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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1958
Page
9
NBC clings to tape delays as Jack Paar proposes cutting half hour to 11 30 for Midwest airings. He says fewer ads and tighter content beat current economics while NBC awaits tape equipment.
TV lineup notes shows and movie titles while a column reports on Hollywood stars. It mentions plans for Gallant projects, casting chatter, and social scenes at Beverly Hills venues including the Cocoanut Grove with stars like Lana Turner Judy Garland and the Gregory Pecks.
Hollywood reports Marilyn Monroe has asked Billy Wilder to add a tango scene with George Raft in Same Like It Hot. Raft will also cameo as a gangster, while Pat O'Brien joins the cast as a federal agent.
Report from Indianapolis notes summer stock success and a push to draw younger audiences to cinemas. David Selznick’s The Adventure of Tom Sawyer, released 20 years ago, will be re released late this month and early next, with May Robson as Aunt Polly admired. Zsa Zsa Gabor also headlines news with a La Jolla Playhouse debut in Twentieth Century next month.
The Retail Merchants bureau of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce will meet Wednesday at noon to discuss parking facilities. The luncheon will be at the Roosevelt hotel. The Civic Development Association will present a recommendation for multi level parking buildings.
The Cincinnati Times-Star ends publication after E W Scripps Co purchases it and merges with the Cincinnati Post to form the Post-Times-Star. Purchase price not disclosed. Scripps already controls the Enquirer via stock purchases. Publisher David Ingalls cites ongoing losses since 1952 totaling over one million dollars for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1958.
Hollywood power couple Art and Jo Napoleon prepare the film version of Edna Ferber’s The Ice Palace in Alaska. They describe extensive on location work by dog sled, plane, and boat, noting statehood support, tourism potential, high prices, and harsh fires as key facts shaping the production.
A Lithuanian couple, married in 1944 as German armies advanced, celebrates their 14th wedding anniversary in Toronto. Vaclovas Vaitkevicius returned from Germany to join Maria, now 37, after wartime separations and later plans to dissolve Maria’s Polish marriage.
Three American Baptist leaders said they observed Russian Baptists holding their own amid anti religious pressures after touring Baptist churches in the Soviet Union. They reported being the first American ministers to address Baptist congregations in Riga.
On July 19 1958 Ernest M Roman was appointed Administrator with Will Annexed of the estate of Joseph Roman in Linn County Iowa All debts due to the estate must be paid promptly and all claims must be filed with the Clerk of Linn County District Court Kubicek Novak and Kubicek attorneys represent the administrator
Libby M Wells executrix of the estate of Alpha Lee deceased in Linn County Iowa requests all debts be paid immediately and all claims be filed with the clerk of Linn County District Court. The notice is filed with Donnelly Lynch Lynch and Dallas attorneys.
Moscow radio said the Soviet Union protested to the United States over U S air routes from West Germany to the Middle East via Austria. Pravda called the flights illegal and premeditated violations of Austrian air space. Austria said the state department promised no more unauthorized U S flights over its territory. The United States said it had not secured formal Austrian clearance in time.
Paramount shows Vertigo with multiple screenings and shorts. Iowa screens No Time for Sergeants and Bad Man's Country, plus Peter Pan and shorts. Palace presents Cole Younger Gunfighter with Sabu and the Mage Ring ad and Marion cartoon Farewell to Arms. Drive-In runs Sing Boy Sing and Long Hot Summer. Twixt Town offers Hot Shots and Raintree County other titles.
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