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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1950
Page
2
The Daily Record presents temperatures across cities with highs in the 60s to 90s and small precipitation amounts. Iowa forecast calls for partly cloudy to thundery in the southeast with warm days ahead and a few showers tonight through Friday. Local divorc e petitions and numerous obituaries and death notices are listed with church or cemetery services and burial plans.
A special master after reviewing 78 092 pages of testimony recommended dismissing Georgia s freight rate lawsuit against 20 railroads. The suit charged a railroad conspiracy to fix rates harming the South, but the master found the evidence showed a nationwide, largely unsuccessful effort by railroads to discourage rate reductions with no state bearing a unique burden.
Special to The West Liberty Vernon. Keith 21 of West Liberty fatally injured when his car left highway 6 east of town and plunged into a shallow creek at 1 am Tuesday. He died en route to Iowa City hospital after being thrown from the vehicle. An Omaha truck driver Otto Sulzbrener witnessed the wreck and pulled him from the water. Police say alcohol not indicated though fatigue may have caused the driver to sleep at the wheel. Keith, a West Liberty graduate and Army veteran, is survived by parents three brothers and five sisters with funeral arrangements pending.
Testimony in a Iowa case questions whether an agricultural society may run auto races and other non agricultural events at Hawkeye Downs. McElhinney and witnesses discuss taxes, ownership, and the relationship between the association and De-Mar acres near Cedar Rapids. Court pauses for noon recess as officials and farm groups monitor the proceedings.
Measles fell to 143 cases in Cedar Rapids during May while remaining the most reported disease. Assistant Health Officer Carl Smith announced the monthly totals, noting April had 526 and March a record 578. The year to date total reached 1,569 with other illnesses likewise tracked.
Rector Austin of 1224 Maplewood Drive NE was fined 25 dollars and costs in police court after being found guilty of using profane language at Sammy's Tavern on a complaint by bartender John Lopez. He admitted using the bad language during a recurring dispute that began months earlier over restroom water used to sterilize beer glasses.
Russell Taylor of Chicago waived to the grand jury on a desertion charge with a $1000 bond set by Justice Charles Benesh. Willie Perkins of Minneapolis received a four month suspended sentence for vagrancy after a May 24 arrest by Cedar Rapids police. George M. Taylor's will, filed May 20, names Myrtle C. Taylor as sole heir and executrix without bond.
The Iowa supreme court ordered a baseball field near Carbon in Adams county moved within 45 days to reduce nuisance effects on neighbor C. E. Amdor. The decision requires relocating the home plate to the farthest point from Amdor’s home to curb falling balls and other disturbances.
Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan ruled Lustron Corporation bankrupt and denied transferring proceedings to Columbus. He named three receivers Arthur Murphy S Harvey Klein and James B McCahey Jr bond set at 250000. RFC foreclosed on 36500000 mortgage and planned to buy Columbus plant for 6000000 with inventory of 750000 ordered sold.
The Y M C A summer program, directed by Art Stejskal, reports over 200 boys participating. Activities include crafts with 122 in the shop, swimming, tours for 267 youngsters, and an all day outing at Shaver Park. Lessons run Saturday with four beginner and two advanced classes. Membership is $3 for ages 8 to 14.
John J. Nevibomsky of Syracuse New York and George Whitt of Mansfield Ohio face larceny of a motor vehicle charges after allegedly stealing Harold Studt’s car from Mount Vernon The vehicle was found wrecked on Ridge road near Anamosa early Sunday Both suspects sustained minor injuries and were arrested Monday night They waived grand jury and are held in Linn county jail on $2000 bail each
The Iowa Lions Convention at Roosevelt hotel heads into its final day with 340 delegates. A 7 p.m. banquet follows a morning schedule including a necrology service and business session. Four district governors and a state queen will be honored at the banquet.
Cedar Rapids city council gave final approval to an ordinance regulating house trailers. The measure forbids trailers as permanent dwellings, licenses units and camps, and limits layouts. Violations carry a $100 fine or 30 days in jail with full effect after publication.
The Iowa Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed Judge G. K. Thompson's ruling in the Edward Burke Jr. automobile accident case against Edward Reiter. The ruling upheld the district court's verdict for Burke and its later order for a new trial, finding no abuse of discretion in seeking reasons for a verdict clearly contrary to the evidence.
T. V. Soong's secretary said on Tuesday that the former Chinese premier had not resigned from the Kuomintang. This followed a central committee announcement last week claiming Soong's resignation had been accepted.
Arthur Abram Hottel of Cedar Rapids died in a local hospital at 4 20 am Tuesday after a long illness. He was born October 19 1879 in Belle Plaine and lived in Cedar Rapids 20 years. Atelegrapher for the Northwestern Railroad thirty nine years he is survived by his wife Valetta a son George and two sisters. The funeral will be Thursday at 10 30 am in Turner chapel with burial at Gods Acres Jewell.
Funeral services for Henry G Meyn will be at Beatty chapel at 3 p.m. He leaves a brother Fred Meyn of Jamaica NY and sister Mrs Mary Meuser of St Petersburg FL plus six grandchildren. Services to be held at 3 p.m. at Beatty chapel.
David Fischer infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Fischer of Dysart died in a Belle Plaine hospital on Monday. The mother Ava Jean Marsh is from Cedar Rapids. Private services conducted by Rev. Frank Ward in Rohn chapel Cedar Rapids Tuesday at 1 p.m. Burial followed at Cedar Memorial cemetery.
Funeral services for Charles Scott Mahaffy of Cedar Rapids will be held at Turner chapel at 10 30 am Wednesday. Dr Marvin B Kober pastor of St Pauls Methodist church will conduct. Burial is Cedar Memorial Park cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
Services for Charles Hickman of 122 Ellis Terrace will be held Thursday at 1 30 p.m. in Beatty chapel with Rev A B Curran officiating. Burial follows at Linwood Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Funeral services for Thelma Becker of 311 Fifth avenue SE will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Hintz funeral home in Oelwein. Burial will follow at Woodlawn cemetery in Oelwein.
Mrs. Jiroutek of Ely route 1 died Sunday. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Brosh chapel by the Rev. Ludvik Burian. Burial will follow at Truhlar cemetery with friends welcome at the chapel.
Thirteen University of Iowa students from Cedar Rapids will spend six weeks at ROTC camps this summer. The largest group attends the air force camp at Lowry Field in Denver with names including John G. Fletcher and Harry M. Stewart. Others go to Camp McCoy Wisconsin Fort Belvoir Virginia Chanute Air Base Illinois Fitzsimons Denver and Brooke Army Medical Center Texas. Training leads to reserve commissions in the army or air force after graduation.
Madison city manager Leonard G. Howell resigns to take a Des Moines appointment. Howell will move from a 12000 dollar annual salary to about 20000 dollars in the new post.
Britannica notes that as late as 1829 about seven percent of sailing ships afloat were wrecked each year, indicating high peril in maritime travel during that era.
City Engineer Frank Young reported a storm sewer on E avenue NE would cost 217350 dollars to build. The 1200 foot project would run from 200 feet east of Thirteenth street to the open Vinton ditch with excavation sheet piling removal of bridges and reinforced concrete work. Streets Commissioner Ray Tapper ordered a copy of the report sent to the 57 petitioners who had sought the sewer while earlier plans called for temporary relief by widening the ditch. Petitioners argued the open waterway was unsanitary unsafe and hazardous to children.
City Engineer Frank Young told council members that a tract along Twenty-sixth street would host a new Buchanan drive SE extending toward Memorial drive. Extensions require land purchases, and negotiations are under way with Memorial drive and Forest drive parcels. The board seeks council views on a street between Second avenue SE and Cottage Grove avenue near the east side high school and a link from E avenue to Johnson avenue NW to improve Cleveland school access for Westwood pupils.
City notices report the death of Mrs. P. O. Christianson in Houston and funeral plans in Glendale, with her Cedar Rapids connection noted. Hazel L. Loveland, former Cedar Rapids resident, died in Topeka. her father was a former Trinity Methodist pastor. The Linn County Young Democrats schedule a wiener roast at Ellis Park after a June meeting with transportation from the Paramount. A billfold and a $100 diamond ring were reported stolen from a phone booth at the bus depot. an ice cream supper is planned at St James Methodist Church on Ellis Boulevard.
Cedar Rapids officials weighed site options for two new senior high schools east and west of downtown with land needs for 10th to 12th graders. Bids to rewire four high schools exceeded forecasts, prompting delay and cost reviews as labor and material prices rise.
Mr and Mrs Harry Donovan of 1935 Bever Avenue SE and Mr and Mrs Allan Norton of 536 Forest Drive SE returned from Lansing Michigan where they attended the twenty first national encampment of the United Mexican Border Veterans. Fifteen delegates represented the Iowa department. Donovan was re elected national historian and Norton adjutant quartermaster. Mrs Donovan was re elected chaplain of the auxiliary and Mrs Norton was elected president of the Iowa department of the auxiliary.
Mrs. Pearl Marie Dunsmoore about 30 of near Oskaloosa Iowa was killed Tuesday when a car she rode in hit a bridge abutment on highway 69 south of Pittsburg Kansas. Her husband Pvt. Leslie Ivan Dunsmoore and one child Marie Louise received minor injuries while John and Beverly were unhurt.
Mrs. Oliver Booth, 75, Tama Iowa, died after being struck by a taxi while crossing the street in front of her sister's home in Racine Wisconsin.
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