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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1966
Page
6
The daily weather cites highs and lows for various cities with precipitation inches and barometer readings, plus a long list of obituaries and funeral services across small towns including Strawberry Point Sigourney Victor Stanwood Hawkeye Traer Vinton Fry and Homestead. Services are scheduled Monday for multiple listed residents with church and burial details.
NASA notes Nimbus I can take about 3,000 pictures daily and will relay orbital data to ground stations for timely reception. Nimbus I, launched Aug 28 1964 and ended Sept 23 1964, produced 227,000 images guiding geology mapping forestry ice reconnaissance hydrology oceanography and meteorology research.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette established 1883 lists subscription options by carrier and mail. Night edition six issues cost 1.25 a month or 13 a year, afternoon and Sunday seven issues 1.35 a month or four a year, with out-of-state rates at 23.40 annually. Local mail subs are not offered where carrier service exists.
Georgia Tripp 601 Carroll drive SE Cedar Rapids resident for 55 years and retired school nurse died in Port Charlotte Florida while visiting her sister Mrs Sam Kemper She born in Canada survived by sister and several nieces and nephews Memorial services at Grace Episcopal church Tuesday at 10 conducted by Rev Thomas S Hulme Burial at Oak Hill Friends may call at Turner's after 1 p m Monday She belonged to Grace Episcopal church Retirement Teachers Assn Mercy Hospital Alumni Assn and led St Clare's guild of the church
Kinkead Justin Alexander Beatty-Bearle's at 1 30 Tuesday by Rev J Richard Wagner First Congregational Church. Burial Cedar Memorial. Meyers Charles F Turner's 10 30 Monday by Rev Paul R Johnson. Burial Oak Hill. Priborsky Joseph F Jane ba Kuba's at 1 30 Monday by Rev A T Washington Sharon EUB Church. Burial Linwood. Meissner Anna Services pending Felmets in Keystone.
In Burlington the Vigortones of Cedar Rapids Iowa earned a berth in the international barbershop singing contest to be held in Chicago this July. Also qualifying were the Astro-Naughts of Mason City Iowa and the Four Rippers of St Joseph Missouri, with The Fore Man of Fort Dodge named as an alternate.
Wilson Junior High presents the annual spring musical To Everything There Is a Season on Friday and Saturday at 7 30 p m. The program features ninth grade concert choir seventh and eighth grade choirs and includes small groups solo performances readings dancing and instrumentals directed by Mrs James Bennett and Spencer Pink tickets cost 25 cents for students and 50 cents for adults at the door.
Illinois naval reserve officers will inspect surface division 953 and the Cedar Rapids training center at 1599 Weingrow NE. The team led by Lt Cmdr G R Hoyman will review training records and management procedures. Cedar Rapids center commander Lt Cmdr J B Rothbart and surface division commander Lt T M Nelson will participate.
A 15-year-old Cedar Rapids boy, Dennis Perrin, son of the Corbin Perrins of 2102 E avenue NE, was cut above the left eye by a batted ball while playing softball in Daniels park Saturday. He received treatment at St. Luke's hospital and was discharged.
The National Association of Plumbing Contractors lifted its two year suspension of the Iowa Association of Plumbing Heating and Cooling Contractors. Joe Ingua of Waterloo said the move was announced in Cedar Rapids by Carl Prisner of Nebraska. The Iowa group had been suspended for two years over by law technicalities and has been seeking reinstatement since their convention in Waterloo last month.
Last minute negotiations to prevent a walk out by workers across three merging New York newspapers stalled as the city braces for a second major strike in a year. Union leaders warned of a stoppage that could halt paper production and distribution across the metropolis.
Remembrances and gifts noted for Camp Good Health include donations from Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Carlton Z. C. B. J. Drill team in memory of Mrs. James Shulista and support from Lumir Dostal and Tony Kudina families. Anonymous gifts honor Laura Jean Wachal by Garfield school second graders and teacher Mrs. Doris Thomas. Amounts listed include 15.00 and 10.00.
Pvt. James Murphy narrowly survived the southern Oklahoma airliner disaster after a financial records error kept him off the charted flight that crashed, killing at least 81 of 98 passengers and 18 of his fellow Fort Ord recruits. He phoned his mother to say he was safe.
Nelson V. Anderson Jr aged 29 of 815 Second Street SW was arrested by Cedar Rapids police on a charge of lascivious acts with a child. A warrant signed by Bertram township Justice Glenn Powers followed an alleged Saturday afternoon incident with a seven year old Cedar Rapids girl. Bond set at $1,000.
Three Vinton youths were treated at Mercy hospital Saturday for injuries after their car struck a parked vehicle on the 1000 block of Fourth Avenue SE. Released were Joseph D. Corbett 16 driver of the striking car Donald Kramer 16 and Terry Edwards 17. The parked car was Marilyn Anderson’s at 1030 Fourth Avenue SE. No charges filed.
James Mason age 19 of 1641 Sixth Street NW treated at Mercy hospital for abrasions after a collision at the intersection of First and Third avenues SW. Mason not hospitalized and charged with failing to yield at a stop. The other vehicle was a car driven by Mary Moore 35 of 1041 Sioux Drive NW.
The 1966 Federation of Iowa Stamp Clubs show awarded first place to four entries including a 24 page cancellations series from Iowa’s discontinued post offices displayed by Woodrow Westholm. Other top prizes went to Milton Heitman for Civil War patriotic covers and territorial stamps, George Wolters for territorial and Civil War revenues, and more.
A tractor overturn at the state experimental farm four miles west of Elkader killed Eugene Hoth, 32, as he moved fertilizer from a barn to the field. He leaves five children aged 1 to 11. Hoth, a six year resident of the farm, was found by neighbor Harley Herman.
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