May Weather Notes and Local Birth Announcements
Partly cloudy Sunday with warmer conditions in the west. City forecast shows 56 to 74 degrees, fair and cool Sunday and sunshine Monday. Also listed are numerous birth notices across Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas, including several May 27 to May 28 births and names of families like Herring, Great, Leonard, Woods, and Tilton, with addresses in NW SE and drive SE.
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Turday Hishie
Angeles
York
Iowa
Herring
Curtis
Tenth Street
Great
Forrest
Hiawatha
Leonard
Alfred
Seventh Avenue
Woods
Leo
Vernon
Memorial Services Tuesday for Odd Fellows Rebekahs
Annual memorial services of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Rebekahs and affiliated groups will be held Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Maine lodge hall. Thomas Stimpson of Anamosa, deputy grand master, will speak. invocation and benediction by James Woodside. Bernice Andrews will sing. Star of Maine lodge conducts the Rebekah ceremony. Mrs. Charles Bonham in charge. All Odd Fellows and friends invited.
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Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Rebekahs
Maine Lodge
First Avenue
Thomas Stimpson
Anamosa
James Woodside
Bernice Andrews
Prada Rebekah Lodge
Star of Maine Lodge
Rebekah
Charles Bonham
Charles Bachman
Slippers as Silencers in West Germany Flats
In Düsseldorf a new block’s management asks tenants to wear slippers after 10 p.m. to reduce noise from insufficient sound proofing. The measure targets late-night disturbances and aims to calm neighbor complaints.
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Duesseldorf
INS
West Germany
Iowa Deaths: Funeral Services This Week In Several Towns
Listings show services for Mrs Henry Whitford 86 at Whitford Methodist church with body at Gill funeral home Strawberry Point. Marshall Dean Cook 34 to be buried Center Point Cemetery after 3 p.m. service at First Christian church. Mrs Donald Lenz 44 to be buried in church cemetery with services in Solon and Rosary at 8 p.m. Vinton hosts Earl Kizer 66 with burial at Evergreen cemetery and body at Fry Holland. Mrs Edward Easton 66 to be buried Strawberry Point cemetery after 1:30 p.m. service at Gill chapel.
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Volga
Henry
Whitford
Gill Funeral Home
Strawberry Point
Center Point
Marshall Dean Cook
First Christian Church
Satchett-Murdoch Funeral Home
Mt. Vernon
Donald Lenz
Brosh Funeral Home
Solon
St. Mary’s Church
Church Cemetery
Vinton
Earl Kizer
The
Christian Church
Eversgreen
Fry- Holland Funeral Home
Edward Easton
Gill
Courthouse Pleads Innocent and Suspected Drunk Driver Sentenced
John H. Scholl aged 32 of Maquoketa pled innocent Saturday to a drunk driving charge after an arrest in Marion. Beryl E. McConnell 40 of Masonville pled guilty and was fined 300 dollars with 100 down and 50 monthly payments. his car rear ended another on highway 13 north of Marion. The Linn county courthouse to observe summer hours closing at 4 30 p m June through August while remaining open 8 a m to noon Saturdays.
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John H. Scholl
Maquoketa
Marion
Beryl E. McConnell
Masonville
Charles Penningroth
McConnell
Highway 13
Highway Patrol
Robert Murray
He Linn County
Board of Supervisors
Seed Man Posts Bond in False Pretense Charge
A Cedar Rapids seed dealer, D. H. Gardner of Tri States Seed Company, posted a $1000 bond after arraignment in Vinton on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. Gardner allegedly sold soybean seed to about 20 Benton county farmers with misrepresented Iowa certification and profits split with the company.
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Cedar Rapids
Vinton
Benton County
D. H. Gardner
Tri-States Seed Company
Justice of the Peace
Fred Rose
Illinois
Chicago
Iowa
Keith Mossman
Clare Luce Denies Replacing Oveta Hobby
Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce flew from Rome to New York and denied she will succeed Welfare Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby. She plans to report to President Eisenhower in Washington as ambassador to Italy after a Ridgefield Connecticut stay, with husband Henry Luce. She expects to stay until July 10, stating a summer visit.
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New York
INS
Clare Boothe Luce
Rome
Oveta Culp Hobby
Eisenhower
Washington
U. S
Italy
Ridgefield
Hobby
Italian School Teachers Strike Shuts Schools Across Rome
In Rome and across Italy 91,600 teachers walked out halting classes in about 4,000 secondary schools. The strike aimed at higher pay and spared 1,000 pupils from final exams. Officials warned the walkout could last five days or more.
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Rome
Conductor and Brakemen Strike History Behind 1949 Wages Case
Four Cedar Rapids men shaped the historic dispute as the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen moved through mediation to a final national agreement. The 1949 wage case under the Railway Labor Act fueled meetings, emergency boards, and a last night make-or-break conference ending with a 1:30 a.m. signing.
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White House
ORCB
Eisenhower
Chicago
Perges
R. O. Hughes
The
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Cedar Rapids
Hughes
J. A. Paddock
V. C. Shuttleworth
Harry Wilmarth
Riddleberger Engages Khrushchev at Belgrade Dinner
U S Ambassador James W. Riddleberger sits beside Khrushchev during a Belgrade reception as Tito hosts Soviet leaders. A communique says progress. Riddleberger’s father praises his son’s candid career.
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Khrushchev
Riddleberger
Russia
Communist Party
Tito
Nikolai Bulganin l
Anastas Mikoyan
Brioni
Ljubljana
Zagreb
Belgrade
Cut in Holiday Toll Is Probable
CHICAGO United Press reports a Memorial Day weekend toll of 124 so far with 93 traffic deaths 25 drownings and six misc fatalities. National Safety Council president Ned Dearborn says the toll may drop sharply and could total 300 or less if the rate holds, the smallest since 1949.
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Chicago
United Press
National Safety Council
Ned. H. Dearborn
Virginia Senator's Kin Traced to Bavarian Roots
The passage notes the subject and his forebears who migrated from Bavaria to southwest Virginia in the early 1700s and rose in state history. It identifies his grandfather Harry H. Riddleberger as U.S. senator from Virginia from 1883 to 1889 and author of Virginia's debt settlement bill.
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Woodstock
Bavaria
Virginia
Harry H. Riddleberger
U.S
Motorist Held On Two Charges
Harold Wilson of 1235 Lake Avenue NE was held on charges of reckless driving and driving without a license after a two car collision and a tree impact on G Avenue NW and Second Street. Police later charged owner Ersel Low with permitting an unauthorized person to drive.
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Harold Wilson
Lake Avenue NE
Wilson
G Avenue NW
Second Street
Second Street NW
Ersel £. Low
Low
Accion
Deaths Mary Churchill Rogers and H. Wallace Robinson
Services for Mary Churchill Rogers widow of Aleck Rogers and Cedar Rapids resident for 26 years will be held Tuesday at 10 30 a m in Turner chapel led by Rev Frank Ward Burial will follow in Shiloh cemetery Friends may call at the chapel Mrs Rogers died Friday Also services for H Wallace Robinson 618 Thirteenth Street NW will be Tuesday at 1 30 p m in Turner chapel Burial will be Cedar Memorial cemetery Friends may call at the chapel A retired Witwer Grocer Company salesman and lifelong Cedar Rapids resident he died Saturday
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Mary Churchill Rogers
Aleck Rogers
Cedar Rapids
Turner Chapel
Frank Ward
Shiloh
H. Wallace Robinson
Thirteenth Street NW
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Witwer Grocer Company
Bert I. McDowell
Johnson Avenue
Janeba
Franklin T. Jones
Christ Church United Presbyterian
Marion Services
Rex Marion
Fourteenth Street
Iowa Manufacturing Company
T. A. Youngquist
First Lutheran Church
Wapello
Services for Vratislav Horacek Held Sunday
Funeral rites will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in Brush chapel for Vratislav Horacek of 501 Edgewood Road SW. Rev. Zdenek F. Pauk to officiate. Burial to follow at Czech National cemetery. Local 447 Painters member and Cedar Rapids resident died Friday at age 45. Friends may call at the chapel.
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Vratislav Horacek
Edgewood Road
Brush Chapel
Zdenek F. Pauk
Czech National Cemetery
Painters
Cedar Rapids
Mrs Mildred Clauson Dies. Cedar Rapids Resident
Mrs Bruce Clauson a lifelong Cedar Rapids resident died in a Cedar Rapids hospital at 12 10 p m Saturday She was born Oct 19 1905 in Cedar Rapids former Mildred Stauffer She was a member of First Church of Christ Scientist Cedar chapter 184 CES Gethsemane White Shrine No 1 and the Ladies Auxiliary Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen Surviving her husband are a son Robert and two brothers Charles W Stauffer of Chicago and Lynn Stauffer of Cedar Rapids Services will be held in Turner chapel at 3 30 p m Tuesday conducted by a reader of the First Church of Christ Scientist Cremation will follow after 1 p m Sunday
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Bruce Clauson
Bruce T. Clauson
Williams Boulevard
Cedar Rapids
Mildred Stauffer
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Cedar
CES
Gethsemane White Shrine
Brotherhood of Railway
Robert
Charles W. Stauffer
Chicago
Lynn Stauffer
Turner Chapel
Clear Sailing Predicted for Salk Polio Program
Washington predicts smooth progress for the Salk polio vaccine program with expected enough doses for all U.S. children. Officials anticipate a rapid stockpile by fall and two shots for every child through age 19 by January 1, aided by rising production and easing shortages.
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Salk
Washington
Ins
An. i
U. S
Rotary Briefs and Club Schedules Highlight Holiday Week
Rotary Club cancels this week due to the Memorial Day holiday. Jaycee councils plan a joint session Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Chamber of Commerce building. Exchange Club hosts I A Lowell on juvenile delinquency at noon in Montrose Hotel. Memorial Day affects Want Ads with a 9 30 a.m. cutoff. Jaycee Toastmasters dinner Tuesday at Nick's restaurant. Personnel Managers panel on wage and salary administration set for Wednesday noon at YMCA Krebs dining room. Krebs Dutch Girl ad appears. Tuesday Optimists note C Robert Jones, Iowa Junior Chamber president-elect.
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Optimist Club
Roosevelt Hotel
State of
Iowa
Jaycee
Chamber of Commerce
Exchange Club
I. A. Lowell
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Onerey
Montrose Hotes
Personnel Managers Committee
The
YMCA
C. Robert Jones
Iowa Junior Chamber of Commerce
Officers fall in Ocala siege with elderly couple
In Ocala Florida an elderly couple, Mr and Mrs B E Lindley aged in their 70s, killed three officers Deputy Sheriff Bob Wooten and Curtis Youngblood and Assistant Ocala Police Chief M O Tuck after a one hour gun battle in their barricaded three room house. Officers fired more than 1000 rounds and used tear gas. The clash began when neighbor Douglas Wingfield reported a keep out sign and an oil drum dispute.
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Ocala
Fla. Ee
B. E.lindley
Bob Wooten
Curtis Youngblood
M. O. Tuck
Lindleys
Wingfield
Parents of Boy Nobody Wanted Reunite With Boy Kenny Casey
Chicago police found Kenny Casey two year old boy abandoned by his mother Mrs Roberta Casey 25 who said she was destitute and unable to support him She planned to return for him police charged her with abandonment and endangering a minor The boy remained at St Vincent's orphanage as his father Kenneth Casey of Springfield Illinois sought custody Adoption offers flooded in but face uncertain future now that parents are located
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Washington
INS
U.S
James W. Riddleberger
Nikita Khrushchev
Belgrade
Woodstock
Frank B. Riddleberger
Jimmy
State Department
Foreign Service
Riddleberger
Khrushchev
Chicago
Roberta Casey
Kenny Casey
Kenny
Casey
North Side
Kenneth Casey
Springfield
St. Vincent’s Orphanage
Trade Unions Denounce Soviet Opposition To Bomb Control
The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions closed its world congress in Vienna with a denunciation of Soviet opposition to international control of atomic materials. The 75-nation group urged unity against communism, approved HQ move Brussels to Paris, and planned a $3300000 yearly levy for labor organizing in Asia Africa and Latin America. J H Oldenbroek reelected secretary general and Omer Becu president. George Meany and Walter Reuther named among seven vice presidents.
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Vienna
Austria
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
Confederation
Brussels
Paris
Asia
Africa
Latin America
J. H. Oldenbroek
Holland
Omer Becu
Belgium
George Meany
American Federation of Labor
Walter Reuther
CIO
Tail of a Comet Often Reaches 150 Million Miles
The article notes that a comet’s tail can extend about 150 million miles behind the nucleus. It explains this vast length as the tail formed by solar wind pushing dust and gas away from the comet as it travels through space.
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Daily Record
C. R. Weather
Tota
Municipal Airport
St. Luke's
Waverka
James] E
Thirty-fifth Street Drive
Tilton
Terold T
Gray
Carroll S
B Avenue NW
Sindelar
Albert A
Ninth Avenue SW
Lewis
Samuel B
Sturgeon
James F
Baumhoefener
John
First Avenue NW
Rasmussen
Verle R
327 Avenue NW
Carter
Mark S
George W. Convey, Jr
Carol R. Landon
Tacoma
Wash
James W. Read, Jr
Des Moines
Barbara Boyd
Warren J. Carney
Mr. Vernon
Betty M. Dostal
David L. LeLang
Elizabeth J. Kovar
Fairfax
Maurice P. Rugger
Madge V. Dye
Rock Island
Charles H. Halsey, Jr
West Hampton
N. Y
Lad
Lola Kurth
Arthur A. Kurth
Lyllis Clark
Robert Clark
C.F
Clare
Oveta
Jay W. Hesser
Jay W. Hesser, Jr
Barta
Hesser
Fifth Avenue and
Eighth Street
Dial
C. R. Men
Greece
Turkey
Father
Iowa Memorial
Third Avenue
Ter Eee
Rogers Services
Horacek Services
McDowell Services
Teahen Funeral Home
First Ave
N.W
Murdoch Funeral Homes
Walker
Novak Monument Co
Beatty- Bearle
League of Women Voters
Kiwanis Club
Frank Nye
Richard McIntyre
Richard Spencer
Robert Straka
Pierson
Ellis Blvd
Frank Byers, Jr
Hall Koontz
R. Vander Hamm
Jack Rector
Warren Bruene
Darold Dunn
David Ford
Gordon Larson
Gene Rennekamp
Jake Gorter
Gordon March
Henry Patton
John Peters
Weber's
1St Ave
Tom Barta
Iowa State College
Iowa State
Arnold Barta
Eighteenth Street
Cub Pack 26
van Buren School
Bob Mason
Benny Wells
Bernard Vokolek
Michael Moncar
Jimmy Norris
Billy King
Jimmy Green
David Sevenka
Dean Winteroud
Bob Wittengl
Jimmy Gorsh
Dennis Kolek
Steven Childs
Jimmy Olander
Douglas Steadman
Harlan Sailor
Gary Kimball
Max Hahn
Frank Carpenter
Clifford Harshman
Bob LeVan
Rotary Club
Leita
St. S.E. Dial
Jaycee Toastmasters
Jaycee Toastmasters Club
Nick
Ed Anderson
Don Azuanis
Bill Fletcher
Henry Haegg, Jr
Jack Hart
Lee Wilts
Krebs
Ave. S.E
Statler
Ainbow Ranites
Betz Monuments
Third Ave
Grant Wood
Turner Mortuary
Turner Service
John B. Turner & Sons
2Nd Ave
Wemben
John E. Lopes
3Rd Avenue
Mt. Vernon Ave
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