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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1946
Page
2
Iowa trappers received 2,630,655 dollars for furs in the 1945 46 season, second highest in state history. Pelts sold numbered 624,565, mink led by high prices, red fox jumped to 11,554, and beaver and mink values rose while muskrat declined.
Seven well behaved youths from the Iowa Training School for Boys returned to Eldora after attending opening rounds of the state high school basketball tournament in Iowa City. They traveled with Dean M. L. Puckette and were praised for good conduct.
The Tipton high school music departments schedule elimination contests next Tuesday to determine participants for upcoming events.
Governors of 15 states invited to Des Moines conference report no easy solution exists and emphasize local responsibility. They cite need for building materials and manpower, with Illinois and Michigan outlining programs, funds, and state actions to aid housing and veterans.
The Cedar County music festival will be held Friday at the Clarence high school. Represented schools include London Stanwood Tipton Durant Springdale West Branch and Clarence. The daytime program covers rehearsals and judging for ratings while the evening feature is a massed band directed by Alvin Edgars of Iowa State College and a combined chorus conducted by Addison Alspach of the University of Iowa. Valera Stout oversees arrangements.
INDEPENDENCE Mo AP Dr Frederick M Smith longtime president of the reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints dies at 72 He was born in Plano Illinois and returned to Lamoni Iowa area earlier in life Lamoni residents J F Garver and E J Glazer participate in funeral arrangements with Garver speaking and Glazer as pallbearer The church founder Joseph Smith grandson led the church 31 years since its reorganization.
Ottumwa AP directors of John Morrell and Company Packers voted a regular dividend of 50 cents a share on common stock payable April 30 to stockholders of record April 13.
Des Moines AP Iowa’s ninth annual Easter seal drive to aid crippled children opened with thousands of letters mailed, each containing a seal. W S Griffith of Ames, president of the Iowa Society for Crippled Children, said funds provide special care training treatment and appliances. Mrs Dorothy Phillips executive secretary said 450000 letters will be sent.
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