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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1949
Page
1
Des Moines AP state safety department projects up to 10 highway deaths over Memorial day weekend, based on last year’s toll of eight killed and 195 injured in 369 crashes. Director Frank Ulish says outcomes depend on drivers patience and caution. highway patrol will be on duty through Monday.
Iowa City Chauncey Schmidt earned an Annapolis midshipman appointment after passing entrance exams and will graduate City High on June 9. West Union Lutheran church officials attend state district convention in Waverly May 30 to June 3. Decorah contributions to the crippled children's fund total $1,195 for Winneshiek County. Iowa City Drake 50-year club member Mrs. John T. McClintock to receive recognition at commencement. degree earned in 1898. Earlville engagement announced for Laura Mae Stelken to Omer Carton Jr. Clarence hosts mother-daughter banquet. apron strings theme with 200 expected. Oxford Junction Glenace Guyer chosen to represent American Legion Auxiliary at Hawkeye Girls State. Toledo two Tama County men charged with drunk driving. Ed Prusha held on $1,000 bond. Marvin Engel posts $500. Toledo father-son banquet at Methodist church with Rev H A Kindred speaker. Wyoming Mayor and Mrs Henry Gerdes sell home to S G Hutton of Onslow. possession Nov. 1. Victor seven St John’s seniors to graduate Sunday. Vacation Bible Schools at First Methodist Baptist and St James Lutheran. Earlville E T McDonald Illinois Central agent retires after 52 years, previously at Independence and Farley.
Des Moines governor Beardsley appointed J. H. Ames city manager of Ames and G. W. Hunt of Guttenberg to the municipal code study committee created by the last legislature. The panel, with a $15,000 appropriation, will study laws on construction and financing of municipal public improvements and report to the next general assembly.
A district court jury in Council Bluffs awarded widow Dorothy Peterson $50 706 after she sued the Grosse Transfer Company and Mayor C L Wilson over a fatal August 24 1947 automobile crash that claimed her husband Max Peterson. The verdict follows a case arising from the truck tractor and Wilsons car collision six miles southeast of Council Bluffs.
Twenty one seniors were graduated from the Maynard school Friday night. Dr Ellen Hartnett field representative of the Iowa State Education Association delivered the address. De lores Miller was valedictorian and Chuck Samuelson received the citizenship award.
Miss Peggy Green of Corvallis Oregon has won the Miss College Freshman title and a 200 prize in a 20th Century Fox film contest representing Oregon State College. She earns a Hollywood trip for a screen test and a week of entertainment with movie stars. Green is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Merle C Green and was formerly Lillian Shoop of Anamosa, Iowa where she taught history and mathematics.
A search by about 50 police officers for two Black suspects who eluded capture for more than 24 hours was abandoned on Wednesday. The men beat a Des Moines officer during a break in at an auto company building, prompting a wide area hunt from Des Moines to Buckeye and Iowa Falls before being called off. Sgt. Millard Thomas, injured in the initial clash, recovered quickly.
Ralph Salisbury of Arlington a University of Iowa English junior won the $50 Octave Thanet short story prize for "Hilltop" written in Paul Griffiths workshop. The Iowa chapter of the Colonial Dames of America sponsors the contest.
Dr. Samuel S. George longtime Dubuque University dean resigns to become president of Jamestown College in North Dakota. He joined the university in 1935 as assistant to the president and later led the College of Liberal Arts. He also served as pastor at Rock Island and acted as dean of the theological seminary. He holds a Doctor of Sacred Theology from Temple University.
Arrangements are complete for a Saturday festival and street dance in Central City to raise funds for new high school band uniforms. The Odd Fellows lodge sponsors the event with other organizations helping. The program features two band concerts an auction sale and the street dance. A chicken and noodle supper starts at 5 30.
Three Philippine Junior Chamber delegates Joaquin V. Gonzalez Lauro G. Marquez and Eugenio J. Puyat arrive in Cedar Rapids for a goodwill tour. They will lunch with the YMB at Roosevelt Hotel then tour the Quaker Oats plant. Reservations by 5 p.m. Thursday. Veterans of World War II invited. The trio will meet Jaycees in Marshalltown Des Moines Ames Boone Fort Dodge Sioux City and Council Bluffs during their swing.
Members of the American Legion Auxiliary Hanford post will place about 700 small flags on graves of veterans from World Wars I and II as part of Memorial Day activities. Memorial chair Mrs. H. E. Travis named the directing members for six local cemeteries including Linwood Oak Hill Cedar Memorial Bohemian National and St. John's. Records show 36 veterans buried at Cedar Memorial last year and 46 service men buried across Cedar Rapids cemeteries including Cedar Memorial.
Former navy men are invited to join the reserve unit in the Memorial Day parade in Cedar Rapids. Lt A Paulson announced the call for former officers and enlisted men to report in uniform at the naval reserve training center on Municipal Island at 9 am Monday. Parade begins at 9 45.
In Buck Hill Falls Pennsylvania delegates from the United Presbyterian and Reformed church in America approve unification talks. The plan to form a single body of about 425000 members will be placed before their presbyteries after Tuesday meetings. The United Presbyterian assembly approved the move 241 to 9.
The Reformed group favored union by 147 to 6 and a three fourths favorable vote of presbyteries is required for final approval. United holds 51 presbyteries while Reformed has 47. Voting is expected to begin early next year.
Washington AP reports Drake University will award an honorary doctor of laws to Senator Guy Gillette of Iowa on Memorial Day and name Ardell Stelk of Correctionville as the outstanding graduate of the class of 1948. Stelk, a former GI and Capitol policeman under Gillette, attends night classes at George Washington University while studying law.
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