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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1968
Page
21
Architect E F Kohlmann presented final Bowman Woods elementary plans to the Linn Marion school board. Bids due May 7 with a public hearing that evening at the high school to open bids. Completion targets are August 26 1968 for classroom pods and November 5 for the central building.
The fifth annual police and firemen's ball will be held April 20 at the Armar ballroom with music by the Jack Douglas dance band from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Tickets available from police or fire department members. Proceeds fund equipment for both departments.
Five Cedar Rapids Marion area high school students and one instructor were named to a science field trip to Chicago April 17 to 19. The trip, sponsored by Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric Co, will visit the Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America, the Institute of Gas Technology labs, Herschel Underground Gas Storage Facility, and the Field Museum.
The AFL CIO Communications Workers Union delays the strike deadline to April 18 due to weekend rioting in several cities. President Joseph Beirne urges Bell Telephone System to reach a contract before the new date as wage disputes affect 23000 Western Electric installers and Bell System workers across multiple states.
Frank Burrell 56 formerly of Urbana and Cedar Rapids died Monday night at his Essex home. He was a former agriculture instructor and retired army lieutenant colonel. Survivors include wife Esther father Edd Urbana sister Mrs. H C Hillgeson Urbana two brothers Willard North Hollywood and Lynn Cedar Rapids. Services Thursday at 2 p m in First Methodist church here. Friends may call Fry and Holland Vinton after 5 Wednesday. Body to church at 10 Thursday with Urbana American Legion military rites and Center Point lodge Masonic services.
Steven Bachman age 17 remains in serious condition at a Waterloo hospital after his car rolled a mile east of Fairbank at about 5 p.m. Monday. His brother David, 23, was killed in a four car accident several weeks earlier.
Lisbon firemen and Mt. Vernon crews fought a two hour grass fire on the old Bert Miller farm south of Lisbon. About forty acres burned. Blame traced to a stray cigarette.
Delbert Smith of Keystone has been elected president of the Benton Community Parent-Teacher Organization, marking a leadership change for the local school group.
Senator Roger Jepsen addressed the Iowa county Republican Women’s club at Colony Village near Williamsburg. He pressed for common-sense principles and accountability in spending of state and federal taxpayer money in Iowa. He spoke as a lieutenant governor candidate, accompanied by his wife Dee, after meeting county officials in Marengo.
Gerald Sies of Valley Stream New York a University of Iowa student signed charges in Iowa city police court accusing City Attorney Jay Honohan and housing inspector James Hemesath of illegal concealment of public records on March 29. He says he was denied information on condemned properties and landlords and wanted it to tell tenants they need not pay rent if buildings were condemned.
Chicago AP report details Frederick Louis Andiresse 25 of Jacksonville Florida being sought for the murder of Carol Sue Edleman 21 of Webb Iowa. The suspect arrived in Chicago after a separation from his wife to take a Northwest Airlines cargo handler job. Edleman was found shot in a Franklin Park motel bed after a struggle. Andiresse faces an April 16 arraignment on murder charges.
Iowa Supreme Court on Tuesday issued several rulings. Linn county cases Myers vs Vosnek granted new trial and affirmed. Cedar: Union Trust Bank vs Stanwood Feed and Grain dismissed on appeal. Linn: State vs Wardenburg forgery case dismissed reversed but not remanded. Cedar: Mechanicsville Trust Bank vs Hawkeye Security Insurance bond recovery affirmed on defendant appeal, modified and affirmed on plaintiff cross appeal and remanded.
Dale E. Boren aged 34 of 4509 Council Street NE was arrested on a warrant for prohibited sales and advertisement. He posted a $500 bond and was released. Boren allegedly supplied beer to three minors on March 30.
Gov Harold Hughes and his family began a several day vacation, his office said. The vacation spot is in Iowa but not disclosed, and details remain unavailable.
MT. VERNON National Park service architects Vance Kaminski and Charles Lessig visited West Branch to inspect houses to be moved and remodeled to resemble an 1880s appearance. Lessig, now of the Midwest regional office in Omaha, brings experience from Ford's Theater restoration to guide the historic integrity of the re creation project.
In Oelwein a council hearing outlined summer grading and 1970 blacktop projects on two edge roads. Bids were opened with Everetts Construction of Algona the apparent low bidder at 34 150 dollars. The council referred a Bill Noble offer about using 36 acre tracts near Glen Haven club for youth garden plots to the youth council.
OXFORD JUNCTION The school board plans repair work on the west end of the gymnasium and the high school roof after shingles were lifted by wind. Brick work and other repairs are needed on the gym. The board will provide a school bus for Red Cross swimming program this summer and sponsor summer baseball and softball. Mrs Otto Lasack hired for third grade next year. Blanche Bacek and Celestina Maudsley resignations.
Notice declares Sunset Properties Inc formed under Iowa Business Corporation Act with principal office in Cedar Rapids Iowa registered agent Richard D Holden. Authorized capital 400 shares at 100 each board of directors 1 to 5 persons Richard D Holden named as initial director. Corporation began January 31 1968 and is exempt from stockholder debts.
Special Execution No. 83760 issued to Walter H. Gr Sheriff Linn County Iowa directs sale of The Era of Lot 49 and West 105 feet of Lot 48 Auditor's Plat No 287 Linn County Iowa to satisfy a judgment for Leslie Anthony against Orville Feaker Two thousand six hundred fifty dollars with six percent interest from May 25 1964 and costs of eighteen dollars and thirty cents. Sale to be held April 16 1968 at 9:00 A M in front of the Court House Cedar Rapids Iowa. Second publication April 5 1968.
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