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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1956
Page
13
A fragment notes a product usable by textile manufacturers, dry cleaners, or in aerosol form for home use. It mentions dilution for use and potential applications in laundering. The garbled weather section references Cedar Rapids Gazette data, March 3, 1954, with forecasts, temperatures, and barometric readings for various locations.
Four construction workers and a Birmingham truck driver sue the NAACP and three attorneys for one million dollars each, claiming false mob accusations linked to Miss Lucy Lucey's Alabama campus case. The suits, filed in federal court, stem from contempt charges tied to Lucey’s 1956 expulsion and related actions.
A municipal court list details fines for traffic and public safety offenses in multiple towns. Names such as Jane Brown, Douglas Hladek, Thomas Kenecny, and Robert Burns appear with fines ranging from 3 to 25 dollars plus costs. Obituaries note services for Lewis Relfenstahl and Mrs Earl Bell, with burial details, while Norhe Norwegian princess Astrid travels.
The Maplecrest narrative notes Wellman as the home of Maplecrest and emphasizes the firm’s personnel value. Protein Blenders operates on highway 218 south of the Iowa City airport, with a six acre site including offices, mill, storage for ingredients and feed, maintenance, shops, and large tanks. Wholly owned units English River Concentrates in Riverside and Hills Grain and Feed in Hills are listed as subsidiaries.
New products on the market this week are described as amazing though the text is garbled. It mentions executives at Protein Blend virus related to colds and lists Charles A. Kelly William Cushing Joseph H. Pugh in roles including vice-president and treasurer secretary and others, with limited clear context.
Detroit report says American Motors will issue an insurance policy worth 25 000 dollars with every buyer of certain Rambler Nash or Hudson cars. The Friez Manufacturing Company in Erie is premiering an electromagnetic device that vibrates the car to eject contents from chutes and hoppers, aiding safe purchase. The policy would cover the buyer and spouse if both are killed in the private car, and a year of anti static fabric treatment is also described.
Ernest Reed, 2, faced charges for arriving without a license in Cleveland. The judge found a clerical error and fined Reed $5 and cast him for jaywalking, remarking you don’t need a license for walking.
Washington INS reports General Mark Clark and Lt. General Albert Wedemeyer along with other For America leaders disown any third party Stop Ike movement. Brig. Gen. Bonner Fellers had urged such a movement, but Clark Wedemeyer and Wood say they know nothing of it. Clark says he disassociates from it and clarifies his past involvement, while Wedemeyer stresses his lack of knowledge and rejection of any third party action.
Willis F Dirks 26 of Marion pled guilty to drunk driving. Judge Floyd Philbirch fined him 8300 and costs, with $50 down and $50 monthly payments. He was arrested Friday night by Cedar Rapids police after his car struck a vehicle in front of 379 Nineteenth Istreet SE.
Douglas Hunt aged 18 and Alfred Vozenilek 21 are jailed on $1000 bonds after arraignment in municipal court. They allegedly broke into a shed on Joseph Conway property in Mt Vernon Road SE, stealing copper wire later sold for 12 dollars. Deputies from Linn County sheriff arrested them. Hunt and Vozenilek waived to the grand jury Friday.
In Hamilton Ohio a would be robber wearing a pillow slip over his head attempted a holdup at a filling station. The attendant ignored him and the man left empty handed after pleading for cash. Police said nothing was paid out and no one was injured.
On a Cedar Rapids area highway Vincent J Huerter of Jones county sues Frank Ford of Chicago for 98 dollars 16 cents in a collision damage case. Richard and Virginia Mackey Friday dismissed a damage suit against Smulekoffs Furniture Co and Walter Defferding. Linn Co operative Oil Co Saturday won 144 dollars 91 cents against Lawrence H Weber in an account suit. Joyce E Hampshire Saturday filed suit for marriage annulment against Calvin A Hampshire.
In San Jose California Hal H Watkins, 31, with a prior forgery record, told Judge William F James he would sever his writing finger to prove he would reform. The judge hurried to the jail after receiving the note and Watkins then cut off his right index finger at the first joint with a meat cleaver. Sentencing on a bad check conviction was postponed until March 16.
The weather bureau issued a 30 day March outlook predicting below normal temperatures west of the continental divide and near normal in the northern border states. Above normal temperatures expected elsewhere, with greatest departures in the lower Mississippi valley. Subnormal precipitation in the Southwest and New England. above normal in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys and the Pacific Northwest.
Albany AP Governor Harriman signed a bill allowing New York City to transfer Grant's tomb to the federal government. The interior department would designate the Riverside Park monument as a national monument.
Mercy hospital allows visitors for Mrs Emit arak, age 16, a patient at the facility. The entry lists Second Street SW as the address.
Richard B. Tull, radio and television director for Town State College, noted that 97 of 252 FCC allocated educational channels are on air or ready to broadcast. He spoke on the Town Talking program on WOI, discussing an educational television report for the Fund for Adult Education due at the end of October.
A Sunday meeting at First Presbyterian Cedar Rapids sponsored by the Iowa Synod will give attendees deeper insight into the denomination’s mission program. The program opens at 4 30 pm with a devotional, four missionary speakers, dinner at 5 15 and an 7 30 pm session, adjournment around 9 pm. Speakers include Rev. Aulden D. Coble from Colombia, Mrs S Irvine Graham from Brazil, Nadim F Saikaly from Lebanon and Dr Henry C Schneider of Des Moines.
Salmon caught by Yakima Indians of Washington will be served at a Cedar Rapids First Christian church dinner to benefit the Yakima Indian Christian mission. The 5 30 p.m. Sunday event features Harold Walter Myer of Cedar Rapids, an honorary Indian chief, who will show ceremony pictures, demonstrate the peace pipe, dress and dances. Reservations via the church office by noon Saturday.
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