Citizen-Times (Newspaper) - February 22, 1967, Cedar Rapids, Iowa PUBLIC LIBRARY CEDAR RAPIDS IOWA IOWA'S INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Published weekly by prises Inc 901 4th Street SW Cedar Rapids Iowa Published Grant VOLUME SIX NUMBER EIGHT PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN CEDAR RAPIDS By John Sinor LARGEST WEEKLY d yecS In Cedar Rapids out of town class age paid FEBRUARY 22 1967 Holidays Linger On are days in this man's castle I am still finding homemade here and there The type done in red crayon on ruled binder paper another one in my sock drawer this morning Most of these come from my two young daughters Both os these young ladies are so overloaded with sentiment it fairly drips I get an average of six or seven valentines from each of them every year They plant them around in different hiding places Sometimes they are still popping up on birthday This morning's Happy entine I Love You I love vou with my whole heart and hands and ces Truly Michelle Truly is only nine However I wish I could write like that Hidden Valentines and such ke the holidays linger on around here We're still not even through with Christmas entirely The girls got a small electric organ for Christmas The kind where you push the chord letters with the left hand and the note numbers with the right Anybody can play if you have a with the letters and numbers in it My daughters small book with the instrument And they practice faithfully every evening However they have learned on- ly one song by heart have learned Silent Every here we are on the edge of soft strains of Silent Night waft through the hallways of this old castle It's a lovely song at Christmas time But when you get well into February and when you hear it every it can grate the nerves I finally yelled up For crying out LOUD This was a terrible mistake For that is how all the crying is done around here Out I suddenly had a couple of females on my hands shed like flowers in a tender den by a bully in boots It took a lot of tact to get them blooming again It also took mise of a payoff for every song BESIDES Silent Night that they learned It takes a heap of this kind of tact for me to run a houseful of females A heap of tact a heap of loose change and an occasional jolt of Scotch Here's a Valentine memory that lingers on The eldest female in the household older wiser but as sentimental as the rest made entine nosegays for each of the children's teachers They are pretty delicate things A red heart a lace doily some ferns and a small carnation quet All wrapped in cellophane Now my children walk about 10 blocks to school each day ing books lunches pencils and such And on this nosegay But not ALL of my children Not my son who is fullback and considers himself as tough a product as the sixth grade has er produced He was not about to take one step out of that house carrying a I mean carrying it right down the street in With all the other kids and everything It was the most humiliating idea he had ever heard Finally his mother insisted Do something NICE for dy and quit worrying how YOU she insisted He was on the verge of tears Ownership Is Other Side Of Fence Freedom Week Observance Dairy Owner A Teamster 13 Yrs Service To Mankind Recipient By w grant Pickets at Bindler Dairy Mr William McFann Sr Bindler Dairy has received notice that a local arbitrator will be named and a hearing on the union com- plaint of be heard in dispute began when Teamster ber Loyal Robinson mond Road N E was discharged The company maintains that son was discharged for disorderly conduct and for refusing to run the dairy routed the way the company wanted them run When reached for comment on the statements mady by Loren Gibney owner of Bindler Dairy Robinson said There has never been a time when I have been involved in any disorderly conduct and I have ways run the routes the com pany wanted them run Robinson has been an employee of Bindler Dairy for 19 years seven of which he was a route salesman with the dairies largest route and three as route supervisor inson informed the that the difficulties started when he asked for the back pay he had com- ing I work on a salary and a com- never had any complaints as they abided by the we had set up governing what I was re- When asked if the company had paid him back his back pay he said cording to my figures I still have some coming although they did give me a check when I was fired what they I had coming I asked them for an itemized accounting of the pay and at the time they said they would give it to me or rather their lawyers would send it to me but I haven't heard from them or their lawyer investigated the claim that the union is the cause for all the trouble and that Local 238 is trying to organize their Turn to page 9 William McFann Sr of 1337 G Avenue NE was the recipient of the Service to Mankind award which was presented to him at a Tuesday night dinner at the Hotel The ner was the vance of the Greater Cedar Rapids Club During Freedom Week Members have been giving brief talks to the areas gth grade dents and presenting them with pies of the Declaration of dence Mr McFann this years award winner retired from Quaker Oats Company 10 years ago and is tive each year in rebuilding and preparing toys for underprivileged children He was recently Outstanding Scourer of the Year by the keye area Boy Scout Council Seventy-five year old Mr has been active in Scouting for over 40 years and was one of the developers of Camp Y Main speaker at the Awards dinner was Judge George K Judge Thompson who is a past Iowa Supreme Court Justice spoke on Freedom and Free prise Packinghouse Problems Finger Or Perchance Training Pants News Of Servicemen Yokosuka Japan Storekeeper First Class JAMES R BROWN USN son of Mrs Lora Brown of 1515 Ellis Blvd Cedar Rapids Iowa is helping S Pacific Fleet Service Force celebrate its anniversary this month while serving aboard the Naval Supply Depot at Yokosuka Japan Begun in February of 1942 the force is now men strong and operates 117 ships of 21 different types as well as 13 sho- re bases in the Western Pacific units supply Naval for- ces afloat and ashore within an a- and if fullbacks cried I'm sure he would have However he just the nosegay clenched his teeth set his jaw and stomped out of the house I don't know if that particular nosegay ever got to the school or not have just hidden his teacher's Valentine leaving it up to chance for her to find it day If he did hide it and if she wa- nts to look for it I would suggest she check the nearest trash can to our house rea equal to nearly half the surface with food fuel tion and other essential needs USS America Storekeeper Third Class RONALD E BARCUS USN son of Mr and Mrs Laurence E Barcus of 1372 22nd Ave SW Cedar Rapids is in the ranean participating in operations with the U.S Sixth Fleet as a of the attack aircraft America While in the she will be part of Task Force an attack carrier striking force consisting of two large carriers two guided missile cruisers and 16 ers She is also flagship for Com- mander Carrier Division Four Da Nang Vietnam Marine Private First Class G STANEK son of Mr and Mrs fred L Stanek of 2393 Thompson St SE Cedar Rapids is in Da ng Vietnam serving as a member of A Company Seventh eer Battalion First Marine on His battalion supports the sion through road and building and the laying of land mines Engineers are also trained Turn to page 3 By j w grant Wilson and Company's ations convulsed Charges of IT'S and IT'S along with IT'S ILLEGAL ugh the halls of the kill echoed up the well fertilized yards lined with cattle chutes and bounced back through pork chop hollow ending with a tremulous scream from the bacon packaging room that was shot with tion and touched with misery and torment Complexions ran the from cherry pink to rubescent from violaceous to solferino As relief STRICTLY FRESH The woman who has nothing to wear will feel right at home on next mer's beaches Many a golf dub plays his game under oaths time drew near whimpers were dis- as workers not blessed with the endurance of Grand Prix drivers or filibustering edged toward the doors that con- alleviation assuagement solace aid and the answer to the call that cannot be denied The call to fight World War 3 NO The call to protect the Flag Motherhood or Apple The Call of YES YES YES Cause baby when you gotta go you gotta go WHAT IS Turn to page 8 The federal government is trying to prevent ful packaging We know some gals they ought to subpoena America is a wonderful country Where else can you walk out of your gaged home step into a car drive down a bonded highway on credit gas to charge thing at your favorite Trouble must be a most attractive wench ing how many men flirt with her
