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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1947
Page
9
One man died and eight families became homeless in a string of Iowa fires. In Ames John McCaffrey, 70, proprietor of a produce house, was found burned to death as flames were stamped out. Fire officials said he likely inhaled smoke and fumes while his day bed burned.
A World War II veteran who survived the Pacific fought earlier in combat was accidentally shot and killed near Waverly. Donald Beebe 25 died when a .22 caliber rifle discharged by fellow veteran Bill Bodeker 24 as they approached their car. Beebe left a wife and three month old daughter.
Normal Rock Island railroad freight service resumed Sunday after a Saturday night collision. A three-section diesel engine overran a switch and struck the locomotive of another train on the main line. Both engines were damaged. several cars derailed. no injuries reported. Two Minneapolis to St Louis Rockets were rerouted.
LA report notes annual picnic and reunion of former Iowans in California. Lincoln Park hosts the all day event Saturday February 22 with music entertainment and county registrations announced by Joe Crail president of the Iowa Association of Southern California.
In Linn County Iowa at Cedar Rapids to amend Article IX the Bohemian Savings & Loan Association elected to raise capital stock to 6 000 000 replacing 3 000 000 and to 60 000 shares of 100 each. The January 30 1947 filing names Thos Suchomel president John Vosatka secretary and Kubicek Novales Kubicek as attorneys with Higley Bide address.
Aplington UP reports five youths were killed when their car returning from a dance was hit by the Illinois Central Hawkeye Limited at a crossing. Victims: Howard Sessler 19 Ackley Kenneth Sessler 23 Ernestine Cuvelier 17 Aplington Dorothy Huisman 21 Wellsburg Richard Strahorn 23 Faulkner. Bernice Ackerman injured as survivor.
Miss Sally Butler national president will be principal speaker at the mid winter board meeting of Iowa Business and Professional Women's clubs in Des Moines Friday and Saturday.
Stanley W. Plank of Kalona appeals a Johnson county court decision releasing nearly 7 million dollars in gas tax revenue impounded in two Iowa City banks. The case follows a long challenge to the one cent gas tax law as constitutional. L. V. Carlton filed the original suit. The supreme court already affirmed the law's constitutionality. Plank names state treasurer Grimes and two Iowa City banks as defendants. The money was distributed to counties and cities around the first of the year.
Mrs M Myrton Skelley resigns as first secretary of the Iowa American Legion Auxiliary effective at the close of the state convention next August. The auxiliary board endorsed her as a candidate for national chaplain at the national convention in September. A Gold Star mother, she was department secretary since 1921 with a brief public health nursing period in the Veterans Administration.
DES MOINES AP The second Hawkeye Girls State will be held at Grinnell College July 23 30 Enrollment for 1947 will be limited to 200 girls an increase of 100 from last year Marie Ladehoff Clinton Girls State director announced after a meeting with the state American Legion auxiliary executive board Marion White Perry 1946 Girls State governor will be hostess The board voted to publicize the need for nurses and to recruit student nurses The department offers three 100 nursing scholarships in memory of three past presidents
Center Point pairs Mr. and Mrs. Milo Satchett and Mr. and Mrs. Will Lampman marked their golden wedding anniversaries. The two couples are sisters by marriage and their husbands are cousins. Lampman couple celebrated at a Sunday dinner hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Servison.
A plan to cut half the deer herd of more than 100 in Josh Higgins state parkway near Cedar Falls was urged by game technicians before the state conservation commission. They cited crop and tree damage and said past efforts reduced damage at Ledges state park near Boone.
Patsy Davis of Oelwein Iowa joins a group of novice performers at Broadway night club Vanity Fair. Owner Joe Howard opened the venue selecting first time Broadway entrants for the show in New York.
Forest J. Parker aged 45 died Sunday in a Leon hospital from injuries suffered in a street fight Saturday night. Coroner E. E. Garnet stated the fight caused the wounds. A Leon man was held for questioning in connection with the case.
A proposed reduction would take effect ahead of the upcoming crop season, aligning with fiscal and agricultural policy goals.Officials said the change aims to stabilize supply and support farmers during the transition period.
Mr and Mrs J W Z innovative Zin es celebrated their fifty sixth wedding anniversary with thirty guests in Solon. They wed in 1891 and have six children Ernest Fairfax John R Anthony and two daughters. The Chadek family of Portland, Oregon sent congratulations by phone.
Sen George Wilson of Iowa announced he would accept the No 2 post on the Senate small business committee He had been the GOP ranking member and would have chaired if the panel remained intact He praised the chairmanship won by Sen Wherry and said he would serve even as a private if not captainful
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