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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1946
Page
4
Vinton observed Sweetcorn day with a 42-entry parade led by the high school band. Eight tons of free corn buttered by the Iowa Canning factory and 185 pounds of butter donated by the Vinton Chamber of Commerce fed attendees. Prizes awarded for beards and other parade entries.
Bert Wood, 71, died from injuries when the car he rode in overturned in a ditch Monday evening. Mrs. Moe Stendel of Castalia drove from Gander and misjudged a turn on the highway. Wood lived with the Stendels.
About 500 Iowa police chiefs and peace officers are expected at the thirty-eighth Iowa Association of Chiefs of Police convention in Sioux City September 17 to 19. Highlights include speeches by Rt. Rev. Msgr. E. Flanagan founder of Boys Town and FBI Inspector E. D. Mason along with R. W. Nebergall head of the Iowa bureau of criminal investigation.
In Des Moines a police detective found a group of children aged 3 to 11 tossing a hand grenade with its firing pin partly pulled. He placed it in his car and disposed of the device by tossing it into the Des Moines River after stopping the game.
Eugene Barnes 54 died Monday in a Iowa City hospital. Services will be held at 2 30 p.m. Wednesday at Mason funeral home. Born near Haven he lived in and near Tama his whole life. Survivors include wife five children Raymond Marshalltown Donald Des Moines Ruth and Ethel at home Richard in the navy stepson Merton Mead at home One son Robert was killed in action in World War II.
Decorah couple Mr. and Mrs. Horace Smith of Decorah attended the wedding of Decorah daughter Decorah to John Arthur Hendricks grandson of Mrs. Ann Smith Des Moines at a Lutheran church with sign language interpretation by Rev R F Gordes. The couple will live in Des Moines. Brandon Evelyn Dover and Lawrence Brooks wed in Grace Methodist church Waterloo with Brooks to report for army service Sept 10. Hopkinton Lois Hatfield and Gordon F Stead married Aug 24 in Iowa City where the groom attends the state university. Kathleen Dempsey and Ralph W Hageman wed Aug 29 at St Luke's church Hopkinton and will reside there.
Frank Uhlish of Fort Dodge a seven year veteran of the Iowa department of public safety is named as a likely successor to Bert Woodcock who resigned as director of safety education. Woodcock will begin a new job September 16 as a driver education instructor at Iowa State Teacher College Cedar Falls.
Iowa ended a two month draft holiday on Tuesday as five men from Black Hawk County board No 3 and one from Allamakee County were slated to leave for Fort Snelling Minnesota. The weekly pace was seen at 75 to 80 men statewide this month but September’s 725 quota looked unlikely to be reached.
Dubuque county authorities hunt burglars who broke into the Scherrman garage Monday and escaped with 700 dollars in cash and 500 in checks. A Farley report notes the burglary occurred in the local area and the search continues Tuesday.
Jay Nolan 19 of Van Horne, an army veteran, was killed Monday night in a collision at a bridge two miles south of Vinton on highway 218. Six others injured including his cousin Paul Kelly. Kelly in serious condition. Funeral services set for Immaculate Conception church.
Keosauqua attorney W B Newbold, 76, died in his office Monday after a stroke. Funeral arrangements were being planned Tuesday for the prominent local figure.
Davenport authorities probe possible link between the carbon monoxide gas killing of Edward C Ehrecke and the death of Henry E Scott whose body was found decapitated on a hillside near Bloomington Indiana. Ehrecke was found last Thursday stuffed in the trunk of his car bound with a clothesline and killed by exhaust gas.
Police report two killings Tuesday link to a man named Scott found under a pine tree near a one room cabin with hands and feet bound. Chief Deputy Coleman will confer with Sheriff Beuse as agents join a sugar stamp counterfeiting probe in eastern Iowa touching Ehrecke.
Four more polio victims were recorded in northwest Iowa over the Labor day weekend. They are Carol Saupe, 18, of Sheldon, Kaye Kissinger, 18, of Merrill, Jennie Kocinen, 10, of Rock Valley, and Ralph Mateson, 9, of Armstrong.
The Labor Day weekend deaths in Iowa reached ten with eight from traffic crashes, lifting the year’s motor vehicle toll to 339. Two additional fatalities occurred in a plane crash near Lenox, Iowa, killing pilot Blaine Tomlin and Virginia Wiley.
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