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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1956
Page
6
Heat driven declines hit wholesale meat and livestock prices with cattle, hogs, and sheep showing losses. Industry receipts in Des Moines and Chicago noted. hogs 300 head near steady, cattle receipts around 100. bulls edged up slightly while other classes fell by up to several dollars per hundredweight.
Market notes from Waterloo show hogs steady with price bands for various weight groups. Butchers quoted ranges from 160 to 400 pounds, including sows in several weight brackets with prices around 12 to 15 dollars.
Cedar Rapids market reports show steady prices for meat type hogs with adjustments of 10 to 40 cents over or under quoted values. Delivered at Cedar Rapids plant prices list commercial hogs, hog quality variants, wool, field grass seed and grain figures including corn No 2 at 1.43 and oats at 66 cents per bushel.
Adelmo Landini, once a Marconi assistant, claims a closed cycle reactor could power a spaceship for years at near light speed. He asserts the engine would reuse gas and a small atomic fuel amount, reaching Centaurus in six or seven years and approaching light speed within a year.
Cedar Rapids will participate in a nationwide air defense drill July 16 to 21 but not on a full-scale basis. Local officials said the city will sound sirens in parts, stations will join CONELRAD for 24 hours, and the civil defense office will move to the city hall basement by July 6.
United Press reports flash floods forcing hundreds of boys from Pennsylvania summer camps. In Indiana two story building collapsed injuring five and five killed by lightning as seven inches of rain drenched the region. Crowded waters washed out bridges and damaged roads around Slippery Rock amid evacuations led by volunteers and police.
American pilot Bill Lear said he has Soviet permission to fly his private two engine Cessna 310 from East Berlin to Moscow next Tuesday. He will be joined by his wife Moya and a Soviet navigator for the five hour hop. Lear, 54, invented an automatic pilot now used on jet planes.
Columbus AP report details an accident at a gasoline station where eight year old Robert Fletcher and ten year old James Plunkett dropped a book of lighted matches into a storage tank. An explosion of ignited fumes caused severe burns to their faces and arms, oil spurting twenty feet.
Shoshone Idaho AP reports Dwight B Miller pulled off the highway after spotting a bee in the rear of his auto. The bank gave way and the car toppled into the water.
Reports from Wherton and surrounding towns describe Reverend James P. Gable and Mrs. Gable returning from Mason City after attending the North Iowa Methodist conference. The group included Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Newlin and Mrs. Gable. a Hoover State Park picnic honored the Gable couple. Details mention visits to Waterloo to see relatives, Vikdal family stays in Garnaville, and Mary Helen Meder visiting Kathy Lake in Marion with cousins and parents. Also notes a vacation return by Ralph D. Hancock family, a Cedar Rapids lot purchase by Tom Holtz, and Lt. Col. Everett Cartwright visiting the Burts. Sharon Fehr mourns an uncle’s death in Waterloo. birth of a daughter to R. F. Gallagher of Bellevue is reported. Bess Milner travels to Kansas City, and Jean Taylor returns from the Black Hills trip finished with local ads on savings and job offers.
A listing of church affiliations and service times across Marion and nearby towns. Mar ion Churches includes Baptist Rev Charles Moore at 10 am worship and 9 am church school, St Joseph Catholic with mass times, Christian with Roy Fields, Free Methodist with Knepper, Methodist with James Gable, Presbyterian with Jean Hayter, St Pauls Lutheran, Prairie Chapel with Maurice Frevert, Seventh Day Church of God with Friday prayers and Sabbath worship, and related youth and CYF activities.
DEWITT UP Frederick McMahon 36 a DeWitt plumbing firm employee was electrocuted Friday in the basement of the Brooks Country Club. Coroner L O Riggert said McMahon larm touched a 110 volt socket grounding him. Fellow workers heard moan and unplugged the cord but he was dead.
Washington reports Secretary Ezra Benson is weighing Kermit Hansen of Iowa for the national Farmers Home Administration director post. Hansen, FHA director for Iowa, was recommended as a top administrator and ideal selection after McLeaish resigned following testimony on excessive drinking. Benson reportedly spoke with Hansen in Iowa recently.
Cedar Rapids City Council adopts Resolution No. D Sidewalk Order No T0506 under Ordinance 1966 authorizing permanent sidewalks along numerous properties in Cedar Rapids Linn County Iowa. Notice to property owners required by July 9 1956 with a bid process and deposit rules. work to begin by July 17 1956 and end by September 15 1956 with costs assessed against abutting properties.
A Webster City Iowa collision between a 17 ton dynamite truck and a Minnesota family car caused minor injuries to Mrs. Orville Larson and her sons Orville Jr and Robert. The Larson party traveling to Colorado Springs were in a second car with Marvel. No one was fatally hurt and the truck driver Leonard Page escaped serious injury. Deputy Jerry Farnham noted the crash at highways 20 and 69 when Larson crossed and the truck turned. The truck belonged to Hawkeye Trucking of Des Moines en route to Fort Dodge.
Cedar Rapids sends a 14 member Jaycee delegation plus three wives to the national Junior Chamber of Commerce convention in Kansas City. Leaders include C R Bob Jones and Bill Du Vall, with 6,000 Cedar Rapids popcorn bags and 6,000 turkey sandwiches planned for distribution during the parade of states and state parties. Kay Taylor will lead the Iowa section in an open convertible as the parade features 61 sections and about 1,200 units. The Iowa group travels in a 60 car caravan from Des Moines to Kansas City for the event.
Des Moines VFW encampment heard William B. Nugent outline a request to Congress for 1.5 million dollars to modernize the Veterans hospital in Des Moines. The upgrade aims to improve programs without adding beds, with 35,000 Iowa veterans on federal compensation or pensions and a 300 patient hospital with 476 staff including 21 physicians and 85 RNs. Senator Thomas Martin warned that communism remains dangerous, praising current Russian leaders for condemning Stalin.
A resident using a power mower woke neighbors Friday at dawn and police then got a similar call Saturday. Officers visited the woodworker on Blake Boulevard SE around 3 a.m. He said he woke up and started tinkering because he could not sleep. He closed his shop for the night after the reminder.
Cedar Rapids post office extended the application deadline to July 18 for substitute mail handler jobs due to very few applicants. Applicants must be 18 or older and local residents. Starting pay is $1.65 per hour, with permanent positions filled from substitutes. Civil Service requirements and benefits apply.
The detective bureau sought 960 to buy a highly sensitive recorder to capture breathing sounds. The Raleigh city council ruled that breathing cannot be used as evidence and vetoed the purchase.
A group of four Augustana Lutheran caravaners will stay in Cedar Rapids from Thursday to Monday to work with St. Mark's and Holy Redeemer Lutheran churches. Evening meetings and daily study sessions, with parents and church boards joining on the final day, aim to plan and present programs and recreation for youth. The travelers include C Daniel Lindstrom, Priscilla Stockner, Patricia Gardels, and Eldon Pickering, and they will also visit Vinton Story City Mediapolis Muscatine Ogden Madrid Dayton Burnside and Des Moines churches.
John Albert Sufich 18 of Fort Madison returned home exhausted and to authorities appearing to suffer amnesia after a boat trip near the Mississippi River. His car with some clothing was found along the river bank, and searchers dragged the river for five hours.
Local television schedule lists airtimes and channels for KCRG TV Cedar Rapids WMT TV Cedar Rapids KWWL TV Waterloo WHBF TV Rock Island with programs including Lawrence Welk Gunsmoke The Adventures Theater Grand Ole Opry Jackie Gleason Honeymooners and News Weather and Sports broadcasts throughout the evening.
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