Iowa City Weather and Obituary Notices Summary
Partly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms Friday in Iowa with cooler western areas and a high in the 80s to 90s. Local obituaries list a string of services and burials across towns including Cascade Cascade, Elkader, Decorah, Oelwein, Mechanicsville, Belle Plaine, and Oelwein with dates, times, and church and cemetery details.
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Alboaraue
Min'a Olis
Bismarck
Orleans
Hapeare
New York
Maha
Acksong'le
Heentx
Anceles
Attle Bo
Iowa
17 Year Old Center Point Youth Charged With Drunk Driving
A 17-year-old Center Point youth, Derrell D. Butterfield, was charged with drunk driving in a true information filed by County Attorney Willis A. Glasgow. Deputy Harry Ackerman arrested Butterfield in Coggon after a chase, with Butterfield driving erratically and nearly into a ditch. Officials investigated Friday to determine where he obtained intoxicants.
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Center Point
Willis A. Glasgow
Derrell D. Butterfield
Harry Ackerman
Coggon
Butterfield
Ackerman
Adoption hearing evidence in Cedar Rapids infant case
Judge Charles Penningroth heard evidence Thursday in a suit for the adoption of an infant born May 15 in a Cedar Rapids hospital. The unmarried mother signed a consent and then withdrew it as natural mother and proposed adoptive parents presented evidence. Testimony was expected to continue Friday.
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Charles Penningroth
Cedar Rapids
Injury suit filed against Agnew for 11144.80 damages
Gaylyn W. Martin of 2334 Forty Ninth Street NE filed an $11,144.80 personal injury suit against David R. Agnew of Blairs Ferry Road NE. The crash occurred March 24 in the 900 block of Center Point Road NE as Martin rode a bicycle struck by Agnew’s car. Damages claimed include injuries medical expenses and lost earnings.
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Gaylyn W. Martin
Fortyninth Street
David R. Agnew
Blairs Ferry Road
Martin
Agnew
Center Point Road
Wills admitted to probate three cases in county court
Wills of Milo D. Bagley Harriett J Keyes and Mary A Wyskocil probated. Bagley names Harriett as sole heir and executrix without bond. Keyes leaves equal shares to siblings. Wyskocil leaves estate to children. First National Bank of Marion named executor without bond. Two suits filed Wisconsin Lumber Co v Port Stickle for 460 and Barnes Wadsworth Elderkin and Locher v Martin E Jones for 136.50.
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Milo D. Bagley
Harriett
Harriett J. Keyes
First National Bank of
Marion
Mary A. Wyskocil
William Schmatt
George Wyskocil
Wisconsin Lumber Company
Port Stickle
Barnes, Wadsworth, Elderkin and Locher i
Martin E. Jones
Postal Rate Bill Forced to Floor by House GOP
In Washington the House GOP forced an administration backed postal rate increase bill toward a floor vote. Democrats agreed to bring the measure to a vote week after next after Republicans threatened to deploy special parliamentary tactics. Majority Leader McCormack had refused to schedule floor action.
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Washington
INS
House
G.O.P
McCormack
D-Mass
Iowa Air Unit Placed on Standing Alert Duty
The 124th Fighter Interceptor Squadron based at Des Moines will join units from four states to augment the 20th Air Division of the Continental Air Defense Command. The unit will stay in Des Moines while a portion of its combat-ready aircraft and crews deploy on standing alert duty as of July 1 as an air alert detachment under the expanded system.
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Grandview
Des Moines
20Th Air Division
Continental Air Defense Command
Iowa Air National Guard
Continental Air Defense System
Geography quiz winner in Italy faces creditor clash
Modena Italy geography expert Enzo Cambi has earned 1280 lire on Leave It or Double It and can try for 5,120,000 lire. Half his creditors urge him to continue, half urge him to stop, but he owes so much that any winnings will go to creditors.
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Modena
Italy
Enzo Cambi
Cambi
Methodist Unit To Hear Doctors Backs Negro Plan
Mason City North Iowa Methodist Conference votes to hear doctors on hospital laboratory controversy and to admit Negro churches within the conference. Delegates set Friday morning to hear the doctors and invited three Negro churches in Mason City Marshalltown and Tama. Conference also urged action to allow hospitals to hire pathologists and radiologists to supervise labs while adding ministers Edward P. Phillips Iowa City Harold S. Miller Colesburg and F C Samek Cedar Rapids as permanent members.
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Mason City
North Iowa Methodist Conference
Marshalltown
Tama
General Conference
Minneapolis
Edward P. Phillips
Iowa City
Harold S.miller
Colesburg
F. C. Samek
Cedar Rapids
Mother Appeals Publicly to Son To Give Self Up
A Wichita report states Delphos Burns a 38 year old former mental hospital patient is wanted in multiple states after his wife Ruby was found beaten to death in a Syracuse Kansas motel. His mother dictated an open letter urging him to surrender and a lawyer backs the appeal. Delphos was released from a state hospital in April.
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Wichita
Delphos
Delphos B. Burns
Kansas
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Texas
Colorado
Ruby
Syracuse
Kan
Dallas Johnson
Burns
R. C. Burns
G. Mitchell Jordan
Jordan
Larned
Jimmy Stewart Headlines And Then There Were Four
Jimmy Stewart headlines the Thursday night program And Then There Were Four airing at 9:00 PM on Channel 9.
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Jimmy Stewart
Channel 9
Death of Stanley Travnicek 69 in Iowa City
Stanley Travnicek 69 of 2011 D street SW died at Veterans hospital Iowa City at 7 20 p m Wednesday Born April 28 1887 in Chocni Czechoslovakia he came to Cedar Rapids 45 years ago Survived by wife Josephine Vondracek Travnicek a son Stanley F Cedar Rapids a daughter Mrs Joseph Pickart Iowa City four grandchildren and one sister Mrs Frank J Bohac Cedar Rapids He owned Champion Shoe Repair for over 30 years retiring two years ago A World War I veteran he belonged to Hanford post American Legion and Mladocech of ZCBJ Services at Janeba funeral home 2 p m Saturday with burial Czech National cemetery Graveside services by American Legion Hanford post Friends may call after 4 p m Friday
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Stanley Travnicek
D Street
Veterans Hospital
Iowa City
Chocni
Czechoslovakia
Cedar Rapids
Josephine Vondracek Travnicek
Stanley F
Joseph Pickart
Frank J. Bohac
Travnicek
Champion Shoe Repair Company
Hanford Post
American Legion
Mladocech
ZCBJ
Janeba
Theodore B. Hlubucek
Czech National Cemetery
American ‘Legion
Miss Matilda Hiatt dies in Marion after long illness
Miss Matilda Hiatt longtime Hinsdale teacher and founder of Miss Hiatt’s School for Little People dies in a Marion nursing home after a long illness. Surviving are two brothers and four nieces with services planned at Hinsdale Pfeiffer funeral home. Also noted is the death of Earl Richard Stark a 14 month old of Fairfax Cedar Rapids born May 3 1956 with private graveside services at St Joseph Cemetery Stark Settlement.
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Matilda Hiatt
Hinsdale
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Earl Richard Stark
Earl Stark
Fairfax
Mark Alan
Cathleen Marie
Marie Alice
Bertena Stark
John Leary
St. Joseph’s Cemetery
Stark Settlement
Bernard White
Teahen Chapel
Mrs. John K. Moore Dies in Eldora
Mrs. John K. Moore wife of Rev. Mr. Moore and assistant at St. Pauls Methodist Cedar Rapids from 1947 to 1951 died in Eldora Tuesday night. The Rev. Mr. Moore now pastors Eldora Methodist church. Surviving is a daughter Martha at home.
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John K. Moore
Mr. Moore
St. Paul’s Methodist Church
Cedar Rapids
Eldora
Eldora Methodist Church
Martha
Twining Heads for Moscow Trip with Air Force Team
General Nathan F. Twining, air force chief of staff, departed Washington in a DC-6 transport for an airbase in Europe en route to Moscow. He leads the party on an official visit.
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Washington
Nathan F. Twining
Air Force
Europe
Moscow
Bell tolling tragedy shocks Leiria parish
In Leiria Portugal Antonio Faria was tolling a church bell when the clanging abruptly stopped. The swinging bell struck him and he collapsed unconscious.
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Leiria
Portugal
Antonio Faria
Faria
Packer Claims Meat Industry Monopoly Exists
Edwin F Forbes president of the Western States Meat Packers Association testified that 10 large national packers control 77 percent of U S meat processing. Swift Armour Wilson and Cudahy alone slaughter half of livestock under federal inspection. Senator O Mahoney leads a Senate antitrust inquiry into packing concentration and plant mergers.
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Washington
Western J Meat Packers
Edwin F. Forbes
San Francisco
Western States Meat Packers Association
Forbes
Swift
Armour, Wilson
Cudahy
Senate
O’mahoney
D-Wyo
Cedar Hills gridlines curb size shift in Cedar Rapids project
Cedar Rapids approves 30 inch rolled or standard concrete curb and gutters for new plats without concrete paving with six inch crushed rock base and two inch plant mixed asphalt surface. Del Webb project set to retain 42 inch curb for its site. Council also approves Cedar Hills unit one final plat and a $138000 bond for street improvements.
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Cedar Hills Development Company
Webb-Becker
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Hills
del Webb
Young
Halvorson
Decorah Woman, 32, Dies After Heat Exposure
Decorah, Iowa AP reports Mrs Walter Foels 32 was overcome by heat while working in a garden on the Foels farm south of Decorah on Wednesday She died at a Decorah hospital Thursday in a heat related accident.
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Decorah
Walter Foels
Foels
Here
Pate Plans Britain Visit To Inspect Royal Marines
Gen Randolph Pate commander of the U S marine corps will travel to Britain to inspect the Royal Marines and meet with their captain general the Duke of Edinburgh.
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London
Randolph Pate
U. S. Marine Corps
Britain
Royal Marines
Duke of Edinburgh
Watch Pat Judge Hostess on Wanderlust Friday
Television listings announce Pat Judge as hostess on Wanderlust airing Friday at 3 30 P M on Channel 9.
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Pat Judge
Channel 9
Development Unit Set Up At Iowa City
The Iowa City Chamber of Commerce approved forming a 100000 dollar non profit corporation to acquire land for sale to approved industrial firms. Articles of incorporation will be filed soon. The unit aims to promote Iowa City as a business center and give the chamber control over industrial sites. Stock is sold at 100 dollars per share with no dividends to shareholders.
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Iowa City
Iowa City Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
Secretary of State
Legislative Committee
The
Chamber
Missouri Synod Addresses Minister and Teacher Shortage
At St Paul the two million member Missouri Synod held its triennial convention focused on expanding to 135 new churches and boosting parochial school enrollment to 50 percent from 37. Delegates backed assigning non full time ministers to small congregations and debated changing doctrinal unions while Dr Behnken was re elected president for an eighth term.
Adams Talks With Adams Aide On Gas Bill Session
John E. Heyke, head of the Council of Local Gas Companies and president of Brooklyn Union, says he discussed the controversial natural gas bill with Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams while the measure was before the Senate. He notes Adams was attentive but the session produced no clear result and he did not view it as lobbying. Heyke also referenced a resolution Adams supported on screening fulltime ministers and a synod review of the common confession amid intra church debate within Lutheran synods. Dr. John Behnken defends Missouri synod doctrine.
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Washington
John E. Heyke
Sherman Adams
Senate
Heyke
Council of
Brooklyn Union Gas Company
Adams
Council
Synod
Wisconsin
Missouri
Lutheran Synodical Conference
John Behnken
St. Louis
Youth Dies In Pickup Truck Collision Near Glidden
GLIDDEN AP Larry Thelen 18 of near Glidden died after his pickup collided with a second truck on the graveled Coon Rapids road toward Glidden. Loujean Steigerwalt driver of the other truck, daughter of owner George Steigerwalt, was uninjured. Thelen was taken to Carroll hospital and died shortly after. Witnesses said the truck slowed at a corner and Thelen’s pickup struck it from behind.
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Glidden
Larry Thelen
Near Glidden
Coon Rapids
Loujean Steigerwalt
George Steigerwalt
Young Thelen
Ray Thelen
Carroll
West Germany Receives Second Batch of US Mine Sweepers
In Bremerhaven AP reports four more ships handed to the new West German navy. These shallow water mine sweepers were part of WWII era vessels seized from Germany and later used by the US Navy in the North Sea.
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Bremerhaven
United States
West Germany
Tobe
U. S. Navy
North Sea
Saudi Arabia Extends U S Use of Dhahran Air Base
Washington officials said Saudi Arabia granted a one month extension of the five year agreement allowing U S access to Dhahran air base. The existing accord was set to expire last Monday and the extension preserves ongoing U S operations there.
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Washington
Saudi Arabia
U. S
Dhahran
Fire damages Kiowa Die-Casting plant in Marshalltown
A Wednesday fire at Kiowa Die-Casting Corporation in Marshalltown caused about $15,000 in damage. Fire officials said sparks in a die-casting room likely started the blaze and damaged the roof of one building.
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Marshalltown
Kiowa Die-Casting Corporation
Planes Collide In Air Over Seattle Beacon Hill
Two light planes collided in flight over Seattle's Beacon Hill district. Police report three killed in the crash with emergency crews responding to the scene.
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Seattle
Beacon Hill District
New Brazilian Ambassador to United States Named
President Juscelino Kubitschek signed a decree appointing Ernanido Amara Peixoto as Brazil's ambassador to the United States, replacing the outgoing envoy in Rio de Janeiro.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Juscelino Kubitschek
Ernanido Amara Peixoto
Brazil
U. S
Security screening for draftees before induction
Defense Secretary Charles E Wilson ordered that draftees be screened for security before induction and given a hearing if rejected. The rule aims to eliminate automatic rejections based on unsupportable guilt by association or synthetic evidence of disloyal tendencies. Pentagon spokesmen said screening has occurred since 1954 but there was no appeal previously.
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Washington
INS
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Pentagon
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Keokuk
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Regan
Clarence
Pospisil
Theodore
Baker
Leonard
Ninth Street
Byrd
Ivan
D Avenue
St. Luke's
Robert
Route 3
Carney
Warren
Eighth Street
Albaugh
Keith
B Avenue
Edward M. Pennington and
Arlene M. Hollaway
Robert Riffey
Betty J. Riffey
Shirley J. Crawford
Ronald C. Crawford
Nora DeWoody
Laurence L. DeWoody
Delores A. Ross
William J. Ross
Elizabeth Conrad
Charles Conrad
Walter H. Mader
Emma Mader
Jackie Sorrell
Darrel Davis
First Avenue
Jeanne Ribb
Kathryn Marks
Regal Street
William Stone
Sixth Avenue
John Mangold
Clarence Meggers
Robert Green
Meadowbrook Drive
Noisy Muffler
Gordon Straw
Thirty-fourth Street
van Horne
L. E. Coghill
Immaculate Conception
Holy Cross
Keystone
Cascade
Felix Felton
St. Mary’s Church
Church Cemetery
Devaney Funeral Home
Mr. Vernon
Katerina Walter
St. Peter and Paul
Knut L. Olson
Norway Lutheran Church
St. Olaf
Witt Funeral Home
Oelwein
Karem Rasheed
Woodlawn Cemetery Town City
Percy L. Switzer
Hohenschuh Mortuary
Oakland Cemetery
John E. Lapes
Mt. Vernon Ave
Turner's
John B. Turner & Son
Laurie van Dyke
Cedar Rapidians
James Meaghan
Eva Marie Zuber
Switzerland
Wilson
John Westberg
Sweden
Pim de Pagter
Holland
Franklin
Meaghan
Martin Zirpel
Germany
McKinley
Heli Wiegand
Roosevelt
American Field Service
City
Him
Methodist
Miss Matilda Hiatt
Stark Infant
Twining
Bezdek
Iver Wit Florists
DIAL
Marion Blvd
Packer
Pate
Controlled Business Center
Central Park
Manhattan
Missouri Synod
American Lutheran Church
ALC
Evangelical Lutheran Church
United Evangelical Lutheran Church
Lutheran World Federation
Augustana Synod
United Lutheran Church In America
Dr. Behnken Thursday
U.S
Save For
Cedar Rapi
Wlembar Federal Depositshundoues Corporation
the First Trust and Savings Bank
First Drive-in Bank
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