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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1952
Page
1
Myer, behind on payments with $30 arrears for attorney fees, argues he owed nothing as he cared for his boys. He was sent to the state farm until he could raise $170 plus $6 costs and to begin $8 weekly payments. A conscientious inmate, he has spent four years as a hospital cook. Officials say only a governor’s pardon could free him unless he changes his mind.
Mayor Milo Sedlacek issues a proclamation setting October 26 to November 1 as Harmony Week in Cedar Rapids to promote pre election peace amid heated campaign days. The SPEBSQSA backed event on November 1 at Memorial Coliseum aims to foster unity through barber shop quartet singing.
Inglewood California and Englewood New Jersey race to be higher turnout on election day November 4. Englewood's 14 141 registered voters versus Inglewood's 20 119. Mayors George C England and Leslie Denning accept challenge with playful bet that Englewood sends snowballs if it loses and Inglewood oranges if defeated.
Edwin K Myer enters his fifth year at the Indiana state penal farm for contempt of court after refusing to pay $8 weekly child support. Judge John L Niblack previously sentenced him in Indianapolis on Oct 4 1948. Myer says he will stay until he believes it is Christ's will. His son Donald Kent Myer 13 died in a car crash last September leaving Phillip 12 to live with his mother who remarried in 1948 and custody was granted to her. Myer has offered no payment and notes his ex wife’s lawyers say he owes $120.
Sen. Estes Kefauver wrapped a seven stop air tour in New Hampshire urging voters to back Adlai Stevenson for president to preserve the 20th century. In Laconia about 600 heard him criticize the GOP as policyless and say Republican corruption would be unknown without Democratic disclosure.
Former German staff officer in Rommel’s North Africa, Major General Friedrich von Mel lenthin, proposes German South African Airlines Ltd in Johannesburg. He has resided in South Africa since 1950.
Dr. Wilson Compton director of international information departs soon to inspect global operations. The Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks saved two million dollars in three months via a work measurement system. House and Senate probes into government agency promotion practices may follow post office scandals in Chicago.
The article confirms Neptune is the farthest known planet orbiting the sun. It discusses its position beyond Uranus and its status as the outermost recognized planet in the solar system.
An eight foot monument dedicated to air men who answered the call medic but never returned stands beside a new helicopter landing strip. The plate lists American and South Korean medical corpsmen who died in fierce fighting on Old Baldy mountain. Pfc. James Vreeland of St. Paul Minnesota is named on the American side.
A fragment from a local page notes a call for political change with a focus on County Chairman elections. Readers are urged to consider new leadership as campaigns unfold and party dynamics shift.
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