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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1941
Page
7
Iowa Public Safety Commissioner Karl W. Fischer told police chiefs that a recent check shows 80 of tested cars have defective lights. He urged periodic checks and a state wide testing law, plus selective enforcement and immediate accident investigation to reduce highway deaths.
Des Moines AP reports M C Nelson chair of Governor Wilsons safety commission urges regular motorist testing alongside car mechanical checks to curb rising traffic deaths. Official 1941 toll reached 416 with a rise of 76 over last year. Compulsory six month auto tests already exist in Des Moines and several Iowa cities.
Firemen from Independence captured the water fight crown at the Iowa Firemen's association convention defeating Eagle Grove in the finals. L. E. Carlisle of Tipton finished second in the chiefs' 50 yard dash.
The council traded a used caterpillar tractor to Jack Berger of Marion for eighty tons of crushed rock to be delivered within sixty days for city street work. Officials plan engineers input on a smoke nuisance near Tenth street and Seventh avenue while handling hydrant requests and neighborhood petitions. Weekend visitors include Mrs. Crawford and relatives from Webster City and Cedar Rapids.
Miss Beverly Morio, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Morio, Cedar Rapids, is a professional dancer engaged by Mayor Mullin to perform at Marion's Corn Festival. She recently toured Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan and Kentucky and plans to resume studies at Franklin High School while continuing training at the Lindekin School of Dancing.
Mrs Walter Lowe hosted the J. B. club at a picnic dinner complimenting Mrs Pearl De Wald Smith who is leaving Marion for Waterloo. Bridge at two tables with Clyde Derflinger winning high and Clementine Schminke consolation. Also mentions Janet Lee Sloan first birth anniversary dinner, Cheerful Companions church meeting, new residents Mr Mrs Konigsmark, D A R sewing, midnight coffee hosted by J Lawrence Bigger, Linet Merkel visiting Fort Sill, Miss La Verna Titus transfer, Adolph Pisney shoulder injury, and Gilbert Harris home from Cedar Rapids hospital.
Visitors arrive from Webster City and Mondovi Wis to see relatives, including Mr. and Mrs. George Stafford and Rev and Mrs Leonard Swisher. Mrs. Swisher attends Ameigo club anniversary dinner. Jeannette Titus vacationing before university return. Police anticipate arrests for property damage in the northeast town.
Ames Iowa State College President Charles E. Friley urged wholehearted support for vocational education. He outlined aims across engineering agriculture home economics science and veterinary medicine, noting specialized training and rapid degree progress. About 2,000 freshmen start five freshman days with classes to begin Tuesday.
Des Moines AP report quotes O A Giddings a Seventh Day Adventist missionary in central Africa since 1925. He says Christians have taught tribes to avoid wars yet observe great powers using firearms and gunpowder, leaving natives puzzled by the white man’s war.
Mrs Eunice Nicoll sixty eight year old resident for forty years died Wednesday morning in a Cedar Rapids hospital after a long illness. She was mother of Mayor Harold Nicoll and Lester Nicoll both of Mechanicsville. Her husband John Nicoll is deceased. Native of Clarence. Funeral arrangements to be announced later.
Adla Tablets promise fast relief from heartburn and fullness caused by indigestion. Each tablet contains bismuth and carbonates and is sold by druggists tomorrow.
Funeral services for Aviation Cadet Dale Smith killed in a training plane crash near Brady Texas will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Yocom Funeral Chapel Marion. Burial follows in Riverside Cemetery Anamosa. Smith was born in Anamosa and lived most of his life in Marion. He left Coe College in 1938.
Burlington Iowa residents may see at least 50 of 375 new housing units ready by Oct. 1 to ease local shortages caused by the ordnance plant. The $1.2 million project on an 84 acre site is financed by the Public Buildings Administration with defense housing supervision.
SHENANDOAH AP Forgive Mrs Howard M Holmes if she seems a bit exhausted today. All this happened Tuesday: Daughter Barbara started kindergarten, Daughter Marjorie left to enter the University of Nebraska, Daughter Kathleen Mrs Marvin Teget became the mother of a son John, Her husband celebrated his birthday, then left for Kearney Neb on a business trip.
Mrs. Gilbert Doorly formerly Joy Hodges of Des Moines was granted a divorce in district court in Omaha on Tuesday from the son of Henry Doorly publisher of the World Herald. She did not appear for the hearing.
Iowa City housing fills as over 7,000 students arrive for the new term. Enrollment shifts toward coeds while overall numbers hold, with dormitories Quadrangle Hillcrest and Currier full. Football players return for workouts. sorority rushing and fraternity rush begin as registration peaks next week. Orientation starts Monday before classes Thursday September 25.
The Tama county nursing service held its annual meeting at the American Legion hall in Toledo. Burns M. Byram presided as toastmaster. Miss Clara Anderson organized the banquet and program with Miss Adah L. Hershey as principal speaker from Des Moines Visiting Nurses. Local dances and a home nursing course summary complemented the event.
Thirteen women arrested in April raids at Town and Commercial hotels pled guilty in Burlington. Lavonne Gillespie, 29, Des Moines, fined 1000 dollars and sentenced to six months at Rockwell City reformatory for liquor nuisance plus 200 dollars for lewdness. Bobby Ryan and Patricia Rogers received three months reformatory terms for lewdness. ten others pled guilty to unlawful assembly and paid 100 dollar fines each.
Des Moines dispatch notes a sunny Wednesday with clear skies statewide and warmer conditions. Morning lows ran about five degrees below normal with Decorah and Estherville reporting 41 degrees, while Keokuk posted 85 the previous day.
Representatives chose Ivan Blackmer of Postville as president A S Morse of Fayette as vice president and Hollis N Hunt of Sumner as secretary treasurer for the Upper Iowa conference of West Union.
Leon Spurlin of Russell Kansas driven 58 cases of liquor was captured one mile south of Lamont after a 17 mile chase by Ray mond Vanderpool. Spurlin refused to stop, shot tires, and was stopped near Lamont with a woman passenger claiming to be his wife. He bought the liquor at Rock Island Indiana and planned to sell in Kansas for a profit above $2,000.
Lehan K. Tunks of the University of Iowa College of Law will depart this week for Washington DC to join the solicitor's office of the price administration and civilian supply department. He will take a year's leave of absence from teaching corporation law and taxation. no successor is named.
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