Snow forecast with heavy western snow and rising temps
Forecast for Monday through Tuesday calls for snow north and west with rain mixed in the east. Snow may reach five to ten inches in the west and north central areas by Tuesday. Warmer pockets Monday night and Tuesday in the east, with gradual clearing and colder conditions by Wednesday. Minute details include wind, sunrise, sunset, and temperature ranges. Also notes a divorce petition Della Wertz versus Raymond Wertz and court actions for Mayhem and intoxication with brief jail sentences.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids residents cited in multiple court fines
A Cedar Rapids list details numerous individuals fined for offenses including disturbing the peace drunkenness and reckless driving with amounts ranging from 5 to 100 dollars plus costs. The item also lists local births hospital notices and community announcements from area towns and organizations. It notes civil notices, club meetings, and visits to hospitals with several names and addresses in Cedar Rapids and nearby communities.
Obituary notices from multiple Iowa towns
A string of funeral notices reports deaths in Elkader Solon Winthrop Vinton Tama Elberon Mt. Vernon London and Oxford Junction. Each item lists ages and service times at local churches or funeral homes with burial details in family or local cemeteries.
Correction slips hours and notices in Gazette items
The notice corrects Newmans store hours to 9 30 A M to 5 30 P M on Wednesday November 26 not 9 00 P M. It notes a Thanksgiving service at 10 A M Thursday for Hus Memorial Presbyterian and Czech Evangelical and Reformed churches. Also corrects G I Gazette listing for Pfc Charles Koudelka stating he is son of Mrs Jim Kolosh of 121 Thirty Fourth Street Drive SE. A lunch meeting of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce Personnel Managers committee will discuss wage surveys and the Red Cross blood campaign Wednesday noon at the YMCA.
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Newman
Hus Memorial Presbyterian Church
Czech Evangelical and Reformed Church
Hus Memorial Church
G.I. Gazette
S Gazette
Charles Koudelka
Jim Kolosh
Koudelka
Red Cross
YMCA
Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce
Farm Gun Accident Claims Life of Roberts Boy Near Atlantic
An Atlantic area farm story reports a gun accident on a grandfather's farm killing a boy named Roberts. After the shooting, his father and grandfather attempted to move the gun from the barnyard. the child died instantly. His mother and four siblings remain at home with Mr. and Mrs. Adams.
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Atlantic (Ap
Roberts
Atlantic
Joe Ae
Ting
Adams
Schmickle Fined $25 for Striking Wife in Police Court
Virgil Schmickle twenty two of 1151 Fifth Street NW was fined 25 dollars and costs after pleading guilty to disturbing the peace. He was arrested Saturday at the CSPS hall by Sgt Harold Prasil who said Schmickle struck his wife. The case stemmed from Schmickle’s distress over the death of his two month old daughter killed when a car struck a pole near First Avenue and Nineteenth Street East. Rodin, driver Wesley Rodin, was acquitted of manslaughter. Schmickle also struck the sergeant as he tried to lead him away from his wife. Judge William Matias said he was giving a real break with a small fine.
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Virgil Schmickle
Fifth Street
Csps Hall
Harold Prasil
Schmickle
Eccom Ae
I Ray
Kenneth Moon
Wesley Rodin
First Avenue
Nineteenthstreet
Rodin
Sgt
Prasil
Khmickle
William Matias
Blind Man Shows Woodwork Skill in Ohio
In Chardon Ohio Richard Tuttle 33 has been blind for ten years yet runs a home wood shop. He crafts furniture and toys full time with his wife assisting for detailed work while their five year old daughter helps, his hearing the delighted exclamations of customers.
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Chardon
Ohio
Richard Tuttle
Tuttle
L.ifted
Three Eastern Iowans Returning from Korea
SEATTLE AP Three East Iowans aboard the Navy transport James O Hara expected to dock Tuesday with 754 service personnel from the Far East. They are Cpl John E Boyle Iowa City Sgt John J Jurgens Keystone and Pfc Robert J Sperfslage Earlville.
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Seattle
Navy
James O’hara
Far East
John E. Boyle
Iowa City
John J. Jurgens
Keystone
Robert J. Sperfslage
Earlville
Fire Blowing Trick Seen as Near Death Hazard
Cincinnati safety officials denounce a college craze of blowing a mouthful of cigarette lighter fluid at a lit match. Arthur M. O'Connell calls it an example of how one might violently end life or ruin their appearance. He warns that nonprofessionals face almost certain death or serious injury, even if not initially fatal.
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Cincinnati
Arthur M. O’connell
Cincinnati Fire Underwriters Association
O'Connell
Iowa Briefs Highlights Local Club Elections
SIGOURNEY Mrs. Ralph Ruby elected president of the Hobby club with E E McDole as vice president Myrl Appleger secretary and Kenneth Vogel treasurer. MONONA Rosary society lists Evelyn Klima first vice president Ed Rolling second vice president Elmer Holly secretary Winifred Bromelkamp treasurer. EARLVILLE Frances Parkin elected president of the Dorcas class of the Congregational church with Clair Carpenter vice president and Ted Walling secretary treasurer. MONONA Frank Posshel celebrates eighty fifth birthday at family dinner. MONONA firemen plan their annual dance downtown.
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Sigourney
Ralph Ruby
Hobby Club
E. E. McDole
Myrl Appleger
Kenneth Vogel
Postville
Frederick Ludwig
New York City
The
American Missions
Monona
John Reardon
Rosary Society
Evelyn Klima
Ed Rolling
Elmer Holly
Winifred Bromelkamp
Earlville
Frances Parkin
Dorcas
Congregational Church
Clair Carpenter
Ted Walling
Frank Posssehl
Descriptions of Busham Hottentot Peoples Color and Relation
A historical note states that the Busham and Hottentot peoples of southern Africa are yellowish brown in color and are not closely related to the Negro tribes occupying the country to the north.
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Southern
Africa
Willits Is Fined 500 On Second Drunk Driving Count
George Layton Willits, 31, of 1209 Third Street SE, pled guilty to a second offense drunk driving charge and was fined $500 plus costs by Judge Floyd Philbrick after a Sunday incident damaging the Boyer couple’s parked car near 1136 Eleventh Avenue SE. He had earlier pled guilty to a drunk driving charge in county court on April 13, 1950.
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George Layton Willits
Third Street
Floyd Philbrick
Willits
Charles H. Boyer, Jr
Eleventh Avenue SE
Jury Selected in Robert Bird Case
Jurors were selected for the trial of Robert Houston Bird 39 charged with auto theft in Cedar Rapids during Oct. 25. Bird held at large at arrest and accused of taking Lester H. Peck of Marion s car from B avenue and Second street NE. Jurors named include Blanche Beardsley Carolyn Corwin Eugene J Rebec Arthur J Janda A A Mikota Marguerite Taylor Donald J Sinclair Jane O Matthews Ralph Schu A D Biddinger Bernita Lennox Jackson township Richard Holek Springville.
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Robert Houston Bird
Cedar Rapids
Bird
Lester H. Peck
Marion
B Avenue
Second Street
Willis Glassgow
Richard Nazette
E. J. Dahms
Charles Penningroth
Blanche Beardsley
A Avenue
Carolyn Corwin
Bever Avenue
Eugene J. Rebec
Nineteenth Avenue
Arthur J. Janda
Twenty-first Street
A. A. Mikota
Third Avenue
Marguerite Taylor
Ninth Street
Donald J. Sinclair
First Avenue
Jane O. Matthews
Ralph Schu
Eighth Avenue
A. D. Biddinger
Second Avenue
Bernita Lennox
Jackson
Township
Richard Holek
Springville
Wolcotts File Suit For 176 Damages
Jack and Dorothy Wolcott filed a civil action against H. A. Beyers and Gerald Beyers for 176.42 dollars alleging property damage and loss of use of their automobile from a August 15 collision. The incident occurred at the A and P store parking lot entrance on Third Avenue SE.
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Jack
Dorothy Wolcott
H. A
Gerald Beyers
Lourt
Wolcott
H. A. Beyers
Third Avenue SE
Will of Albert Glattly Probate in Cedar Rapids
Albert Glattly of Sumner Bremer county died October 15 and his will was admitted to probate in Cedar Rapids on Monday. Bequests of 1000 dollars each go to Florence Nefzger, Mary Lucille G Olson, Albert Kenneth Glattly, Kerwin B Glattly, and Ellsworth J Glattly. The remainder of the estate goes to widow Laura Glattly.
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Albert Glattly
Sumner
Bremer County
Cedar Rapids
Florence Nefzger
Mary Lucille G. Olson
Albert Kenneth Glattly
Kerwin B.glattly
Ellsworth J. Glattly
Mr. Glattly
Laura
Zone Changes Sought For Highway Property
Cedar Rapids city council referred two industrial rezon requests to the Plan Commission. Frank Van Buskirk Harry W and Ruth Ribble seek light industrial zoning 150 feet along highway 30 south of the intersection. Elmer F and Effie Cherry seek heavy industrial zoning on a North of highway 30 lot currently A and B residential.
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Highway 30
City Plan Commission
Cedar Rapids
Frank van Buskirk
Harry W
Ruth Ribble
Elmer F
Effie Cherry
Ribble-Van Busskirk
Plan Commission
Linn Legislators Split On Legislative Council
Mt Vernon Linn county legislators diverge on a proposed legislative council with Sen. Frank C. Byers opposing and Rep. Ernest Koseh supporting the idea. Rep.-elect Emil Novak will also speak tonight at 7:45 in Mt. Vernon City Hall Youth Center.
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MT. Vernon
Linn County
League of Women Voters
Legislative Council
Frank C. Byers
Ernest Kose
Emil Novak
World scrap yards pay off as ships feed steel needs
Global salvage of sunken and derelict ships fuels steel from scrap. Lloyds lists nearly 600 salvageable Atlantic wrecks, while US efforts salvage 125 vessels under 50 fathoms. Wartime losses from Norway to Manila Bay feed markets as navies and liners yield to furnaces and scrappers.
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Washington
National Geographic Society
Davy Jones
Lloyd’s of London
Atlantic
Trieste
Manila Bay
Philippines
Capenne
U. S. Maritime Commission Ae
Judge Urges Hospital Plan for Sick City Prisoners
Judge William Matias told Cedar Rapids council to arrange hospital care for sick or injured city prisoners. He cited a drunkenness case where a prisoner sustained fractures and urged authorization for police to hospitalize detainees and coordinate with hospitals and the city physician. He recommended contacting the legal department and hospital officials to set up cost and acceptance procedures.
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Cedar Rapids
William Matias
St. Luke’s Hospital
Matias
Sedlacek
Matiasanswi
William Kudina
Deaths notice for Waterloo and North English figures
Funeral services for Mrs Ward of Waterloo and Mrs Betty Pine of North English will be held at 1 30 p m Tuesday at Mona han Funeral Home conducted by Rev H G Schwegler. Burial follows in White Pigeon Cemetery North English.
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Grandma Ward
Waterloo
Betty Pine
North
Monahan
H. G. Schwegler
White Pigeon Cemetery
North English
Services for Mrs Anton Kolar in Cedar Rapids
Mrs Anton Kolar of Cedar Rapids died at her daughter's home near Chelsea on Saturday. Funeral services will be held at Kuba funeral home at 2 p.m. Tuesday conducted by Theodore B Hlubecek. Burial will follow at Czech National cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
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Anton Kolar
Cedar Rapids
Joseph Sokol
Chelsea
Kuba
Theodore B. Hlubucek
Czech National Cemetery
Services for John Mark Heldt in Pearson chapel
John Mark Heldt of Cedar Rapids aged 15 years died at his son John Heldt's home at 119 Twenty Ninth Street NE. Services will be held at Pearson chapel memorial day. Friends may call at the chapel until 9 p.m. Monday.
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John Mark Heldt
Cedar Rapids
John Heldt
Twentyninth Street
Pearson Chapel
Mem Y Ta
Monay
Marion Youth Admits Series of Five Car Thefts
A 16-year-old Marion youth was arrested by Cedar Rapids police after a weekend spree stealing five cars in Cedar Rapids and Marion. He admitted taking vehicles in Marion and Cedar Rapids, with all cars abandoned in the two cities. He was turned over to juvenile authorities.
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Marion
Cedar Rapids
First Avenue E
Cottage Grove Avenue SE
Two Cedar Rapids Men Fined For Reckless Driving
Two Cedar Rapids men were fined $100 each in traffic court on Monday after pleading guilty to reckless driving. Russell Myers, 33, of the Vernon View addition, and Milo Vorba of 710 Fifth Avenue SE were arrested after separate incidents near highways 30 and 149 and at 319 Fourteenth Avenue SE.
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Russell Myers
Route 3
Milo Vorba
Fifth Avenue SE
William Fitzgerald
Eighth Avenue SE
James Klein, Jr
Marion
Frank Heck
Wilson
Avenue SW
Kenneth Hollingshead
Center Point
Harvey Hines
Thirty-first Street
Donald Dillin
Brooklyn
Gyula Mezaros
Cedar Rapids
Vernon View
Aes
149
Vorba
Fourteenth Avenue SE
Everest Bid Reported Short by 6500 Feet
Kath mandu Nepal capital reports Swiss expedition fell short by 6500 feet of Mt Everest summit 29141 feet high. Expedition aimed at conquering the world’s highest peak but failed near the final ascent.
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Everest
Calcutta
Mt. ‘Everest
Kathmandu
Man Held on Mayhem Charge After Cedar Rapids Fight
Thomas McMurrin of 544 H Street SW was arraigned in justice court on Mayhem charges after a Cedar Rapids tavern fight. Police say he nearly bit off a man’s ear, requiring 13 stitches. Hallitt of Evansdale signed the information. Bond set at $2,000. hearing Friday morning. The charge carries up to five years in prison.
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Thomas McMurrin
H Street
Charles Benesh
Justice Court
McMurrin
Cedar Rapids
Halltt
Evansdale
Scott
Bechtel Offer May Be Refused in Iowa Suit
Mason City AP report notes attorney Fred A. Ontjes doubts Bechtel offer to settle a 5300 judgment against Iowa Southern Utility will be accepted by holders. Bechtel, president of First Trust and Savings Bank of Davenport, offers to pay more than earlier claims. Auditors challenge Bechtel’s finances and say no property could satisfy the judgment. funds for compromise would come from Mrs Bechtel. The offer, filed by Wayne G. Cook, requires acceptance by January 1, 1953.
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Mason City
Iowa
H. R. Bechtel
Devers
Fred A. Ontjes
Bechtel
First Trust and Savings Bank of
Davenport
Ontjes
Appanoose County
Centerville
Wayne G.cook
Superior Court Is New Name for Police Court
The Cedar Rapids city council renamed the criminal division of the superior court from police court and designated it as Superior court with criminal division and civil division outlining Judge William Matias' jurisdiction. Final passage in the revised city code is planned next week. The measure also updates terminology by using accused instead of prisoner and removes the word gifts from a rewards section for harvest of a criminal.
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Superior Court
Cedar Rapids
William Matias
Enrollment in Iowa Schools Reaches 485 549
DES MOINES Iowa public instruction reports total enrollment in state public schools at 485 549 in an annual survey. Preschool age children number 326 199 with 232 458 of them living in city or town districts.
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Des Moines
INS
State Department of Public Instruction
Fields Seized on U S Job Reds Report
Volksstimme reports two American brothers Noel and Hermann Field, missing since 1949, arrested as U S state department agents while on a mission behind the Iron Curtain. No further details given as Prague trial unfolds. Hermann, a Cleveland architect, vanished after leaving Warsaw in 1949 while Noel had been a state department employee.
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Vienna
INS
Volks
Istimme
Noel
Hermann Field
U. S. State Department
Prague
Volksstimme
State Department
Hermann
Deboest Dies Former Charles City Police Chief at 74
Henry DeBoest, 74, former Charles City police chief, died early Monday at a hospital from a heart ailment. He led the department for 19 years until his retirement in October 1951, and he and his wife celebrated their golden wedding last July. A separate Davenport announcement notes a $2,500,000 house project planned by Clark Gray on a 40-acre site at highways 150 and 122, subdividing into 104 residential, 24 commercial, and 10 parking lots. Jasper county home residents near Newton will host a venison dinner after a deer killed by an unidentified motorist on highway 14 Sunday was turned over to the home. fourth such deer in recent weeks along the Skunk River.
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Henry Deboest
Charles City
Deboest
Davenport
Clark Gray
Scott County
Gray
Jasper County
Newton
Pelicans and Terns at Salton Sea Face Egg Cooling Need
Birds nesting near California's Salton Sea must cool their eggs rather than warm them due to rising temperatures. Researchers report pelicans and terns struggling with incubation as heat affects embryo development and hatch rates.
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California
Salton Sea
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Municipal
Della Wertz
Raymond Wertz
Dearborn Brass Company
Eugene Corvey
Lester Aderson
George Willits
Third Street SE
Daniel Kirk
Laura Morrell
Robert Wilson
Novella Fitzpatrick
Richard H. Finley
Florence Marie Miniar
Robert R. Oatis
Lavon Burns
Charles L. Vosburg
Oe Ann Rankin
Oxford
Ebr
Il Schmickle
Henry Davis
Fifth Avenue
Charlotte Trip
Sixteenth Street
Anton Voracek
Grover Brown
Eighth Street
Forest Dimond
Sixth Street
Mercy
Donald Bartel
Forty-second Street
William Bursovsky
James Hannah
St. Luke’s
Chesley Hansen
Tipton
Robert Davidson
Fourth Street
Herbert Folkmann
Richard Martin
Orval Foust
Richard Prosser
E Avenue NE
Webster City
Dick Matter
Matter
Mabel Horsky
Avenue NW
Lena Pratt
Sons of Union Veterans Auxiliary
CR. iSquares
Folk and
Union
Oliphant Cemetery
Oliphant Cemetery Association
American Legion Hall
Toddville
C.R
Robert H.reid
Dundee Kiwanis Club
Omaha
Reid
Omaha Steel Works
Cedar Rapids Council of Social Planning
YMB Council
Young Men’s Bureau
Roy W
Ray K. Mrstik
Travis Air Force Base
John Mrstik
Ours
2Nd Ave
Emma Ryan
St. Patrick's Arch
Monti
Church Cemetery
Vinton
Eva O. Bahr
Fry-Holland Funeral Home
Evergreen Cemetery
Tama
J. W. Anthes
Jonathan Anthes
Audubon Methodist Church
Winton
Frank Klimma
St. Patrick’s Church
Mason Funeral Home
Elberon
Sam Skarda
Hrajbak
Clayton M. Ink
Carthage
Neff Funeral
Mt. Vernon Cemetery
London
Manford Jeffery
Oxford Junction
Dayton Valley Cemetery
Korea
Iowa Briefs
Robert Bird
Wolcotts
Linn
Burbank
Calif
Norway
Tromso Fjord
Atlantic Coast Graveyard
Scaparoe
Jay Wignall
Linn County Medical Society
Linn County Supervisors
Medical society-Linn Counna
Edward Files
Nero
Milo Sedlacek
C. W. Garberson
Edward A
Bayonne
Robert Dean Pine
Mrs. Kolar Services
Heldt Services
Murdoch Funeral Homes
Walker
I Man
Police Court
Call
Pete
Peter F. Bezanson
DOWS
Fields
U. S
Reds Report
Ine
Alvavac
Sagittarius
Beaver Moon
Zachary Taylor
Seth Swi
Salem
Argent
Futhor
Tess
Paamees
Byrd
Polefight
No. Dak
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Clarence W. Beatty
John E. Lapes
Third Ave. SE
Mt. Vernon Ave
Dial
Janeba
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