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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1954
Page
2
Camp Good Health opened its 1954 health-building season with 59 campers, ages six to twelve, arriving to cabins and meals. Director Mrs. P. H. Brown noted rapid dining room service as the camp plans to reach capacity of 75 by early July with more arrivals next week.
The caravan and 46 first-trippers toured from Cedar Rapids through Marion Springville Anamosa Monticello Hopkinton Delhi and Delaware towns. Crowds ranged from 25 to 274 with rain easing at times. The event celebrated postal service improvements amid local bands and civic participation.
Marengo mourns Emil Timmerman 60 who drowned in Leech Lake Minnesota on June 7. Services will be at Hoover funeral home at 1 30 pm and Zion Evangelical church at 2 30 pm in Pilot Township with burial in the church cemetery. Timmerman’s body was recovered from the lake Tuesday. Surviving are his wife Vaneta, two daughters, two brothers and two sisters.
A mob attack in West Berlin injures 78, with 27 hospitalized as Communists disrupt a memorial for the June 17, 1953 revolt. Police rescue at least 12 Communists, arrest 36, and escort them away. Thousands attend the town hall service while sector police tighten border guards.
Thomas W. Sauerbry, 45, of Greeley pled innocent to a drunk driving charge after an accident near Marion. He was released on a $500 bond from a Cedar Rapids hospital where he was treated after suffering a severe arm injury when his car struck a rural mail box.
Emma K. Happel settled her suit against Hugh Mossman as executor of Henry Schuchmann estate for 2500 dollars. The case alleged the estate owed her money on a promise to name her an heir, but she was not included in the will. Settlement came just before trial.
Frances A. Conrad Wednesday dismissed a divorce suit filed against Gerald R. Conrad.
Judgments issued Wednesday in three account suits to plaintiffs St. Luke's Hospital against Delbert E. and Judith E. Hakes for 218.28 dollars T F Suchomel against Kenneth and Selma Stavely for 161.25 dollars and J R Flynn against Frank and Iola Davenport for 175.61 dollars.
Rio Grande Valley residents plan a picnic at Thomas Park Sunday at 1 p.m. DST. Bring a covered dish and table service for a community gathering and meal.
Lorra ine Allen Cugat former wife of bandleader Xavier Cugat and Stanley Stafford a 35 year old Beverly Hills businessman wed in a discreet ceremony disclosed on Wednesday.
The Senate hearings feature sharp exchanges between McCarthy and Welch over security clearances and Communist subversion. McCarthy argues for contempt proceedings to test presidential power over loyalty information, while Welch defends army vigilance and urges cooperation to root out subversives.
Russ Harmon drove his car to a garage for extensive repairs after a Wednesday intersection crash with a horse and buggy driven by 84 year old Joe Levi who snapped his reins and rode away. Levi and his horse were undamaged.
Pierre Mendes-France told the French national assembly he would resign if peace in Indo China is not achieved by July 20. He outlined a three point program including an Indo China settlement effort, an economic recovery plan, and proposals to accelerate a European army policy.
Truman J. Brookner died at 59 after collapsing at Wilson and Company plant. Coroner says natural causes. Born Dec 18 1894 in Calmar, longtime Cedar Rapids resident.
Isaiah Lincoln Patten age 68 died at Cedar Rapids hospital after a long illness. He was born February 15 1885 in Lincoln Nebraska and married Harriet Ella Beaty in Des Moines. He leaves a wife a daughter Phoebe A Sima five sons a sister and several brothers with funeral services set at Beatty Bearle chapel Saturday at 1 30 p m burial in Linwood Cemetery friends may call after 7 p m Thursday.
Harry Hodge a Cedar Rapids bathing contractor and longtime resident died Wednesday morning at Marion route 3 He was born in Cedar Rapids April 1881 Survived by two sons Ralph and Lester a daughter Mrs Walter Pepmeyer all of Cedar Rapids and two brothers Ralph of Cedar Rapids and of Kansas His wife Amelia died May 4 1953 Services will be held 11 a m Friday at Brady mortuary Rev Frank Ward burial in Cedar Memorial cemetery Friends may call at the funeral home
Mrs William J Burkhard aged 1011 Thirty-sixth street SE Cedar Rapids dies after brief illness. Services set at Beatty-Bearle chapel Friday at 1 30 pm led by Rev Frank H Ward. Burial in Urbana cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
Rep. Thomas E. Martin, Iowa GOP Senate nominee, declined to back or oppose McCarthy campaigning in Iowa. He urged party unity under state and national leaders, saying campaign planning should be handled by party officials, not individual candidates. Pierson indicated opposition to the Wisconsin senator's Iowa visit.
The HPO tour traveled 164 pointers and stopped 15 times from Cedar Rapids to Decorah. Across stops in Oelwein West Union Clermont Postville Calmar and Decorah 2217 people toured the vehicle and 5788 first day covers were processed by day’s end. Benjamin P. Adams led the trip with Rep Henry O. Talle instrumental in securing the HPO route.
Cedar Rapids city council directed new traffic controls at three intersections. A school stop at Third avenue and Twelfth street SE, a stop and go signal at Third avenue and Third street SW, and a pedestrian signal at A avenue and Eleventh street NE near St Luke's hospital.
Two companies of French paratroops landed Thursday to aid a combined Tunisian police and army effort in a running battle with an estimated 1,000 Arab bandits in Tunis.
Cedar Rapids city council studied a plan by Quaker Oats to sink a new 12 inch deep well to dispose of 114 percent acetic acid and traces of formic acid underground. Officials debated liability, state health department oversight, and whether city approval would exempt the firm from wider waste facility programs.
The income tax evasion case of John P. Kampmeyer 63 of Sioux City opened in federal court with both sides saying much testimony will focus on his gambling operations. A 12 jurors panel was selected for what is expected to be a week long trial.
William Coe, Democratic gubernatorial hopeful in Elk City, Oklahoma, fell ill with a cold and was ordered to stop speaking for three days by party officials. The incident sidelines Coe during the campaign.
Six Cedar Rapids area men join Navy and reserve officer training with Great Lakes boot camp. Names include John Morris Ronald Carpenter Vernal Moore Douglas Davis Marvin Martens Lynn Ricklefs. Cmdr Wiese says after July 1 only five petty officer specialties will be trained. WAVE officer school now accepting applications.
The Cedar Rapids Junior Chamber of Commerce received the national second prize at the Jaycee convention in Colorado Springs for civic improvement efforts. Their entry lists Playmobile, a mobile playground under construction, Jaycee Jamboree, a home talent show for a new swimming pool, a vending machine fundraiser, a cleanup survey, and a Christmas toy project.
Dr. R G Bunge of the University of Iowa urology department will not attend the American Society for the Study of Sterility meeting in San Francisco and the paper on experiments with frozen human semen will not be read. The University of Iowa says no public information release will be made until the study appears in a professional publication at an undetermined time.
Leslie G. Ritner, 31, associate physicist in Brookhaven National Laboratories nuclear engineering, was found dead near a medical department carport after his wife reported he did not return home. A note indicated he planned death by his own action. Ritner, born October 14, 1922 in Shenandoah Iowa, is survived by a sister, Mrs. George Vaughn, Waterloo.
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