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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1936
Page
7
Osceola editor John Grimes assailed Senator George Wilson’s record in Des Moines, claiming he would not have voted with Wilson on eight issues from taxes to utilities. Wilson replied with a five point reform program for Iowa promising economy, tax relief, integrity, decentralization, and farm support.
Iowa City AP reports more than 1,000 top students from 270 Iowa high schools will gather for the University of Iowa brain derby next Monday. 1,062 qualifiers from 54,000 tested will face two hour exams in seventeen subjects including English, government, Latin, algebra, geometry, literature, science, biology, physics, world and American history.
Ruth Blaurchard of Albion Richard Everett of Cedar Rapids and Merle Miller of Marshilltown won J Hamilton Johnson memorial prizes for best university news stories from the last school year. Prizes of 25 15 and 10 dollars were donated to honor J Hamilton Johnson.
The University of Iowa camera club announced two statewide photography contests open to all Iowa residents and to high school students. Both classes focus on Iowa scenes with prize awards and exhibitions planned for the twenty best pictures across the state.
Alumni from the Philippines plan to travel to Iowa City to attend the University of Iowa medical class reunion. Bruce E Mahan, alumni secretary, reports that attendees from the Philippines and Panama Canal Zone will join the fifty-year class gathering during the university’s seventy sixth commencement week.
George F Wescott aged 68 and Mary F Rhodes aged 78 of Harper's Ferry were wed today. Both previously received old age pensions, marking their fourth marriages, according to friends.
Iowa motor vehicle officials reported a 16 percent drop in highway deaths for January through April 1936 versus 1935. April fatalities reached 38 with 713 injuries that month, while total accidents rose slightly as reports increase from heightened police investigations.
A Davenport couple Verna Scammon and Mrs Zerk Peet were found dead in a car, with authorities investigating the circumstances and noting the ages of the deceased. The report mentions other related individuals and an ongoing autopsy to determine the cause.
The North Liberty band met at the school hall Tuesday under director Clifford Berkley and elected officers. Jesse Musgrave was president, Arleen Saxton vice president, I. B. Meyers Jr. secretary and treasurer, with Berkley naming members for the music committee.
In Belle Plaine the wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Joseph Model was celebrated Friday at Netuecx2i hall with sixty relatives and friends. An evening of dancing followed a reception with two of their children honored. The couple’s long marriage began in 1875 and 1265. Local attendees included family members and neighbors from the Belle Plaine area.
Tama County rural graduates will hold commencement June 2 at 2 p.m. with a 9 a.m. choir rehearsal. The honor roll lists numerous students across townships Buckingham Victor, Columbia, Richmond, Spring Creek and others, led by Violet Hildeman and Harold Kienzle among many.
Kolene Fetzer played opposite Clair Rhinehart in the senior class play Tiger House presented to a large audience Friday evening. Nineteen seniors will receive diplomas Thursday evening at the American Legion hall with Prof. W. R. Livingston of the University of Iowa delivering the commencement address.
George Lorenz and a list of residents including St. Joseph's Chel sea Anna Baresh Rita Mae Boyer Kathleen Mercer Evelyn NovotnyRichard Tesar Vin ing Independent Lillian Bar tosh Milton Hruby Valeria Ne kola Alfred Papez and Caroline Sokol appear in a community roster.
University of Iowa will air nine commencement events on campus radio from Thursday through Monday. Key programs include the Thursday band concert and party, Friday concerts and events, Sunday baccalaureate exercises, and the Monday 8 15 a.m. ceremony with a 6 p.m. supper and 8 30 p.m. band concert.
Glendale California AP reports Bur Tom Fleming, 55, chief engineer for the U S Soil Conservation Service covering Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico, died Tuesday at a local hospital. He previously led the University of Iowa mechanical engineering department for several years.
Six Iowa Democratic congressmen urged President Roosevelt to include a farm tenancy and ownership plank in the party platform. They cited Bankhead Jones and Frazier Lemke bills as framework for legislation to help tenants become farm owners and noted the need to address tenancy before the Cleveland convention. Also, Tri-T sisters meet with re elected officers and plan a Mount Pleasant children's camp opening June 17.
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