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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1952
Page
3
Iowa City Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas report temperatures and precipitation for Thursday through Saturday. Also listed are traffic fines births deaths and obituaries for North Liberty Manchester Wellman West Union Quasqueton and surrounding towns with funeral details and local police notes.
Community updates list residents undergoing surgery at St Luke's Hospital and a Friday ice cream social at Daniels Park Church. Marine Pfc. Richard Zrudsky returns to Camp Pendleton after 20 days visiting his mother. Mrs Edwin Zeller re elected Iowa Church Women president. Navy enlistment for Maitland McElroy, 17, of Vinton. Local dinner attendance noted. Couple Donald and Mrs. Vivian injured in Hwy 30 crash near our Rapids. Navy groom Jerry Gabrielson on 16 day leave visiting parents. Master’s degree earned by Mrs Kluss. library job at Iowa. Cub Pack 3 awards include wolf lion and bear badges and silver arrows.
Miss Esther Armstrong daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert C Armstrong of Bever avenue and Thirty-fourth Street SE will serve in Asia for three years as a social worker for the Methodist church. She is among 50 young people chosen and will depart for Delhi in September. She begins six weeks training June 28 at the Hartford Seminary Foundation after graduating from Cornell College where she led the Mortar Board and was president of the Associated Women Students. She attends St Pauls Methodist Cedar Rapids and led the High School Fellowship for two years.
Bonn Chancellor Adenauer faced two delays in the upper house over ratifying the allied West German peace treaty and the European army accord. The Bundesrat insisted constitutional review of rearmament and full text approval beyond financial sections, risking summer recess timing. Adenauer stayed optimistic.
The Senate approved a flood control funding bill at 667,474,000 after defeating attempts to reduce it by up to 100,000,000. The measure, sent to a conference committee, exceeds the House approval by 173,000,000 and the Senate committee recommendation by 700,000, with 700,000 for Kentucky flood projects. Senators Douglas and Ferguson led the effort to cut the funds.
Owen reports renovations would lift furnace burning rates by 30 percent and raise temperatures, while automatic stoking would replace most manual labor. Mayor Sedlacek says a two man crew could run operations, potentially saving at peak times. Deadline for completion is Oct 1 with further council deliberations to follow.
An 18 year old Waukon girl and her mother were hospitalized after being trampled by a herd of cows. The girl was trampled while driving the cattle Thursday night and her mother was injured while trying to rescue her. Both were reported in good condition. Neighbors drove off the animals and rescued them.
Wilfred D. Logan spoke to the McGregor Kiwanis about opening an Effigy Mounds mound on a terrace that once housed an Indian village. He noted bones teeth and clam shells found during the excavation and described a new trail to the mound summit as members and families enjoyed a riverfront picnic.
The Gazette announces a vacation delivery program for readers. It will stop home delivery, mail issues to a vacation address, and resume upon return once the dates are provided. Contact the Circulation Department with your vacation address and dates.
Barbara Liek daughter of J C Liek of 360 Twentieth Street SE serves as a stewardess on United Air Lines planes operating in and out of Newark New Jersey She is a Franklin High School graduate who attended Iowa State College and graduated from the University of Iowa in 1951 Miss Liek recently completed a five weeks course at United's stewardess training school in Cheyenne Wyoming
In a special election 243 votes backed the merger of rural districts Newport Pleasant Hill Hazel Green Madison Village Maple Grove and part of Hale township into the Olin district. Outside votes: 115 yes five no three spoiled. Inside votes: 128 yes five no three spoiled. The merged district will span about 75 square miles with a four to five million dollar tax base and adds no new buildings or enrollment.
Ministers and voting delegates in the North Iowa Conference of the Methodist church prepared for the final two days with routine reports and the Sunday afternoon session when appointments will be read. Fran H. Faber discussed Minnesota church work at a noon luncheon, followed by impressions from Francis Johnson. An executive meeting, board of conference relations report, and ministerial training notes highlighted Friday, including ordinations scheduled for Sunday.
The North Iowa Conference of Methodist churches voted 181 to 130 to hold its 1953 meeting in Mt. Vernon on Cornell college campus to mark Cornell's centennial. Mt. Vernon and Fort Dodge campaigned with invitations from Cornell president Dr Russell D Cole and Fort Dodge leader Dr James J Davies.
Cedar Rapids post office seeks bids to carry mail on the Cedar Rapids to Sigourney star route. Current contractor Dewey Shelby Delta has contract terms worth 6487 dollars yearly. Route includes Fairfax Walford Amana South Amana Conroy Williamsburg Parnell North English South English and Webster with daily round trip except Sunday. Bids due in Washington by July 3 for service from about July 17 to next June 30.
Three Eastern Iowans are aboard the navy transport General Simon Buckner arriving in Seattle with 1,417 passengers from the Far East. They are Cpl. John M. Hammers Sigourney Cpl. Donald C. Jaeger Guttenberg and Sgt. Alfred Windt Oelwein.
Riverside Iowa on Friday voted unanimously to grant a local beer permit to John Richard Jackson despite a 1947 liquor law conviction. The state Beer Permit Board faces conflict between Supreme Court guidance and Attorney General Larson's earlier stance as it considers withholding final approval.
A truck en route from Chicago to Denver with paint hit a too low underpass on county road C near the Milwaukee tracks in Muscatine after a wrong turn from highway 61. The top of the truck was torn off and several vehicles have been damaged in recent months as drivers misjudge the clearance.
New York stocks closed in a mixed pattern as irregular rail movements and pockets of weakness unsettled prices. A late pickup helped prices, with volume estimated at 1,200,000 shares.
Taft accuses Eisenhower of clinging to Truman era foreign policy and urges immediate end to price controls, repeal of the draft, and a balanced budget in year one. He backs federal aid to education and housing with limits, supports farm price supports, and insists on minimal political interference with personal liberty.
Averell Harriman arrived in Des Moines as the third Democratic presidential hopeful to visit Iowa within a week. The 60 year old Harriman, a friend of the late Franklin D Roosevelt and a Truman campaign award recipient, planned meetings with press and radio and aimed to win uncommitted Iowa delegates. He follows Sen Richard Russell and Sen Robert Kerr who visited earlier.
Two nervous gunmen robbed the Low Moor Corner store ten miles west of Clinton on Highway 30 of about $100 in cash Thursday night. They escaped in a dark sedan officials believe to have California license plates. Mr and Mrs Frank Thompson described the scene as the men ordered Thompson to face the wall and rifled the cash register before fleeing east.
Nine Iowa City teens including four girls will be turned over to juvenile authorities on beer possession charges. Police found the group at a beer drinking party near the city limits. Ages ranged from 15 to 18 for girls and 16 to 19 for boys.
Admiral Arthur W. Radford, commander of the U S Pacific fleet, said he does not think the Chinese Communists could attack Formosa successfully at this time.
Paul James Ryan aged 26 of 630 Seventh Street SE pled guilty to a drunk driving charge. Judge Charles Penningroth fined him 300 dollars plus costs, with 50 dollars due Saturday and the balance by July 1. He was arrested about 4 40 p m Thursday on Highway 13 east of Coggon after an observed erratic drive by Patrolman James Gildroy.
Four cases were dismissed this week by the plaintiffs. The actions included Harley O Con nor et al vs Howard O Connor accounting Lois Kriz vs Jerome Kriz divorce Martin W Benda vs Stanley Chesmore personal injury and Walter Hoffman vs Erwin Lanning and DeWitt Kohl damages.
Margaret Lake, of 6006 Avenue NW, files a $2,672.50 suit against Maxim's Beauty Salon alleging scalp injury from a March 10 cold permanent wave. She says red crusted areas appeared, hair fell out, and the treatment left her hair dry and lifeless, causing embarrassment and temporary unemployment.
Ralph T. Ackerman 48 of 2801 B avenue NE died Friday at a Cedar Rapids hospital after a long illness. A motion picture projectionist at the Times theater he was born in Warsaw Wisconsin and lived in Cedar Rapids 40 years. Survived by wife Margaret two sons Thomas Edward and Gerald Ralph of Cedar Rapids a brother E H Ackerman Harvey North Illinois a stepsister Mrs Oren Travis Cedar Rapids and two stepbrothers Don Harrington Cedar Rapids and Laurence Harrington Clinton. Services Monday at 9 a m in St Matthew's church with burial in Mt Calvary cemetery. Rosary Sunday at Teahen chapel at 8 p m.
A bill to enlarge the Marine Corps and grant broader independence and influence in the military establishment cleared both houses and reached President Truman. Support from ex-marines in Congress hailed the measure for shielding the Marines from joint chiefs overreach, while Senator Hickenlooper pressed for limits on presidential use of the force.
Incumbent Clyde Spry claimed the Republican nomination for secretary of agriculture in the June primary. State canvass board figures show Spry with at least 35.7 percent after 98 counties. Adams county vote was missing due to errors but not enough to alter the result. He edged Francis Johnson of Arnolds Park by about 3,500 votes.
Three captains were named Friday to head divisions of the Blood for Defense Week drive in Linn County. John Combs Ernest Pence and Bruce Walker will recruit volunteers to distribute pledge cards. Bramwell, project chair man, said the effort aims to build a reserve donor list for military needs and pledges will likely require blood only once in 12 months unless donors choose more.
Sewell E. Allen of Onawa, nominee for lieutenant governor, will keynote the Iowa Democratic biennial convention in Des Moines July 10. Mary S. Kelleher of Fort Dodge will be convention secretary with Howard Reppert sergeant at arms John Reilly chief usher and Dr S E Barber reading clerk. Delegates to the state convention and the judicial convention will be chosen June 27 at county meetings. The platform for the November campaign is the main task, and the judicial convention will nominate three candidates for the Iowa supreme court.
Iowa high school students will compete in the seventh annual Iowa Science Talent Search next fall with $1,400 in scholarships. Winners meet at Cornell College Mt Vernon next spring to receive awards from Clinton Foods. One contestant gets 300 dollars, three receive 200 each, and five earn 100 each.
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