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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1955
Page
2
Temperatures and precipitation listed for several cities with forecasts for Iowa and surrounding areas. Births and a long list of local police reports including citations and fines. Local services scheduled in multiple towns with burial details and funeral home notes.
Dr. Kyer and Burma faced questions as the interim board panel heard charges of subordination and uncooperation. Each side submitted briefs while Chairman Stevens moderated, noting the panel would hear each party separately. Kyer cited resignation after a governor meeting, but the committee did not pursue that line of inquiry.
Denver ins reports three court appointed defense attorneys won a further continuance for John Gilbert Graham’s arraignment on the dynamiting murder charge. Judge Keating set the new date for Dec 9 and required all motions by Dec 5 for speedy trial consideration.
Dollie Comried wife of Andrew Comried 627 I avenue NW Cedar Rapids died in a Cedar Rapids hospital at 5 p.m. Sunday after a brief illness Born July 4 1901 in Nebraska she married April 21 1926 in Vinton Surviving are her husband four daughters Irene McDowell Marilyn Long Ellen Kay and Charlotte Ann Comried three sons Ernest William Montgomery Melvin and Harold Lloyd Comried a sister Geraldine Edaburn a granddaughter Kathy Ann Knapp three brothers Charles Ernest Eadburn Burl Edaburn six grandsons and seven granddaughters She was a member of the Christian church Services will be conducted at Center Point Christian church at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday by Rev Virgil W Neville Burial will be in Dunkard cemetery Friends may call at the Turner Ichapel until 9 p.m. Tuesday.
Mrs Libbie Cabalka 64 lifelong Cedar Rapids resident died Sunday after a long illness. Born December 14, 1890, she married George Cabalka in 1930. Survived by husband and two Cedar Rapids sisters. Services Wednesday at Sinclair Memorial Presbyterian Church. Burial Oak Hill Cemetery. Friends may call Brush Chapel Monday after 6:30 p.m. until 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Hollywood AP reports John Peterson thirteen climbed a 250 foot quarry wall and got stuck forty feet from the top. John Lack fourteen followed to twenty feet short of rescue while Officer Sterling La Bare joined the effort. After a half hour the trio was rescued by firemen lowering ropes in sequence. all escaped unharmed.
Jane Boyce, 39, rushed to aid farmer Charles Oliver when a enraged bull attacked him. She smashed a walking stick, then stared the animal down and ordered it to leave. The bull fled. Oliver escaped with minor injuries.
Washington AP Daniel A Reed a New York Republican who survived a heart attack last May said on Sunday he will seek re election next year and expects President Eisenhower can do the same Reed is in his thirty seventh year in Congress.
Judge Moore ruled that hospital pathology and X ray work is the practice of medicine and must be performed by qualified physicians, not by corporations. The decision may set a nationwide precedent on how medical specialists relate to hospitals, amid AMA and hospital association debates.
Rubin Thomas, 27, admitted to police he shot and killed his wife Edith, 35, and wounded two of his stepchildren after they moved his books from the living room to a back porch. He was held without charge. The stepchildren were expected to recover.
Across Davenport and surrounding areas, several young people are killed or injured in weekend and Saturday night vehicle crashes. Charles Clancey 20 Des Moines died Sunday after injuries from a November 20 Adel crash. George Dexter 17 Davenport area died Sunday. Cecil Batey 26 New Sharon killed when his car left Highway 92 east of Ashland. Harry D. McCreedy 65 Packwood died in a Packwood county road collision. Virgil Young 56 Indianola fatally injured in a Saturday crash near Indianola. Myron, 27, survived after his car struck a tree four miles northwest of Indianola. two 16-year-olds hospitalized with one in critical condition.
Boston doctors warn of an intestinal ailment linked to prolonged use of strong irritant laxatives. Two University of Buffalo physicians say such use can mimic ulcerative colitis enteritis or intestinal tuberculosis on X rays. They urge questioning patients with inflammatory signs about laxative history to avoid misdiagnosis and focus treatment on removing the irritant cause.
Washington AP Neil McElroy chairman of the White House education conference said delegates were not stacked on federal school aid and that such aid would be an important but not the only issue. He noted states select delegates differently and emphasized teacher shortages as a major stubborn problem alongside funding. Mothers fathers teachers and business people form the 11 400 delegate cross section. Federal aid is set for discussion Wednesday in a comparatively minor program slot.
Berlin reports East Germany displayed 750 famed paintings seized by Russians at war's end and returned last month. This exhibit underscores restitution of cultural property and highlights postwar diplomacy between East Germany and Russia.
Courthouse evidence was being submitted to a jury Monday in the drunk driving case of Michael Calabret, 48, of 3500 Prairie Drive NE. He was arrested June 10 in Marion after his car hit a parked truck. a prior DUI conviction dated August 27, 1946 appears in records.
George Buck of Cedar Rapids told the sheriff's office Sunday that a break in occurred at a cabin on an island in the Chain Lakes. Entry was gained by shooting off a padlock and a shed was broken into. Missing items included shells, a Civil War sword relic, a Japanese rifle bayonet, hunting knife, two pocket knives, and a box of fish hooks. The break in likely happened November 19 or 20.
George E. Kohl a Linn county jailer aged 59 died Monday morning after being stricken while on duty He lived at 110 Center Point road NE and had served about two years as jailer previously acting as Lisbon town marshal for several years
Judge Floyd Philbrick entered judgment Monday for The Gazette Company against Gilbert V. Glenn Jr formerly of the Independent Liquidation Company. The case was an account suit.
James Ampey a 23 year old Black man from Cedar Rapids was released on bond after being cleared of a series of Eastern Iowa holdups. He faced a delinquency of a minor charge for housing a 15 year old Cedar Rapids youth in Des Moines. The youth was placed in juvenile court.
Officials of National City Lines and the bus drivers union will meet at the Montrose hotel at 10 30 a m to seek an end to the Cedar Rapids bus strike that began October 13. James P Jeffrey federal mediator will conduct the session.
Demonstration fatal incident in Milford Connecticut reports Charles Hickey aged nine died after he threw a match into a can of gasoline to prove to his brother and sister that he could set off an explosion.
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