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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1943
Page
19
Nationwide reform affects banking checks at par, driver license suspensions for DWI, public aid program funding, pheasant and quail seasons, minor bowling alley access, gasoline tax re enactment, real estate sales on installments, county vehicle registration, and postwar job rehabilitation for veterans.
Oliver Kirkpatrick a middle aged Waterloo carpenter died Saturday from a fractured skull after falling from the second story platform of a rear stairway in his rooming house.
Hamilton County Attorney Lloyd Karr will enter the army July 7 leaving the office in the care of his wife Margaret Karr acting county attorney for the remainder of the term ending Jan 1 1945. Margaret admitted to the bar June 3 tied for third in a class of eight. both studied under B E Phelan of Fort Dodge. The couple have a daughter.
R C Tomlinson arrives in Iowa City to plan a USO program for servicemen in training on a university campus. He surveys local needs and facilities and praises area organizations aiding recreational and social programs. The 45 year old former Lake Forest College instructor has USO background in Madison and New York.
Mr and Mrs Leonard Reinartson pleaded innocent in police court after arraignment on a charge of operating a children s boarding home without a license. The 20 month old Karen Hanks was lost overnight at the Reinartson farm and later found unharmed in a gully. Bail was set at 1000 dollars each and they were bound over to the grand jury.
The First Baptist Church of Shenandoah petitioned the city council for a curfew law asking for a 9 30 or 10 p m curfew for children under 15 and suitable punishment for parents of violators.
More than 1 400 young men are called to active duty July 1 under the navy college training program. Eight hundred ten go to Iowa State College Ames 300 to the University of Dubuque Dubuque and 300 to St Ambrose College Davenport.
Des Moines AP reports Iowa investigators see a large drop in bad check operations. Chief R. W. Nebergall cites (1) better salaries keeping people straight, (2) many suspects now in the army, and (3) widespread belief that Iowa is an unhealthy market for such crime.
Bealls purchase Hawkeye Beacon from State Senator G. W. Hunt of Guttenberg and assume ownership of the Hawkeye Beacon nine miles from West Union. Roland Farrington rents and handles mechanical work for both papers while Hawkeye continues publishing the Beacon. Hazel Foote will supervise news gathering and office work as Walter H. Beall continues long-time publisher duties with the West Union Argo Gazett.
The regional office of the National Housing agency in Des Moines fixed priority quotas for added private housing in Iowa. Clinton 90 units for conversion, Newton 100 for conversion and 50 for new construction, Des Moines 300 for conversion, Keokuk 30 for conversion. Joseph P Tufts cited a marked increase in war housing needs in Iowa over the past month.
Iowa Treasurer W G C Bagley reports May gasoline tax receipts totaled 1 493 257 dollars, down 147 229 dollars or nine percent from 1 640 486 dollars in May of the previous year.
Fourteen Des Moines hotel operators turned over 13665 to the U S government for overcharges under OPA rent ceilings. About 15000 in refunds to tenants have been given since last September, with audits costing hotels around 7000, as the drive expands to other Des Moines areas.
Chicago UP reports Raymond S. Meck Keough announces Maurice E. Rawlings as Sioux City OPA district director. Rawlings replaces Harry J. Gleason who becomes Sioux City postmaster. Rawlings has served as OPA counsel in Sioux City since last November.
Anamosa reformatory hires women to work as clerks due to a population drop to 733 and labor shortages. Helen Koppenhaver and Geraldine Rooney began last week with others to follow. wages set at 65 dollars monthly under supervisors John Rowen O A Rife and Lee Van Kirk. Two more women will later join as mail censors under William Gassen. The plan, approved by the state board of control, aims to free intelligent inmates for industrial and farming duties supporting state institutions.
Davenport Iowa March production by Zim merman Steel Casting Bettendorf facility tops 1000 tons of castings earning an army navy E award Brig Gen Norman F Ramsey announces The CIO local 143 president John W Wood says the union and management pledge to out-produce the Axis and support the war effort, assuring a better world for children.
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