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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1948
Page
14
Des Moines AP Iowa's special road study committee recommends a 20 year program costing about 945 million dollars for dustless surfaced safe highways and improved streets. It would raise 14.2 million annually with no new taxes, through vehicle use and sales tax shifts and fee reforms.
Decorah meters yield 7682 dollars from 200 devices in six months. Calmar volunteer fire company buys rural truck due Feb. 1. Traer juniors perform We Shook the Family Tree at the opera house Friday. Anamosa Bishop Elwood L. Haines visits St. Mark’s Sunday. Decorah inventory lists Mrs. Anna Frick estate assets. Emma Loui Hillman and Donald Schoen tag wed at First Church of Christ. Keswick 89 year old Minnie Hervey injures hip. Elkader district court term opens Nov. 29 with sixty jurors. Tama Toledo couple Shirley Elsberry and Thomas Adams wed Sunday. Quasqueton new school addition to be dedicated Dec. 1. Amana seniors present class play Friday.
W C Eastland age 64 longtime Clinton Herald editor died Tuesday night after a brain hemorrhage at his desk. He led the paper for nearly 30 years and previously worked for multiple newspapers including the Davenport Republican and Leader. Survived by three sons and three daughters. son Paul Clinton county treasurer.
Iowa City resident Creighton Edmundson says a burglar stole his $100 wrist watch while he slept Monday night. He slept at 11 15 p.m. with the door locked and woke at 7 a.m. to find the watch missing. He noted the first floor apartment door was unlocked around 5 45 to 6 a.m. when his wife went to the basement.
John Morrell Company and CIO United Packinghouse Workers Union ratified a master contract covering Ottumwa Iowa and Topeka Kansas plants after 3 1 2 months of talks. Wage scales 1.04 for women 1.15 for men with 12 15 minutes breaks. Benefits include eight holidays with triple time, 36 hour weekly guarantee, one to three weeks annual vacation, union dues check off, and clothing tool time pay.
Dubuque AP reports two duck hunters Leroy Dixon and Robert Zahina were missing after a wind and rainstorm on the Mississippi River north of Dubuque. Companions in another boat reached shore and later located the missing men safe on an island.
DES MOINES AP Within an hour during a night training flight Col Gray instructed guard pilot Philippson to bail out. Both pilots parachuted to safety after aborting their F 51 planes in the Des Moines Indianola area. The planes were demolished and a board of investigation was named to determine engine failures.
Harold Carlton, 26, an escaped North Carolina chain gang prisoner, was killed by a Des Moines policeman after a burglary arrest attempt. Carlton used the alias James A. Anderson and worked as a waiter here, with a wife and child in Lenoir North Carolina.
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