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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1947
Page
8
Highs and lows across cities list Ottawa Iowa forecast details. Temperatures range Thursday high 37 low 25 Friday high 40 with colder air Friday night and Saturday clearing. Fire report recalls a blaze at 328 Third Street SE. Local births, marriages and a long list of traffic and parking fines recorded with names and addresses.
Linn County board created two secondary road districts 217 in Washington township southeast of Center Point and 218 covering areas west of Mt Vernon. The panel also approved a 5000 dollar grant to the Farm Bureau for 1947, reviewed 1946 finances, deputy appointments to the coroner, vital statistics coordinators, and beer license renewals for Waubeek and Melody Lane taverns.
Sheriff James Smith, acting under Judge Floyd Philbrick, distributed the holdback from a Marion land purchase condemned by the Iowa state highway commission. The Phillips Petroleum Company received 500 dollars, Carl Jordan 200, Henry Howeler 7632.65, and 17.35 to court costs. The action and appeal by plaintiffs were dismissed.
Margaret Burlingame of Lisbon has been appointed executrix without bond of the estate of her aunt Lottie Weirick who died November 25. The Weirick homestead went to Mrs Burlingame with the remainder shared among nieces and nephews including Katherine Carson and Agnes Crumpleman of Oxford Junction.
Field representatives of the Order of Railway Conductors conferred Tuesday with top officers in a three day annual conference at the O R C international headquarters in Cedar Rapids. Attendees include J S Middleton Flushing F Durbin Toledo J E Walker Montgomery A Watson Indianapolis and others as sessions run through Thursday.
George Gershwin wrote the famed Rhapsody in Blue in his mid twenties, highlighting his early genius and the creation of a landmark American orchestral work. The detail notes he was 25 at the time of composition.
The article recounts James Byrnes stepping down as secretary of state with approval from President Truman as long time ally John L. Marshall is named his successor. It notes Marshall's diverse career from congress to the supreme court and his wartime service, and details Byrnes’s resignation timing and continued service until Senate confirmation.
The city zoning commission approved rezoning several lots in block 15 of Deans third addition from A to B residential. The action followed a request by residents living north of Avenue NW between Eleventh and Twelfth streets.
Don Ray Whitmore 66 of 701 Fourteenth Street SE died at home after a brief illness. Survived by wife Lula Mason a daughter Blanche and three sons Ralph Eugene Gail with four grandchildren. Funeral 1:30 p.m. Friday Turner chapel burial in Olin. Mrs John C Henningsen 56 Cedar Rapids died at home after brief illness. Survived by husband five children and a Navy Ensign. Rosary 8 p.m. Thursday Beatty chapel. Funeral 9 a.m. Friday St Patrick's Church. Burial Linwood Cemetery.
Frank Hughes 76 of 628 First Ave Cedar Rapids died in a local hospital at 10:35 p.m. Tuesday after a brief illness. Born September 28 1870 in Monticello he had been a Cedar Rapids resident for many years. No immediate relatives survive a sister in law Mrs Fred Hughes Ranger Texas Funeral services will be at Turner chapel at 10:30 a.m. Friday conducted by Rev Frank H Ward Burial in Shiloh cemetery Friends may call at the chapel.
Services for Oscar W. Liten, who died at his farm near Watkins on Monday, will be conducted by Rev. William Ullerich of Van Horne at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cedar Rapids at 1 30 p.m. Thursday. Brief services will precede burial at Linwood Cemetery. friends may call at the Beatty chapel at 1 p.m.
Funeral services for Charles H Kahler aged 80 of 1132 Twenty first avenue SW will be held at 1 30 p m Thursday in Turner chapel with Rev J Paul Stevens officiating. Burial will follow in Big Ve cemetery seven miles north of Keystone. Kahler was a retired Benton county farmer.
Mrs. J L Jones of 129 Second Avenue SW receives word of the death of her cousin Mrs. John Marsh in Wichita Kansas. Born in Cedar Rapids she died December 27 at age 79. Survived by a son and daughter in Wichita and two brothers Will Jones of Cedar and Ben Jones of Albur.
Services for Louis Castek of Fairfax route 1 who died Monday will be conducted in the Brush chapel at 2 p.m. Thursday by Theodore B. Hlubacek. Burial will be in Anderson cemetery near Swisher. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Washington AP reports two Iowa men appear on the Treasury Department supplementary list of individuals earning more than 75000 in compensation from corporations for 1944 and the fiscal year ending 1945. William J Barkley is listed at 100 149 84 and Arthur A Collins at 82 274 84. Both totals come from Collins Radio Company of Cedar Rapids Iowa.
Clyde H. Hendrix of Clinton, division president of Pillsbury Mills, arrives in Cedar Rapids to receive the first postwar Collins Radio transmitter. He plans a 25 hour on-air stretch with Clinton amateurs, tours the Cedar Rapids plant, and dines with Collins executives while outlining broad economic policy ideas and regional development aims.
President Truman warns Congress of potential labor management disputes that could disrupt production by tightening materials supply and costs. He urges immediate wage and price actions, extended rent control, and broader fair labor standards to sustain 1947 prosperity amid remaining malfunctions.
Depositions read in federal court Wednesday in the patent infringement suit against the Pickwick Corporation by George R. Hunt of Akron and Conrad B. Mueller of Cleveland. Florida state agriculture inspectors testified to support Hunt and Mueller that Hunt’s chicken picker was the first practical mechanical method of cleaning fowls.
President H. W. Fraser of the Order of Railway Conductors left Cedar Rapids for Cleveland to confer with chiefs of the four railroad operating brotherhoods, including Locomotive Engineers, Railroad Trainmen, and Switchmen's Union. A Cleveland meeting precedes a January 22 Chicago conference of ORC general chairmen to discuss economic problems facing members nationwide.
Wilson and Company Inc announces the purchase of the South Omaha Packing Company. Solon Buarkhardt, manager of Wilsons Omaha plant, says the firm will process about a head of cattle weekly at the plant.
The Abbott and Costello team led a treasury list of 122 top money earners for 1944 and 1945, earning 469,170 total or 234,585 each if split. Thomas J. Watson topped individuals with 425,548, while Deanna Durbin earned 310,728 and Walter Wanger 301,127. The list covers salaries and bonuses above 75,000 from corporations, not investment income.
A. L. Fuller was installed as chief conductor of Valley City division 58 of the Order of Railway Conductors of America during a joint meeting with Columbia division 37 at Odd Fellows hall. Also installed were C. Jo Barrett as assistant chief conductor E Stevenson as secretary and other officers. The ceremony was led by Fred Nemitz grand vice president and Joe E. Godfrey with auxiliary officers installed as well.
The article notes New Orleans is the United States' second largest seaport by overall size and activity. It highlights the port's strategic significance for maritime commerce and regional trade in the nation.
Carl Warm executive director of the Public Welfare Bureau praised Cedar Rapids for reaching 112 percent of its Community Chest goal in the last campaign. The 1946 total raised 204000 with 15000 donors averaging 658 dollars per donation and 164000 in 1947 funds.
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