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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1941
Page
16
Four more days remain to cast ballots for Cedar Rapids' bathing beauty. Voting closes at 9 p.m. Saturday. Contestants include Nora Cocker Miss Montgomery Ward's and Dorothy Tow Miss Craemer's with a prize of a one week Great Lakes cruise.d
Voters may cast ballots at sponsoring business houses. Balloting closes June 21 at p.m. Supporters urged to visit local sponsors to deposit their vote for Miss in the Cedar Rapids bathing beauty pageant.
City notices show a Wednesday session for a canning class at two o’clock. The Schultz Weichman reunion is planned for next Sunday at Newhall Park with a basket dinner. Haircuts are 25 cents at Hanna Barbers, 322 Second Ave. Advertising section. Miss Helen Irving left Saturday for Washington DC to enter school. Kenwood Presbyterian senior choir members meet for practice at 7:30 PM. Cedar Rapids Chapter 194 AOHP meets at St John the Baptist Church at 8 PM Tuesday for election of officers. Mrs John Filipi returned today from Lincoln Nebraska.
St Elizabeth’s Guild of St John’s Church postpones its social affair indefinitely.
Mrs. Paul Paterson of 214 Fifteenth Street NW is recovering satisfactorily following a recent operation and remains at her home.
Miss Ellen Benzinger daughter of Mr and Mrs Jack Benzinger 2737 Wilson Ave SW underwent aectomy at St Luke's Hospital last night and the condition was reported satisfactory by the attending doctors.
Townsend club auxiliaries 1 and 3 will meet at Ellis Park pavilion Thursday at 12 30 p m for a picnic lunch. Members are expected to bring their own eating utensils. All friends are invited.
District officers discussed plans for the University District Dental society meeting to be held in Iowa City this fall during a dinner at the Roosevelt hotel Tuesday evening.
Bobbie Janda, three and a half, son of Mr. and Mrs. J F Janda of 717 Thirteenth street NW, had a skin graft operation Monday at Children's Hospital in Iowa City to aid healing of his hands.
Sergt. Jack R. Lankow arrived in Cedar Rapids Saturday on a seven day furlough from Camp Claiborne Louisiana. He is visiting at the home of his parents Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Rohrer at 1400 Ellis boulevard NW.
The regular meeting of four coordinated bodies of Iowa Consistory will be held in the Scottish Rite temple Wednesday at 8 p.m. It will be the annual meet.
Cedar Rapids Automobile Dealers association hosted dealers from Johnson Linn Jones Benton Cedar and Iowa at the Roosevelt hotel Monday evening. Walter Ferrell of the State Automobile Dealers association was the principal speaker.
Miss Ruth Outland sister of Ethel R Outland and college graduate directs student publications at Marshalltown High School since 1925 and at Marshalltown Junior College since 1937. She hails from Granville Ohio and is a graduate of Coe College.
The East side and West side will line up to fight it out on the baseball diamond Saturday with the Cedar Rapids Association of Credit starting at 2 p.m. leading off a program that includes other sports prizes and a picnic lunch.
The annual Quaas reunion was held at Riverside park Sunday. The following officers were elected: R. N. Fitzgerald president and Sarah Schultz of Marion.
Capt. Frank Krejci of 2005 Hamilton Street SW and Lieut. Robert W. Gable of 609 Thirtieth Street NE are officers in the infantry reserve. Their assignments reflect active reserve duties and leadership within the unit.
A notice warns private property owners to remove weeds or face action. The message emphasizes enforcement on privately owned land and cites potential penalties if compliance is not achieved.
A garbled puzzle clue list mixes terms like ancient temple parts and action verbs. It includes references such as mutilate and complete, with stray fragments like It constructs lodges and heaps. The text presents scattered definitions, unclear connections, and unfinished phrases.
The city will carry out the work and the expense will be charged to the appropriate funds or departmental budget as applicable. The action aims to complete critical repairs or improvements while spreading cost through the relevant fiscal mechanisms.
City council will act on all permit renewals on June 23. Of 65 class B beer permits up for renewal July 19, 62 showed Tuesday. Forty six of 54 class C renewals submitted and 142 of 201 cigarette applications filed.
City Treasurer Walter Miller says property owners assessed for street oiling may pay costs at the city hall office to avoid double entry and clerical expense when later listed on the tax rolls by the county treasurer.
Rev. H K Gibson of Des Moines was fined five dollars and costs after his car struck a cow four miles west of Cedar Rapids on highway 30 Monday evening. The cow owned by D C Mulherin was being moved to its barnyard from a pasture. Highway Patrolman James Gildroy filed the charge.
Y M C A reports $59,261.25 in cash and pledges toward a $60,000 siding debt and improvement drive. About $738.75 remains to reach the goal as plans for building renovations and a week long open house are outlined for September with team captains forming a steering committee.
Carl G. Helming advertising manager for Armstrong wins first prize in a national newspaper ad contest tied to Fishermen's Week. The event ran April 26 to May 3 with J. G. Es hy son ansoniet conducting parallel judging. First prize covers two weeks of all expenses.
Final arrangements for the seventeenth High Twelve International convention in Cedar Rapids were made at the Roosevelt hotel. The event runs Wednesday through Saturday with about 350 visitors expected from across the United States and Canada. The first registration opens Wednesday at the Roosevelt mezzanine floor.
May 1941 car loadings in Cedar Rapids totaled 3 947 outbound and 2 480 inbound, up from 3 051 and 2 216 in May 1940. Employment across 20 firms rose to 6 028 from 5 631, with four declines. Real estate transfers and business indicators also show gains in May 1941.
Mrs suffered a fracture of the left leg while Dr Galmar sustained several broken ribs in a mishap that sent several Hospers residents to area hospitals.
Ethel F Freeman appointed executrix without bond of the Freeman estate with a will dated April 20 1831 Eva A Maxfield probate admitted and Charles F Maxfield named executor without bond with life interest to the estate R C Smythe faces a motion for judgment on the pleadings over disputed notes Judge H C Ring granted 10 days to rule or amend the filing Cook disputes signing the notes in his answer to the petition
The text notes that the estate be divided between the couple's two sons Archie J. Maxfield and George Albert Maxfield.
On petition of J. Melvin Miller and G. Merlin Miller in Monroe Township heirs at law Samuel Miller Elsie Freeman Maggie Hepker Jennie Prenosil and Marie Schrimper sue for estate matters. Dwight J. Krumboltz and D. H.
On defendant Co. D. O'Kelly of Marion Judge Tuesday renders a total of 423.24 to Roy Craft Company of Des Moines. Action based on four promissory notes totaling 175 signed August 19 1939 and an unpaid 248.24 account allegedly contracted by O Kelley in 1938.
The Iowa Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld District Judge H. C. Ring’s February 13 decision appointing William Fahey of Cedar Rapids as guardian for Mary Hruska. The ruling affirmed that Hruska and Haro had not been notified of Fahey’s appointment.
Otto Sikora died May 8 1946 prompting Fahey to be appointed guardian on May 13 by court on administrator William Kacena’s recommendation. Hruskas objected May 15 seeking removal of the successor guardian citing legality of the method. Case argued before the supreme court in May.
Eleanor Hunt filed notice with a district court protest against the 1941 property value set at 14560 dollars. The city board led by Mayor F K Hahn and council members sustained City Assessor James F Scolaro's judgment.
Frank Fiesleman age 20 was arrested Sunday for driving without a license for the third time in 33 days. He was brought before Justice H. R. Churchill who set costs for May 12 and later May 24 and ordered $25 fine plus $10 costs. Lacking funds he remained in county jail.
The board awarded 50 tons of stove coke to W. G. Block Co at $11.05 per ton for use at the school. Cedar Rapids Fuel Co bid $11.69 and $11.44, Haegg Coal Co $11.15. Twelve firms submitted bids on the 5,000 tons of coal required annually, all referred to the supplies committee with power to act.
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