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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1947
Page
16
Des Moines IA Tuesday state Public Safety Commissioner Al Kahl announced 1948 plates issued only for motorcycles nonresident autos farm trailers and truckers paying by installment. Validation tags issued for all autos and trucks paid in advance for a full year.
A special election will decide if the school board may buy or build a home for the superintendent at a cost not to exceed 6000 dollars. The superintendent and wife have vacated their previous home and stored belongings in the school building while seeking a new residence. Polls will be open from noon to 7 p.m.
Center Point Illinois reports Rev. Chester Weber a former military chaplain has been appointed the church’s resident pastor. He will move into the parsonage purchased for the clergy.
Charlene Stettler of Belle Plaine named outstanding woman journalist in the ISU senior class by the Iowa Daily Press Women's Association. She received a $25 bond at a ceremony in Ames after serving as women's editor of the Daily Student and contributing to three other campus papers. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Stettler.
Bishop Charles W Brashares will preside over the Upper Iowa annual conference at St Luke's Methodist church Dubuque June 17 22 Delegates for the coming Boston general conference will be elected About 200 ministers and 100 laymen are expected Dr Roy L Smith editor of the Christian Advocate will give four addresses Music by the Dubuque High School Orchestra St Pauls Cedar Rapids Men s Glee Club A rural choir from Volga Ia and a colored quartet from Rust College Holly Springs Miss.
Bettie Hovey is Fort Madison’s queen candidate for the Eastern Iowa Band Festival in Cedar Rapids Saturday. The 2 year drum major role is vacated by her. She led last year’s festival parade with 35 000 spectators and is a senior with active bands and honors including National Music Honor Society and Rainbow advisor. The Fort Madison band will travel 111 miles to perform the finale at Hill Park during the Star Spangled Banner number with fireworks. Admission is 25 cents. queen candidate luncheon tickets are 1.25 each.
The union vacation Bible school opens in Center Point with 80 students enrolled. Three ministers and 15 volunteers oversee registration and classes as visiting ministers have served the church for two years.
Judge Floyd Philbrick of Cedar Rapids presides over the jury trial in Iowa City between Edward L. OConnor and Johnson County. OConnor, an Iowa City attorney, seeks 1283.13 for services as special assistant county attorney during the Patton murder trial last January, which ended in acquittal.
Mrs. Ethel Duckworth of Waterloo is in serious condition at Vinton hospital with internal injuries and facial lacerations after a Sunday automobile crash nine miles west of Vinton on highway. She rode with driver William A. Wilcox of Waterloo. the car left the road in heavy rain and plunged down a steep embankment. Delores Majors of Ashton Illinois sustained facial and leg bruises.
AP report says T/5 Alfred Scott 20 a Negro soldier from New Orleans was killed in Ottumwa when a large army semi truck in a convoy of 38 crashed into a downtown building. T/5 William Powell 18 of Marietta Ohio was injured riding in the cab. They were en route from Ft Warren Wyoming to Camp Kilmer New Jersey. The truck failed to make a curve causing extensive damage to the corner building.
At 12 15 p m Saturday an event occurred at the Roosevelt hotel. Queens' dinner at the Montrose hotel will not be open to the public.
Five speakers for the University of Iowa summer lectures were announced by Dr. M Willard Lampe. Dates include June 20 with Prof. George S Counts of Columbia University and June 27 with Mrs. Glen.
The list highlights Frank, widow of a Wisconsin university president, and editor Norman Cousins of the Saturday Review of Literature. It also notes William Agar of the United Nations speakers bureau and Dr. Howard Thurman, co-pastor of the Fellowship Church of All Peoples in San Francisco, with dates in July and August.
British ambassador to the United States Lord Inverchapel vacationed at the Francis Newburn farm near Eagle Grove on Tuesday He said he hoped to run some farm machinery and milk some cows during his stay
In Vinton Cedar river flood. Roger Hearn age 11 and Dale Hoefle age 13 were cycling across a waterlogged road when Roger rode into deep water and was swept toward the river. Men nearby performed artificial respiration and rushed him to Vinton hospital for treatment. Dale aided before being forced back by current.
Raymond W. Jones of Missouri Valley was elected president of the Iowa Bandmasters Association at the convention closing session in Sioux City.
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