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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1955
Page
3
Local shop Dixie Cream Donut reports missing donuts from deliveries to Chandler's Grocery. A squirrel was found atop the boxes with a donut in its paw, ending the losses. The writer also recalls birds learned to uncork London milk bottles and pets and livestock learning tricks.
A garbled page lists job openings and education signals including apprentice mechanic positions at D Lumber Co and a rapid placement reference. It mentions clean-up, college career ties, and local sales with an open yard and repair services. contact numbers and addresses at Paramount Avenue and 3rd Street appear in a fragmented manner.
Mrs. Harry Hansen 70 of Tama died Wednesday in a Marshalltown hospital after returning from visiting her ill husband at the VA hospital in Iowa City. Born February 12 1885 near Chelsea she wed John E Hand 1901 later farming west of Chelsea and in Richland township. Surviving eight daughters two sons 38 grandchildren and 26 great grandchildren. Services scheduled Saturday.
New hospital equipment valued at 1000 is made available for free use by Delaware county residents through the efforts of the local VFW. The gear includes a hydraulic lift bed rails walker folding chair and another chair from anonymous donors. To arrange use contact Mrs. Glenn Kennedy at 700 East Union Street by calling 5532.
Iowa women carry over six million pounds of excess weight, noted in a book from the Iowa State College Press. The volume, based on papers from a weight control colloquium, says men show overweight more often. Harvard’s Dr. Jean Mayer challenges the ideas that exercise greatly burns calories or raises appetite, calling inactivity a key factor.
The Iowa Banking Department announced changes in three banks. Elgin State Bank in Elgin raised capital from $30,000 to $50,000. Security State Bank in Lake Park increased from $35,000 to $52,500 and Security State Bank in Sutherland rose from $37,500 to $50,000.
Mt. Vernon appoints Jack Morgan to fill vacancy on city council caused by R. L. Mc Conlogue resignation as he relocates to Los Angeles.
The State of Iowa will distribute three truckloads of surplus machinery recovered from the former Lawsonomy University by the federal government. Lloyd Seaver, head of surplus property for the Public Instruction Department, said most gear will go to schools with more items to be moved on Thursday as the university site is razed for a shopping center.
Sioux City police question Harley Robinson 35 after death of Herbert Inlay 41 in what looked like a fight behind a tavern. District Judge Uhlenhopp weighs a gas rate dispute between Fort Dodge and Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric. Six month trial concluded. Lindhart funeral for Erick Lindhart 66, head of National By-Products, at Carlisle farm. Iowa Bureau of Labor reports 797 work permits issued in June for minors under 18.
Airplane builders predict four or five passenger helicopters could reach the price of an expensive car within ten years. The forecast hinges on advances in light materials and mass production reducing costs for civil rotorcraft.
Michael C. Dolak 54 native of Belle Plaine Iowa and longtime banker died Wednesday in Hartford Connecticut. He joined Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance in 1935 as a securities analyst and was named assistant financial secretary in 1952 becoming a vice president the same year. Dolak served in World War I with the U S Railroad Administration and helped study merging rail networks under federal control. He previously worked for the Interstate Commerce Commission New York Trust Company and the Illinois Central railroad and chaired reorganization committees for the Milwaukee and St Louis Northwestern and Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific railroads. Surviving are his widow Lillian Abbott and two Iowa sisters Mrs John Baker and Mrs Anna Zalesky. Funeral services will be held in Hartford Friday with burial in Paducah Kentucky.
Harold Baker, 29, free on 1000 bond on a charge of assault with intent to inflict bodily injury. He allegedly beat a Clear Lake taxicab driver and Elaine Dougherty 25 of Mason City as she paid fare. James Hansen testified. Baker, married with three children, had been keeping company with Dougherty about two years.
Robert Crawford, 25, of Tama is jailed on a rape charge after appearing before Mayor E. C. Carnal. Bound over to the grand jury with a $5,000 bond he could not furnish. He is accused of assaulting a 13 year old Tara girl.
Des Moines reports the Iowa Health Department advising that chigger bites can be prevented by washing bites before the insect bites. Officials note the chigger does not bite for several hours after reaching the skin and will seek a reachable blood spot. Household ammonia or a 1 percent creosol solution and other common reagents can kill the chigger.
Mrs. Cary Giffen Duncan, 83, was placed on five years probation in district court on a no contest plea to an attempt to commit abortion. The complaint named Marion Vanness, 32, Council Bluffs Iowa, as the abortion target. Vanness died September 26 from tetanus.
Police found bloodstains around a jagged hole in a glass block wall used for entry at a Louisville furniture store. About $1,000 from the safe and a first aid kit were missing.
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