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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1947
Page
3
Fire in the Norway town hall caused by an overheated stove gutted two rooms at 3 a.m. Sunday. The town fire truck housed there was saved by volunteers who pulled it out with another truck and then fought the flames. Four rooms total. rear rooms escaped damage. Joe Vanous awakened by the fire called the alarm. Mayor John Markham pledged rapid repair with needed materials.
The Black Stone Coal Company mine in Lovilia Iowa was sealed Sunday to smother an underground fire that forced about 100 diggers and truckers out of work. The 500 ton daily mine lies 600 feet back in the slope where the fire started in the pump room and spread through timbering and a coal vein six to fourteen feet thick. Fire fighters entered via an air shaft and fought from behind but were unsuccessful. Owners include Walter Blackstone and James McNeish of Lovilia and the Kil Patrick interests in Des Moines.
Five Williamsburg youths were injured when their car skidded on ice and crashed on Highway 6 two miles east of Marengo late Saturday. Injuries included head wounds to Eugene Shannahan George Parker and Maxine O Rourke. Wayne Muell nix suffered back and chest injuries. Billy Miller was only lightly hurt and released Sunday. The car was driven by Shannahan a former serviceman.
Mrs. Frances A. Coover of Ames Iowa was seriously injured January 6 when struck by a man who leaped to death from the Empire State Building. She traveled by train to Boone Iowa and then Ames, with her husband Prof. Mervin Coover and children. Her condition described as serious, with praise for medical care and nursing.
Marengo residents James W. Kimm and Henry Boyd Johnson were released on $100 bonds after Tama Marshal Fred Van De Walle charged them with disturbing the peace at Tama high school during a sectional basketball tournament. Fines totaling $150 were levied for south Tama county traffic violations. Flavel B. Parks of Cedar Falls was fined $100 for reckless driving on the Lincoln highway east of Tama. Donald C. Carlson and Wil ter Rich of Chelsea were each fined $25 for defective equipment and overloading respectively. Edward Lawrence Nitcher of Montour was fined $25 on three counts for moving from Montour to Pleasantville with a vehicle lacking equipment, flares, and a registration card.
Mrs. Leo Dehner 57, nationally known as the "Catholic mother of America" in 1943, dies on Saturday in Burlington. Services are planned for Tuesday. surviving husband and eight children.
Fred E. Hosier of near Dysart released on $1,000 bond after desertion charges. case continued to April 4 by District Judge B. E. Thomas. He was arrested in Dubuque Feb. 24. The report also notes a $50,000 alienation of affections suit by Earl A. Cornelius of Tama against Henry Luethje of Garwin, dismissed for nonappearance, tied to a divorce action.
District Judge J E Heiserman reversed a Mechanicsville mayor court decision fining Denver-Chicago Trucking of Blair Nebraska 100 for improper registration. The Iowa Highway Commission alleged lack of Nebraska licenses and Cedar Rapids service station as Iowa business. The judge held Iowa Nebraska reciprocity makes written agreement unnecessary and that the commission overstepped its authority.
Preliminary inventories filed in Tama county district court list four estates totaling 93 186. Albert Ulch, 88, of Chelsea, died Feb 7 with an estate valued at 73 633. his sole heir and executor is son Joseph. Other estates include Maude Broderick Tama school teacher 12 633 W P Pennell Toledo 2 500 and Mary Valenta who died in Chicago 4 000.
The Iowa Taxpayers Association charged taxes are levied only to cover operating government costs and criticized added taxes as wasteful. It cited average Iowa family tax burdens at about $225 and praised a Senate approved county assessor bill as a step toward better government and reducing evasion.
Julius Swain a Waukon barber for about 30 years died Sunday night while returning home from a visit with his mother Mrs. E Lieran about 12 miles east of Waukon. He and his wife were in their car when he suffered the attack and drove to the roadside before dying. The body was taken to Bakke and Hanson funeral home.
Mrs. Bertha Barnhill 65 of Fort Dodge was hit by a passenger train at Le Claire on Sunday. Coroner Frank C. Keppy reported the engineer Phil Sharp of Savanna said she ran onto the tracks and tried to dash back, the body carried about 100 feet from the crossing. She lived here with her son Charles a student in Davenport.
Edward Sloan, 71, died after being run over by a freight train Saturday night. Engineer Fred Elliott reported seeing something on the tracks and stopping the train at once. Sloan was found beside the tracks with both legs severed. services are set for Tuesday in Des Moines.
A special election will be held on April 7 to vote on issuing 38000 dollars in bonds to build a new gymnasium and classrooms at the Alpha school northwest of West Union.
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