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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1956
Page
2
Weather summary for Bismarck to LaCrosse with temperatures and precipitation notes. Local births listed with families and dates June 18. Divorce petitions named for Cedar Rapids and other listed couples.
Several individuals were fined for traffic and safety violations including intoxication and failure to control a vehicle, with amounts ranging from 10 to 25 dollars plus costs. Toledo services for Mrs. Howard A. Morgan were held, burial planned at Crystal Cemetery. Stinson reflects on his legal career and personal hardship during a lengthy court review.
Cedar Rapids Plan Commission examines a citizens committee proposal for safety sidewalks in new subdivisions. The panel endorses general safety features from last week’s report and will study a zoning change to require sidewalks in future subdivisions while noting council authority over location and funding.
Cooler air from the Northeast sweeps into the East as the first major heat wave wanes. Mornings dip into the low 60s along the Middle Atlantic coast with 34 degrees reported in Houston Maine and a Connecticut record low of 45 as storms spar over the central plains and upper Mississippi Valley.
Homesteaders must show at least a 10 percent equity in the house. New owners must prove residence or intent to reside by July 1. Scolaro’s office now handles annual veteran exemption applications. Discharge papers needed for first time filers. spouses may sign if veteran cannot. WWII veterans receive $500 tax exemption, WWI veterans $750, saving about $38 to $57.
A 17 year old Moline youth, Anthony Anderson, charged with stealing 24 Bank of America stock shares from a mailbox and impersonating a postal employee, will be handled under federal juvenile delinquency rules after a Cedar Rapids judge ordered a recess for review and agreed to juvenile procedure pending a probation report. The youth has an IQ of 124 and a personality disturbance but is not mentally incompetent. He was arrested in May in Cedar Rapids after selling the stock for 883 dollars to a local investment firm.
North Iowa Methodists approved two major mission projects totaling more than 90 000 dollars over four years. A Gan ta Liberia mission school receives 30000 and a proposed Alaska Methodist college would get 1900 from each of eight districts annually. About 600 delegates attend the week long conference.
Former President Harry Truman, visiting London, demonstrates necktie selling technique to William Lewis, a British clothing clerk, explaining how to twist a tie over fingers to show its appearance. Truman stops to buy a white bow tie for upcoming full dress dinners in Britain.
Hartford dispatch reports Senator Prescott Bush won unanimous endorsement by the state convention for the Connecticut senate race. Bush completes a four year interim term begun in 1952, while Vi ven Kellems threatened to contest but failed to materialize.
John Pela announces the weather forecast on Channel 9 at 10 00 p m presenting a preview of tomorrow's conditions with likely temps and possible precipitation.
Guy F. Semelroth, 37, of 628 Ninth Street SE, pleaded guilty to a drunk driving charge in a court with Judge Floyd Philbrick. He was fined 300 dollars plus costs, ordered to pay 50 dollars down and 25 dollars monthly. Arrested by Cedar Rapids police on December 7, 1955, his car was involved in a minor accident. Semelroth had been free on 500 dollars bond, originally pled innocent December 8, but changed to guilty Tuesday.
Probate filings approve the wills of Joseph Prochaska who died June 9 and Eileen Drenkhahn who died December 1 1955. Prochaska leaves $100 to four children and divides the remainder with a son and grandson named as recipients. Robert Prochaska is a two thirds beneficiary. Richard D Holden named executor with a $1000 bond. Drenkhahn estate goes to husband Raymond W Drenkhahn who is named executor without bond.
The Suchomel Chevrolet garage in Center Point was burgled to steal a $200 safe. The safe’s outside door was unlocked and a side window was forced between 8:30 p.m. Monday and 9 a.m. Tuesday. Deputy Harlan Snyder investigates the break in.
A 16 year old Maquoketa youth was lodged in Linn county jail on a federal charge of interstate transportation of stolen property. Parker Hallberg formerly of Detroit is accused of transporting stolen household goods from Detroit to Ohio. FBI agents arrested him, Sheriff Jim Smith said.
Petersen Electric Company won a judgment of $238.68 from Mrs. Ruth Weidner in an account suit filed Tuesday. The ruling, reported by the local court, sets the amount due for electrical services rendered and billed to Weidner.
Laurent Novikoff, 68, renowned Russian ballet dancer and former partner of Anna Pavlova, died Monday at his home in New Buffalo Michigan. A graduate of the imperial ballet school in Russia, he came to Chicago in 1930 to head the Chicago opera ballet and later joined the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
In Algiers two Algerian rebels were executed by the French guillotine on Tuesday while reports spread that at least 38 more would face severe penalties within days. This marked the first executions since the rebellion began 19 months ago as France moves to enforce military tribunal sentences.
Donald Hunziker, chairman, announces Winneshiek county Republican convention on Friday June 29 at 10 am to select delegates for the state Republican convention in Des Moines on July 20. One hundred eighteen delegates from county precincts will participate.
Washington insiders report that the House interior committee postponed for at least another week a vote on a proposal to authorize the 484 million dollar Hells Canyon public power project in Idaho.
The French Communist Party issued an official statement accusing current Kremlin leaders of blaming Stalin for Soviet failures. It argues modern Russian leaders allowed Stalin to become an all powerful dictator whose whims caused murders.
Funeral services are set in Cedar Rapids for Telesford J. Le Roux and his daughter Donna Jean following a Idaho auto crash that killed both. Surviving relatives include Paul 18 and sister in Kingsville Texas. widow suffered jaw and wrist fractures but is improving. Funeral at Immaculate Conception church at 10 a.m. Friday with burial in Mt Calvary cemetery. A Teahen chapel visitation begins Wednesday evening.
Grace E Drew 78 lifelong Cedar Rapids resident died in a Cedar Rapids hospital at 7 50 p m Monday after brief illness Born April 28 1878 in Cedar Rapids She was a member of St Pauls Methodist church and the Kings Daughters Surviving are two brothers C C and R L Drew and several nephews and nieces Services will be in Turner chapel at 3 30 p m Wednesday by a minister of St Pauls Burial in Linwood cemetery Friends may call at the chapel
Andrew Clifford Rummelhart, 35, of Riverside died Tuesday after falling 75 feet from a water tower while painting the tower on a scaffold. The rope on the scaffold broke during work with a painting crew near Maquoketa in Jackson County.
General Nathan Twining said extra air force funds proposed by the senate appropriations committee would not speed production of B 52 jet bombers. The air force chief of staff added that even with the funding, gearing up for faster production would likely take about a year.
Wood county Wisconsin guardsmen in summer training were ordered to shave. They had saved their beards for the county centennial in August.
The Farm Bureau blasted the administration for insufficient input on the soil bank program. They praised Benson as agriculture secretary but lamented not being consulted on administrative details and price support links. A conference tour and events followed meetings in the Amanas, Danceland ballroom, and Roosevelt and Montrose hotels.
Commissioner Prochaska announced Monotrol operates at nine mph and no changes are planned to Walk and Don't Walk timing. Right turns will be allowed on Second Street and Second Avenue SE, deterring double parking near May’s drug store. curb loading zones should be used for pickups, especially downtown workers. Users are urged to learn the system to minimize stops for slow pedestrians.
In DESSOUK Egypt Ibrahim Madi a longtime butcher complains of a psychological complex as his wife nears delivery. He asks to be jailed claiming he might harm her if another girl is born. His nine year marriage yielded seven daughters in a row but then the wife gave birth to triplet boys.
In Cedar Rapids a woman lawyer, Mrs. J Charles Beckley, was admitted to practice in the federal courts of the Northern District of Iowa. Her father L M Hullinger made the motion, noted by Judge Henry N Graven. She graduated from Cumberland University and took the oath from Clerk Lee McNeely. Her brother L M Hullinger Jr earlier won the Democratic nomination for state senator in Linn County.
Four 18 year old Eastern Iowa girls join the Waves at the Cedar Rapids recruiting office. Names listed include JoAnn Pachta Karen Baker Geraldine Fetter and Yvonne Ralston. They will train at Bainbridge Maryland. In Cedar Rapids a naval reserve division swore in three youths Monday night: Willard James, James Sinn, and machinist mate Gerald Howe.
Herschel C Loveless of Ottumwa reported 561 dollars spent in his Democratic nomination campaign with 200 dollars in contributions. Lymund F Wilcox of Jefferson listed 630 dollars in contributions and 703 dollars in expenditures for his U S senator bid. Secretary of State Melvin D Synhorst, unopposed for the Republican renomination, reported 90 dollars in contributions and equal expenditures.
Four representatives from VA headquarters Des Moines will attend the Cedar Rapids Home Builders dinner at Elmcrest Golf and Country Club to discuss builders issues tied to VA insured loan regulations. The team includes Walter T. Robison loan guaranty officer A. C. Keefer chief appraiser Carl S. Kauffman loan guaranty agent and T Harold Welch chief cost analyst.
Gov. Leo Hoegh said 1000 miles of wider highways should be reached by end of the 1956 construction season. He noted 363 miles were completed in 1955, and 663 miles were placed under contract in the winter and spring. About half of those have been completed this season with three and a half months remaining. Sixteen widening projects started this spring have been completed.
State Climatologist C. R. Elford reports the June to May period as Des Moines's driest ever with only 17.09 inches of precipitation versus a normal 30.74. The 1933-34 drought was the next closest at 17.66. Cedar Rapids shows better totals 14.85 inches to date versus 15.50 normal, with 1.44 inches this month against a June norm of 4.34.
Ten construction workers were critically injured when an explosion ripped through a building at a new glass plant in Cumberland Maryland. Authorities blamed gas fumes from a bottle container used in construction work.
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