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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1949
Page
2
Iowa bill seeks to ban below cost advertising and sales at grocery stores to curb loss leaders. It exempts clearance sales perishable goods charitable drives government contracts and certain good faith price matches. Newspapers would not be liable and injured parties may sue.
The Senate cities and towns committee backed a bill to raise mayor and council salaries in seven Iowa commission-government cities. Cedar Rapids and Sioux City would see mayors rise to 6750 and councilmen to 5250. Ottumwa Burlington to 5250 and 4200. Fort Dodge Keokuk to 4500 and 3750. Des Moines would jump to 7500 for the mayor and 6300 for councilmen. The bill proceeds to the Senate calendar.
Iowa City engineers at the University of Iowa begin a beard growing contest as Mecca week unfolds from March 12 to 19. The event honors St. Patrick and features a beard contest culminating at a smoker on March 17, plus a Mecca ball and blarney stone hunt across the engineering buildings.
William Hesseltine, 35, of Davenport, was fined $150 and costs for reckless driving and leaving the scene after a car he drove struck four people in Bettendorf. He admitted driving the vehicle after police traced him to his Davenport home.
McGregor A new Congregational church will be built on the site of the one destroyed by fire on January 26. Dr Judson Fieberger of Grinnell and D H Thomas of Grinnell state office led a meeting with about 100 attendees. Deacons and trustees were told to gather information and draft plans for church members to review soon. Services will continue in the Community hall in the interim.
Police report widespread rabies concerns as Des Moines expands its anti rabies drive to Polk County. Deputy Wilber Hildreth notes reports of packs killing livestock and says a county wide campaign will target stray dogs. Police kill three dogs as quarantine begins and Chief Lorin Miller orders officers to catch or shoot loose dogs and cats amid a serious rabies situation.
Middle Amana stockholders Monday elected seven members of the board of directors for two year terms. The directors and the towns they represent are Middle William Hahn High William Foerstner West Henry Miller South Herbert Zuber Homestead Herbert Fels Amana William Noe and East Adolph Heinze.
Thomas Kelley died Tuesday from injuries after a Saturday night crash in Waterloo. The 1949 incident marked the citys first traffic death, with the driver identified as Donald Rohrssen.
Perry Brown of Beaumont Texas urged a joint congressional FBI committee to investigate communism at an Iowa Legion service school. He backed a unified armed force and proposed cutting the military budget by a third if high school graduates trained in-state. Ray Murphy urged pressing Stalin’s hand and criticized academic freedom advocates he termed Communist. Bourke B Hickenlooper supported the North Atlantic pact in principle but warned it should not bind the U S to war without congressional declaration.
Gavels carved from the elm tree planted by George Washington on Capitol grounds were presented to Iowa officials. Lt. Governor Kenneth Evans and Speaker Gus Kuester received the gavels carved by Victor Lindquist from wood donated by Congressman Carl LeCompte.
Maryville Missouri police say a Stanwood Iowa man Paul Hegarty and his wife Earline with Robert Stohr of Pittsburgh plotted to extort 500 dollars from 72 year old Wheeler Campbell by threatening to expose an alleged attack on Earline Hegarty. Campbell reported the scheme and authorities arrested the trio after a payoff.
Mrs. Della Scott, 91, dies at home in Audubon following the burial of her son Forest, 68, who died last Tuesday from a heart attack. The family mourns as the double tragedy unfolds in the same household.
Newhall population 375 contributes $801 to the March of Dimes with Mrs. Martin Kolsto as campaign chairman.
An Omaha man named John Davis died when a bread truck collided with a car driven by Howard Altman of Sioux City. Bread truck driver Melvin Carlson was treated for scalp lacerations and bruises, and Artman, the car operator, suffered a broken leg and head injuries.
A federal suit in Davenport asks Mrs. H. G. Carlstrom of Iowa City be ordered to refund $166 to three tenants for rent exceeding federal housing ceilings. The suit seeks a permanent injunction to prevent charging rents above legal limits.
Loss estimated at $2,000 after a fire destroyed a large hog house on the Reuben Hager farm two and a half miles northwest of Waukon. Most hogs were saved. two rural fire trucks aided. other buildings were saved from the blaze.
Iowa constitutional amendments committee rejected Rep. Schwengel’s plan to redraw legislative representation. The proposal would keep the senate at 50 but cut the house to 100, basing seats on population and expanding larger counties as Polk would gain more lawmakers.
Iowa Falls case against Jack Berry proceeds as state outlines murder charge for the shooting of Ernest Knott in June 1947. Berry, once declared insane and confined, was released after a later sanity ruling and returned to trial with an eight juror panel including four women.
An Iowa City area accident involved vehicles registered to R W Merriam of Des Moines and R L Shoop of Anamosa on highway 6 about 16 miles west of Iowa City. Shoop escaped injury, received chin laceration care, and went back to Anamosa by cab.
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