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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1951
Page
2
The Office of Price Stabilization eased retail and wholesale ceilings on manufactured goods to align with changes in manufacturers ceilings. It allows upward or downward recalculation of ceilings by wholesalers or retailers and runs until July 2, not a full lifting of the general freeze, with food prices excluded from the change.
Seven members of a Vinton area telephone association are sued in Cedar Rapids federal court for 35000 after a low hanging line struck Glenn Johnson from a tractor on a July 4 1949 accident scene. Johnson seeks damages for tractor loss wages medical costs and pain.
Iowa Electric Light and Power officials blamed high winds for a Sunday afternoon outage in east Cedar Rapids. A tree branch fell into wires about a half mile east of the Twenty-ninth Street SE substation, burning out lines and causing outages for homes east of Nineteenth Street for 23 to 50 minutes. Wires burned at the branch site and at the Bever Park and Mt. Vernon Road substations.
The Defense Department released a casualty list naming 160 more American service members in Korea. The 314th list shows 31 dead 70 wounded and 39 missing.
Mrs. Lorinda Bailey, age 105, of Marion, was scheduled to receive an honorary doctor of home economics degree from John Brown University in Siloam Springs Arkansas, in absentia due to being homebound. She is noted as a mother of 12 children and aunt to Dr. John E. Brown, university board chair.
Sun day afternoon at 694 Seventh Avenue hosted a one gift shower for Mrs Donald Strachen formerly Shirley Jackson. Twelve classmates attended the courtesy at the Richmann residence.
Mrs Elmer Kurt of 1020 Fourteenth Street has returned home after treatment for arthritis at Anamosa Hospital.
Edwin C Turnquist dies suddenly at home in Delmar Junction early Sunday. Former Maquoketa restaurant operator and Delmar Junction locker plant manager, he was married to Erna Palmer of Marion. Services set for 2 p.m. Tuesday at Carson funeral home.
The public library will be closed all day Wednesday for Memorial Day.
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Wieneke returned from a trip visiting relatives in Crawfordsville and Riverside Iowa. They attended Riverside high school graduation exercises where their niece Betty Fisher was among the graduates.
Wilbur Cooper Reuben A Armstrong Clark Bartlett and Wilbert Hughes traveled to Milwaukee Friday to attend the Milwaukee Railroad Women's clubs of lines East convention. Charles Wescott L R Lange and O R Ness were in Milwaukee Saturday to attend the meeting and luncheon.
Leo Kelso of route 3 Marion died Friday in a Cedar Rapids hospital. Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Yocom Murdoch chapel led by Rev. James P. Gable. Burial is planned at Troy Mills cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel. Vacation Bible School details follow with department superintendents and staff listed across local churches.
Charles Kurt will graduate Sunday from Loras College in Dubuque. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Kurt. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hogan and their children Keith and Vivana, Ray Long Jr. of Marion, and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Dragoo of Anamosa have gone to Pocahontas to visit Mr. Hogan's relatives.
Mrs George Clatterbuck has returned from Central City where she helped care for her granddaughter Linda Brewer a 3 year old who has been ill Linda is the daughter of the Kenneth Brewers.
Mr. and Mrs. E R McConaughy and their son Ronnie spent the weekend at Clarion with their son Lyle McConaughy and his family.
A collection of social updates records returning patients from Cedar Rapids hospital after a tonsillectomy. Visits include Mr. and Mrs. Walter Morgan at Center Point and relatives gathering at Newhall for the Schueler family reunion. Also noted are convalescence at St Luke's and upcoming Decoration Day closing. Roy Patterson of Pasadena plans a Marion visit.
Mr. and Mrs. William Walker and their sons Gary and Steven joined Mr. and Mrs. Sam Walker and their son Jerry for a Sunday visit with Sam Walker, sr., at Morning Sun.
Notice from Linn County Iowa announces the appointment of M rs. Luey P L Swope and Leo J Simons as joint executors of the estate of Fitzsimmons late of Linn County Iowa deceased. All debts and claims must be presented duly authenticated to the district court of Linn County Iowa and acted upon by the undersigned attorney M W O Rieley.
The second annual Midwest Championship Rodeo run June 7 to 10 at Hawkeye Downs will place bucking chutes near the center grandstand for optimal view. Rimmed by a heavy mesh fence, the arena fronts the stands as broncs and Brahma bulls burst from the chutes toward spectators. Free children’s tickets for opening night go out Tuesday from the All-Iowa Fair office and downtown stores, with advance HQ at the covered wagon on Second Street SE and by mail or phone through the All-Iowa Fair office.
Miss Rose Ann Donahue daughter of Mr and Mrs James Donahue of East Dubuque received the Mercy school of nursing $25 senior award at the annual convocation Sunday evening. The honor goes to the senior nurse with the top scholastic and clinical record in the three year program. She also served as Sodality prefect and was May queen at the crownings and candlelighting exercises marking commencement.
New York AP reports polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth aged 71 died Saturday night. He pioneered aerial surveys of the Arctic and Antarctic regions and was a renowned figure in polar exploration.
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