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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1955
Page
2
An Iowa columnist riffs on era changes with humor about snuff and old terms, Christmas wreaths, and holiday decor. He notes delays in auto deliveries and a Cedar Rapids fox tail radio ornament. A father recalls his son Johnny’s affectionate quip as a winter sunset gives way to a biting wind.
Walter Bussewitz reports a robust outlook for electric home appliances with 5 to 20 percent sales gains in 1955 and a trajectory toward 428 million units sold in the next five years. Industry leaders predict growing home construction and rising household investments, plus expansion into color TV and air conditioning driving higher electricity use.
Parks Commissioner Richard C. Jones reports Cedar Rapids parks department had a record 1954 with $154,361.58 in expenditures and a push to acquire 404 acres for $202,850, financed by bonds to be sold. Improvements at Bever Ellis Daniels Van Vechten Shaver Riverside Greene Square and Reed parks included garages, storage buildings, repaving, erosion control, and drainage work.
A four year old, Margaret Main, died after a seven year old found a .22 rifle on a Newton area back porch and fired it injuring her leg. Separate Des Moines fire damaged Hogan Freight Service Co office and loading dock roof, estimated between four and five thousand dollars.
A five minute freak smog blacked out sunlight in Croydon as a bearded man cried that the world was ending. Shoppers and mothers hid in doorways while residents prayed during the eerie blackout.
LeFebure Corp announces a plan to add a new story to its 716 Oakland Road NE plant. Construction begins in February with offices on the upper level and expanded manufacturing space in the lower floors. Contracts awarded to Morehead Construction Paulson Electric C F Path and Iowa Steel and Iron Works. Howard R Green Co. prepared the plans.
Benson says agriculture will improve with steady policy. Rayburn urges taxes and funds to deter international threats. Hoover warns of rising neutralism and Soviet propaganda. Dr Dickinson notes higher hospitalization rates among males imply greater illness.
Peggy Joyce Meriwether and George D. Merriweather secured a marriage license in Memphis. The article notes alcoholism as a ground for divorce in most states.
A special Cedar Rapids meeting approved amendments to the Grain Service Inc. charter, outlining new powers for grain and agricultural services, testing facilities, and property ownership. President Eisenhower proposed a high-spending 1956 budget stressing reduced government competition with private enterprise and targeted tax policy.
Gazette lists ad rates and payment terms for classified insertions. Also includes lost and found blurb for a brown male Chihuahua missing from East End Pharmacy area with contact numbers.
Flinn comptroller of U S Steel supply division will speak on Production Records by Assembly Line Methods at the Cedar Rapids chapter meeting of the National Association of Cost Accountants Tuesday night at the Montrose hotel. He is vice president of the local chapter.
Three Iowa youths earned honors in the junior division at the National Western Stock Show in Denver on Saturday. Patricia Fuller, 13, State Center, claimed reserve grand championship with her Angus steer and won first in the Angus steer class. Gale Butler, Rhodes, showed the reserve Angus champion. Lloyd F Burr Jr. Lone Tree topped the champion Shorthorn and Roy Black Nevada took the reserve Shorthorn.
A dense page of mixed ads and notices offers lost items, private rentals, home services, crafts, and employment leads. It lists lost glasses and a brown item, various trades from plastering to furniture, tax preparation, window treatments, and janitorial work, plus personal and employment notices and agency referrals.
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