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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1947
Page
13
The state highway commission said only Highway 218 north of Iowa City remained completely closed. Motorists can use Highway 6 to reach Iowa City with a short detour at Tiffin. Highways 34 and 63 into Ottumwa were open to restricted traffic with detours in the city.
Des Moines area rail lines face multiple washouts with limited service. Great Western rebuilds a cut near Cummings while Burlington repairs west of Ottumwa and Swan area closures delay Des Moines to Osceola Creston. Wabash may resume Des Moines St Louis service Tuesday night. Rock Island reports one fault. Freight halted Eldon to Keokuk due to flooding.
The Davenport weather bureau bulletin states falls are general in the middle and lower Iowa and Cedar rivers. Iowa City and Wapello may see 24 hour drops of one to two feet for the next days, with declines below 10 feet in three or four days and no further danger unless heavy rains occur.
Henry M. Prehm of Danville is elected state commander of the Disabled American Veterans at its four day Waterloo convention. Delegates chose Burlington for the 1948 site and named officers including S. P. Walcott, Cecil Decker, R. L. Whelan, Father Hoffman, Floyd Myers, and several auxiliary leaders with Miss Marie Welch named Sweetheart of the D A V.
At the D A V national convention in Las Vegas Nevada from August 16 to 23 the sweetheart contest is featured as part of the event.
Union workers at the Dubuque John Deere plant picketed as officials planned a conference with company executives to resume contract talks. About 1,200 employees walked out Monday after a breakdown in negotiations over the new local union's first contract.
A Tipton youth recreation program began this week under director Truman Manship and Mrs. Joyce Mosher. Centered at the school grounds it features swimming trips and golf instruction at the country club for ten weeks.
DES MOINES AP Bob Kiauer the public relations man for the state Republican central committee says recent labor legislation does not show GOP opposition to organized labor. He argues Republicans oppose racketeers in labor and favor lifting restraints to bring real equality between management and workers.
The Rev. O. O. Hobson of Winthrop Congregational church has purchased a grocery store in Vinton and moved there. He will drive to Winthrop and conduct Sunday services until a successor is appointed, with his wife’s relatives living in Vinton.
Plans for the new eighty thousand dollar De Sales school in Ossian, drawn by C. C. Alftfillisch, call for a brick two story building measuring 150 by 106 feet. It will house the high school seventh and eighth grades, the principal’s office a book store quarters for visiting nurses and a large auditorium. The auditorium will serve as a parish hall with a kitchen for public dinners and the school hot lunch program.
A tornado cut a six mile wide path through four farms near Akron Iowa killing one farmer and injuring another. Buildings on the Charley Smiter and the Smiths farms were demolished as heavy rain followed. Sioux City reported winds of 85 miles an hour damaging air base planes but no injuries.
Funeral services for Charles Inman 71 director of the Benton county Farm Bureau who died Monday after a brief illness will be held at 2 30 p.m. Wednesday in the Methodist church Burial will be in Evergreen cemetery Surviving are his wife two sons Myron Vinton and Gerald Davenport and a daughter Mrs William P Rasley Cedar Rapids
Funeral services were held Tuesday for Fred N. Cooper, superintendent at the state training school for boys, who died Sunday of a heart attack. Burial was at Fort Dodge.
Iowa City AP reports the University of Iowa Scottish Highlanders a 50 member all female drum and bagpipe unit will tour the west for an international convention trip in San Francisco starting July 23 They will travel via Springs and Salt Lake City and return August 6 after a post convention run to Portland and Seattle Funds of about 5000 were raised by 117 Iowa Lions clubs to finance the trip.
Charles Henderson, 48, a Davenport Iowa fugitive, died in the Chicago detective bureau lockup hours after arrest Monday night on charges of forging drug to of grand larceny after seizure by federal narcotics agents and Chicago detectives.
Hospital authorities in Davenport report 40 year old William Hawley in critical condition after his gasoline truck was struck by a Chicago Burlington and Quincy passenger train at Bettendorf. The locomotive sheared off the cab, narrowly missing the 6,500 gallon gas tank.
The Decorah Elks Lodge now holds three cups awarded for three consecutive victories in drill contests at state conventions. The third cup was won at the state convention in Davenport last week, marking Decorah lodge as state champions.
Honors nine times out of 11 appearances as the lodge weighs sending the ritualistic squad to the national convention scheduled in August in Portland Oregon.
Lisbon and Mt Vernon Legion posts will hold a joint initiation in the Lisbon high school Thursday night conducted by the Hanford post initiation team of Cedar Rapids. The event is open to the public followed by a Get-together in Legion clubrooms. Donald Kaliban, son of Mr. and Mrs. Milo Kaliban, will represent Lisbon at Hawkeye Boys State. He was chosen by the Legion auxiliary Chamber of Commerce and the Lisbon fire department.
Dean Irvin will receive the Eagle Scout award at a court of honor in the West school building Friday night. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Irvin and has served as a patrol leader and junior assistant scout master in the Vinton troop.
Ole Sorenson, 77, was killed Monday after his car collided with a Chicago and Great Western freight train in Eagle Grove AP reports. The wreck occurred at the crossing, and an investigation is planned.
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