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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1949
Page
1
The page includes a health advisory urging use of DDT around refuse cans and doorways. It lists weather forecast for several cities, pollen counts, and several marriage, divorce and birth notices. Local obituaries from South English Monona West Union Decorah Newhall provide brief death details and funeral plans.
The United Kingdom devalues the pound triggering immediate currency cuts worldwide. Prices rise for Britons as imports cost more, bread climbs to six pence, and consumer goods shift with dollar-linked costs. Economists note mixed outcomes and the need for a sales boost to ease the dollar shortage. Washington hails the measure as constructive.
About 94 students begin training this fall in Cedar Rapids two nursing schools. Mercy hospital reports 44 registrations on September 12 and St. Luke's expected to register about 50 more. Classes start at Mercy hospital with an orientation program and a large incoming class at St. Luke's, the largest since 1890. Enrollment totals rise to 108 with new pre clinical period shortened.
Maude McBee Sayles 55 died in Omaha after a life of multiple marriages. She once rode a freight to Des Moines to intercede for a would be husband and earned a paroled pardon in 1938 leading to marriage with William Sayles. Born Corning Iowa she later lived in Council Bluffs and Omaha.
The known dead from the Noronic fire stood at 121 as divers searched for 84 missing passengers. Red Cross officials expect most of the unaccounted to be safe at home in the United States. Canadian authorities had feared a toll as high as 205.
King W. Carter, 44, pled guilty to transporting a stolen automobile across state lines and was sentenced to two years in a federal penitentiary by Judge Henry N. Graven in Cedar Rapids. He and John Hoody, carnival workers, allegedly stole a 1929 Ford pickup in Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 9 and were arrested Aug. 12 in Cresco. Hoody was sentenced earlier in Waterloo.
Des Moines authorities report Marys food market lost 2971.44 dollars in cash from a safe after a Sunday night break-in. Police say 45 cartons of cigarettes were stolen as detectives note the safe was opened with a sledge hammer and punch. Walter Croxton, the market manager, describes the crime as far from amateur.
The body of John Vernich 47 a Chicago and North Western railroad employee from Dixon Illinois was identified by his brother Walter Vernich. Vernich was killed when he attempted to hop a freight train in the Council Bluffs freight yards. His car was found abandoned in Berwyn Illinois and police reported no motive for his presence in Council Bluffs.
John Latta Jr. of Cedar Falls announces resignation as mayor. He will step down at the Sept. 26 city council meeting. resignation takes effect Oct. 3 due to health and personal business reasons.
FEW District President Charles Hobbie announced a strike vote among 260 eligible LaPlant-Choate Company employees. Negotiations since July 1 failed on four wage-and-benefit demands, including fully funded health insurance, a seven cent hourly raise, 12 days sick leave, and adding Armistice and Election Day holidays.
Alvin Junior Brown testifies in Marshalltown that he shot Mason City salesman William J. Muldoon unintentionally after Muldoon threatened to turn him over to police. Brown describes hitchhiking after an injury, a brief highway fight, and forcing Muldoon to a roadside before Muldoon was found dying beside his ditched car.
Cedar Rapids Education Association adopted a resolution in favor of federal aid to education without federal control. Miss Mariam L. Shupp announced the action noting divergent educational opportunities among states and population mobility spreading local problems nationally. Copies were sent to Sam Rayburn John McCormack John Lesinski and Henry O. Talle of Decorah.
Funeral services for Mrs. Ambrose Becker Sproston of Mt. Vernon route 1 will be held Tuesday at an Solon funeral home with Rev. C. F Hartzell officiating. Burial will be in Mason Cemetery near Cedar Bluff. She was born July 13 1899 in Cedar County. Surviving are her husband three daughters two sons two sisters a brother a half brother and grandchildren.
Cedar Rapids city council and CIO union spokesmen clash over a final memorandum. The agreement covers recognition hours wages holidays and safety with Local 617 named alongside other units in a forthcoming posting.
A one day meeting for elementary and high school teachers will be held in Iowa City on Wednesday under joint sponsorship of the Department of Public Instruction and Linn Cedar and Johnson counties superintendents. Discussion leaders include state high school teachers and faculty from Iowa State College Iowa State Teachers College and Drake University.
Mrs Ida Buckles, 78, former Mt. Pulaski resident now of Lisbon, died in Cedar Rapids hospital at 5 08 am Sunday after a brief illness. Survived by daughter Mrs Harry Ulrich who shared Lisbon home, son Walter Buckles Waterloo, two brothers Walter Row Mt. Pulaski and half brother Roy Muir Northville SD. Body taken from Beatty chapel to Mt. Pulaski for services and burial.
Robert Eddy of Chicago convicted of stealing 80 dollars from a University of Iowa fraternity house in summer 1948 received a 100 dollar fine and six months in Johnson county jail on Monday.
Clyde F Harbit 40 a machinist at Collins Radio died suddenly at his Cedar Rapids home Sunday. Born November 1 1908 in West Branch he moved to Cedar Rapids in 1939. Surviving are a brother Dr W J G Harbit of Gilman a step father William McCaieb of West Branch two step sisters Mrs Fred Pedersen Pasadena Calif and Mrs James Ortega Oildale Calif. His wife Marvel Rose Scott Harbit died August 13 1949. He was a member of Kenwood Methodist church and the Eagles lodge. Services 1 36 p m Wednesday Turner chapel Rev J Arthur Young Burial Cedar Memorial cemetery. Friends may call.
Katherine Drew 78 widow of S S Drew lifelong Cedar Rapids resident died in a Cedar Rapids nursing home at 10 30 a m Sunday after an extended illness Born September 24 1870 in Cedar Rapids she is survived by three sons Harold and Theodore of Cedar Rapids Leon of Tacoma Wash two half brothers James Williams Des Moines and Frank Sanders Cedar Rapids a half sister Mrs Anna Melvin Pennsylvania seven grandchildren and six great grandchildren Funeral service 3 p m Tuesday at Beatty chapel with the Rev Leon Triggs Cedar Christian Church burial Linwood Cemetery Friends may call at the chapel
Perdy Albert Pat Tisher 68 of 135 Twenty-fourth Street Drive SE Cedar Rapids died at 1 30 a.m. Monday in Veterans Hospital Des Moines after a long illness. Born Nov 19 1880 in Cedar Rapids he was a retired Rock Island railway conductor and a member of the Order of Railway Conductors Retired Railway Veterans Association and the Veterans of the Spanish American War Burial is at Cedar Memorial with American Legion graveside rites. Visitation at Brady mortuary after 1 p.m. Tuesday.
A Dysart community gathering saw 137 attendees at the Selk family reunion held in the Dysart Community building. Lena Selk of Dysart, 89, was the oldest member present, as officers for next year were elected: Walter Wagmer of LaPorte City president and William Selk of Keystone secretary-treasurer.
A Southern Railway passenger train derailed near Newton North Carolina injuring about 30 people, several critically. The diesel engine and four cars left the tracks into a 12 foot ditch as the train neared the station from Salisbury bound for Asheville. The engineer was trapped in the cab and freed after an hour.
Bollinger says he chose a guilty plea to avoid possible 30 or 40 year charges after counsel advised a lighter outcome. Diamond denies knowledge of other charges. The case stems from an FBI probe linked to interstate telephone activity and past graft inquiries involving Rollinger. Bollinger waives indictment and will be prosecuted on Diamond's information in Cedar Rapids.
Waterloo. Russell Edsill, 40, prepared for trial in district court Monday on conspiracy charges tied to the May 1948 Bath Packing Company plant incident. Several other conspiracy cases await trial.
The piece notes prices marked Hold for de valuation and predicts British cost of living rises. It warns of an inflation spiral if Britain raises bread prices and calls for buying from the sterling area or traveling to Britain before prices rise. It argues American economic independence limits global currency turmoil and asserts the dollar currently leads world finance, surpassing the pound.
Representatives of Wilson and Company's western division met in Cedar Rapids for a three day national canned goods sales meeting. Attendees from California to Texas discussed sales and advertising methods under Russell M. Smith national manager of the canned meat division and national president of the Canners Association.
The Mayou ballroom at 2500 Zika Avenue NW is sold to Joe Estes Louis and David Golad by Willard Pfantz. The property includes a 5 percent acre site with a picnic ground and a bungalow. The buyers plan to continue private parties and weekly public dances and open with a Saturday night dance. Purchased through Frank Willenborg, realtor.
The Iowa Ornithologist Union held its fall gathering at the home of Mr and Mrs Fred Pierce in Winthrop. Eighty five members attended from Ames Waukon Dubuque Newton Grinnell Cedar Falls Oskaloosa Indianola Waterloo Boone Vinton New Al bia Farley Davenport and Independence. Field trips occurred in morning and afternoon. In the evening M L Jones of Ledges State Park Boone screened colored sound movies at the Methodist church. Ellison Orr 92 of Waukon spoke on archeology.
John Walsh of Marengo sues M. J. Robinson of Omaha for 11390 in a federal personal injury case arising from an April 26 automobile accident on Highway 6 near Ladora. Robinson counterclaims for damages against Walsh. Judge Henry N. Graven presides.
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