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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1946
Page
4
Kenneth Ginsterbloom, 23, crippled since childhood, built an electric chair able to move about two miles an hour. The Osage resident designed a compact unit with a 12 volt battery and 12 watt motor. He plans to patent the device to aid others and is distributing 56,000 Easter seals to 40 counties.
Special to The Gazette Oxford Junction staff sergeant Robert J Fritz formerly listed as missing in action over Borneo since October 10 1944 has been declared dead His parents Mr and Mrs Martin Fritz and three sisters Mildred Willett Frances Jeffrey and Velma Fritz survive He attended Oxford Junction High School and enlisted January 1943 going overseas January 1944 He received the Air Medal and meritorious service citation in the South Pacific
Manchester resident Paul Hawker, new to the town from Earlville, has completed a 24 by 34 foot bungalow with four rooms and bath, built mostly from his own timber on 112 acres. He started a second bungalow with six rooms on one floor and plans to add a lid, saying flooring remains the main hurdle.
Substantial pay increases have been granted to meat cutters and retail grocery clerks in the Quad cities under new agreements with employers. Journeymen meat cutters rise to 57 a week and market managers to 65 a week. grocery clerks start at 26.50 and rise to 45 a week. Both contracts offer one week vacation after a year and two weeks after three years.
Decorah residents learn Luther college awarded contracts for a new heating plant costing 125557 dollars. Rye and Henkle of Mason City získ 40455 dollars for the plant, A. R. Coffeen Decorah 20303 for tunnels, Grudem Brothers St Paul 57000 for equipment and installation, M S Larson Decorah 3749 for wiring, M W Kellogg Company New York 4050 for chimney. bids for a new women’s dormitory will be sought soon.
A 70 to 80 year old building once a Chinese laundry began to settle on Wednesday. Two large cracks opened, the display window shattered, five workers were inside remodeling, and the area was roped off with nearby cars moved for safety. Ralph Wildman, contractor for Morris Dicker, blamed recent snows for weakening the foundation.
Air service from Iowa City to Chicago announced with a Mainliner twin engine 21 passenger plane. It departs Iowa City at 10 51 a m and arrives in Chicago about one hour and twelve minutes later with arrival 10 46 a m on Sundays beginning March 17.
Rochester man Harold Carbone seeks to block his British wife Jean Carbone from obtaining a Reno divorce. Carbone’s Rochester attorneys vow to vigorously defend against any Nevada action, asserting he has grounds and will act if her Reno filing proceeds.
Mrs. C. H. Pierce, Williamsburg’s oldest resident, died after a brief illness at age 92. Born in Ohio on November 23, 1853, she married in 1875 and lived in the same house since. Survived by five daughters Minnie, Ida Leasure, Mrs. Sam Harte, Mrs. Carl Durr, Mrs. Merle Ross. two sons William and John. granddaughter Jeanette Harte. Funeral is Saturday at Jones funeral home with burial at Oak Hill cemetery.
SAN PEDRO Calif AP headed by the battleship Iowa Admiral Frederick C Sherman s flagship elements of the Fifth Fleet begin homeward maneuvers after duty abroad. The fleet signals a return as it completes operations in the western Pacific with Sherman commanding from the Iowa.
The fleet is expected back in Los Angeles harbor from Japanese waters later this month. Tentative plans call for the admiral to transfer his flag to an auxiliary command ship and proceed to San Diego before launching the fleet on a rigorous training schedule.
A 21 passenger DC-3 airliner will be christened the City of Mason City at Friday ceremonies marking the first north and south air service. The plane, newest in the Mid-Continent Airlines fleet, will fly on its first trip from Minneapolis with the southbound leg at 10 18 a.m. and the northbound at 11 28 a.m.
Special report states two incidents in Traer when thieves forced a Gam ble store door at about 4:30 a.m. and fled in a waiting car after taking $40. Night Watchman Harry Otter man spotted the burglars. Later, gas station attendants found the till opened and another $40 missing.
Dorothy Lloyd and Leon Walters were married Tuesday at St. Pius church in Waukon. The ceremony united the couple in a Catholic service with details of the vows and attendees to be reported.
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