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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1949
Page
4
Seventeen dogs and 17 cats were found dead during an anti rabies roundup in Des Moines and will be examined by the city health department. Many cats were found under snow banks and officials doubt rabies. Police also captured 51 stray dogs and shot five as part of the drive.
The Iowa business education conference will be held on the State Teachers College campus in Cedar Falls Saturday April 2. The Future Business Leaders of America will hold their third annual state convention for Iowa business students. Eight colleges plan to participate and AML business teacher training colleges have been invited. The theme is Business Education at Its Best. Calmar notice: Robert A. Ewing buys the Leo Pronge tavern in town.
Iowa City Watson Brothers Transportation opens a permanent local office. Calmar veteran Floyd Bulgren enlists in the army air corps and heads to Lowry Field. Tama hosts a 60 piece band winter concert March 8 directed by Ross E. Davis with Hubert Rebik as soloist. Lowden meat market sold to Walter Faris who takes over March 1. Street family to move to Maquaket a farm. Marquette Methodist church interior being redecorated with an oil furnace. Tama pre district speech contest at Tama High with 10 schools participating. Lowden engagement Jeanette Rixe to Elmer Freese wedding March 6 at Peace Evangelical Bennett. Strawberry Point golden wedding for Mr. and Mrs. W. G Smith. Greeley Margaret Tibbott and Ronald Marsh wed in Dubuque. Hopkinton Rev Franz Lohberg installed as pastor in Sand Springs. Williamsburg Iowa county music festival set for Monday.
Twenty head of cattle burned to death when a large barn on the O D Thompson farm northeast of Walker was destroyed by fire. A large hay loss followed. The fire was discovered about 3:30 am by Mrs Thompson who saw flames. Local fire company and neighbors fought the blaze. cause undetermined. Thompson reported some insurance coverage.
The Iowa Supreme Court announced increases in bar admission fees. Examination fees for in state admission rise from 15 to 25 dollars while on motion admission from other states increases from 50 to 100 dollars. Clerk Helen Galvin cited alignment with National Conference of Bar Examiners recommendations.
Iowa lawmakers debate multiple bills. A Sioux Rapids rep seeks skull and crossbones labeling on all liquor sold in the state. Other measures raise conservation salaries and authorize county conservation boards. A Toleda and Davenport tuition proposal aids Juvenile Home and Soldiers’ Orphans Home students.
Robert H. Walker a 36 year old Keokuk attorney and businessman won support from 16 Iowa and Illinois Chambers of Commerce as their candidate for the U S Chamber of Commerce board of directors He is president of Midwest Transit Lines serving Keokuk Fort Madison Ames and Muscatine and previously led the Keokuk Chamber of Commerce The supporting Iowa districts include Keokuk Ames Des Moines Muscatine Cedar Rapids Burlington Fort Madison Mason City Waterloo Clinton Ottumwa Fairfield Council Bluffs and Montrose with Quincy and Galesburg Illinois listed as well.
The annual Religion in Life conference at the University of Iowa starts Sunday night with Dr. John Thompson of the University of Chicago delivering the opening convocation on Origin and Destiny. The event runs five days.
A loaded feed truck and a semi collided on the highway at Spirit Lake, spilling stock feed over more than 100 yards at the east edge of Spirit Lake. Both drivers were not injured.
Damage estimated at 12000 dollars after a blaze on the Albert Wright farm near Cedar Falls destroyed a machine shed a tool shed a silo filled with grain 17 steers and two sows. The Cedar Falls insurance bureau reported the loss.
A blast at Servisoft Soft Water Service in Clinton damaged two brick walls and four delivery trucks, shattered 60 windows, and wrecked eight washing machines. Centered on a 600 gallon hot water heater, the explosion caused a roof debris find and left no injuries, with a police officer nearby.
A blast struck near the Lafayette area bursting at least ten hotel windows and rattling a jewelry store chandelier. A man sleeping in a nearby hotel was knocked from bed as shock waves shook the street and residents used sheets to keep out the cold.
Professor Leslie G. Moeller director of the University of Iowa school of journalism will head the committee to choose the 1949 master editor publishers. The AP report notes his selection reflects Iowa City involvement in national journalism leadership.
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