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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1957
Page
2
The page lists highs and lows for multiple cities with precipitation, forecasts for Iowa and a November total, barometer and humidity readings, sun and moon times, and year-to-date normals. It also reports local incidents including rubbish burning, a light arcing wire, and several court notices and funeral services for residents across Vinton Brandon Marengo Calmar Walford.
A lengthy court record lists fines and bond forfeitures across numerous defendants in Des Moines and surrounding areas. offenses include speeding and reckless driving with various penalties, plus multiple civil judgments against individuals and businesses such as Mercy hospital and Kruckenberg firms.
James Hoffa won a postponement of his federal perjury trial until the U S Supreme Court rules on the admissibility of state obtained wire taps as evidence. Judge Frederick Bryan ordered the delay after learning prosecutors plan to use tapped records from Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan. A new trial date was set for November 19 with expectations of a high court decision by then.
President Ed Doherty of the American Association says he has called a special meeting of the class AAA league directors in Chicago Sunday. He will return to New York for another session with Commissioner Ford Frick Tuesday. Doherty added little was accomplished in New York as Frick and his group study realignment procedures.
Geneva Joyce, 33, discovers she is not the only wife of Dennis Joyce, also tied to Norma Joyce of North Hollywood since 1956 and Marie Joyce of New York since 1949. Joyce, 31, is jailed on suspicion of bigamy after investigations by Detective Sgt. Loui Beile.
President Eisenhower expressed hope that the curse of atomic explosions will pass from man’s knowledge and that only the good from nuclear power remain. He spoke at the dedication of the $13 million Atomic Energy Commission headquarters near Germantown, noting fire’s double use in human progress and destruction.
The Public Health Service reports about 45 million Americans under 40 have not been vaccinated against paralytic poliomyelitis, up eight million from earlier figures. About 34 million have received three polio shots, up from 28 million, with Surgeon General Burney noting more people have maximum protection but remaining concerns for those unprotected.
In Minturn Arkansas Rudy Jones received a letter from Dr. R A Bello of Milwaukee the former hitchhiker he aided twelve years ago. Bello thanked Jones for sending seven dollars to help him after a stolen wallet and enclosed ten dollars as repayment and gratitude.
Former Indiana Highway Chairman Virgil Smith and his attorney Robert Peak received two to four year sentences and heavy fines after being found guilty on November 2 of conspiring to embezzle 25 000 dollars from state funds. Bond set at 65 000 dollars each pending appeal. Smith faces additional bribery and grand larceny conspiracy charges.
New York city engineer Edward J. Clark links several water main breaks on Thursday night to blasting at nearby construction sites. He cites two breaks in the Times Square area and another between 73rd and 74th Streets and Broadway as possible factors delaying traffic amid a citywide disruption.
Billie Ann McVay died Thursday after a lingering illness. Born Oct 19 1942 in Cedar Rapids she was the daughter of Wayne and Helen McVay and sister to Sandra Nancy Robert and Richard. Services Monday at 2 p.m. at Murdoch funeral home Center Point with burial in Center Point cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
M S Byers age 90 a Cedar Rapids native and retired Rock Island engineer died Wednesday in Minneapolis where he had lived for years Survived by wife Frances two daughters Dorothy and Mrs Dan Creedon of St Paul a sister Mrs Elsie Watkins of Cedar Rapids Funeral plans will be announced later
Funeral services for Mrs. Joseph Vi shek, aged resident of 1305 Third Street SE, are scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Janeba Funeral Home with the Rev. John K. Moore of John Huss Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be at Cedar Memorial. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Senator Kennedy urged against any 1958 tax cut at the Young Democrats convention. He argued for honesty about military realities and questioned President Eisenhower’s handling of ballistic missile development and funding for James Killian's defense push.
London reports Britain launched a hydrogen weapon from a Valiant jet over the central Pacific near Christmas Island. Early word says the blast was megaton-scale with negligible fallout, part of a second round of tests following prior detonations.
Agriculture department officials said Jack A. Harris paid a penalty of 965595.85 dollars for growing cotton without a federal allotment. The penalty, set at 18 percent per pound, is the largest against a producer for acreage allotment violations. Harris is now free to sell his cotton on the open market, with the penalty representing about half the current market price.
David Antles 13, a former Cedar Rapids resident, died in Portage Wisconsin when the Midwest Neon Sign Company building front wall collapsed during a wind and snowstorm. His brother Pete 17 was uninjured. father Ray Antles a former foreman, mother, and Marc 18 survive. Services and burial planned in Toledo.
City briefs list residents undergoing surgery at St Luke s and Mercy hospitals with visitor notes. A pedestrian fatality is reported in Minneapolis after a car strike. Thefts include a tire and rim, and a check and cash. A fall festival and bazaar is announced for Trinity Lutheran on November 11 with meals.
In his annual Thanksgiving proclamation the President asks Americans to join in prayers of thanks on November 28 for manifold blessings. He urges happiness from family reunions be tempered with compassion for those less fortunate at home and abroad.
Vienna AP reports Czechoslovakia faces growing youth trouble. Radio Prague said 20 youths ages 15 to 17 were sentenced to four to six years for offenses including bothering passersby and threatening police. Prague noted other hooligan groups are being tried.
In Fulton civil court Judge A L Henson received a bottle of oil from juror Mrs Ivan Allen Jr. She said the oil was for the judge's squeaky chair. The judge noted the squeak was troubling the jury.
Channel 9 urges viewers to keep watching for a night of high quality television with previews of tonight programming. The message emphasizes consistent capability and ongoing appeal of the channel.
Ralph R. Ash, 39, pled guilty before Judge Charles Penningroth in Linn county district court to a second offense drunken driving charge and was fined $500 with payment term of $50 monthly. Sheriff James Smith arrested him after witnessing erratic driving on Highway 13 south of Central City.
Cedar Rapids couple Donald and Judith Clarke both 33 of 1120 Eighth Street SE appealed their municipal court convictions to Linn County district court. The pair were found guilty and fined 25 dollars each after a disturbance at the Sky Way Inn on October 19.
Bert H. Geater, 48, of Vinton, was sentenced to six months in Linn County Jail after pleading guilty to a forged check charge before Judge Charles Penningroth. The offense involved a forged $75 check in Marion on June 24, with restitution ordered and nearly four months already served credited toward the sentence.
In Danville Illinois Sheriff Hendrickson and Probate Judge John Unger engage in a parking spot dispute near the courthouse. Judge Unger cites the sheriff for contempt after the sheriff towed away the car and jailed him for two days though released on bond. The case advances as Unger again has the car towed and posts a 1000 dollar bond to recover it by writ of replevin which allows recovery of seized property by cash equal to twice its value.
Haverhill Massachusetts Mrs Gardner Denno a Jehovahs Witness who refused blood transfusions during illness is recovering and may return home with her husband and two children in about ten days Doctors report her phlebitis is clearing and the oxygen tent and cobalt therapy helped restore strength after a five week hospital stay Her vision and memory have improved following earlier impairment.
Two Cedar Rapids attendants were victims Friday night when a man named Joe Phelps claimed he was in a jam after a car crash. He extorted $30 from each attendant at Houser's Conoco and Kenwood Shell, giving a cheap watch for security.
Dr. John P. Hagen announced U S tracking shows Sputnik II orbit from 120 to above 1,000 miles. He noted Sputnik II's 103.6 minute period is shrinking and warned of possible monthly Soviet launches as the U S prepares its first test satellites next month and a full moon by March.
Leavenworth Kansas AP reports 52 year old Martin Skinkowski was found on a sidewalk with a broken ankle after a motorist, angered by directions given, kicked him and drove off. Skinkowski described the car as Nebraska licensed. He did not reveal his reply.
Clergy changes include Rev Clarence Frana moving from St. Ludmila to St. Wenceslaus Cedar Rapids and Rev Raphael Ludwig succeeding him at St. Ludmila. Clarence hosts 75th anniversary events. Rev Robert Fauth of Chicago leads a Sunday talk at St. John’s Clarence. Revival at Calvary Baptist Cedar Rapids features Dr. Fred Brown and J Stratton Shufelt nightly through Dec 1. James Bramwell to speak at Peoples Unitarian Cedar Rapids on peace. Ladies Aid sponsors room at Strawberry Point Lutheran Home. Wartburg Seminary president Alfred Ewald inaugurated in Dubuque. Cedar Rapids Mormon LDS conference set for Sunday. US Methodist Church membership exceeds 9.5 million with net gain of 121,850.
The agriculture department plans a sale worth 35 million dollars of U S surplus farm commodities to Israel including wheat corn grain sorghums vegetable oils tallow butter cheese nonfat dry milk dry whole milk prunes cotton and tobacco. Ocean transport costs are included and foreign currencies will be accepted as payment under the enabling law.
The report listing Marian Sedive as a passenger in Doris Madlom’s car at 559 Tenth street SW was wrong. Miss Sedive was a passenger in Bruce Karr’s car at 1018 D avenue NW, the other vehicle involved in the crash.
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