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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1954
Page
10
The 1954 Iowa motor vehicle death toll rose past 500 after two more fatalities were reported. The latest victims include Sister Mary Finn, a teacher at Our Lady.
A report lists a fatal crash near Carroll involving Sister Mary Finn and Sister Mary Coronata with injuries to Sister Mary Coronata, and a separate fatal incident near Council Bluffs where 14 year old Sally Peterson was killed after being struck by a pickup driven by Lloyd Danielson.
About 200 residents in the Ridgeview Park area north of Davenport voted Tuesday night to form a town. A petition needing 25 signatures will be filed in Scott County district court to block Davenport's potential annexation. Upon filing, a commissioners board will organize an election on incorporation.
The Iowa State Board of Control asked for a 40 percent rise in legislative appropriations for 14 state institutions for 1955 56, totaling 16 500 000 per year. The plan includes a 40 hour work week, more staff, and repairs to convert mental health institutes from custodial to curative facilities. Institutions under its jurisdiction include the state penitentiary reformatories training schools and several mental health hospitals.
A study of the Iowa State Conservation Commission will be conducted the week of Oct. 25 by Dr. Ira N. Gabrielson, president of the Wildlife Management Institute. The analysis will cover activities, programs, finances, and efficiency, with focus on past recommendations and their implementation. The institute will bear the cost.
Sigourney reports Mrs Wilford Conner is a patient at an Ottumwa hospital with details limited to her admission status and location.
Sioux City report says Attorney General Leo A. Hoegh a Republican candidate for governor told supporters that well educated children are Iowa's greatest asset. He called a national program for child education his top priority and urged emphasis on schooling for the state and nation.
Congress man Thomas E. Martin Republican senatorial candidate told Monona county Republicans in Onawa that Eisenhower administration watershed programs mark major steps in agricultural soil and water conservation and flood control. He said the legislation authorizes cooperative federal state action to address upstream soil and water issues and flood prevention.
Democratic candidate Clyde E. Herring told a Des Moines audience at the Jewish Temple that the Republican Beardsley administration failed to plan or implement a program, resulting in low state stature in industry, employment, and highway modernization. He cited 60 percent GOP primary opposition and Iowa ranking 37th in industrial worker growth.
Iowa Senator Guy Gillette, seeking re election, spoke in Ottumwa about a growing threat to small business. He urged creating a permanent Senate small business committee to work full time on legislation to protect independent competition and accused the rules committee of pigeon holing the small business committee’s resolution.
Democratic candidate Albert J. Loveland told supporters in Bloomfield that Iowa has waited 16 years for farm family benefits. He accused Governor Beardsley’s administration of blocking change and said Hoegh defends the Benson plan of reduced farm income as welfare policy.
Des Moines governor Beardsley named a 10 member committee to aid foreign refugees in locating in Iowa under 1953 relief act. Mary Huncke of Des Moines was named chairman, and the panel includes three women. Tipton honors C. S. Miller for 33 years as school board secretary.
Iowa City reports two former University of Iowa students published books via New York publishers. Merle Miller, a Montour native and 1935 37 39 40 SUI attendee, released Reunion from Viking Press. his sixth book. Dale Kramer from Sigourney, 1929 30 SUI attendee, issued The Heart of O Henry with Rinehart and Company. he also wrote Heywood Broun and Ross and the New Yorker.
ATKINS public school hosts an open house Thursday at 7 30 p m with music from the band and vocal groups A luncheon will be served and teachers will guide visitors MONONA junior class presents Men Are Like Street Cars Monday and Tuesday in the school auditorium CALMAR Ramshackle Inn junior class play Monday and Tuesday evenings at the high school gym AURORA The Funny Brats presented Friday at 8 p m in the high school auditorium
The Bureau of Internal Revenue announced that Dr. Stanley W. Dusdicker, a West Des Moines physician and surgeon, has paid federal income tax liens totaling 114,081 dollars.
Voters in the Cog gon area will decide on a second school merger proposal for Coggon and parts of Stone and Ryan districts in Linn and Delaware counties. The boundary changes reflect a different plan from the June 7 election where consolidation failed. Polls run noon to 7 p.m. at the Coggon school and at private homes in Red Stone and Ryan areas.
Dubuque University kicks off a three day homecoming with the play The Importance of Being Earnest at 8:15 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Coronation of the homecoming queen is at 7:18 p.m. Friday. A campus sign dedication and bonfire pep rally are scheduled Friday, with a 10 a.m. parade and a 1:30 p.m. football game against Dubuque-Central College at Chalmers Field.
Des Moines and eastern Iowa counties show renewed bond buying with September totals rising from 1953. Iowa state progress reaches 85 percent of quota as nine month sales total 119 560 163 dollars. Counties report varied percentages of their quotas led by Linn and Tama with notable figures in Johnson, Clayton, and Jones.
Judge Phil R. Wilkinson dismissed the jury in the murder trial of Harlan J. Schmuck 38 of Knoxville after evidence began. The judge ordered a sanity hearing next week amid defense claims of insanity in the June 2 stabbing of his mother Fay Bolen 53. Schmuck formerly stayed at the Mt Pleasant Mental Health Institute and may use insanity as a defense.
Decorah newsstand dealers plan to remove so called trashy comics from shelves with citywide cooperation. A joint advisory committee of the Decorah Ministerial Association and the PTA will oversee the effort and a public forum is set for the PTA meeting at Decorah High School Thursday at 8 p.m.
Mrs Eldo Schrader of Luana has purchased the Hare Ry Theisen residence, acquiring full ownership of the property.
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