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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1951
Page
11
Iowa City undertakes a 225000 dollar street resurfacing project affecting about 55 blocks with asphalt and gravel. Detours on Dubuque street disrupt traffic onto Highway 6 and nearby routes as police estimate daily losses and signs are replaced.
Washington United Nations secretary general Trygve Lie may be invited to Decorah Iowa to address Luther college in its ninetieth anniversary observance on October 13 Rep Henry O Talle said He urged Lie a Norwegian national and UN head to accept the invitation The college founded in 1861 is the oldest Evangelical Lutheran college in the United States The appeal notes the college's history and its regional interest in the Upper Mississippi Valley The piece closes with a descriptive note on the surrounding landscape near Decorah and Cedar Creek
Iowa formally dedicates Geode State Park a 1600 acre site located six miles south of New London and 18 miles from Fort Madison. Gov. Beardsley leads the Wednesday ceremony completing a 17 year effort by private citizens to preserve the area and its historic associations. Geode lake is an S shaped 1.2 mile long water body created by backing Cedar creek with a dam 1150 feet long and 64 feet high. The dam fills 200 acres and cost about a quarter million dollars.
Mr and Mrs Everett Reisner received official notice from the war department that their son Pvt Donald Reisner was wounded June 4 in Korea. In a letter to his parents he said a shell penetrated his body between the shoulder blade and back bone. He is hospitalized in Japan.
More than 200000 civilian volunteers of the Ground Observers Corps will take part in a six state air defense exercise Saturday and Sunday. CADF headquarters in Kansas City will direct operations in Minnesota Wisconsin North and South Dakota Nebraska and Iowa. U S air force units the Royal Canadian air defense command and U S army air force navy and air national guard reserves will participate. Night training will be provided for observers for the first time since 1949. State directors will observe from Wold Chamberlin field Minneapolis where a typical filter center is demonstrated.
Cornelius Madison, 45, and LaVance Eiland, 31, both of Chicago, were arrested in Des Moines on December 22 after a merchant’s wife reported them. Madison was sentenced Tuesday to five years in a federal penitentiary, and Eiland had been sentenced to five years on January 29.
Des Moines Iowa officials say buying and converting the old International Harvester warehouse near the capitol grounds into an office building was a bargain. The new complex will cost about five million dollars, while conversion cost around six hundred thousand, housing agencies including the liquor control commission conservation commission state safety department and health and agriculture laboratories. Moving delays push completion past July 1 with all major offices grouped around the capitol, saving rental costs.
Dr John Gardner of Lisbon elected commander of the Iowa United Spanish War Veterans. He was chosen Tuesday and installed Wednesday in Clinton. The encampment will be held in Cedar Rapids in 1952. Evelyn Fisher of Eagle Grove named auxiliary president. Gretchen Chadwick of Boone selected junior vice commander.
DES MOINES Iowa farm loan rates moved up by one half percent effective June 15 according to lending agencies. Northwestern Mutual Life and Prudential Life Insurance cited rising government bond yields and money demand as drivers. Bank official notes mortgage rates up half percent with a trend toward a full percent, aiming to curb inflation but likely only slightly reducing money in circulation.
Carey V. Schoonover, noted for 1194 whisky purchases in 11 months, fined 50 dollars in municipal court for consuming liquor in a public place. Police linked him to a May 20 raid. his liquor book later revoked by the state. Arrested with Schoonover were cafe operator Alexander Athas and Carl J. Bolander. Athas’s charge was dismissed and Bolander also fined 50 dollars.
County Engineer D A Hoover announced about 450000 will be spent on roads in Clayton county this year. The plan includes 60 miles of roads and 14 bridges with a 320 foot Turkey river bridge near Gander and 150 and 120 foot bridges over Cedar creek near Garber and Honey creek near Littleport respectively. Seven miles of road are completed and the Honey creek bridge is half finished. New work includes grading a two mile mud road from U S Highway 181 west of McGregor to the cemetery and Longview golf course, to be graded now and surfaced with crushed rock in late summer.
Sealed bids for general, plumbing heating and electrical contracts for a Williamsburg Iowa church school building will be received and opened at 8 PM July 10 1951 Plans by Thorson Thor son Waterloo Iowa The building measures 58 by 68 one story with basement masonry walls clay beam tile main floor and concrete joist Insulrock deck roof Glass block and steel windows Contact for eligibility and documents.
Des Moines police arrested three youths after a dance at Lincoln high school sponsored by the recreation commission drew a crowd of more than 200. Ralph Wills, 22, faced intoxication charges. a 17-year-old was jailed for intoxication and reckless driving. another 17-year-old held on reckless driving and license charges.
Patrolmen report neighbors complain of rowdyism since school ended and urge discontinuation of dances to curb a large hoodlum element in the area.
The annual fishing derby for children moves to Twin Springs creek west of Decorah this Thursday. An added feature will be a Huck Finn costume contest for participants.
In Storm Lake a gas explosion in a house claimed two lives as a husband and wife, George Duke aged 80 and his wife 73, died within hours of each other after severe burns from a propane leak. L A Gruber, an appliance salesman, was in fair condition. The blast occurred when he tried to light a gas plate in the basement and propane seeped from a main line into the basement sewer area.
Senator Richard M. Nixon, California Republican, named as the principal speaker for the Iowa Manufacturers Association annual convention in Des Moines. He will deliver a report from Washington. Other speakers include Claude M. Stanley, Ralph W. Robey, Capt. M. C. Mumma, and John M. Cleary.
Jean Shepard of West Union leads Hawkeye Girls State on Grinnell College campus as mayor. Other victors include Lorraine Doyle Hopkinton treasurer and Jackie Duncan Columbus Junction council member. Percy Lainson outlines state penitentiary group therapy aiding inmate rehabilitation. Hawkeye Girls State is the female counterpart of Hawkeye Boys State by the Iowa American Legion Auxiliary.
Hills surrounding Vladivostok house hollowed hangars and repair shops that protect and service the city’s airfields. The network creates rugged defensive and maintenance infrastructure linked to the coast.
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