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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1947
Page
8
Weather forecast with highs 68 Friday and 73 Saturday and scattered showers. A list of local legal matters includes drunkenness fine for Sheppard W. Williams and traffic court actions for multiple drivers with fines ranging from 2 to 50 dollars. Marriage licenses announced for several couples and new births at local hospitals.
Obituary notices from several towns report deaths and pending services. Louisa Troyer 72 died Tuesday with arrangements at Brant funeral home. Charles Barney 78 died Tuesday in an Oelwein hospital with 2 pm Friday services at Delsing funeral home. Mrs. George Hahn 75 had services last Thursday at St James Lutheran. John Werling 83, near Atalissa, died Wednesday. Mrs. George Sley 88 will have Friday service at English Lutheran church. Elizabeth Bucknell 80 died Tuesday with services Friday at Decorah Lutheran church.
Floods from the Mississippi and Missouri rivers aimed at Alton Illinois as crests converge, with St Louis expected to feel impact Friday. The Mississippi crest stood ahead near Winfield Missouri, while Missouri crest moved past Jefferson City leaving 450,000 acres flooded. Red Cross counted over 5,000 homeless with 3,400 in Missouri and 1,716 in Illinois and seventeen deaths. Levees along the rivers held the crest at report time.
At Camp Good Health a joint cleanup finished in hours with 13 Fire Fighters Local No 11 members aiding St James Methodist church women. Starting 8 30 a m to 2 30 p m, men moved heavy items while women cleaned furniture windows and cupboards. Five firemen earlier painted porch chairs bright green and more volunteers repaired screens and playground equipment.
A. T. Pleune, manager, calls for an assistant to the dietitian and a trained nurse. Preference for a mature woman with quantity cookery experience to supervise vegetables and fruit prep. Married nurse available short term may staff camp on opening Monday. part time nurses welcome via phone 2-3393.
Volunteers at the loge lodge gathered for a noon meal after a large cleaning session. Food came from Wilson and Company chef Bill Dutrt who baked a 20 pound ham with sides. Northfield Dairy Cedar Rapids Bakery Russell Ice Cream supplied milk butter cream buns and dessert. Funds saved will help care for children and staff in the upcoming health building season.
A late aircraft and a CAA regulation delay United Air Lines Cargoliner service to Cedar Rapids. The inaugural flight from San Francisco was two hours late, landing prohibited after dark due to uncertified airport lighting and westward weather.
A chilly rain blocked the Ellis Park municipal swimming pool opening Thursday. Manager Nels Lee said the pool would be open for business on the first fair day, after a planned opening last Saturday was delayed.
Four Minnesotans escaped serious injury after a noon crash on highway 150 three miles north of Center Point. Driver Charles Elinger of Blooming Prairie and his wife Martha 48 were involved with two children, one being treated at St Luke's for a shoulder injury.
The Iowa State Bar Association plans a three day convention with welcomes, state officers, and a Friday banquet in the Montrose ballroom where a Sterling service plate award will be given for long service. Friday includes law school alumni luncheons and a Friday afternoon administrative law school session.
The Bulgarian grand national assembly expelled 23 Agrarian party members who opposed the Communist Fatherland Front. The 23 claimed they did not resign while the assembly said they did, and ordered successors from October 1946 election lists. Nikola Petkov, arrested for plotting against the state, remains party secretary.
Cedar Rapids police awaited the habeas corpus ruling in Ft Lauderdale on John C. Smith wanted over the 3600 dollar Elk club burglary of April 26. Smith was arrested May 23, faces extradition for Cedar Rapids questioning. officials say a victory could end further efforts. Cedar Rapids assistants Elderkin Condon Bukacek accompanied by Nelson will testify Smith participated in the burglary.
Cedar Rapids seeks bids for a new police radio net linking police and fire departments with county and state officers. The plan includes a remote sheriff station and joint FCC frequency application by city and county officials. Bids due July 7 depend on FCC permits and possible system revisions this summer.
The Sixteenth Avenue Commercial club will hold its first social meeting in the club rooms at 7 30 p m Friday.
Marion Baptist church will lead services at the Sunshine Mission tonight at 7 30 PM. The young people will provide several special musical numbers.
R M Reading, recently employed at the Veterans Administration subregional office in Cedar Rapids for 13 months, will depart Friday to assume a new position in New York City.
Denver police report Vernon R. Wilson an Army hospital patient missing since departure was located by detectives in a downtown hotel early Thursday. He is held for army authorities awaiting further disposition.
Maine lodge 643 1.0.C.F. will confer the first degree at an Osceola lodge meeting in Marion Thursday night. Maine lodge will hold a regular meeting Friday in the lodge rooms at 838 First Avenue NE. The third degree will be conferred.
Members of the Optimist Club will entertain their families at the annual club breakfast Sunday at 9 a.m. at Daniels Park. Mrs Elmer Brinkman will be in charge and reservations are to be made with Mrs Brinkman at 2 7294 by Saturday noon.
Historical miners spoke of Tommy knockers as supernatural presences causing noises and disturbances in coal mines. The folklore parallels the later aviation myth of gremlins that supposedly sabotaged aircraft by meddling with engines and equipment.
Will of Anna E. Lamey dated May 25 admitted to probate in district court. Mary Bell Palmer and Beah T. Perrine named executrix and executor without bond. Niece Anna Laura Palmer Wilson also named in the will.
The Sokol and Sokolky Associations of Cedar Rapids host a three day physical culture program from July 2 to 4 featuring 61 delegates from Czechoslovakia. Delegates, chosen from over 450000 Sokol members, will perform publicly on July 3 at Paramount theater and July 4 at Hawkeye. Dr. Anton Hrebik opens with an address at C S P S hall discussing political and economic issues in Europe.
The secretary says removal of household rationing will not trigger a sugar run and will let 800 workers lose jobs. Anderson cites 350000 tons extra from world pool and 200000 from Java to end household and institutional quotas. Senator Butler argues price controls should end and funds are cut off to administer them.
Planners say the municipal stadium is unsuitable for football and a new stadium on the recreation area is included in school board plans. After reveals on the bond issue two months ago, a joint election was proposed but the board has delayed. Most members favor delaying the schools vote until fall when students return.
A row of eight new houses on Sixth Street NW between L and K Avenues NW built by Veterans Homes Inc will be open for public inspection Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The dwellings are for sale without profit to qualifying World War II veterans in greatest immediate need of housing. At least three houses will be open for inspection as the project represents a collaboration of veteran organizations in the city to show that sound housing can be provided at reasonable cost.
The city council approved rezoning 10 lots near Eighth avenue SE and Seventh street from B residential to C commercial despite objections from shopkeepers led by A Homsey. The action ends residential status on Eighth avenue between First and Tenth streets and aligns with the city plan commission. A separate petition by William J. Harnish for a half block near Sixth and Seventh streets SE was sent to the plan commission.
Mrs. James A. Shepard 64 resident for 31 years died at her home 1216 Fourth Street NW at 9:20 a.m. Thursday born October 6 1882 in Lynnville Indiana. Survived by husband McKinney of Terre Haute two sisters Mrs. Mary Judd Booneville Indiana and Mrs. Nora Morris Aberdeen Idaho 13 grandchildren and one great grandchild. Services in Beatty chapel at a time to be announced.
Services for Mrs Hannah Gavin widow of Thomas Gavin who died Tuesday will be conducted in the Turner chapel at 16 a.m. Friday by the Rev Frank Ward Burial will be in Shiloh cemetery at Louisa Friends may call at the chapel.
Mrs. Mary Lamb aged 92 dies. Services set for 2 p.m. Friday at Barta-Hesser chapel conducted by Rev. John DeLong of Trinity Methodist church. Burial in Lingwood cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
Mrs. Tom Stastny 51 of 77 Twenty first Avenue Southwest Cedar Rapids died at 3 a.m. Thursday after a lingering illness. Born November 26 1895 in Cedar Rapids she was survived by her husband a son Robert a brother Emil Hurka two sisters Mrs Emma Vane and Mrs Sylvia Womacka and a granddaughter all of Cedar Rapids. She was a member of Praha Rebeka lodge Progressive edge Z.C.D. and Ceske Viastenky. Polansky chapel time to be announced.
The wholesale food price index of Dun and Bradstreet rose to 6.12 this week from 6.09 last week and 4.21 in the same date last year. The index, based on 31 foods, peaked at 6.77 on March 4 and had a low of 5.95 on May 20.
Hunter Field suspends the southwest-northeast runway until further notice as work on the strip continues. A field spokesman says the strip, last of six to be graded and surfaced, is not yet safe. Weather, machinery and crew availability hinder completion, with no definite date in sight. The Iowa Aeronautics Commission warns flyers to use other runways with caution due to grading activity on the field.
The Linn county courthouse purge ends spittoon era as 50 to two remaining cuspidors are moved out. Custodian Tor McCallen becomes cuspidor clerk while phones buzz over buyers in Chicago paying 35 dollars each. Court records note $100 gain and repurposed brass pieces.
A hospital survey limited to babies under four weeks in Cedar Rapids examined infectious diarrhea. Mercy and St Luke's combined statistics, with three cases at Mercy and two at St Luke's still under treatment. Findings stress early diagnosis, isolation, sterilization, and visitor restrictions, with full hospital compliance noted.
Actress Cobina Wright Jr and Palmer Baudette welcome their third son born Tuesday as they discuss a name for the newborn in Hollywood.
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