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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1954
Page
8
Iowa educators pushing 25 percent state aid face a tough sell in the 1955 legislature. AP survey shows 34 support immediate goal, 29 say not now, 8 oppose, 14 undecided. Debate centers on funding sources, with tax hikes and cutting property taxes as options.
Mary Harnett and Morton Liss discuss criteria for strong stocks on the New York Stock Exchange. They emphasize transparent pricing printed daily and note the sector’s high dividend contribution to the United States, reflecting investor confidence and market reliability.
Eight lawmakers support the bond plan in a GOP controlled House and Senate. Sen. D. C. Nolan of Iowa City favors bonds but rejects Herring’s proposal, backing a 1953 era plan to issue 300 million dollars in primary road bonds to be retired from primary road funds at the next general election.
In West Union Fayette county, the Anll Lutheran Food Appeal led by Rev. George Goeken of Eldorado kicks off a drive for food and used clothing. A Calmar loading car operates Nov 26 29 with boxed donations at Lutheran churches before Nov 29. Last year Iowa sent 3 747 170 pounds of food. refugees in West Germany and Austria number 2 500 000 with 25 percent in soup kitchens.
Iowa lawmakers from all counties are invited to a nine state motor vehicle reciprocity meeting at a Savery hotel in Des Moines next Tuesday. The event, sponsored by the Iowa Highway Users Conference, features national officials on highways taxes and transportation addressing both sides of new state taxes and barriers to interstate vehicle reciprocity.
George L. Bowers of Des Moines reported six acres of corn in a 40 acre field north of the city were knocked down by occupants playing tag in cars. He expects to harvest by hand and cited tire tracks found between November 15 and Monday.
Kenneth W. Spence head of the University of Iowa psychology department will deliver Yale's Silliman Lectures April 11 to 19. He is the first psychologist honored in over five decades in this distinguished series. Lectures will cover conditioning learning and motivation and may be published as a book.
Erwin Glynn twelve, son of Mr and Mrs Herbert Glynn, was killed when he was caught on the bumper of a two ton beer truck at his farm home four miles west of Lost Nation. The truck driver Donald Wiebenga thirty of Maquoketa was charged with reckless driving and jailed. The truck swerved and overturned twice in the yard as Glynn herded pigs nearby. Glynn died at a doctor’s office. skid marks showed brakes applied 223 feet from the crash.
Clinton police investigate anonymous threat to Everett A. Streit editor of the Clinton Herald. A note reading you're asking for it was found at the newspaper building after editorials on soldiers relief sparked hostile calls from an anonymous group calling itself the Korean veterans.
George Lundberg of Polk County became president of the Iowa Justices of the Peace and Constables Association at its Davenport convention. Marvin Fatka of Cedar Rapids was named business manager and a slate of vice presidents was elected from Glenwood Indianola Little Rock Mason City Boone and Fort Dodge. The group urged 65 mph day and 55 mph night highway limits, stronger codes dissemination, higher mileage reimbursements, and transcripts in accidents with authority to charge transcript fees. Cedar Rapids will host the 1955 convention.
Gov. Leo Elthon said he will reappoint Glenn D. Sarsfield as state comptroller after the Beardsley funeral. The move follows legal advice that the office must operate by gubernatorial pleasure, with the comptroller issuing state warrants.
DES MOINES UP Mary Manion reports cowboy toys outrank space gadgets in Christmas toy sales. Ten gallon hats and six shooters top space helmets as dealers note a return to Wild West themes while two way radios and build it yourself kits gain traction. Educational hobby kits appeal to older kids alongside popular models, musical instruments, dolls, bicycles, and puzzles.
In Council Bluffs a 250 ton Burlington locomotive nosed into mud and blocked a roundhouse turntable with two workers aboard. Brakes failed as it slid. A wrecker failed, then hoisted the rear and an inclined roadbed was built. The engine was pulled out with no serious damage and no injuries reported.
MT VERNON Thanksgiving vacation for 650 Cornell college students starts at 5 p m Tuesday. The five day recess ends with classes resuming at 7 45 a m Monday after the holiday break.
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