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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1936
Page
4
The Iowa Board of Education announced the resignation of O L McIntire superintendent of the State School for the Deaf at Council Bluffs. Lloyd Berg named as his successor and will earn 2880 dollars annually.
The state highway commission invites bids on twenty four projects with a May 26 closing. Notable items include 6.8 miles of grading for roadside improvement on Highway 161 from Cedar Rapids to the Linn county line in Linn County and grading from the Linn county line to Iowa City in Johnson County.
Wheatland and St Pauls Reformed Church plan a May 20 to 25 observance for the 75th anniversary. Ursinus Classis and two groups will host speakers including Rev L A Moser and Rev A C Fischer, with a Saturday banquet and a Sunday 10:30 service. Various ministers and professors from Wisconsin and Illinois will attend. Refreshment committees are named for each day by the Ladies Aid Society.
Keota Thelma Dunbar and Bob Rogers lead the senior class in Big Ideas a play to be performed in the high school auditorium on Monday and Tuesday nights Sara Marie Huber and Raymond Greiner play Pa and Ma Bailey among the cast directed by Kate B Glover with seniors Neva Hart George Dupuis Velda Kirkpatrick Rosalin Smith James Menefee Burl Stoutner Richard Fosdick Elizabeth Erdice Gladys Leedom Genevieve Stoutner Betty McDonald James Mills and William Romine in supporting roles.
Mount Vernon’s Robert Rowley and Westfield’s Earl Edwards will lead The Cornellian next year with Rowley as editor and Edwards as business manager. Rowley, a junior English major, has served as reporter editorial writer and editorial assistant for three years and works with the college publicity office and The Royal Purple. Edwards, a sophomore economics major, has played on the freshman and varsity football teams and wrestled in the past two years and is active in dramatics.
Senator L J Dickinson paused his Iowa re election bid to check on tax and relief measures in Congress. He returned to Washington Friday night for a two to three day stay and planned to study Senate committee progress Saturday and Sunday with a possible speech before returning to Iowa.
Iowa college and high school physics teachers will gather in Iowa City June 11 to 13 for a conference announced by Prof. George W. Stewart head of the University of Iowa physics department. Professors Claude J. Lapp John A. Eldridge E P T Tyndall and Alexander Ellett will preside at round table discussions.
About 170 eighth grade pupils from Fayette county rural schools will receive diplomas from County Supt. L. G. Meyer during the West Union play day at the fairground on May 23. R. D. Graham directs the softball tournament with teams from Alpha Hawkeye Randalia Maynard Oelwein Clermont Waucoma West Union and Stanley plus younger kids races. West Union coach Owen Olson schedules track events for grade boys and girls while Randalia Supt. M. R. Clark runs high school events. Frank Piersol of Stanley leads the massed band concert to open the afternoon.
Brooklyn seniors present a three act comedy Growing Pains on May 25 and 26. Juvenile leads Arlene Cochran and Harold Keeney, parental roles by Jane Korns and Dean Armstrong, with a large cast of students and a student orchestra under Leo Schuler.
W. J. Edgar, superintendent of Alpha schools, was elected president of the Fayette County Schoolmasters club at the final meeting in West Union. E. M. Finch of Waucoma was chosen vice president, and L. G. Meyer was reelected secretary and treasurer. Forty-two superintendents and teachers attend, with reports from athletic conference and play day committees.
Iowa City plans reveal a Tent City for the summer colony at the University of Iowa. More than 75 families of summer session students will live in university furnished tents. The camp opens after the first week of June and is governed by its own mayor and council with facilities for children.
Elaine Markham and Robert Moore, Urbana high seniors, top scholastic rating and received American Legion awards from Floyd McCoy at graduation. Markham also earned a gold letter for most extracurricular points. Abbie Willford won a medal for perfect attendance.
Ed Newell of Columbus Junction will speak at the Strand theater for Memorial Day services. A committee of the American Legion auxiliary will oversee the program.
Mr and Mrs D B Smith celebrated their fifty ninth wedding anniversary Thursday. They have lived in the community their entire married life. Mrs Smith was born northwest of Bennett and raised by her grandmother after becoming an orphan at age 3. Mr Smith was born in New York and moved to Iowa as a young man. The couple have eleven children, seven living: Mae Wright of Waterloo. Ford Smith of Winfield. Orvel Smith of Lone Tree. C E Barrett. Clark Mowry. Ed Mowry. and Jay Smith, all of Bennett.
Iowa City Mayor Thomas E. Martin testified that municipal ownership was the sole issue in the election and said Iowa City would proceed with its public power program even if the $413,000 PWA grant were blocked. He noted supporters won and opponents were defeated.
Nine University of Iowa freshman engineering students qualified for a national contest by the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. Their drawings will be entered at Madison Wisconsin and judged June 22 to 26. Named entrants include Robert Box Belle Plaine Howard Hasch Davenport Franklin Eddy Marengo John Howard Cedar Rapids Hubert Frus Iowa City John Anderson Cedar Rapids Verne Anthony Iowa City Norman Kopp Buffalo Center Oscar Hoff Chicago and John Speidel Washington.
ELEADER AP reports eight people jailed in the Dan Shine murder case. Sheriff Palas says statements from six murder defendants indicate Albert Hines and Morris Hines were present at the slaying of 60 year old Dan Shine of Littleport. The six defendants include Mrs Shine Maynard Lenox Jim Howard Minnie Hines and Albert Cornwell who is married to Minnie Hines daughter. All pled innocent.
Blairstown high school graduates adopt Quality Not Quantity as the bac calaureate theme. Rev. E R McClelland will deliver the sermon at 8 p.m. Sunday in the Methodist church. The class roster lists Bruce Mannen Frank J Hartin William E Hartin Carl K Kantor Kent C Kimm Cleava Snodgrass William A Veenstra Alfred G Voss.
Herbert Kruckenberg elected president with Edwin Werndt as vice president Dorothy Wiebel secretary and Ezra Kruckenberg treasurer. Executive board includes Arnan Meier Wilma Licht and Herbert Wiebel. Nationwide Fellowship Evening planned for May 23 with social in Trinity hall. New members Luetta Stolte and Raymond Meier welcomed. Alberta Schroeder led the discussion.
Mrs. Cora Dennington Mercer, 75, longtime Anamosa resident, died at her home Saturday morning. She was predeceased by her marriage name. Survived by husband and son Robert of California, three sisters Mrs W J Wallace Cedar Rapids, Mrs W P Chisman Indianola, and Mrs O E Clemens Marion. Funeral arrangements to be announced.
Wapello announces an alumni banquet Friday evening May 22 to be held in the high school dining room. A mock radio program is on the schedule as part of the event.
West Branch resident Mrs J T Vincent reports several poems accepted for publication in Flame on the Hills an Iowa poets anthology compiled by Mrs Lewis Worthington Smith Des Moines and due print by early fall.
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