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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1955
Page
2
Forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy conditions with a high in the 80s and possible thundershowers in the northwest Sunday night and Monday. The issue lists civil judgments against several defendants totaling amounts around 42 to 52 dollars, plus multiple traffic and boilerplate city notices and scattered fire and alarm reports.
Judge Charles Benesh recommended a 30 day license suspension for Clayton Ohlhauser 29 of 1304 First Avenue NW after he pled guilty to reckless driving Police arrested him shortly after 3 am Saturday at Twelfth Avenue and Sixth Street SE He was fined 100 and costs and charged with drunkenness Vincent Moorman 314 Bayou NE was fined 25 and costs for drunkenness and the two allegedly threw beer cans from the car during pursuit
Ben G. Whittington filed a $20,000 suit in Cedar Rapids claiming George Buell caused the alienation of his wife Yvonne Whittington. The petition says Buell began calling her last fall and proposed marriage. Whittingtons married September 11, 1945 at Iowa City and have three children, living in Cedar Rapids for six years.
Billy Dean Ross 29 of 402 Fourth Street SW pled guilty to carrying a concealed weapon before Judge Floyd Philbrick. He received a suspended five year sentence at the Anamosa Reformatory and was released to the Iowa Board of Parole. Ross was arrested by Cedar Rapids police last week for carrying a concealed .22 caliber pistol.
Two suits filed Friday and Saturday involve H J Wes ling seeking to declare a $900 promissory note valid against Oscar and Eileen Bensch. Another suit by Robert E Moore and Callie Moore targets Mario Leoni doing business as Modern Refrigeration and Greg F Kennedy for $743.59 over a car collision injuries. Demon C Harvey seeks annulment of the April 19 1954 marriage to Betty Decker French alleging she was married to William French at the time of the ceremony.
Robert S Ash Saturday dismissed a damage suit filed against Walter Smith in the local court, ending the civil action without further proceedings.
The labor department reported a drop in unemployment benefits for the week ended April 30. Unemployment compensation fell by 74 700 to 1 399 600 with 45 states showing reductions, marking the second lowest weekly level since mid December 1953.
U S Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson disclosed on Saturday that he shed 17 pounds during the 11 day conference on the Austrian treaty.
Ten thousand Vietminh troops occupy Haiphong after French withdrawal and impose martial law. Air and telegraph links with the Free World are cut. A police hunt for collaborators spreads through the port as Gen Rene Cogny praises the retreat and Geneva terms. The Vietminh announce new taxes and currency exchange to stabilize the new government. locals express dismay at the change.
Government halts Salk vaccine pending safety checks after several polio cases in vaccinated children. Public health teams inspect Eli Lilly plant in Indianapolis while Parke-Davis vaccine release is coordinated with health groups. Senators push for compensation and investigation into untested vaccine batches as critics attack administration handling.
Dr Robert K Cutter and 629 employees at Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley Calif reveal strong trust in their polio vaccine. 465 children inoculated as lab’s product undergoes double testing after public withdrawal. Cutter defends team integrity and notes government and internal tests.
Senate Labor Chairman Lister Hill announced Mrs. Hobby will testify before the committee Monday at 2 p.m. The session will focus on problems connected with the poliomyelitis vaccine.
Three Tipton defendants were indicted for allowing mixed drinks on class B beer permit premises and for keeping liquor above 4 percent on site. The Tipton Golf and Country Club and the Moose Lodge face charges of mixing liquor with beer. Robert McClellan of Hi-Way Gardens Stanwood was charged with liquor over 4 percent on a class B permit. Judge Buell Maxwell set pleadings for next Saturday. McClellan bonded at $500, others no bond. Grand jury secret indictments followed last Saturday raids.
University of Wisconsin sociologist A. F. Wileder argues small town living offers country atmosphere with city conveniences. He notes the mass move to city fringes as non-farm US population rose 43 percent from 1940 to 1950 while big city growth was 19 percent and farm population fell 24 percent.
Pascoag Rhode Island report notes Na olean Labony 82 and Marie Marsille 76 recently began a second marriage honeymoon. Both were widowed previously and now share renewed happiness together.
Phillip Pauley 21 of 903 Eleventh Street NE remained in Mercy Hospital in good condition after a Friday night street fight in the 100 block of First Street NE left him with a possible concussion. Police arrested Robert Berends 22 of 1265 Twentieth Avenue SW for intoxication and he received a 30 day jail sentence.
Five Cedar Rapids residents were treated for minor injuries Friday afternoon after a two car crash at First Avenue and Thirteenth Street East. The Arenas family rode in a car driven by Jesse Arenas. John B. Cummings faced a failure to yield charge, pled not guilty, with a May 25 court date.
U Press reporter Gene Symonds, 29, Dayton Ohio, was savagely attacked by Communist rioters in Singapore while covering a bus strike. He died 15 hours later. U S officials voiced grief and pledged to pursue information with British authorities. Senate leaders condemned the act as a brutal assault on a foreign correspondent doing his duty.
Harvey J Sindahl Jr son of Mrs H J Sindahl and the late Mr Sindahl will be ordained to the ministry Tuesday evening at Sioux City during the Iowa Synod four day convention service. He recently graduated from Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary after four years study and is a Carthage College alumnus who attended Coe College. He has served as assistant pastor at St Johns Joliet and will join St Johns Wellington Kan July 1. He will preach his first sermon June 19 at Cedar Rapids First Lutheran. A reception is planned at the church parsonage.
Miss Ione Catton of Chicago secretary of program in missionary education of the Congregational Christian Churches will speak Saturday morning at First Congregational church in Cedar Rapids on To and from the Gospel. She is scheduled to address church organizations in the afternoon and evening. Catton is a missions council member and former research associate with the council for nine years.
The religious figure serves as secretary of the National Christian Council at Lourenco and has developed a Christian social center while contributing to bilingual Christian literature in Portuguese and a native dialect.
Our Savior's Lutheran will hold an Ascension Day service Thursday at 7 30 p m with the sermon Our Great High Priest Enters the Holy of Holies Trinity Lutheran plans a 7 45 p m service the sermon Our Brother Reigns is scheduled for the same day both houses invite worshipers to attend in Cedar Rapids Illinois
Mrs. Robert Armstrong of Cedar Rapids addressed the North Iowa Conference of the Women's Society of Christian Service in Sioux City. She spoke on her Far East visit where her daughter Esther serves as a Methodist missionary. About 700 women attended. Waterloo hosts in 1956.
City briefs list multiple items including court assignments at City Hall, deaths in Fargo and Morehead, club meetings, restaurant ads, traffic collision reports, and upcoming baccalaureate services for Cedar Rapids high schools with church venues and pastors named.
Wisconsin gardens face sun thaw and night freeze on young trees. UW landscape specialist George Ziegler says newly planted trees, especially smooth barked varieties, should have winter shade to prevent bark cracking and stunted growth. A simple board or cardboard wrap can protect trunks.
The Rev Ira E Gillet a former Colorado teacher and long time missionary in Africa will address St Pauls Methodist church in Cedar Rapids at 8 p m Sunday He has worked as a Methodist missionary in Mozambique since 1918 and served as pastor superintendent and principal in various stints across the region
The Pittsburgh Bureau of Smoke Prevention reports dramatic improvements in air quality. Since 1946 total smoke within city limits dropped 85.8 percent while heavy smoke fell 98.7 percent. Dust fall decreased from 60 to 47.6 tons per square mile, though ore dust from open hearth furnaces remains a problem.
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