Suspected check artist with past record sought by Cedar Rapids police
Arthur W. Miller, 30, tied to a Des Moines arrest and a string of roughly 100 checks in several states. Hanna said Miller cashed a $20 hospital check on March 9 and faced a no account return. He previously received a suspended 30 day sentence in 1953 for false uttering of a check in Cedar Rapids. A warrant will be sent to Des Moines to hold him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Hanna
Kinney
Missouri
Nebraska
Iowa
Des Moines
Arthur W.miller
Miller
St. Luke’s Hospital
Illinois
Colorado
Wisconsin
St. Louis
Minneapolis
Mway
Eastern Airlines
Hines
Weather and court notices from May 7 1955 Daily Record
Sunday forecast shows fair weather and warming trends with highs 70 to 80. Local records list precipitation 0.90 inches for May to date and numerous small-claims, traffic, and civil judgments across Marion and surrounding towns. Funeral notices for several local residents are also recorded.
Driver's License Violator Fined in Municipal Court
Frank J. Smith, 81, of 417 Seventh Street SE, was fined 100 dollars with 50 dollars suspended after pleading driving without a license. Police said his car was in an accident. records show prior Apo accidents and multiple speeding, leaving scene, and reckless driving convictions since 1947. His license has been suspended indefinitely since last October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph O'Neill
Russell Hauskins
Willis Hutchins
Marion
Dwayne Novak
J Street
Herbert Kummerfeldt
Third Street
Richard Mastain
Twentieth Avenue
Charles Stephenson
Miami Drive
Edward Major
Oakland Road NE
Frank J. Smith
Seventh Street SE
Joyce Major
Harvey Mannen
Edwin Beyer
Vera Tusing
Eighth Avenue SE
Danny Youngbear
L. J. Odeen
E Avenue NW
Wayne Carney
A Avenue NW
Edmund Houlahan
Leslie O. Peyton
Smith
Woodmen Meetings and Local Notes Schedule
Woodmen and Woodcraft groups set meetings for Monday at 8 a.m. at CSPS hall. Mothers Day dinner offers fried spring chicken and oven baked steak Swiss style for 1.50, served 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Krebs Dutch Girl at 2901 1st Ave SE invites visitors while Fred Melichar recovers from burns at Mercy hospital. Beginning May 9 barber shops will charge 1.25 for children's haircuts. Mother's Day flowers advertised by Pierson's Flower Shop open Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Krebs
1St Ave
Deaths Urbanek 72 Cedar Rapids resident city obituary
John Albert Urbanek 72 of 72 Nineteenth avenue SW Cedar Rapids died of a heart attack on arrival at a Cedar Rapids hospital Friday after noon. Born December 25 1882 in Liskum Czechoslovakia he came to Chicago in 1903 moved to Vining in 1914. He retired three years ago as a painter and glazer at South Side Sash and Door Company. Survived by wife Frances Posusta Urbanek married November 19 1904 a daughter Mrs. Frank J Bates four grandchildren and three great grandchildren all of Cedar Rapids a half brother Charles Urban Cicero Illinois two half sisters Mrs Joseph Silovsky Chicago and Mrs Howard Minzey Berwyn Illinois. Services set for 2 p m Sunday at Janeba funeral home conducted by Rev Zdenek te Pauk burial in Czech National cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Albert Urbanek
Nineteenth Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Liskum
Czechoslovakia
Chicago
Vining
South Side Sash and Door Company
Frances Posusta Urbanek
Samuel C Benesh longtime Center Point farmer dies
Samuel C Benesh a World War I veteran and farmer from Center Point route 1 died in a Cedar Rapids hospital at 4 45 am Saturday. Born March 30 1894 in Walford he farmed 31 years near Center Point. He married Nora Reid May 12 1923 in Cedar Rapids and is survived by his wife a daughter Mrs Arnold Lanning of Cedar Rapids two sons Charles of Cedar Rapids and Richard of Center Point four sisters and six brothers two grandchildren and a burial at Cedar Memorial cemetery with rites at the Beatty Bearle chapel to follow friends may call after 7 pm Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel C. Benesh
Route 1
Center Point
Cedar Rapids
Walford
Nora Reid
Arnold Lanning
Charles
C. R
Richard
Earl Tumilty
Shellsburg
Catherine Beatty
Atkins
Frank Kluber
Montezuma
Sarah Glassley
Gillette
Wyoming
William
Ely
Frank
Brooklyn
George
Marion
John
Joseph
LeRoy
Wenatchee
Wash
Beatty-Bearle Chapel
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Marion Man Appeals Speeding Conviction
James McPartland of Marion gave notice to appeal a municipal court speeding conviction to Linn county district court. His attorney filed a demurrer which Judge Charles Benesh overruled, McPartland found guilty with a $10 fine and a 30 day license suspension to be withheld pending district court ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James McPartland
Marion
Linn County District Court
McPartland
Charles Benesh
Benesh
Man Nabbed Near Cedar Rapids on Forgery Charge
George R. Kinney, 29, with a long record of bad check arrests, was arrested Saturday noon near Cedar Rapids and charged with forgery. He allegedly cashed a $15 check bearing the signature of W. C. Rideout at a Cedar Rapids drugstore. Kinney was taken into custody on highway 30 about ten miles west of the city by Deputy Harlan Snyder and Deputy Jerry Navratil after being stopped for questioning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
George R. Kinney
W. C. Rideout
John Hanna
Kinney
Harlan Snyder
Jerry Navratil
Florence Blunk dies after long illness in Cedar Rapids
Florence Louise Blunk widow of Irvin Blunk dies in a Cedar Rapids hospital at 1 35 PM after a prolonged illness. Born May 17 1879 in Union Ontario Canada she moved to Cedar Rapids nine years ago to live with son in law and daughter Robert A Youngblood 2208 Mt Vernon SE She is survived by granddaughter Dianne Youngblood She belonged to Trinity Methodist Lincoln Nebraska and earlier to Chautauqua and Hall in the Grove Services will be 2 PM Monday at Roper and Son mortuary Lincoln burial Wynka Cemetery Turner chapel open until 5 PM Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence Louise Blunk
Irvin Blunk
Cedar Rapids
Union
Ontario
Canada
Robert A. Youngblood
Mt. Vernon Read SE
Dianne Youngblood
Services for Leonard Simanek to be held at Janeba Funeral Home
Leonard Shimmy Simanek of 284 Twenty-fifth Avenue SW, a brick foreman for Bey Construction Company, died in an automobile truck crash near Hunter Airport Thursday evening. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday with Rev. Leonard E. Deaver presiding, burial in Czech National Cemetery, viewing 4–9 p.m. Saturday and 3–9 p.m. Sunday at Janeba Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard
Death notice of Fred Nelson former Cedar Rapids employee
Word was received of the death Saturday at noon of Fred Nelson, 70, a Cedar Rapids resident and longtime employee at Watson's bakery who had moved to Fremont, Nebraska 40 years ago. He was born in Denmark. Surviving are his wife Josephine Hemmer of Cedar Rapids, a son Andrew of Omaha, and a daughter Mrs. William Voegtly of Denver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Nel
Cedar Rapids
Watson’s Bakery
Fremont
Neb
Nelson
Denmark
Josephine Hemmer
Andrew
Omaha
William Voegtly
Denver
Colo
Springville Man Pleads Guilty To Drunk Driving
Joseph F. Parr age 27 of Springville pled guilty in Judge Floyd Philbrick's court to a drunk driving charge. He received a $300 fine plus costs and can pay $50 down and $50 monthly. Parr was arrested Friday by Cedar Rapids police after erratic driving on First Avenue East near the city limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph F. Parr
Springville
Floyd Philbrick
Parr
Cedar Rapids
First Avenue E
Ehrenberger Novak Wills Are Admitted
Wills of Antoinette Ehrenberger who died April 21 and Mary F. M. Novak who died May 1 were admitted to probate. Ehrenberger left 50 dollars to each of five daughters and 150 dollars to two others with rest to Julia Grey who was named executrix with a 1000 dollar bond. Novak left the Second Street SE house to Charles and the right to reside with him for a sister Emma Zahorik, with one third to Emily R. Haverkamp one third to Louis Novak and one third in trust for Charles. Haverkamp named executrix without bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antoinette Ehrenberger
Mary F. M. Novak
Ary Chalupnik
Libbie Ivy
Alicia Dwyer
Emma Ulch
Lillian Tessarik
Anna Klimes
Frank Ehrenberger
Julia Grey
Grey
Two Personal Injury Suits Filed Saturday
Two personal injury suits were filed Saturday one for 10717 dollars against the Twixt Town Drive In theater by Nellie Clemens of Minneapolis for a broken ankle she allegedly suffered October 3 1953 while on theater property. The second suit by Dillon Smith against Elizabeth and Stewart Marshall seeks 8143 75 dollars for injuries from a collision October 8 1954 on a county road two miles south of Whittier Linn county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nellie Clemens
Minneapolis
Dillon Smith
Elizabeth
Stewart Marshall
Smith
Marshall
Whittier
Linn County
Kenneth McGee Receives Suspended Sentences on Assaults
Kenneth H. McGee, 35, of Waubeek, pled guilty to two assault charges before Judge Floyd Philbrick. He received suspended four month terms in the county jail for each offense. One count related to a Christmas day brawl at Slavik tavern injuring operator Jake Slavik with rib fractures. The other charged him with knife wounds to Francis Houstman of Marion, requiring 40 stitches. Houstman recovered.
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Kenneth H. McGee
Waubeck
McGee
Floyd Philbrick
Slavik
Waubeek
Jake Slavik
Francis Houstman
Marion
Houstman
Car Rollover Lands Man in Jail on Drunkenness Charge
Louis Peyton age 67 of route 4 was sentenced to 30 days in county jail after a Friday night rollover on Vinton road NW. Deputy Harlan Snyder said Peyton is believed to be the driver though no witness saw him driving. Peyton had minor scratches. sentence handed in Judge James Patterson's municipal court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Peyton
Route 4
Vinton Road
Harlan Snyder
Peyton
Snyder
James Patterson
Lisbon Man Accused Of Illegal Beer Sale
John Zuvella, 32, a Lisbon tavern operator, was arraigned in Judge Charles Penningroth's court on charges of furnishing beer to a minor. He was arrested Friday night by the sheriff's office and given until 10 a.m. Tuesday to plead. The information was filed by County Attorney Willis A. Glassgow accusing him of selling beer to a minor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lisbon
John Zuvella
Charles Penningroth
Zuvella
Willis A. Glassgow
Separate maintenance and annulment actions filed
Betty J. Elmore sues Robert W. Elmore for separate maintenance and Sondra Leither sues Joseph D. Leither for annulment of a Dec 11 1954 marriage. Linn County petit jury panel not required to report Monday. will report May 16 after cases set for trial were disposed or settled. Kermit Holmquist doing business as Chirps Bake Assignment Service filed a $142.12 account suit against John C. Holley. Edna DeNio’s damage suit against Ethel Hart was dismissed by the plaintiff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty J. Elmore
Robert W. Elmore
Sondra Leither
Joseph D. Leither
Arthur Axmear
Linn County
Kermit Holmquist
Chirps Bake Assignment
John C. Holley
Edna DeNio
Ethel Hart
North Central seeks Milwaukee Des Moines air route via Cedar Rapids
North Central Airlines has filed with the Civil Aeronautics Board for two new routes: Milwaukee to Des Moines with stops at Dubuque and Cedar Rapids, and Chicago to Minneapolis via Dubuque and Rochester Minnesota. Cedar Rapids officials await CAB decisions on related routing disputes affecting Cedar Rapids service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Milwaukee
Des Moines
North Central Airlines
Dubuque
Inoculation figures push for quick vaccine approval
Dr. David Bodian of Johns Hopkins and colleagues from Harvard Michigan Illinois and Walter Reed pressed for a speedy decision on vaccines. They warned a delay would slow the vaccination program as the summer policy peak nears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Bodian
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
John Enders
Harvard Medical School
Cambridge
Mass
Thomas Francis, Jr
University of Michigan
Howard Shaughnessy
Illinois Department of Health
Joseph Smadel
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Washington
Iowa Has Salk Official Named For Vaccine Program
Gov. Leo Hoegh announced Dr. Edmund Zimmerer Iowa public health commissioner was chosen to lead the Salk polio vaccine distribution program. He formed an advisory committee led by Zimmerer to set vaccination priorities with commercial vaccine after the free school program for first and second graders ends. He said the program will continue as the vaccine is 80 to 90 percent effective.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Llp
Leo Hoegh
Henry O. Talle
R-Ia
Iowa
Talle
Edmund Zimmerer
Hoegh
Zimmerer
Hindu Women to Gain Property Rights Under New Bill
New Delhi AP report says Hindu women will for the first time receive property rights as a bill moves to a joint parliamentary committee. The reform follows earlier steps including monogamy, divorce rights for women, and setting marriage ages for boys and girls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Delhi
Nehru
Edgar A Guest Poem Reflects on Fishing and Skill
The poem contrasts two fishermen, one in the bow and one in the stern, noting how bass bite for the other despite equal effort. The speaker questions luck, talent, and whether appearance or technique affects success, pondering why rivals outperform him at times.
Additinal Chaseed Vows
The Rev William F Logan missionary to Formosa will speak Sunday evening at Cedar Baptist Temple Cedar Rapids. Logan a Ot tumwa native and Fort Worth seminary graduate, leads missionaries with a 500 member Taipei church and two gospel radio stations. Cedar Temple marked its first anniversary with a dedication on the site of its new church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William F. Logan
Formosa
Cedar Baptist Temple
Cedar Rapids
Mr. Logan
Ottumwa
Bible Baptist Seminary
Fort Worth
Texas
Fred Donnelson
The
Baptist Bible Fellowship
Logans
Shanghai
Taipei
Missionary to Relate Africa Experiences in Cedar Rapids
Miss Ann Yoder, missionary to the Gold Coast, will speak and show pictures at Calvary Baptist Church in Cedar Rapids on Sunday. She has returned home from her second term for medical care under Baptist Mid Missions and plans to resume when fit. A native of northeast of Waterloo, she attended Northwestern schools in Minneapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Yoder
Gold Coast
Africa
Calvary ‘Baptist Church
Cedar Rapids
Yoder
Baptist Mid Missions
Waterloo
Northwestern
Minneapolis
Presbyterians May Ordain Women Soon
A constitutional amendment to ordain women as ministers will be presented at the Presbyterian Church (USA) general assembly May 19 to 25 in Los Angeles. The proposal, led by Dr. C. Vin White, argues there is no theological ground to deny ordination to women. If approved locally, it must pass a majority of 256 presbyteries and the following assembly. prior attempts failed in 1946.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA
Los Angeles
General Assembly
C. Vin White
Coe College
General Council
Alertness of Employee Prevents Hospital Fire
A Mercy hospital employee credited by firemen with preventing a serious hospital fire Friday evening after a short in an elevator controller sparked a fire in the east wing basement control room at 7:35 p.m. The employee pulled switches to cut power and used a extinguisher, limiting damage to the control unit and ceiling. Firemen from multiple companies responded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercy Hospital
Bernard Grabek
Scotch Grove Woman Escapes Serious Injury
Mrs. Robert Paul of Scotch Grove Iowa narrowly escaped serious injury when her car was struck by a North Western railway switch engine at the Fourth Street and Second Avenue SE crossing around 1 p.m. Friday. The car was demolished but Mrs. Paul sustained only a knee scratch after the crossing flagman Royal Thomas said she disregarded his stop signal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Paul
Scotch Grove
North Western Railway
Fourth ‘Street
Second Avenue SE
Paul
Royal Thomas
Ossian Pastor To Celebrate Sixty Years
Ossian The Rt Rev Msgr IM J Thiltgen pastor of St Francis de Sales church marks sixty years since his ordination on July 14 1895 with a diamond jubilee high mass at 10 30 am presided by Archbishop Rohiman of Dubuque. A noon dinner follows and a parish program in the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ossian
IM. J. Thiltgen
St. Francis de Sales
Msgr
Thiltgen
Henry P. Rohiman
Dubuque
St. Francis Church
Peter C. Bodensteiner
Cedar Rapids
John W. Hemesath
North Buena V Vista
Gregory F. Hemesath
LaPorte City
Acolytes
Richard Bohr
Gilbertville
Thurifer
Josephw. Bohr
Stacyville
Raymond P. Etteldorf
Bart Carey
Gregory Einck
William H. Schulter
Iltgen
Francis L. Schuh
LeMars
St. Francis Seminary
Milwaukee
Grand Seminary
Montreal
Hennessy
Dominican University
Rome
Loras College
Sherrill
Ossian Church
Church bulletin hints at liquor program with treats
In Santa Monica California an AP report notes a church bulletin announced a Sunday night meeting to discuss the liquor problem with drinks and cookies served. The odd line prompted readers to take note of the event and its informal hospitality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Monica
Calif
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Seattle
Charlotte A. Crist
Sixth Avenue
H. L. Miller
F. E. Flannery
Omer E. Elam
Secondstreet
A & L Grocery
Joe P
Virginia Mary Dunlevy
Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company
Ernest R
Faye Goodwin
Twenty-seconds Avenue
Mahaska Hospital
Oskaloosa
Marion J
Luella Gregg
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Sseve
Jococdssa
Cscocsecsees
Municipal
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Mississippi
LaCrosse
Lansing
Dam No
McGregor
Davenport
Schuetz Motors, Inc
Raymond Koob
Ted Ruffin
Richard Minor
Fifth Street NW
Spiegel, Inc
M. E. Knake
Myron Hulbert
Eighteenth Avenue SW
Ralph L. Edwards
Northwood Dairy
Harold Franks
Fortyfourth Street
George Monaghan
Bindler’s Dairy
Edwart Smiley
Spiegel’s, Inc
A. F. Harrington
Harry C. Hoover, Jr
Thirty-seventh Avenue
W. W. Southwick
Marshalltown
Joe B
Irene Mee
W. G. Goodale
Calvin O
Mabel Martin
Alburnett
Western Auto Supply Company
Wilford T
Ethel Price
Forty-fourth Street
William Frank Sanders
C. R. Aschoff
Alfred Scott
Sixth Street
Hubbard Ice and Fuel Company
Benjamin F
Imogene) Sw
Arthur V. Hatter
Dale K.frederickson
J. P. Merrett
Walter W. Haugen
Jamestown Hospital
J. C. Rockery
Walter Buckler
Miller and
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Killian Company
James Jarras
Commercial Credit Corporation
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Edwin J. Vavra
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Lawrence Owens
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Hrabak
National Cemetery
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Marengo
Serones
Herman Wake
Fort Benning
Harrison Funeral Home
C.F
Anamosa
L. l. Russell
McNamara Funeral
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Greeley
Mary Miller
St. Joseph’s Church
Church Cemetery
Traer
Fred Drakes
States Funeral Home
Buckingham Cemetery
John B. Turner & Son
Csps
Woodcraft Club
Fred Melichar
Toddville
Allis-Chalmers
Mother’s Day
Pierson’s
John A. Urbanek
Marion Man
C.R. Man
Murdoch
Walker
Mrs. Irvin Blunk
Simanek Services
Fred Nelson
Ehrenberger, Novak
Kenneth McGee
C.R
Don Hines
Cedar Rapids Airport
Ozark Airline
Salk
Edgar A. Guest
the Poet of
the People
Hoa
Lavina Ross Fowler
Nehemiah
James
Alphaeus
Philip
Ewe Lamb
Nathan
David
Dr. Logan
Presbyterians
New
de Var
John E. Lapes
3Rd Ave
Mt. Vernon Ave
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