Weather and notices from Nov 26 1956 Daily Record
Sunday temperatures ranged from 28 to 68 across cities including Bismarck Minneapolis New Orleans and Seattle with precipitation figures. Iowa forecast calls for fair warmer days then light snow flurries midweek and above normal temperatures. local barometer humidity wind and sunrise sunset data listed along with recent totals and year comparisons. Community births marriages and several legal notices, fines, and service announcements follow from Anamosa to Traer and Cedar Rapids.
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Bismarck
Minapolis
N. Orleans
Enver
New York
Luth
Omaha
Neeles
Phoenix
Seattle
Iowa
Deaths Robert W. Scott 41 of Cedar Rapids
Robert W. Scott 41 of 841 Fourteenth Street SE Cedar Rapids died at home after a sudden illness. WWII Navy veteran, member of local 238 Chauffeurs and Teamsters and veterans groups. Survived by wife Lucille, three children, mother, sister, and brother. Services Wednesday at Brush chapel and Immaculate Conception Church. burial at St Marys Solon with American Legion rites. Rosary recited Tuesday evening.
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Robert William Scott
Fourteenth Street
Cedar Rapids
Riversside
Chauffeurs and Teamsters
Stiinacher Post
American Legion
Solon
King’s Crown Plaster Company
Lucille Zieser Scott
William
Ronald
Donna Mae
Philomena Scott
Charles
Beatrice) Reuter
Des Moines
Brush Chapel
Immaculate Conception Church
William H
Cedar Rapids Marion Residents Named in Notice
Walter A. Shupp Cordelia Woerderhoff Ronald Petsel Betty Finn all of Cedar Rapids Danny Coblentz Joyce Henderson both of Marion Willard Ie Carson Troy Mills and Jeanine M. Andersen Coggon are listed in the public notice.
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Walter A. Shupp
Cordelia Woerderhoff
Ronald Petsel
Betty Finn
Cedar Rapids
Danny Coblentz
Joyce Henderson
Marion
Willard IE. Carson
Troy Mills
Jeanine M. Andersen
Coggon
Funeral Services Set Across Several Cities
Graveside rites in Buckingham cemetery Belle Plaine for August Bazyn 84 with service in St Michael's church. Mourners note Mabel Hoffman 72 former Belle Plaine resident died in Pasadena Calif and services at Hrabak Funeral Home. Genevive Brophy 58 to be buried next to Rosary duties in Shelly Funeral Home. Cora Leach Fay 83 to be laid to rest at Spring Grove cemetery with Passmore Funeral in Central City.
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Buckingham
Belle Plaine
August Bazyn
St. Michael’s Church
Burjial
Oak Hill
Hrabak
Mabel Hoffman
Pasadena
Calif
Hrabaki
Masonville
Genevive Brophy
Immaculate Conception
Shelly Funeral Home
Manchester
Coggon
Coral Leach Fay
Methodist Church
Spring Grove
Passmore Funeral
Central City
Surgeon General Urges Polio Shots For Young Adults
U S surgeon general Dr Leroy E Burney said primary emphasis should be on Salk polio vaccine for young adults aged 19 to 25. He warned that parents and young adults are not using the vaccine and urged house to house campaigns to inoculate this age group where paralytic polio is appearing.
Scout Councils Meet in C. R. Iowa With National Directors
About 68 Iowa Boy Scouts leaders gathered at the Roosevelt hotel for a day of talks with national Boy Scout directors. Morning sessions featured a full-group discussion and afternoon breakouts with directors. All 11 Iowa councils attended. directors included Jack L. Rhea Wes Klusman Don Higgins Horace Gorton and Ray Jenkins.
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Boy Scout Movement
Iowa
Roosevelt Hotel
Jack L. Rhea
Wes Klusman
Don Higgins
Horace Gorton
Ray Jenkins
Johnson’s Career Path Through Administrative Posts
The article traces John Johnson’s career from earning a PhD at the University of Iowa to teaching stints at West Virginia University and the University of Arkansas. It notes roles as an economist for the War Production Board and for the Department of Commerce, military service, and a period at Iowa State University’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research from 1948 to 1950 before continuing teaching in the College of Commerce since 1950.
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University of Iowa
SUI
West Virginia University
War Production Board
Department of Commerce
University of Arkansas
Johnson
Bureau of Business and Economic Research
College of Commerce
Spider Remembered Combs Now in Jail
Cedar Rapids patrolman Donald Spicher recognized Floyd Combs 41 from a 1946 warrant after Combs walked in Saturday to file an accident report. Police say Combs, who had lived in California, is accused of stealing about $100 from a trucking company where he worked and was jailed Monday.
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Cedar Rapids
Floyd Combs
Twenty-second Avenue
Combs
California
Donald Spicher
Cedar Rapids woman Alice M Lamos dies after brief illness
Alice Mae Lamos 77 widow of Clayton G Lamos of 1000 F Avenue NW Cedar Rapids died in a Cedar Rapids hospital at 6 50 am Monday after a brief illness. She born August 18 1879 at Lisbon married September 22 1898. Survived by daughter Ruby Schindler and son Rudolph T Lamos of Cedar Rapids. Services Wednesday 1 30 pm Beatty Bearle chapel with Dr Arthur Schuldt. Burial Cedar Memorial Cemetery.
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Alice Mae Lamos
Clayton Grant Lamos
Favenue
Cedar Rapids
Lisbon
Ruby Schindler
Rudolph T. Lamos
Verna Noble
Minnie Walters
Frank Webber
Marion
Charles Webber
Marshalltown
Lamos
St. James Methodist ‘Church
Women’s Society of Christian Service
Royal Neighbors of America
Beatty-Bearle Chapel
Arthur Schuldt
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Feckley Rites. Cedar Rapids Veteran Passes at Iowa City
Clarence E. Feckley 1502 Seventh Ave SE Cedar Rapids died at Veterans Hospital Iowa City at 2 am Sunday Born January 9 1892 in Harper he was a World War I veteran and member of Veterans of Foreign Wars and Disabled Veterans Survived by wife Lottie Barr Feckley two sons Kenneth and Keith a daughter Mrs Mel Fass and three sisters Funeral at Brady Mortuary 2:30 pm Wednesday Reverend Jack Oliver First Christian church Graveside services by Veterans of Foreign Wars Cedar Memorial Cemetery Friends may call after 1 pm Tuesday
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Clarence E. Feckley
Seventh Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
Veterans Hospital
Iowa City
Harper
Veterans of Foreign Wars and Disabled Veterans
Lottie Barr Feckley
Sigourney
Kenneth
Keith
Muscatine
Mel Fass
Ethel Bousley
Myrtle Chedster
Mt. Vernon
Wash
Edith Gretter
Paso Robles
Calif
Brady Mortuary
Jack Oliver
First Christian Church
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Deaths: Lydia Petrak Vavra 1879 1956 Cedar Rapids area
Lydia Petrak Vavra 77 died at home 190 Twentieth Ave SW after a long illness. Born Fairfax township September 15 1879 she married Joseph F. Vavra July 22 1902. Survived by husband three daughters eight grandchildren ten great grandchildren three brothers and two sisters. Funeral 2 PM Tuesday at Janeba Funeral Home with Rev Zdenek F. Pauk. burial Czech National Cemetery. Friends may call.
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Lydia Petrak Vavra
Joseph F. Vavra
Twentieth Avenue
Fairfax Township
Cedar Rapids
Vavras
College Township
Milo Divishek
Frank Kriz
Charles Rohlena
Route 2
Ludwig Petrak
Mt. Vernon
Charles
Godfrey
Winthrop
Joseph F. Cerveny
Route 1
Frank Cerveny
Fairfax
Janeba Funeral Home
Zdenek F. Pauk
Czech National Cemetery
Death of Roy Thomas, Coe graduate, noted in obituary
Dr Hoyt Thomas of 1616 Maplewood Drive NE received word Sunday of the death of his brother Roy D Thomas who had been visiting his Altadena family. Roy a 1927 Washington High School graduate attended Coe College and suffered a long illness. Surviving Roy are his wife Nancy four daughters and father O L Thomas of San Jose formerly Cedar Rapids. his first wife Evelyn Bollinger a Coe graduate predeceased him. South Pasadena Wednesday.
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Hoyt Thomas
Maplewood Drive
Roy D. Thomas
Altadena
Calif
Roy Thomas
Washington High School
Coe College
Nancy
O. L. Thomas
San Jose
Cedar Rapids
Evelyn Bollinger
Coe
South Pasadena
Infant Terie Lynn Goodwater Born to Goodwater Family
Terie Lynn Goodwater is the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Goodwater of 636 Fifteenth Avenue. The announcement notes the newborn child in the family record.
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Terie Lynn Goodwater
Mrs
Donald L. Goodwater
Fifteenth Avenue
Obituary: Cedar Rapids Man Dies Early Monday
SE died early Monday in a Cedar Rapids hospital. Surviving, in addition to his parents, are two brothers John Allen and Gary Lee, and three grandparents Mr and Mrs Thomas Quigley and Mrs Mildred Corporan, all of Cedar Rapids. Graveside services in Cedar Memorial cemetery will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday, with the Rohn funeral home in charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
John Allen
Gary Lee
Thomas Quigley
Mildred Corporan
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Rohn
Funeral Services for Mrs. Martin E Feiden Held at First Lutheran
Services for Mrs. Martin E. Feiden of 2412 C Avenue NE will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday at First Lutheran Church conducted by Rev. Theodore Youngquist and Rev. Roger Johnson. Burial follows at Cedar Memorial Cemetery. Friends may call at the Turner Chapel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin E. Feiden
C Avenue NE
First Lutheran Church
Theodore Youngquist
Roger Johnson
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Turner Ichapel
Developer asks council to clarify paving policy
Cedar Rapids officials face a delay on plat approval as Robert Waples of Indian Creek Hills urges a clear city cost sharing rule for pavement. Public Improvements Commissioner Halvorson is absent. debate likely resumes after his return. A parallel case for Beverly Hill fifth addition also awaits action.
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Robert Waples
Indian Creek Hills Company
Indian Creek Hills Sixth
Cedar Rapids
Swede Halvorson
Waples
Indian Creek Hills
Noelridge
Halvorson
Park Avenue Realty Company
Beverly Hill Fifth Addition
Eisenhower to Seek One-Year Extension of Higher Excise Taxes
A Treasury aide said President Eisenhower will ask Congress to extend for one year the increased excise taxes enacted to fund the Korean War. Without extension the higher rates would end April 1. The taxes contribute about 750 million dollars yearly and apply to telephone and telegraph messages transportation beer liquor jewelry luggage furs and toilet preparations.
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Washington
INS
Treasury Department
Eisenhower
Congress
Breakin at Cecil Brothers Service Station
Cedar Rapids police probe a break in at the Cecil brothers service station on Sixth Street and Sixteenth Avenue SW. The thief took 379 dollars in cash and checks and two pistols, entering between 9 p.m. Saturday and 3 10 a.m. Sunday by smashing the glass above a window lock.
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Cedar Rapids
Cecil Brothers
Sixth Street
Sixteenth Avenue
Tales of the Texas Rangers broadcast schedule
The program schedule notes THE TALES OF THE TEXAS RANGERS airing at 6:00 p.m. on channel unspecified. The listing appears fragmentary and provides limited program details.
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THE
Texas Rangers
Chan
Courthouse Shigley Receives Maximum Sentence
Eli Shigley a 28 year old from Elizabeth New Jersey pled guilty to cashing a false 100 dollar check at a Cedar Rapids auto dealer. Judge Charles Pen ningroth sentenced him to not more than seven years in the Fort Madison state penitentiary after he asked for the maximum to “get straightened out.” Police traced his spending over ten months financed by others’ false checks.
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Charles Penningroth
Eli Shigley
Elizabeth
Shigley
Penningroth
Fort Madison State Penitentiary
Cedar Rapids
Wells Melton Held As Parole Violator
Wells Melton aged 24 of Cedar Rapids is jailed in Linn County for parole violation. Paroled from Anamosa reformatory since Sept 21 for assault with intent to commit rape, he was arrested by Deputy Harry Ackerman after a Cedar Rapids man reported a beating and robbery of about 150 dollars. The other two suspects remain at large.
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Wells Melton
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Oscar Story
Melton
Anamosa
Harry Ackerman
Ackerman
Joseph Satinsky
Satinsky
Mrs Gartland Pleads Innocent in Check Charge
A Mechanicsville woman Mrs Robert G Gartland pleaded innocent in Linn county district court to a false check charge. Judge Charles Penningroth lowered her bond to 1000 dollars after the arraignment. Police say she cashed a 229.34 dollar bad check at a Cedar Rapids store on November 15. Her husband remains in custody as the investigation continues and is likely to be arraigned Tuesday. The pair are accused of writing up to 4000 dollars in bad checks over six weeks and were arrested while buying groceries in a Cedar Rapids supermarket last Friday.
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Mechanicsville
Linn County
Robert G. Gartland
Charles Penningroth
Cedar Rapids
Man Pleads Guilty and Granted Parole in Forgery Case
Cedar Rapids man William C. Murphy pled guilty to cashing a forged $105 check in Cedar Rapids on August 1. Before Judge Charles Penningroth he received a 10 year sentence to the men’s reformatory and was placed on bench parole by the State Board of Parole after pleading guilty on Monday, having previously maintained innocence since September 18.
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Cedar Rapids
William C. Murphy
First Street SE
Charles Penningroth
City weighs bids for two new fire stations on C Street and Seventeenth Street
Council considers replacing the present station on C Street SW near Riverside Park with New No. 5 and closing the 404 Seventeenth Street SE station as New No. 6. Bond funds of 240000 will cover construction plus alarm systems and other equipment. Architect Brown reported a last minute plumbing issue affecting bids and possible deductions.
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C Street
Riverside Park
Seventeenth Street
W. J. Brown
Wilson Avenue
Brown
Bid Totals Across Electric Firms On EAST SIDE STATION
A list shows multiple electrical and construction firms with bid amounts for the East Side Station project. Notable bids include Kuta Electric, Paulson Electric, Simanek, Blahnik Construction, Zobac Construction, Kindernknecht Construction, and Galbraith Heating with figures ranging from the low thousands to over eighty thousand dollars.
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General — Blahnik
Newman Brothers
Morehead Construction
Kinderknecht
Milo Simanek
J. W. Darragh
R. P. Matthews
Tom Bowker and Son
Galbraith Heating
Acme Electric
Paulson Electric
Fan
General
O. F. Paulson
Blahnik Construction
Zobac Construction
Fandel Electric
Acme _ Electric
Kuta ‘Electric
Soviets Block West Berlin Train For First Time Since Lift
A British spokesman said Soviet forces at the East West border refused entry to a British military train from Berlin, turning it back 110 miles. An American train faced a two hour delay before passage was allowed, amid new border procedures.
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Berlin
West Germany
Yugoslav Troops Enter Port Said by Sea
A 720 strong Yugoslav battalion landed at Port Said to bolster the U.N. police force in Egypt. They were the first unit Britain and France allowed to enter Port Said by sea, coming from Yugoslavia. Officials expect the U.N. police force to reach 2,400 by Tuesday night.
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International News Service
Port Said
U.N
Egypt
Britain
France
Yugoslavia
Insecticide in Mud Pies Kills Child
An Ogden Utah AP report states one girl died and two siblings were critically ill after making mud pies with insecticide found in a container in their grandfather's orchard.
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Ogden, Utah
Boy 6 Sparks House Fire While Searching for Indians
In Long Beach AP report, Wayburn Mace, age six, used a lighted candle to search under his bed for Indians. The bed ignited flames. firemen quenched the blaze and blocked traffic on the Pacific Coast Highway for a quarter mile. The father offered a flashlight to his son.
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Long Beach
Wayburn Mace
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