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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1962
Page
41
City pays Ambulance Company Inc. six thousand to close a ten month subsidy ending Jan 31. Founder B T Howell will operate alone with increased rates from Feb 1. Officials weigh continuing support against expected losses and uncollected accounts.
Local briefs list a Friday city board meeting at 12 30 p m in Mission, a Canopus Club speaker at Roosevelt hotel, a railroad retirement board visit Thursday 9 to 2 30, larceny reports at 600 Fortieth Street NE and St Luke's Hospital notice, plus downtown association, church planning, and hospital visitor restrictions. Also noted are open business sales, a break in at 624 Fifth Street SE, chess club, emergency ambulance rates, and Kiwanis Optimist speaker events with local venues and people.
Commending Independence firemen, Greenley credited the department for stopping the fire from spreading to adjacent structures. The Swan building, once the Turner House hotel, later housed Swan furniture store, then offices and apartments after Greenley purchased and converted it in 1952.
A burglar struck the Marshal service station on highway 20 west of Independence Sunday night. Entry was gained by breaking a rear window and the cash register was stolen according to the sheriff's office.
More than 100 firefighters battled a major blaze in the 200 block of Second Avenue. The fire damaged the Swan and York buildings with estimated losses near 200000 dollars. No injuries were reported as crews prevented spread with double fire walls and water pressure challenges as temperatures dropped to 15 degrees.
A hearing on a change of venue in the Maine Sewing Service mail fraud case is scheduled for Tuesday at 1 p.m. in Cedar Rapids federal court before Judge John W. Delehant. Defendants Robert H. Slocum and Eugene Van Dusen seek to move the trial to the court's Eastern division in Dubuque citing local connections and juror pools in Linn County and Cedar Rapids division.
An affidavit from T. T. Tilton of Cedar Rapids says extensive local publicity creates a general notoriety against Main Sewing Service and operators, risking an unfair trial in Cedar Rapids for seven indicted defendants including Slocum and Van Dusen who have pled not guilty to mail fraud.
INVERNESS Scotland AP Mrs Alexander Jeppy 31 delivered Scotland s first quadruplets since 1959 two boys and two girls born Monday two months premature but in good condition say hospital officials
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