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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1954
Page
2
Daily Record reports temperatures and precipitation for November 18 1954 with city highs and lows plus overnight wind and sun data. Other items include birth notices from Cedar Rapids area families and funeral notices for local residents in Hawkeye Oxford Junction Earlville and Davenport areas.
Multiple individuals including Speeding-Louis Becicka Edward Jankovic Gerald Boone Coggan Clayton Dye and others were fined for various offenses with costs. Separate incidents note a grass fire at 3216 Dalewood SE with Fire Company 6, and back to back Quaker Oats plant fires caused by welder sparks and a cigarette fire triggering general alarms.
Therese Anne Charipar daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Charipar of Cedar Rapids died in a Cedar Rapids hospital after a lingering illness. She was Homecoming Queen at Wilson High School in 1952 and a Mercy nursing student. She is survived by her parents five brothers two sisters and a grandmother. Services will be at Janeba funeral home and St Ludmila's Church with Rosaries at the funeral home. Burial in St Johns cemetery.
The Cedar Rapids City Council votes to hold a public hearing on December 9 regarding a proposed swap of parking lot spaces with Veterans Memorial Inc. The plan exchanges a 100 foot strip for an 80 foot segment to extend Fourth Avenue westward, with about 80 of 218 offstreet spaces to be removed. The decision is not final and will wait for full consideration and legal requirements.
Widespread no parking rules ordered by the city council may begin Monday. Traffic and parking petitions were referred to Police Chief Kudina for study. Prochaska said signs and posts are being installed and late-arriving signs could push the plan into effect next week.
Services were held Wednesday at Shelly Funeral Home in Manchester for Donald Edward Carradus day old son of Dean and Mrs Carradus. Burial followed in Silver Creek Cemetery. Donald Edward died Tuesday in a Cedar Rapids hospital. Surviving are his parents a brother Allen and four grandparents all of Manchester and Cedar Rapids.
Marvin Raymond Nove a registered pharmacist from Anamosa and former Cedar Rapids resident died Wednesday Services will be at Turner chapel at 1 30 p m Friday conducted by Rev H A James of Anamosa and Mt Hermon lodge A F and A M Burial is in the Czech National cemetery Friends may call at the chapel All Master Masons to meet at Mt Hermon lodge at the Masonic hall at 1 p m Friday to attend the service
Mae McLean widow of William McLean and former Cedar Rapids resident died Thursday at her daughter Ruth Knott's home in Burbank California. The McLeans moved from Cedar Rapids to California in 1939. Services will be held Friday at 2 30 p.m. in Pierce Brothers Mortuary North Hollywood California.
The Evangelical United Brethren General Conference approved merging York College at York Nebraska with Westmar College at LeMars Iowa. York faculty have been transferred to Westmar and York will discontinue due to fire linked damages, declining enrollment, and small endowment. A churchwide four year fund drive aims to raise 5.15 million dollars with 500 thousand for Westmar and grants to church colleges and seminaries.
City listings include a tiltra party and dance at Knights of Columbus with a special slip covered 2 pc suite for first $19, free delivery at Smulekoff's Used Furniture Annex. Chamber of Commerce luncheon at Roosevelt hotel. IOOF Pinochie game between Ely and Mt. Vernon lodges in Ely. Townsend Victory Club meets at K of P hall with 6 pm and 7 30 pm sessions. Health film at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. High Twelve speaker Dr John Jambrich at Bishop's cafeteria. Three Cedar Rapids residents elected to State Historical Society of Iowa membership. Article by Roberta Sheets in Players magazine. James Lundstrom named national aide-de-camp in Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Francis B. Fried was elected president of the Cedar Rapids Home Builders Association at the annual meeting held Wednesday night in the Roosevelt hotel. Officers elected include B J Bjornsen as vice president Ray E Hertz as secretary and C E Doty as treasurer.
A Newton mother Mrs Homer Revell 34 and her 3 month old son David were killed when their car collided with a southbound vehicle on Highway 6 near a Skunk River bridge. Eight people were in the Revell car, four others injured including her 21 year old sister Mrs Joseph Revell and three other children. Police said maneuver to quiet older children led to loss of control and a collision with Thomas W. Mooney Newton Boy Scout executive who braked but did not stop in time.
Rath Packing Company urged a 90 day extension of its contract with the CIO United Packinghouse Workers to resolve seniority disputes stalling negotiations. Local 46 voted to seek permission for strike action and a nationwide don’t buy Rath campaign through CIO. The plant remains over 50 percent idle due to suspensions tied to work slowdowns and alleged picket line crossing during the 1948 strike.
A union spokesman said local members must vote before a strike could be called, signaling potential industrial action once the ballot concludes.
Eli Abodeely filed a petition with the city council seeking to change the zoning at the southwest corner of First Avenue and Nineteenth Street SE. The plan proposes an insurance office on the first floor with apartments above, fronting 100 feet on First Avenue and 140 feet on Nineteenth Street. The proposal was referred to the City Plans Commission for study and recommendation.
The American College of Surgeons reports ethics moves to end fee splitting between referring physicians and surgeons. Iowa Fellows praise audit led reforms, with many calling it overdue and a model for the nation. The ACS notes public support, citing 27 favorable editorials after last May’s board action.
Strawberry Point resident Robert Falck, 36, is hospitalized in Manchester after a cornpicker accident. His right hand was caught in the chain drive, losing part of a finger and sustaining severe injuries to the back of the hand. Neighbors finished harvesting his remaining acres.
West German sociologist Marte Bischoff, 28, of Kiel Institute for World Economics, researching changes in Russian family life due to industrialization, was seized by Communist police on the Helmstedt Berlin autobahn. A cousin accompanying him was also arrested as institute officials seek intervention from British authorities.
Donald C. Peterson, driver in the January Cedar Rapids crash that killed pedestrian Anton Krejci, pled guilty to violating a license restriction order. He previously received 30 days for the same charge in municipal court. sentencing set for December 1. An appeal on a separate reckless driving charge remains in district court.
An 18 year old Marion youth named Jack Wrigley was sentenced to 10 years in the reformatory at Anamosa on a breaking and entering charge and paroled to the State Board of Parole. He was one of four accused of breaking into the Marion Laundromat and taking $70. Wrigley pled innocent in a Nov 10 court appearance, then changed the plea to guilty on Thursday.
A 20-year-old Cedar Rapids man, Donald E. Siemering, was sentenced to four months in the county jail for stealing four gallons of gas from a car owned by Glenn C. Pesek. Judge Floyd Philbrick suspended two months for good behavior after Siemering’s Wednesday arrest by Cedar Rapids police.
Emmett Reeves files in district court a suit to establish a lien on four head of cattle and to sell them to satisfy a debt. Port Stickle named defendant. Reeves seeks $349.90 for care of livestock owned by Stickle since July of last year and asks for sale of the cattle to satisfy the debt.
O W Lawrence of Cedar Rapids filed in district court a suit to recover 14 208 61 on a promissory note executed by Ella S Kurth of Iowa to Earl Biiney on March 10 1951 and later negotiated to the plaintiff. The action seeks payment of the principal plus interest.
Barbara Dziewanoski files suit in district court against her former husband Sylvester of Brooklyn New York for delinquent child support payments and a request for an order enforcing support obligations.
The Linn County Association for Retarded Children promotes awareness during Retarded Children's Week in Cedar Rapids. The article explains mental retardation as impaired development from birth, not hereditary, with 70 possible causes including infections in pregnancy and birth complications. 75 percent are trainable and many can become self supporting with support.
In a petition the plaintiff notes a 1947 divorce decree requiring payments of eight dollars weekly. The filing requests enforcement or modification of support arrears and ongoing alimony obligations.
The state's drunken driving case against Glenn H. Lyons was withdrawn from this month's trial lineup and rescheduled for December 27.
Brierly and McCall, a Newton law firm, filed suit Thursday against Carl Durbala Jr seeking 111.16 for legal services in a divorce action.
Clarence A. Hamilton and John C. Henderson sued Charles A. Larkin in district court seeking an injunction and 2200 dollars in damages over a water drainage dispute. The case was dismissed Thursday.
Ivan Taborsky executive secretary of the American Fund for Czechoslovak Refugees will speak at the Federation of Czech Groups meeting at CSPS hall in Cedar Rapids at 8 p.m. to explain the new refugee act and how a refugee may start a new life in the United States. The event is open to the public.
President Eisenhower told the New England Council that economists foresee a rise of nearly 30 percent in real per capita income after taxes in the next decade.
Paris AP report says former Finance Minister Christian Pineau told a national assembly committee he fears about 20 000 French soldiers died as prisoners during the Indo China conflict. He cited roughly 30 000 French prisoners with Vietminh returning about 10 000, Saigon reports claim more than 12 000 have been released.
Iowa City observers will attend a campus chest fundraiser at the University of Iowa with Bill Pinkston serving as master of ceremonies and two local auctioneers offering services on the block. Items include meals waitered by M. L. Hull and autographed Hawkeye football and basketball gear from 1954 squads, plus a four person dinner by Helen Reich. Funds support World University Service, SUI foreign student loan fund, Care book fund, Save the Children Federation, and the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro students.
Coralville Johnson county authorities probe four break-ins in the city early Thursday. Evidence includes $20 stolen from Virgil Bowers Plumbing and Heating, entry through a rear window, six cents and three tire chains from Masbruch Service Station, a case of pop and vending machine keys from the 7-Up Bottling plant, and a beaten safe at Thomas Ross contractor office with nothing taken. Police report the Coralville incidents bring the area total to 20 break-ins recently.
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