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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1956
Page
20
Chicago reports hogs up to 25 cents higher as producers cut shipments. Salable receipts 4,000 with No. 1 and 2 butcher hogs 199-220 pounds priced around 16.25 to 16.50. Cattle and sheep prices mixed with varied steers heifers and cows, calves and vealers noted. Des Moines weekly receipts and price ranges listed for multiple weight classes and sows.
NY AP report shows mild profit taking trimming an early advance with scattered gains and losses. Trading features volume around 1.63 million and quotes across industrials and commodities with varied closing levels in hogs, cattle, and grains as dealers hedged for weekend.
Official canvass confirms Cedar Rapids voters approved a 240000 fire station bond issue by 5778 to 1140 on June 4. City Clerk Maude Krebs and Mayor Jim Meaghan reported the tally, noting large majorities across all 25 precincts after correcting earlier unofficial figures.
Receipts light. Slaughter cows and cutters offered unevenly with down trend noted. Four loads of choice fed steers quoted at 25.20. utility and commercial cows at 10.25. cutters at 9.00 to 10.00. Market generally slow with some firmness in select fed steers.
Recounted cattle sale figures show mixed prices with good demand for choice steers and heifers. Fine cows and bulls steady to higher while canners and cutters trend lower. no price changes observed.
A terse Chicago dispatch notes light poultry supply with mixed readiness and limited movement. Three trucks are mentioned amid a cautious market tone and implied price pressure.
Vernon Richter, 31, father of six, received a seven year sentence for bank robbery in Ulen Minnesota. A large portion of the $1,158 loot was found in his granary. $400 used to pay bills. Judge Devitt stayed commitment until November 1 to let him finish harvest and dispose of livestock. Relatives posted a $10,000 bond as neighbors urged leniency. Richter admitted planned robbery and earlier intent to hit another bank but found it locked.
The Senate confirmed Joe R. Gordon of Arlington and Myrtle L. Lane of Colesburg for Iowa postmasterships. A separate Los Angeles report notes Juanita Bradley, 27, was granted a divorce after testifying her husband tried to drown her when she refused to play strip poker with his friends.
Cedar Rapids Riverfront Improvement Commission unveils an 11 point plan to improve the Cedar River and its banks. Goals include public cooperation to stop dumping, acquiring equipment, cleaning banks, establishing property lines, enforcing laws, reclaiming lands, using material from city works, adding riverfront receptacles, improving boat ramps and parking, coordinating with park and police departments, and boosting recreation and beautification.
The Fund for the Republic, under House un American activities committee scrutiny, declares after exhaustive studies that communism threatens civil liberties. Robert M. Hutchins and Paul G. Hoffman lead the group in stating the danger is direct or indirect to individual rights.
A Marion column lists several returning families from vacations in Reserve Colorado Springs Las Vegas New Mexico and Hawaii visits to relatives in Cedar Rapids La Porte City Belle Plaine Mt. Pleasant and Sioux City. It covers a miscellaneous shower for Mrs Judith Grimm, an illustrated sermon at the Church of God, and various visits and errands around Marion including job changes and a West Coast airman en route to the Far East.
Harold Oliphant of Toddville submitted the lowest bid for the Coralville reservoir project district engineers in Rock Island report. The $109 769 bid covers grading, guard rails, and materials for Lingle creek. first grading phase done with a temporary trestle for a Rock Island bypass while a parallel highway bridge is planned. Delays due to steel shortages push highway bridge work beyond August 1.
Twickenham England AP Winlter de la Mare 83 internationally known poet dies Friday. He was among the few members of the Order of Merit a non-title honor limited to 24 living persons of special eminence.
Ten men enlist in the armed forces with six in the army five of whom report to training at Camp Chaffee and Fort Ord. Three join the Marines and one enters the Air Force pilot program. Also listed are unit rotation plans with deadlines for several units and training locations.
The United Evangelical Lutheran church in Cedar Falls Iowa approved a merger with three other Lutheran groups by a 374 to 19 vote. If all four groups approve the plan the merger would occur in 1980. The American Lutheran church Evangelical Lutheran and Lutheran Free churches would participate with ratification steps by each group.
A 16 year old reform school inmate was cleared of any connection to the rifle slaying of two teenage girls near the University of Maryland campus. The youth confessed in fat attempt to end his life, stating a wish to die by his own hand. Nancy Shoemette, 16, and Michael Ann Ryan, 14, were shot June 15.
In St Paul delegates at the Missouri Synod conference blocked a three way merger with United Lutheran Church in America and Augustana Lutheran Church. They urged doctrinal unity first while leaving open talks to resolve differences with the others.
Two Northeast Iowa men were injured in hay baling incidents on Thursday. Dean Odekirk sixteen of Maynard was struck on the head by a rolling bale at the Dale Schroeder farm and remained in fair condition at Oelwein hospital with no fractures found on X rays. Kelvin Nolling thirty of near Waukon sustained a foot injury in a baling mishap and was treated and released at Waukon hospital.
Paris Ky AP reports O T Sharon Jr denies using his newborn son’s name for promotion. Sharon, a petroleum firm partner, says the child named Glen Allen Sharon born Wednesday, while critics allege the initials G A S were the motive.
North Iowa annual conference announces pastoral appointments for 1950s era Iowa Methodist churches. Notable changes include Dr. R. D. Cole reappointed president of Cornell College and G. S. Hartong to Trinity Methodist Church Cedar Rapids. Districts list numerous pastor assignments across Cedar Rapids Davenport Dubuque Waterloo and surrounding towns.
A fire at South Hall, a private hospital and nursing home operated for Christian Scientists in Princeton NW, killed two mentally disturbed women and one more resident. A fourth woman was burned, another injured, and seven patients survived by being led to safety.
Special to The Gazette reports Iowa plans highway 98 improvements from Center Junction to Monticello with bids opened July. Work includes 10,060 miles of grading, reinforced concrete box culverts, extensions for the route and crushing stone stockpiles totaling 122,900 tons. A Kenwood Cedar Rapids postal substation contract bids due June 30.
The secretary of state's office approved the Cedar Valley Barks and Minerals Society of Cedar Rapids to study mineralogy and geology and to collect and polish stones and gems. H. W. Backhaus is president.
A fragmented word puzzle list mixing across clues and themed puns. Entries touch egg shaped forms operatic solos and various cryptic like hints including Bat a and the forty thieves and Santa's steeds.
In Frankfort Kentucky Robert Humphreys veteran Democratic state chairman and ally of Gov. Chandler was named to replace Alben Barkley as U S senator until the November 6 election. Humphreys 61 of Frankfort received the appointment Thursday and will serve until a successor is elected.
More than 100 people fell ill from suspected food poisoning at a Port Huron banquet to raise funds for hospitals. Thirty seven were hospitalized with none in serious condition. Ham cottage cheese salad and pineapple were under analysis by the state health department.
The Communist regime in Peiping announced that 17 Japanese were sentenced to long prison terms as war criminals nearly one year after World War II ended. The decision shocked Japan and was expected to jeopardize China’s recent overtures toward friendship and trade through private goodwill missions.
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