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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1936
Page
6
Cedar Rapids attorney B D Silliman spoke to the Triton club at the YMCA on youth involvement in elections. He urged honesty in state government and cited inflated 1936 totals, rising state jobs, and growing government debt as dangers from the New Deal era.
The text argues that surrendering legislative authority to the President would create a dictatorship, insisting that Congress must retain its constitutional role and that any subterfuge to abrogate the Constitution is unacceptable. It frames the issue within concerns for constitutional checks and balances.
Wesley Angel reports a rare double crop from his tree at 1128 Twenty first avenue SW. Two dozen apples formed after a second bloom in July with Aug 15 fruit set. First harvest yielded yellow ripe apples, while the second crop are red and about crabapple size. Angel credits dry mid summer and subsequent heavy rains for the unusual twice yearly fruiting.
War department orders promote Lieut. Col. H. D. Higley to the rank of colonel effective October 1. Col. Higley, son of Mrs. E. A. Higley of 860 Seventeenth Street SE, is stationed at the Presidio of Monterey, California.
Milo Whanzlik on behalf of Alex Kasinsky sought a 20 foot no parking space in front of 117 First Street NE for loading. The council referred the issue to Public Safety Commissioner Benesh. A resolution to charge property owners for weed cutting and sidewalk repairs passed. Frank Cach was allowed to cut curb and create a parkway at 913-915 Second Street SE. The Cach Glass Co petitioned for similar work at 909-911 Second Street SE, referred to public improvements.
The city council on Thursday filed a communication from W P Nichols assistant right of way engineer for the state highway commission. Nichols asked the city to permit the commission to use a part of Nine street for highway work.
The council on Thursday referred a petition to rezone several properties along Fifth Avenue SE from residential to commercial between Tenth and Twelfth streets. The request was sent to the city plan commission.
City Building Inspector Otis Leefers told the council Thursday quarterly beer parlor inspections found all operating in approved fashion except for a few minor items in scattered establishments. Owners were asked to correct issues and a further report will follow. Quaker Oats asked council to approve a grade change on D avenue west of Third street NE for 180 feet. The matter was referred to the department of public improvements.
The council approved H. J. Blomquist request to send a water works representative to the Missouri Valley Section of the American Waterworks Association in Kansas City Missouri from October 26 to 28 to discuss water problems. Attending will be William Meaney waterworks chemist R. E. Norman chief accountant and Finance Commissioner L. F. Burgus Meaney will appear on the program.
R. E. Walker, manager of the Credit Guide and Adjustment company, was elected chairman of the mercantile bureau of the Chamber of Commerce at a Thursday morning meeting. The bureau will meet at 9:30 a.m. next Wednesday to receive nominating committee reports and hear updates on the program committee and by law revisions.
The treasury works on forms to collect 1 percent of wages and 1 percent of payrolls from 26 million workers under the old age pension section of the social security act. Regulations and forms likely await approval until late November or December.
Dr E Stanley Jones of India urged gradual abolition of denominationalism and a united church of Christ of America in Des Moines preaching mission drawing more than 4000. He pressed a united Christian resolve to renounce war and favor economic cooperation, after Rev J H Nightingale urged the peace issue be more openly discussed.
A scientific claim notes the world average precipitation reaches 16 million tons per second, combining snow and rain over the entire globe.
Mrs. John Petranek, 80, longtime Cedar Rapids resident, heads a large family with seven great and six great great grandchildren. She canned 42 pints and five quarts of mushrooms this season and sold some to regular customers. She recalls early days in the town and travels to the woods for mushrooms despite jokes from neighbors.
By resolution Thursday the Cedar Rapids city council set the speed limit on all bridges within city limits at twenty miles per hour to curb motorists racing across bridges to beat green lights at the opposite end.
Fine salt should be used to clean pearl-handled articles, which should then be polished with a chamois.
The Rev C E Chapman a young Canadian evangelist spoke Wednesday night at the Church of God on L avenue and Eighth street NW. He said the two witnesses are the Word and the Spirit and this view is supported by scriptures. He warned that divided Protestantism stems from human disciplines rather than the Word and Spirit. He announced tonight’s topics include The Man of Sin and The Mark of the Beast in the study of Revelations chapters twelve to fourteen.
Shanghai reports Chinese women continue using foreign cosmetics as the government pushes domestic production. For the first half of 1936 imports of cosmetics including face paint powder lipsticks and perfumes totalled 500000 customs gold units, up 85 percent from the prior year.
At the South Carolina state fair Gen E N Yarbrough 92 told fellow Confederate Veterans he commands that the world is softening up He invited several others to ride with him in an airplane but they refused calling them sissies.
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