500 each, with the city covering slabs beyond 25 feet. Halvorson warned of higher paving costs next year due to concrete material strikes, rising steel prices, and a possible freight rate increase.
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Swede Halvorson
Halvorson
Cedar Rapids
Rose Bowl Parade and Concert Events in Los Angeles
The Rose Bowl festivities include two groups from Iowa and Oregon State performers marching two hours in the Parade of Roses. They will also play at the Iowa Oregon State football game on New Year’s Day. The Highlanders and marching band performed in downtown LA, followed by a musical show for coeds at the Moulin Rouge club.
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General Taylor to Visit San Juan for Recovery
General Maxwell D. Taylor said he will spend about ten days in San Juan Puerto Rico to recuperate from a sciatic nerve condition he has suffered for two weeks.
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Washington
INS
Maxwell D. Taylor
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Hungary Says It Will Return to U N General Assembly
Nepszabadsag reports Hungary plans to return to the U N General Assembly on Friday led by Endre Sik with Imre Horvath remaining in New York. The article notes foreign aid after the rebellion totaling about 63 million dollars with 20 million from the United States and loans from Russia.
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Khrushchev Warns Satellite Nations on Capitalist Moves
Khrushchev told Russia's satellites that any move toward capitalism would destroy the new life granted them and urged collective defense to safeguard peace. He criticized Western efforts to revive anti communism and noted events in Hungary and Egypt as signs of cold war pressure. He spoke in an interview with Rude Pravo broadcast by Radio Prague.
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Private Parties To Be Broadcast On KFJB In Marshalltown
KFJB will broadcast a New Year’s Eve party around Marshalltown with a mobile unit KA 7453 led by Herb Anderson. Barry Norris and Jerry Gresson supervise impromptu visits to private parties starting 10 15 p.m. and lasting until 6 a.m. A midnight-originating feed from the coliseum and a ballroom visit are planned.
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Marshalltown
KFJB
Barry Norris
Jerry Gregson
Herb Anderson
Fire kills two children in suspected living room blaze
Ray Ford reported a deadly fire at 4312 Golf Street NE where Merrily Leslie Clark born 1947 and her brother Terry Lee Clark born 1943 perished before fire crews arrived. Chief Hunter cited unresolved cause and possible Christmas tree wiring. Funeral plans through Turner chapel.
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Golf Street
Hunter
Terry
Merrily
Merrily Leslie Clark
Chicago
Terry Lee
Alexandria
Franklin High School
Wright School
First Presbyterian Church
Margaretta Jane Beattie
Mansfield
Ohio
Lucy Lermcke
Flemingsburg
Turner Chapel
Channel 9 Programmers Air Monday Night Music Event
An upcoming broadcast on Channel 9 features a music program scheduled for Monday at 7 30 PM. The listing promotes the show time and channel for viewers seeking evening entertainment.
Plan Commission Faces Reappointments and Withdrawals
Cedar Rapids officials debate reappointments as 17 year veteran George Cockburn withdraws final from consideration. Mayor Meaghan, Commissioner Shank and others discuss implications, with new members Gaskill Behrens and Pilcker named to five year terms on the 21 member Plan Commission.
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Cockburn
Shank
Plan Commission
iShank
Behrens
Cedar Rapids
Bomb Scare Spreads to Other Cities Across Nation
Reports from Gazette Leased Wires describe a continuing bomb scare linked to the so called mad bomber. Police in Kansas City found a dynamite device at Union Station while warnings disrupted flights in Garden City Topeka and Hutchinson. In New York the Times Square Paramount theater was targeted again as police pursued threats amid several dud devices. Morris Rubin 37 was arrested after hoax calls and admitted making numerous threats.
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Changes planned for Fourth Street and Union Station access
Officials consider removing Fourth Street tracks and Union Station connections with overpasses on First Avenue East near Franklin School and First Avenue West near Cleveland School. Commissioner Pilicer finishes first five-year term as Mayor Meaghan plans commendations for departing members.
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Union Station
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Dust Up In Oskaloosa Traffic Toll Report
Oskaloosa residents reported a cycle incident with a dairy truck in a residential area on Saturday. Louis G. Hulme, 21, Reinbeck, died in an auto accident near Reinbeck Friday night.
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Louis G. Hulme
Reinbeck
Toll for Nation Rises Steadily During New Year Weekend
The Associated Press reports a rising New Year holiday toll with 260 deaths so far from highway crashes 24 fire fatalities and 32 other deaths. NSC president Ned H Dearborn warns of an ominous trend and urges restored caution to curb the carnage.
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Kudrna to Leave Police Chief Post on Half Pay Pension
Kudrna, slated to retire January 21, expresses view that the investigator should work for the sheriff's office rather than the county attorney. He leaves the police department on half pay with a chief salary of 6480 dollars annually, and a new county salary of 4000 dollars. Supervisors approve three new Nazette legal assistants: James Bramwell Bryce Fisher and Carl Hendrickson Jr.
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Bandits Routed by Old Trick Again
In Boston Haig Paroona gian, 65, faced armed bandits in his variety store and used a loud scream to deter them, employing a time tested trap that has worked three times in 19 years.
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Two Cedar Rapids Men Fined For Drunk Driving
Raymond H. Shafer 45 of 616 Seventh Street SE pled guilty to a second offense drunk driving before Judge Floyd Philbrick and received a $500 fine after being arrested Friday night for erratic driving on First Avenue W near Fifth Street. Arland J. Rowan 29 of 1241 Third Avenue SE paid $50 Monday toward a $300 fine issued after his pickup struck a highway island stop sign at the 218 30 junction south of Cedar Rapids. rest due at $50 monthly.
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Raymond H. Shafer
Seventh Street
Floyd Philbrick
Shafer
First Avenue
Fifth Street
Mahaska County
Arland J. Rowan
Third Avenue SE
Rowan
Two Youths Plead Innocent to Car Theft
Two Cedar Rapids youths, Tony Kopaitich Jr. 17 and Howard Saylor 18, pled innocent in Linn county district court to car theft charges. They were arrested after taking a car owned by Robert Pope, located in front of Pope’s house on Wednesday night.
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Linn County District Court
Tony Kopaitich, Jr
Second Street
Howard Saylor
Eleventh Street
Robert Pope
Seventh Street
Pope
Charge Against C. R. Woman Is Dismissed
A Cedar Rapids assault charge against Mrs. Jess Valandingham 22 of 624 Sixth Street SW was dismissed in district court after she was admitted to a mental health institute. Police had accused her of stabbing her husband with a needle on November 9.
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Cedar Rapids
Jess Valandingham
Sixth Street
Hemphill Divorce Decree Set Aside by District Court
Iris L. Hemphill's divorce decree against William H. Hemphill was set aside by a district court judge on Friday. Dukehart-Hughes Tractor and Equipment Co. won judgment for 1664.75 against William H. Stark in a related case.
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William H. Hemphill
Dukehart-Hughes Tractor and Equipment Company Monday
William H. Stark
Deaths Myrtle May Gunsaulis noted in Cedar Rapids
Myrtle May Gunsaulis 68 wife of William E Gunsaulis 510 First Street SW Cedar Rapids died at home after long illness at 12 05 a m Sunday born May 15 1881 Ollie married July 27 1920 Surviving Arthur Roush Phillipsburg Kan Ethel Miller Opal Smith Cedar Rapids Clayton Brolhar Walnut four grandchildren member Presbyterian services 1 30 p m Wednesday Turner chapel Rev James Webb Cedar Memorial cemetery friends may call chapel
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William E. Gunsaulis
First Street
Cedar Rapids
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Arthur Roush
Phillipsburg
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Ethel Miller
Opal Smith
Clayton Brolhar
Walnut
Prayer service for Cedar Rapids woman dies in Indiana
Mrs Vaclav Kreycik a Cedar Rapids resident for 20 years died in Hammond Indiana Friday. Funeral services were held at 9 a m Monday at Rohn funeral home with burial in Cedar Memorial cemetery. Born in Milwaukee she came to Cedar Rapids from Minneapolis and moved to Hammond two years ago. She was affiliated with the Catholic church. Surviving are three daughters Anna Forrest Minneapolis Rose McCormick Pittsburgh Pa Kathryn Vegge Hammond and one granddaughter.
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Cedar Rapids
Hammond
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Minneapolis
Anna K. Forrest
Rose McCormick
Pittsburgh
Kathryn Vegge
No Greasy Poles Needed Tonight in London
Police report British New Year revelry was tame and Piccadilly Circus did not require greasing street poles to deter climbers on Monday night.
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Piccadilly Circus
Bank Vice President Foils Robbery by Two Gunmen
Pauls Valley Oklahoma AP Two gunmen attempted to rob First National Bank but vice president A Foss escaped through a side door and alerted police. Foss said the janitor Joe Jones was held in the basement and seven or eight female employees were under threat when the break in occurred. The vaults were not opened and the robbers fled after Foss exited. It was the bank’s first attempted robbery in 60 years of operation.
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Joe Jones
Jones
Trowel Chapter to Meet at Masonic Temple
Cedar Rapids Trowel Chapter 49 RAM will hold a meeting Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the Masonic temple. Kiwanis speaker Robert Caldwell of the Chamber of Commerce will address the club Wednesday at noon in the Roosevelt hotel. Civic Bureau plans a Friday luncheon at noon at the Roosevelt hotel. Kegley elected to American Institute of Accountants. Enlistee Donald R. Brooks 18 of Vinton route 3 reported for Marine Corps training in San Diego. Clothing stolen from John Evans amounting to 205 dollars. FD Brown promoted to corporal at Kemper Military School ROTC. Dr Ben Peterson to speak January 7 at 8 p.m. at Springville Methodist church. Breakin at International Harvester garage under inquiry. 12 dollars and 90 cents taken. House boat along Cedar River damaged by vandals. damage about 100 dollars.
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Springville
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California Blazes Rated Controlled
A foggy night eased the Malibu fires as officials declared the blazes under control. Local agencies and counties pulled back, embers dwindling within perimeters on three fires near Zuma Beach and Lake Sherwood. The blazes, over 60 square miles, destroyed 67 homes and caused one death and two serious firefighter injuries.
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Cedar Rapids Plans Bright School Area Street Lighting
Cedar Rapids city council studied plans to improve lighting around elementary and high schools. The Iowa Electric Light and Power Co proposed 107 six thousand lumen lights and 246 two thousand five hundred lumen lights for public schools with a parochial high school to follow. Officials cited safety and crime prevention, with phased evaluation after initial installations.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Iowa Crash Claims Three Lives Over Weekend
Three deaths occurred from late year Iowa crashes. Arthur Rossman 66 of Clarion died in a hospital after a two car collision that also killed a five month old Marshalltown infant. Carolyn Beresford 24 of Dubuque died after injuries from December 19 north of Dubuque. Frank Oliver Nelson 49 of Minneapolis died in Sioux City after injuries from a highway crash near Onawa where a truck left the road and struck a pole.
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Clarion
Clarion Hospital
Marshalltown
Carolyn Beresford
Duebuque
Dubuque
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Sioux City
Onawa
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Refugees find law has heart in Chicago case
Two Hungarian refugees, Louis Scorba and Bela Sandor, celebrated first American paychecks at the home of sponsor William E. Traynor. A disorderly conduct charge followed a fight. Judge Cecil Smith dismissed the case after noting America’s hospitality and urging better conduct.
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U.S
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Bela Sandor
William E. Traynor
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Hungary
New Year Message Urges U N Forces to Stay Ready
General Lemnitzer, commander of United Nations and Far East forces, told troops Monday in a New Year message that they must stay strong alert and resolute to survive as free nations.
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