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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1947
Page
8
Cloudy and warmer with showers spreading across the state Thursday and ending by Friday afternoon. East to northeast winds 12 to 16 mph. Temperatures Thursday high 76 low 60, Friday high 76. Oma Brogan versus Otis Brogan and Mary L. Cox versus Roland E. Cox noted. Ida C. Cook from Howard F. Cook divorce decree listed.
Assault and battery case against Gerald Burtlow at Narva hotel resulted in a 10 day county jail sentence. Harold Whitaker fined 50 dollars with costs for animal abuse. fine suspended on surrender of his dog to Humane Shelter. The notice also lists numerous marriage licenses and birth announcements at St. Luke's Mercy and Watts hospitals, with dates and locations across Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas.
Speeding fines imposed on Otto A Nielson Marion Curtis Delano Norway Zelma M Hill Milo B Loomis and others. Operating a motor scooter without a license leads Ronnie Wright Don Hopkins to fines. Unauthorized driver permitted John R Koehn. Pedestrian right of way ignored Jason E Seaman. Entering arterial highway without stopping Tom Bowker. Improper parking Nort V Chehak Ahran D Hyde. All cases include costs or modest fines.
Belle Pilaise John G Nichols 63 died Tuesday services 2 30 p m Thursday at Peffers funeral home Riverside Mrs Emma Fuller 77 died Monday services were held Wednesday at St Marys church Blairstown Joseph Dionne 75 died Sunday services held Wednesday at St Johns Catholic church North English Oscar L Pettibone died Tuesday at Yankee Point services 10 a m Thursday at North English Church of Christ North English Frank Wallace 71 died Tuesday services 2 p m Thursday at North English Church of Christ Williamsburg Mrs Margaret Edwards 91 died Tuesday services 2 30 p m Thursday at the Presbyterian church Edgewood Marcel Perrinjaquet 53 died Monday services 2
Bedgewood Congregational church held services for Mrs. Albert Kafka 70 who died Saturday after a Thursday service. Oelwein Mrs Louise Troyer 74 died Tuesday and was taken to Brant funeral home. Fayette Mrs Leonora Cravien der 87 died Sunday with Wednesday services in Chicago. Elkader John F Donion 89 died Tuesday with services 10 a.m. Friday at St Josephs church.
Leo Gislain of Wellman was chosen president of Flying Farmers of Iowa at the second annual meeting at Ames municipal airport. Wendell Davison Bradyville was named vice-president and Parry Dodds Ames was re elected secretary treasurer. About 200 attendees attended as good dry weather kept farmers in the fields.
Courthouse L. A. Lawrence, 34, of Prairieburg, charged with contempt, was released from Linn County jail. A hearing on revocation of an October 14 1946 order withholding a mittimus was set for June 25 at 9 a.m. He is accused by his ex wife Levena Lawrence of violating a restraining injunction by entering the Lawrence farm house.
The Gazette reported that Veil Roy Lindberg and his wife obtained a temporary injunction from Judge G K Thompson preventing Merle A Plummer and wife from denying the Lindbergs use of a well on the Plummer property. The injunction was denied after defendants testified they would allow continued use of the well.
Judge G K Thompson on Wednesday granted Gretchen L Benzinger permission to remarry. She was previously divorced from Jacob B Benzinger on December 18, 1946.
Judge G K Thompson dismissed Esther Guy Maher and John Maher divorce petitions filed April 30 and Maher's cross petition. The ruling ends the case as presented in court Tuesday.
City Arborist Richard K. Alman says tree trimming along First Avenue East should finish within five days. Overhanging limbs blocked a relighting project between Fifth and Sixteenth streets. Earle G. Nichols of Iowa Electric Light and Power notes two new lights per intersection and mid-block fixtures are ready, with east of Tenth Street wiring delayed until trimming ends. About 50 residential street lighting fixtures received to address wartime backlogs.
Harold J. Nelson of Sioux City and John Connolly of Des Moines will address a Cedar Rapids mass meeting on labor legislation at Memorial Coliseum July 20. The open meeting is sponsored by CIO AFL and unaffiliated unions. Nelson opposed the anti closed shop bill passed by the Iowa Legislature.
Police patrolled the loop area Tuesday night for any new fires but Cedar Rapids hotel arsonist did not repeat Monday’s attempts at two hotels. Investigations continued into five fires at Magnus and one at Allison hotels, with Magnus offering a $200 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction.
In 1850 there was not a mile of steam railroad anywhere west of the Mississippi River in the United States.
Art W. Reynolds aged 63 of 119 Third Street NE died in a local hospital at 3 50 p m Tuesday from a heart attack. A barber and beauty shop owner for over 40 years he was a Cedar Rapids sports figure and former wrestling promoter who once managed his brother Jack Reynolds. He leaves two brothers D O Reynolds and F O Reynolds of Fairfield Idaho and a sister Mrs Charles Eison of Toddville. Funeral arrangements are pending with Brady mortuary.
Mary Lamb 63 widow of Charles W Lamb died after a long illness at her son Edward Fletcher's home 1027 J avenue NE Cedar Rapids. Born July 15 1883 in Louisiana Mo she lived in Cedar Rapids 33 years. She attended Louisiana Methodist Church and the Span ish American War veterans ladies auxiliary. Survived by son brother George Deck of Keokuk and two grandchildren. Services Friday 2 p.m. at Barta Hesser chapel with Rev John DeLong of Trinity Methodist Church. Burial Linwood Cemetery. Friends may call after noon Thursday.
Mrs. Frank Irons 63 died Tuesday in a local hospital. Services will be held Friday at 1 p.m. in Springville Methodist Church with burial at Elmwood cemetery DeWitt. She resided in Springville and Mt. Vernon and was a Clinton county native. Survived by husband a daughter Mildred Cedar Rapids and sister Nellie Easton Janesville Wis. Friends may call at Hunte funeral home Springville until 11 a.m. Friday.
Lloyd E Meyers age obituary notes services at 1 30 p m Friday in Beatty chapel with Rev Cline Halsey. Military graveside rites by Hanford Post American Legion at Oak Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
Services for Mrs. Wendell Ras mus, former Cedar Rapids resident who died in San Antonio Texas, will be held at St. Matthew's church at 9 a.m. Thursday with Rev. James Kearn officiating. Burial is in Sacred Heart cemetery Monticello. Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Brady mortuary, where friends may call.
Funeral services for Mrs Verne Brown of Belle Plaine are set for 1 p.m. Thursday at Hrabak Funeral Home with burial in Belle Plaine. A son Leslie W. Brown was omitted from Tuesday's Gazette death notice.
Mrs Minnie Dunlap Floyd of Portland Oregon and former Cedar Rapids Center Point resident died Saturday Funeral services are set for 2 p m Friday at Satchett funeral home Center Point Burial will be in Center Point cemetery Friends may call at the funeral home
Services for Mrs. Caroline Bartlett Hedges at Brush chapel at 10 a.m. Thursday conducted by Rev. W. S. Lawrence. Burial at 3 p.m. Thursday. Friends may call at the chapel.
Mrs. Hannah Gavin widow of Thomas Gavin of Cedar Rapids died Tuesday in Marion. The body was taken to Turner mortuary. Funeral arrangements will be announced.
A sitdown strike by 1,200 Continental Motor Company workers grew after 15,000 Hudson CIO UAW members refused to cross Hudson lines. Hudson workers sought wage boosts, the first such labor flap since a GM Buick plant sitdown in Flint over a decade ago. Continental says production workers were disciplined for refusing to work and that wage talks hinge on union recognition of cooperative productivity.
Seventeen people were injured when a steam flange burst in the Valley Forge, a 27,000 ton aircraft carrier at the Philadelphia naval base. Five civilians and twelve ship personnel suffered scalds as live steam filled a fireroom during refitting.
A 14 year old boy named Johnny, with a lengthy juvenile record since 1944, is held in city jail after a May 31 burglary of Art's Radio Doc and a scooter theft. His mother plans to remarry a former husband in California and may depart soon, but until then Johnny remains jailed as authorities deem him untrustworthy in society.
Cedar Rapids' board of education seeks tenant farmers as it rapidly becomes a landowner. It offered to lease 20 acres of pasture on the east side site of a new high school and eight acres of tillable land at Thirty-seventh Street and E Avenue NE for a future Kenwood school. A $75 summer lease offer for the Cleveland school site on First Avenue W near Twenty-second Street has been received, according to Secretary Edwin W. Lundquist. The high school sits at Grove Avenue near Linnévard.
R. A. Preston of 623 H avenue NW was elected president at a meeting in the Lionel Walker house, 430 Ninth avenue SW, Monday evening. Other officers named include Ralph L. Heasty as vice-president, Robert J Williams as secretary-treasurer, Dewey Dunn adjutant, John L. Nemec sergeant-at-arms, and Donald Rooks chaplain.
Mrs. Richard Pas ee, 30, of Independence, died Tuesday in a hospital after a basement explosion at her home damaged the house. Her husband and three children, who were upstairs, escaped injury.
Report estimates about 12 million bicycles exist in the United States. The figure reflects nationwide ownership levels and suggests widespread cycling in urban and rural areas.
John E. Greenlee, 36, a World War I veteran and Linn county Democrat, won the Cedar Rapids post of commander over Elmer J. Ferriter 407 to 181. Greenlee, a Navy veteran and Purple Heart recipient who served as chief turret captain on the cruiser Houston, succeeds Sam Cohen. He holds multiple decorations including the Presidential Unit citation and European theater ribbon with battle stars. New vice-commanders are Royal Mathews Ken Moon and Gene Moes. Ed Flaherty narrowly missed Moes by 12 votes. Re-elected adjutant Ralph Mock and finance officer Jack Onstott. Reverend Anthony W. Chihak uncontested for chaplain. Dan Justad elected sergeant-at-arms 358 to 174.
The Linn county board of supervisors approved quit claim deeds for land, signed a right of way easement May 27, and authorized purchase of a two ton truck for 2122.30. They also accepted a road petition, settled a six month beer permit refund for Melody Lane tavern, approved Ruth Bottorff as deputy county superintendent, granted Lottie Melichar a six month medical leave, and accepted Edith Stursa’s resignation amid ill health. The work on Cottage Grove avenue bridge over Indian Creek can move forward.
The president urged continued Canada United States cooperation in hemispheric defense and economic projects. He highlighted the Canada US joint defense board, the St Lawrence Great Lakes electric power scheme, and a shared future where neighbors are allies not foreigners.
Beardsley Ruml, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, elected to the UN Economic Commission sub commission on economic development. He chairs R. H. Macy and Company and serves as director of Muzak, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, and the National Bureau of Economic Research.
In Cedar Rapids traffic tolls have risen since April 1 with ongoing incidents and 224 recorded accidents noted in the report.
Flood crests from the Missouri and Mississippi rivers push toward St. Louis with over a million acres underwater in Missouri and Mississippi. Evacuations are underway as the Sny drainage levee near Hannibal risks 120 000 more acres, and Glasgow Boonville area faces widespread levee failures. Army engineers and the Coast Guard aid evacuations.
Dr. J. D. Ryder professor of electrical engineering at Iowa State College will address the Cedar Rapids section of the Institute of Radio Engineers at the YMCA Little Theater tonight at 7 30. The talk titled Fundamental Considerations to Antenna Design invites all to attend.
Carl M. Ross a ship cook aboard a fishing boat bound for Shanghai was rushed 250 miles offshore by a Coast Guard cutter after a report of appendicitis. Physicians later said he was seasick. A Coast Guard plane circled the vessel but could not land due to rough seas.
Marie Catherine Olinger of Strawberry Point is announced as the delegate to Hawkeye Girls State by the American Legion auxiliary, chosen as the representative of her community and school.
NANKING Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Chang Yuang-chang says Moscow bears responsibility for a Mongol invasion of Sinkiang. Mongol forces crossed into China to press for the release of eight captured soldiers. Chinese planes reportedly bombed attackers as casualties were reported on both sides.
A mob of 19 white men threatened to lynch Jimmy Harris, hogtied him with a rope around his neck, and grew rougher until Mayor Hart Vann persuaded them to release him. Harris was taken to Phenix City jail and then to the state prison in Montgomery for protection.
The U S Naval Photographic service has developed an electronic repeating flashbulb that can flash ten thousand times without replacement, enhancing rapid succession photography for naval documentation and missions.
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