Weather and notices from Octcal Iowa area bulletin
Tuesday highs and lows with scattered precipitation appear across cities like Bismarck Chicago New York and Denver extending into Iowa towns Oelwein Postville Clarion and Tipton. The forecast calls for partly cloudy days cooling later week with temperatures near normals and rain Thursday night through Monday. Community notices include funeral service details births and local court actions with fines for minor traffic offenses and a few suspended sentences.
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Bismarck
Fennapolis
Chicago
Orleans
Denver
New York
Duluth
Maha
L. Angeles
A ‘Hoenix
Miami
Seattle
Iowa
Deaths Two Cedar Rapids residents former resident Ely Weare
Two obituary notices from Cedar Rapids report deaths of Mrs Ely Weare 88 formerly of Cedar Rapids who died in Williamsport Pa services set at First Presbyterian Church 10 30 a m Thursday burial Oak Hill calling hours at Turner Spa Wednesday Esther L Roman 42 of 2631 Fifth Avenue SE died Tuesday born Sterling Ill November 9 1914 lived in Cedar Rapids 38 years employed 18 years as hostess at Sheraton Montrose Hotel survives husband mother and father and brother all in Cedar Rapids member of Sinclair Memorial Presbyterian and Praha Rebekah lodge services Chapel of Memories Cedar Memorial Cemetery 11 a m Friday entombment in Chapel of Memories callers may visit Janeba Funeral Home after 4 p m Thursday family suggests Cancer Fund contributions
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Ely Weare
Cedar Rapids
Williamsport
First Presbyterian Church
Theodore Lilley
Oak Hill
Turner Spa
Esther L. Roman
Fifth Avenue SE
Sterling, Ill
Sheraton-Montrose Shotel
Anna Oncken
Edward J.oncken
Sterling
Edward C. Oncken
Sinclair Memorial Presbyterian Church
Praha Rebekah Lodge
Chapel of Memories
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Ralph B. Colton
Janeba Funeral
Cancer Fund
Water main break shuts downtown McGregor services
A three foot break in a city water main halted downtown McGregor water supply Wednesday. Repair crews aimed to restore service later in the day after water spurted through brick paving at about 3 p.m. The break affects the main feeding the reservoir, with outlying districts urged to conserve until repairs finish.
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The
Gazette
Mcgregor
Whiskey and Water Scuffle Hits Columbus Fish Bait House
In Columbus Mississippi Willie Lash Jr drove a city water wagon into the fish bait house owned by Mrs Iva Barrow after leaving the water wagon. He was jailed on a charge of driving while intoxicated.
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Columbus, Miss
Willie Lash, Jr
Lash
Iva Barrow
Volcano erupts near Galapagos islands reported by MacKay Radio
MacKay Radio reported a volcano eruption Tuesday in the Galapagos Islands off Ecuador. An explosion and smoke described as resembling an atomic blast was witnessed from the scene.
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New York
MacKay Radio
Galapagos Islands
Ecuador
David MacGregor Rites Held for Cedar Rapids Resident
Cedar Rapids resident David MacGregor died Wednesday after a brief illness. Born June 23, 1880 in Glasgow Scotland he lived at 808 Twelfth Avenue SW for 31 years. Survived by Eleanor Stanfield his wife two sons T A MacGregor and Co L MacGregor and two daughters Mrs N A Potter and Mrs W B Avodevich. Services Friday at 1 30 p m Turner chapel with Rev Walter Cerka of Sharon Evangelical United Brethren church. Burial Cedar Memorial. Friends may call at the chapel.
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David MacGregor
Eighteenth Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Glasgow
Scotland
Eleanor Stanfield
Winnipeg
Canada
MacGregor
Edward Edinger Stone Company
Armstrong’s
T. A
Harriett May Brandsfield Dies at Cedar Rapids Home
Harriett May Brandsfield of 845 Oakland Road NE Cedar Rapids resident 50 years died Tuesday in an Anamosa nursing home. Born August 22 1889 Pawnee City Nebraska she belonged to the GIA B of LE and the B of LF and E. Sister Mrs Ella Johnson Centerville survives. Services 130 p.m. Friday at Chapel of Memories Cedar Memorial Cemetery with Rev Jack Oliver First Christian Church. Friends may call Brady mortuary 1 p.m. Thursday to noon Friday.
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Harriett May Brandsfield
Oakland Road
Cedar Rapids
Anamosa
Pawnee City
Neb
GIA
Ella Johnson
Centerville
Chapel of Memories
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Jack Oliver
First Christian Church
Brady Mortuary
Young Sharon Van Slyke Dies of Leukemia
Sharon Kay Van Slyke aged 7, daughter of Mr and Mrs George E Van Slyke of 908 Sixteenth Avenue SE, Cedar Rapids, died Tuesday morning from leukemia. Survived by eight sisters Patricia Cynthia Margaret Randie Bonnie Diane Marcia Debbie and two brothers Edward Dennis. Services 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Broshen Chapel with Capt J F LaLone. burial Lisbon Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
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Sharon Kay van Slyke
George E. van Slyke
Sixteenth Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
Erskine School
Patricia
Cynthia
Margaret
Randie
Bonnie
Diane
Marcia
Debbie
Edward
Dennis
Broshen
J. F. LaLone
Lisbon Cemetery
Services for Russell Floyd Held Thursday at Turner Chapel
Russell Floyd of 126 Third Avenue SW died Monday. Services conducted at Turner Chapel at 1 30 p.m. Thursday by Rev J Richard Wagner of the First Congregational Church. Burial Cedar Memorial with VFW military rites. Friends may call at the chapel.
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Russell Floyd
Third Avenue
Turner Chapel
J. Richard Wagner
First Congregational Church
Cedar Memorial
VFW
Prokop Michael Koval Services Set in Des Moines
Services for Prokop Michael Koval who died at Des Moines Sunday will be held at Janeba funeral home at 2 p.m. Thursday led by Rt. Rev. Msgr. D J Lenihan. Burial will be in Czech National. Friends may call at the funeral home.
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Prokop Michael Koval
Des Moines
Janeba
D. J. Lenihan
Telephone Union Talks Continued In Omaha
Negotiators extended the contract between the Communications Workers of America and Northwestern Bell Telephone Company for 24 hours to midnight Wednesday. An Alegone company official, G A Holmes, said progress was evident. The talks affect about 20 000 workers across Iowa Nebraska Minnesota and the Dakotas.
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Omaha
Neb
Communications Workers of America
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Alepnene Company
G. A. Holmes
Iowa
Nebraska
Minnesota
Dakotas
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Sears
Teamsters Union
Boston
McClellan
Holmes
Roy Webber
NLRB
Webber
Rohrdanz
Sears Entertainment For Teamsters Under Fire At Senate Probe
Sears Roebuck executives faced questions over lavish entertainment for top Teamsters including Dave Beck and funding of his trip to Dan Tobin's funeral in 1955. Witnesses described payments through Nathan Shefferman and anti union campaigns in Boston stores, with Sears denying improper aims but conceding concerns over public perception.
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Washington
INS
Sears Roebuck and Co
Dave Beck
Dan Tobin
W. W. Tudor
Senate
Beck
Chicago
Nathan Shefferman
Robert F. Kennedy
Shefferman
Sears
Tobin
Tudor
Boston
Thomas McDermott
Physics teachers questioned on communism in Senate hearings
MEMPHIS Tennessee. A Fayette IA university physics teacher Phillip J. Lorenz Jr. invoked the Fifth Amendment 16 times during questions about communism while another witness Richard K. Stoverman faced similar questions. They taught at Le Moyne College in Memphis and now hold positions in Chicago. Lorenz denied party membership and defended his campus work as highly respected.
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Memphis
Tenn
Upper Iowa University
Fayette
Congressional
Phillip J. Lorenz, Jr
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
South
Lorenz
Richard K. Stoverman
Chicago
LeMoyne College
Stoverman
Memphis Negro College
No Early Verdict In Girard's Case
Tokyo reports indicate prosecutors may seek a guilty verdict and a five to seven year prison term for U S Army specialist William S. Girard in the fatal shooting of a Japanese woman at the Somagahara firing range. The trial resumes in Maebashi with a final session planned for November 5 and a verdict expected within ten days.
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Tokyo
INS
William S. Girard
Maebashi
Kyodo
Girard
Streator
Somagahara
Japan
Italian President to Visit Britain Next May
Italian President Giovanni Gronchi and his wife will pay a state visit to Britain in May. The formal trip aims to strengthen bilateral ties and foster cultural and economic links between Rome and London.
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London
Giovanni Gronchi
Britain
United Fund Advances Toward Goal in Cedar Rapids Marion
The Cedar Rapids Marion United Fund neared its target with an additional 9 874 in pledges from the pattern gifts division, raising the unofficial total to 338 036 11 dollars about 69 percent of the goal. A final reports luncheon is planned for Friday at the Chamber of Commerce.
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Cedar Rapids
Chamber of Commerce
U S Steel Posts Record Q3 Net Income of 97.6 Million
United States Steel Corp reports third quarter net income of 97.56 million dollars, 1.70 per share, vastly above last year's 34.79 million. The result followed a steel price hike and wage increases effective July 1, with a 0.75 dollar dividend declared payable December 10 to holders of record November 8.
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NEW York
United States Steel Corporation
Po Pdcy
Jin
Jet bomber crew chiefs are teenagers at Pease AFB
At Pease Air Force Base New Hampshire nine airmen aged 20 to 24 serve as crew chiefs for three B 47 Stratojet bombers valued at nearly two and a half million dollars They flew in the SAC Bombing and Navigation Competition which began Oct 31 and ends soon The article notes some objection to teenagers handling such equipment but the Air Force trusts them with this responsibility
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Pease Air Force Base
N.H
U.S. Air Force
Night Dwellers: Arab Dogs Roam No Man's Land
In Jerusalem’s no-man's-land surrounding the New City, hungry dogs and stray cats cross nightly from Jordan into Israel to raid garbage and feeds on the edge of slums. Israeli vet teams try to poison the invaders, but logistical rules complicate efforts. A stray rooster later crossed, was claimed by Jordanian forces, and returned to Mandelbaum Square.
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No Man's Land
Jerusalem
No-Man’s-Land
Israel
Judean
Old City
No-Man's-Land
Jordan
Arab Legionnnaire
No Man’s Land
New Jerusalem
Mandelbaum
Is Iraelis
Mixed Armistice Commission
Arab Legionnaires
Mandelbaum Square
Labor group convention speakers outline agenda
The convention program lists speakers including Daniel J. Healy John W. Livingston and AFL national officers. Iowa Governor Herschel Loveless is set to speak after the 6:50 p.m. banquet. Friday features Don Chapman of the National Farmers Union and Jack E. McCoy leader of the union's political education committee. Saturday brings Oren Staley and Merwin Croad.
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Teamsters Union
Mills
Daniel J. Healy
John W. Livingston
AFL
Don Chapman
National Farmers Union
Jack E. McCoy
Oren Staley
National Farmers Organization
Merwin Croad
Caesar the boxer trapped in yard hole heads to rescue
Caesar, a large boxer in Hopkinsville Kentucky, stuck his head in a hole in a vacant lot and spent the night trapped. A welder freed him after wrapping the dog in a wet asbestos sheet to shield him from heat.
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Caesar
Hopkinsville
Sheriff and outlaw clash on Tombstone Territory broadcast
Tonight at 7 30 p.m. Channel 9 airs a Western showdown as the sheriff confronts an outlaw during a trail crew encounter on Tombstone Territory. The episode promises tense standoffs and decisive actions in a classic frontier setting.
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Tombstone ‘Territory
Channel 9
Cedar Rapids youths sentenced for break in
Three 17 year olds were sentenced in district court Tuesday after pleading guilty to breaking and entering. Donald P. Carlin and Donald K. Chapman received 10 year sentences in the men's reformatory at Anamosa and were paroled to the Iowa State Board of Parole. Michael A. Blair was given until Friday to enter a plea. Arrested Tuesday by Deputy Whittemore, they were accused of breaking into two Linn county houses last week. Several items including three guns a record player and a radio were recovered.
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Cedar Rapids
Donald P. Carlin
Spruce Avenue
Donald K. Chapman
Harold Drive
Anamosa
Maxwell
Iowa State Board of Parole
Michael A. Blair
Forty-second Street
Ise
$11,000 Damage Suit Against Rock Island
Beverly Wingerson and Thelma Smith sue the Rock Island railroad in district court for 11,000 claiming negligence caused a car train crash on Aug. 25 at Fourth street and Eleventh avenue SE. Wingerson seeks 1,300 for her auto loss and 6,700 for injuries. Smith seeks 3,000 for injuries. Plaintiffs seek a jury trial.
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Rock Island Railroad
Beverly Wingerson
Thelma Smith
Miss Wingerson
Fourth Street
Eleventh Avenue SE
Miss Smith
Wingerson
Plantiffs
Jury rules for defendant in Lisbon eye injury suit
A jury in Lisbon district court found in favor of defendant William Zearing Jr. after a three and a half hour deliberation in a $13,747.50 personal damage case filed by Alfred Beyer. The case stems from a September 20, 1954 clash at the North Side tavern in Lisbon and Beyer’s claim of left eye loss.
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William Zearing, Jr
Lisbon
Alfred Beyer
Beyer
Zearing
North Side
Man Pleads Innocent To Forgery Charge
Cedar Rapids man Theodore W. Croy, 29, pled innocent in district court on a forgery charge. He is accused of attempting to pass a forged $142.30 check dated Oct. 20 to Ware and McDonald Oil Co. The check was drawn on Peoples Bank and Trust Company.
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Cedar Rapids
Theodore W. Croy
Fourteenth Avenue
Ware and McDonald Oil Company
Sixteenth Avenue
Peoples Bank and Trust Company
Four suits dismissed in district court
On Wednesday in district court the plaintiff Aud rey M. Manson dismissed an information for contempt and a motion for citation against William R. Manson. Bette J. Elgars had her divorce petition against William F. Elgars dismissed. Two damage suits were also dismissed: one by Thomas C. Senneff against Cedar Rapids Builders Inc and another by George R. Uh against L. A. Hobbs and Kenneth Lee.
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William R. Manson
Audrey M. Manson
Bette J. Elgars
William F. Elgars
Thomas C. Senneff
Cedar Rapids Builders, Inc
George R. Uh
L. A. Hobbs
Kenneth Lee
Man Bound Over On Embezzlement Charge In Auto Sale Case
William E. Meskimen was bound over to the grand jury on a charge of embezzlement of mortgaged property. He allegedly attempted to sell an automobile owned by Charles Kriz without Kriz's permission.
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William E. Meskimen
Grand Jury
Sying
Charles Kriz
Kriz
Drunk driving fined in district court. several awards noted
Oscar Bensch, 42, not residing at 308 First Avenue NW, was fined $300 in district court Tuesday on a drunk driving charge. Esther Van Meter won $720.66 in a written agreement suit against Alfred R. Berry. Mrs. Mable Connor was awarded $613 in a loan suit against Russell DeLancy.
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First Avenue NW
Oscar Bensch
Esther van Meter
Alfred R. Berry
Mable Connor
Russell DeLancy
Radar power creates hazard at Hill Air Force Base
Lt Col W L Borden, Air Defense Command radiation chief, says modern radar uses megawatt power and high frequency signals that can light a house bulb at 70 yards. He notes radar radiation hazards demand special study due to the power and X-ray band levels involved.
Policemen's Ball With Eddy Howard in Cedar Rapids
Eddy Howard will headline the twenty fifth annual Policemen's Ball in Cedar Rapids at the Armar ballroom on Monday. Proceeds benefit the widows and orphans fund of the Policemen's Protective Association. A floor show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets available in advance or at the door.
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America
Cedar Rapids
Eddy Howard
Armar Ballroom
Widows’ and Orphans’ Fund
Policemen’s Protective Association
Armar
Memorial Coliseum
Mother Goose Parade Planned in El Cajon California
El Cajon prepares for its eleventh annual Mother Goose Parade on November 24 with 120 plus entries. More than 50 floats feature nursery rhymes or fictional characters from children's books. About 40 girls from four area high schools compete for Cinderella Princess, crowned amid parade week events. merchants provide prizes. The program urges adults to let children pass first.
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EL Cajon
Calif
Camp Fire Girls
Nashua Man Dies Of Crash Injuries
Leo Crahan of Nashua dies in a Charles City hospital from injuries suffered October 18 in an automobile crash that also killed his wife Mary aged 62. The collision at highway 14 and a county road near Charles City involved Wilson Clark and Myron Eikenberg of Greene, who were injured. Crahan, 66, is brother to C. W. Crahan the U S marshal for northern Iowa. Services are pending in Charles City.
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Oelwein
Leo Crahan
Nashua
Charles City
Mary
Crahan
Wilson Clark
Clark
Myron Eikenberg
Greene
Highway 14
C. W.crahan
U.S
Northern
Iowa
New Mexico Town Fights For Survival
Columbus New Mexico fights to keep Southern Pacific rail service after cutoff of east west trains. Residents appeal to state regulators and plan higher actions as the town, near Palomas and the Mexican border, seeks to preserve its last link to the outside world amid a slow recovery in agriculture and a minimal local economy.
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Columbus
N. M
New Mexico
Pancho Villa
Southern Pacific Railroad
State Corporation Commission
Palomas
Mexico
Camp Furlong
United States
Rio Grande
Villa
John Pershing
Southern Pacific
Mimbres Valley
Bill Gore
Los Angeles
Planning of Both Interstate Route Legs Is Approved
The Iowa Highway Commission, in a 3-2 vote, approves preliminary engineering on the Neola Council Bluffs leg of Interstate 80. The move depends on the U S Bureau of Roads allowing construction on both Neola Council Bluffs and Neola Loveland legs. Commissioners Beck Lundy Larsen vote for the plan. Malone Brice oppose.
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C.R. Weather
Howard Storms
Lat Methodist Church
Hintz
Postville
Ervin Hughes
Schutte
Sirourney
Walter Ellis
Delta
Delta Methodist Church
Garrett Cemetery
Belle Plaine
Clay IC. Hevener
Peffers Funeral
Oak Hill Cemetery
Tipton
Charles J. Zousel
Sheets and Dahn Funeral Home
Oxford
Joseph High
Kucera
St. Mary’s Church
Csisececoes
Mississippi
LaCrosse
Lansing
Dam
Dubuque
Keokuk
Hotchkiss
Robert
Butch Avenue
Hamilton
Roger
Twelfth Avenue
Butcher
John
Sixth Street
St. Luke's
Kolar
Leonard
Center Point
Deaver
David
A Avenue
Schroeder
Kenneth
Coppess
Donald
Stanwood
Netolicky
Henry
Thirty-sixth Avenue
Allen
Arthur
Eleventh Avenue
Ramsay
Larry
Vine Avenue
Jones
Harlan
Robert W. Koutny and
Barbara A. Hellwig
Richard Merrifield
Old Marion Road
William Johnson
Seventeenth Street
Louis Cronin
Marion
Fay Kramer
Walker
Millard Shipley
Waterloo
Jane Poohl
B Avenue
John Fauset
First Avenue
Betty Coquilette
Fifteenth Street
Robert Simmons
Fifth Street
Joyce Shahan
Karin Lehman
James Rossey
Thirty-first
Bernard Riesenbeck
Loren Hackley
Edward Roman
McGregor Water
Sharon van Slyke
Floyd
Koval Services
Teamsters
Robert E. Thompson
Raymond Holmes
Mich
Edmund Wroblewski
Park Ridge
Paul H. Rohrdanz
Buffalo
N.Y
Charles C. Saville
Indianapolis
Shefferman Group
USU
Communist Party
Upper Iown_ university
Roger Olson
Upper Iowa
P. J. Lorenz, JR
United Fund
U. S. Steel
Labor
Herschel Loveless
Third Street
Rock Island
William Zearing
John E. Lopes
3Rd Ave
Mr. Vernon Ave
California City
Turner
John B. Turner & Son
Ene
Wilber
Roland Wilbert
Cemmr Rapids, Iowa
Strete Bon
Wilbert W. House Co
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