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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1949
Page
4
In Des Moines the Iowa senate approved a bill to expand city financing for sewage plants, passing 42 to 0. It allows a 2 mill property tax for construction, bonds, and existing rental funding, with governor action pending. The package includes related measures on pensions, school year length, and arbitration appeals.
The banking committee cleared a flexible rent control extension for Senate action. The bill would extend curbs 12 to 15 months and raise some ceilings. It gives states options to scrap federal controls or take over administration if they pass adequate rent laws and governors certify to Washington.
Not fit for hogs, period. Officers said the whisky from an illegal still near Williamston North Carolina caused four pickled pigs to die of acute alcoholism after consuming the mash.
WO GAMES are on the schedule for the State Basketball Tournament with two broadcasts at 7 30 and 9 00 PM on KCRG KCRK. Prizes await every boy and girl at the HI HO FUN SHOW tomorrow morning at the Iowa Theater doors open 9 30. A 10 30 AM KCRG broadcast will be followed by movies.
Ann Gardella, who stirred the sports world by suing organized baseball, will appear as a guest on Experience Speaks on KCRG KCRK at 7 o'clock tonight.
Radio schedule shows KCRK on 96.9 FM or Channel 245 with listed times for programs and news blocks. Mentions various hosts and segments including Music and News periods, timestamps, and channel identifiers.
White House released newsreel footage showing President Truman and aides swimming at a Florida beach and the villa at Key West. Officials reviewed the films in Washington and redacted only brief segments to protect security and privacy. Photographers cooperated with news outlets to supply clips while some shots were destroyed per guidance.
In New York the defense for Eugene Dennis the top defendant in the U S Communist leaders case was approved to act for himself at the upcoming trial starting Monday Judge Harold Medina warned of the risk while four women were chosen as alternates to join a jury of seven women and five men. The defendants stand accused of conspiring to advocate violent overthrow of the U S government.
Secretary of State Acheson will address the Atlantic pact treaty Friday night at 9 30 on a nationwide broadcast carried by Mutual Columbia and American networks. The State Department confirmed the program outlining the major foreign policy commitment of the era.
Danbury New Hampshire residents, a 600 population town, take pride in a modern fire department funded by a 2250 dollar appropriation. In a year the department bought a used chassis, built a body, and equipped an engine with surplus gear. Firemen converted an old building into a modern fire house with 648 hours of volunteer work.
The Wabash railroad began laying off 8500 non-operating workers as a trainmen strike neared day four. A skeleton force will run the six state system by Monday. Ford Motor Lincoln Mercury plant at Robertson Missouri may lay off 1500 Monday if the strike persists. Union leaders in Cleveland warned no return to work without settlement or federal seizure. The Railway Mail Service shifted to rented trucks to move mail in Missouri areas served by the Wabash.
Defense Secretary James Forrestal ordered all military information branches merged to end interservice rivalry for funds and publicity. Effective March 31, the plan places public information functions under a single defense secretary special assistant and eliminates separate PR offices.
Archbishop Josef Beran said negotiations between the Catholic Church and the Communist state have broken down. He cited loyalty statements, suspension orders against priests, and further nationalization of church property as sticking points. A government spokesman previously described only minor differences.
New York crowded Fifth Avenue for the St. Patrick's Day parade as bright sun and 1,750,000 spectators highlighted the event. Grand Marshal John A. Coleman Jr. praised the weather and 80,000 Irish descendants marched, with 62 battalions and bands along the route from 44th to 96th streets. Cardinal Spellman reviewed from St Patrick's Cathedral steps. Mayor William O Dwyer led dignitaries north of the city.
Des Moines AP reports the Iowa legislature will hold a joint session on March 24 to hear a public performance of the new state song Iowa's Flag. Words by E. O. Osborn of Kingston. music by Esther May Clarke of Oskaloosa. contest winner chosen by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
In Philadelphia a 17 year old, Seymour Levin, was sentenced to life imprisonment for first degree murder in the slaying of 12 year old Simons. Levin pleaded guilty and three judges ruled the act a murder marked by perverted sexual lust. The victim was found Jan 9 behind Levin’s garage with extensive knife wounds after a dispute over a chemistry set.
President Truman named three midwestern judges to form an emergency fact-finding board for the Wabash railroad strike involving 3,500 employees. Chief Justice R. J. McDonough of Utah, former Indiana Supreme Court Justice Curtis Shake, and Nebraska Associate Justice John W. Yeager were chosen.
Spokesmen for Iowa temperance forces delivered petitions signed by 31 312 urging passage of the county local option bill on beer sales. W J Herwig head of the Iowa Temperance League and Mrs Gertrude Walton presented the petitions to Senator J F Miller who chairs the elections reform committee that has a local option bill.
Washington AP says a radar screen to guard against surprise air attacks was approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee. The House already passed the measure, with Senate action still pending.
In Jacksonville Judge Edwin Jones tells bouncer Stanfield you can throw him out but you do not have to shoot him. Stanfield had fired a shot wounding a patron in the leg after ejecting him from the night club.
The UC seismograph in Berkeley recorded a moderately strong earthquake centered about 6,600 miles southwest, somewhere between New Zealand and the Philippines. Seismologist Perry Byerly said the quake was detected at 1 18 p m PST and lasted about one hour and 15 minutes.
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