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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1954
Page
2
The item lists high and low temperatures across multiple cities on October 10 1954 with forecasts for cloudy conditions and scattered showers. It includes dawn and dusk times and wind data from Municipal airport. Interleaved are birth announcements for families in Cedar Rapids and surrounding towns with names and dates of newborns and residences.
Funeral services for John L. Thomas 88 and Lester Dodd 57 are set for Monday at 2 p.m. at Congregational church in Traer. Thomas, Tama County pioneer, died Friday. Dodd died Saturday in a Waterloo hospital of cancer. Burial in Buckingham Cemetery.
Norfolk report says the 6214 ton American ore freighter Mormackite capsized in a gale and sank with 48 crew. Only 12 were saved after a desperate battle. 9 bodies recovered. Survivors reported bobbing in life jackets and clinging to debris as sharks attacked some. Rescue progress was halted with searches deemed largely complete.
Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield said convictions will pile up daily as indictments rise nationwide over the Federal Housing Administration scandal. He spoke after a $25-a-plate fund raiser for Tennessee Republican congressional candidates, calling the housing loan situation the biggest scandal in U.S. history and blaming laxity in the Truman and Roosevelt administrations.
Grady Norton, the nation's top hurricane expert and director of the federal storm warning service, died in Miami at age 60 from a brain hemorrhage after directing warnings during the 125 mph Hurricane Hazel. He had battled illness but remained at work through the season, suffering a stroke early Saturday and passing at about 7:20 a.m.
City briefs report the Cedar Rapids Real Estate Board will meet Monday at noon in the Roosevelt hotel. Advertisements note Best TV and Radio Service contact Bill Grow at 4-4863.
At 5:45 the program includes a dinner at 6:30. Participants are Don Fahrenkrog Henry Haegg Jr Robert Ford Ed Anderson Bill Malloy Earl Logan Bob Olson Harold Griess Jack Foster and John Eichhorn.
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson urged improved marketing to solve dairy industry problems. He said price supports alone won t solve worries, advocating efficient production realistic pricing aggressive selling research and education as the real answer. He noted 75 percent parity supports, rising consumption, and declining government purchases and described a farm program focused on market production not storage.
Democratic congressional leaders Lyndon B. Johnson and Sam Rayburn sent a telegram to President Eisenhower promising that there will be no cold war against him by Democrats if they gain control of Congress. They criticized his Friday night remarks linking a Democratic victory to a potential cold war and defended cooperation with his administration.
Mrs Elizabeth Hartz Barton of Rock Island died in Moline Friday after five decades in Cedar Rapids. Services set for Monday at Trinity Episcopal Rock Island with burial at Chippinnock cemetery. Robert Cook and Sutherland Cook named pallbearers. Frank Hajek 83 retired Ely farmer died Friday. services Monday 2 p.m. at Brush chapel with burial at Truhlar cemetery. calling hours noted.
Truman praised Jackson for wartime service and war crimes trials. Jackson received honorary degrees from Warsaw Brussels Dartmouth Syracuse and others. Eisenhower may appoint a interim judge to join the court by December 6 as it weighs ending school segregation while a new Senate sits. Speculation grows he may retire after a prior heart attack.
In Butte Anaconda Montana union and company negotiators announced a complete agreement to end six week strike against Anaconda Copper Mining properties in Butte Anaconda and Great Falls. The settlement was reached with the International Union of Mine Mill and Smelterworkers but terms were not immediately announced.
A five month AP survey of traffic mishaps in Rome shows 95 pedestrians die for every five motorists killed in a city without a speed limit.
Petersen, held in Alexandria city jail after arraignment, refused a lawyer or hearing again. FBI says Petersen was fired from a secret government job Oct 1, eight days before arrest. The piece notes NSA monitors global communications and broke WWII Japanese code.
Mirl J Morrison 56 was pronounced dead on arrival at St Luke s hospital after police picked him up from a Cedar Rapids street near Third Ave and Fourth St SE He told officers he had been drinking and grew ill en route to the station An autopsy was planned and relatives in Appleton Wis were notified
London reports that the British Medical Association addresses complaints about cold and uncomfortable doctors' waiting rooms and calls for improvements to patient comfort.
Edwin S. Smith a former NLRB economist known as a top Soviet propaganda outlet was contracted by India's Washington embassy for publicity via his Eastfoto company. Officials said they will reexamine the arrangement amid shock over his background and alleged behind the Iron Curtain clients.
At the United Lutheran Church in America biennial convention in Toronto delegates debated widening women’s roles in church service A plan to allow women to become deaconesses was proposed provoking opposition from delegates who insisted such roles be lifelong commitments.
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