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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1939
Page
13
Voters approve 15 year franchises for Iowa City Light and Power to supply gas and electricity by margins around 400 votes. Final unofficial returns: light 2763 to 2381 and gas 2701 to 2291. The company cites peak loads and a half million expansion plan while opponents favor year to year terms to keep rates low.
About 100 women registered at the Women's Relief Corps district convention in Tipton's Municipal building. The program featured talks on patriotism wheel chairs and beds for Marshalltown veterans and a report on the Addie Anangst junior girls club at Davenport. Dubuque hosts 1940 district convention after Stanwood’s top attendance.
Moore grocery owned by C. J. Moore was sold to Frank Wolfe on Monday. The business will be named Wolfe grocery and run by O. D. Penns, Wolfe’s son in law, as manager.
Grover H Nix of Cedar Rapids was named chief auditor of the Iowa Safety Division as part of a reorganization after a $2000 shortage in driver’s license fees. He will remain at 1971 B avenue NE Cedar Rapids and has 11 years with an accounting firm.
Wheatland IA The Rev George W Bryant of Cedar Rapids pastor of Wheatland Presbyterian church for 25 years will be honored at an anniversary dinner Friday at 6 30 pm at the church A program will follow with many local residents and clergy taking part including Mary Cruson Mrs C Hoffmeister Mrs Newell Carver and Rev Clarence Koehler The program committees are led by Mrs AE Mcllvain Mrs R Stouffer and Mrs Ales
Iowa liquor store managers are ordered to curb large sales to hoarders of Scotch whisky. Liquor Commissioner Dick Lane says the warning aims to prevent runs on imported liquor amid anticipated price increases. Managers have discretion to block suspicious single bottle to case bulk purchases and to deter out of state retailers from stockpiling.
Funeral services for Olof Johnson aged 60 will be held at Parker's Grove church Friday at 2 p.m. He died at his home near here Tuesday.
Walter H. Rhodes, a quarry worker from Iowa City, charged with his wife’s 1937 murder, is before the Iowa Supreme Court for a renewed bid for a new trial or a possible release. His attorney cites juror prejudice as the grounds for appeal as the state seeks to reimpose the death sentence.
Des Moines APJames B Carey William Sentner and Hollis Hall CIO officials involved in the Maytag strike ask the Iowa supreme court for a rehearing of a contempt citation. They were sentenced to six months in jail and fined 500 each for violating an injunction at the Newton factory. The supreme court upheld the fines and suspended jail terms. The lawyers filed for a rehearing Tuesday.
A Tama house owned by Robert Blythe sustained about $12000 in damage after a late Monday fire thought sparked by chimney embers. The blaze, starting on a dormer and spreading under a tin roof, destroyed second and third floors while first floor suffered heavy damage. Firemen fought the flames into morning hours. insurance covers the loss and rebuilding is uncertain.
Elizabeth Bowman five months old reaches What Cheer after a 1700 mile air and rail journey from Walla Walla Washington. She is to stay with aunt and uncle Clifford and Mrs Bowman while her mother Francis Bowman recovers. Her father Francis Bowman faculty member at the University of Southern California.
Grinnell Rev P A Johnson, former superintendent of the Congregational Christian conference of Iowa, was named interim pastor of the First Congregational church to fill the vacancy left by Rev Robert Inglis. He will serve until a new pastor is chosen.
Iowa unemployment compensation commission reports August payments total 32 844 checks worth 294 497 04 down 7 in count and 8 4 in benefits from July. New claims 6 278 down 12 6 from July with 422 percent under August 1938. Employment service placed 7 754 last month, private 4 810 and public 2 944. Des Moines AP report notes staff cut to 170 from 209 due to lower claim load with four deputies to be dismissed Oct 1.
Ralph Kearney 24 of near Clutier remained unconscious Tuesday at Kocher hospital Toledo after being found on a dirt road between Toledo and Tama. Sheriff Sharp and deputies headed the investigation with five youths linked to a car found abandoned near the electric power plant.
Special report from The Gazette notes Supt O. J Rhodes of Shueyville was chosen president of the Johnson County Schoolmasters club at a Monday evening meeting in Iowa City.
Dr Archibald Fulton of Morningside was elected moderator of the Town synod at the opening of the United Presbyterian Church eightieth annual meeting in Clarinda. Other officers named include W H Hemphill Ainsworth vice moderator, William Thompson Garner press secretary, William Nichol Washington clerk, F C Patterson Tama assistant clerk, W J Stewart Grinnell treasurer, and John W Bickett Newton synodical superintendent of missions.
Adah Connelly, former Ottumwa Union Bank teller, was released on a bond under ten thousand dollars after being indicted for embezzling 188000 from the bank. She had been confined at Mount Pleasant State Hospital since December 1938 and was brought to Ottumwa for federal proceedings after doctors judged her cured.
Mrs. Myron Sieman accepts the librarian post replacing Joyce Preston who leaves Oct. 1 for Kenosha Wisconsin. Mrs. Sieman will assume duties October 1 at the local library.
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