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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1964
Page
3
Weather data list and April totals appear with high and low temperatures, rainfall, barometer, humidity, wind, sunrise and sunset times. A long section then lists divorce decrees and a large set of speeding and traffic violations with names and fines, including several residents of Marion and Des Moines area.
Capital Cable plans a multi channel system with Channel 7 Austin owned by the Johnson family. No dividends during the option term. If LBJ Co acquires half the stock and both sides agree a joint venture may form. Management would include three Midwest appointees, three LBJ appointees, and one Austin resident jointly chosen.
About 35 to 40 members of the University of Iowa Phi Delta Theta chapter volunteered Saturday to clean up the Johnson County Girl Scout Camp two miles west of Iowa City. The effort ran from 11 a.m. to late afternoon as part of the fraternity's nationwide annual community service day involving 175 chapters. The camp serves Girl Scouts from Johnson, Linn, Washington and parts of Jones, Cedar and Muscatine counties.
Columbus Junction Max Shaum sixty five Stacy s Sigourney George Lown seventy eight Reynolds Kalona Lily Zachs seventy seven Serv vices Sunday at two CST Shar jon EUB church Yoder s Monona Dean Schroeder twenty four Services Sunday at one thirty St John s Lutheran church Farmersburg Schultz Vinton William Spencer twenty six Services Tuesday at ten thirty First Baptist church Garrison Fry land Holland Decorah Walter Ramlo fifty nine Services Monday at two Hesper Lutheran church Steines Maynard Olga Rohrig eighty eight Services Monday at two St Paul s Lutheran church Delsing Wright
Iowa lawmaker Rep. Tom Riley says university affiliates may take partisan roles, backing Evashevski and Flora. Riley argues political participation is a basic American right and duty, while Sen. Wiley defends asphalt and concrete debates and criticizes interim handling of highway issues.
All programs on KCRG TV 9 will shift to Daylight Saving Time beginning Sunday April 26. The station informs viewers to adjust clocks for the new time zone. program listings remain in local broadcast hours.
Clarence R. Stephenson a 33 year old mechanic of Center Point died Friday after a car he was repairing at Rapids Chevrolet garage fell on him. He was taken to St Luke's hospital where doctors worked three hours to save him. He left a wife four children and was a Korean War veteran and active in St Johns Lutheran church and the American Legion. Funeral arrangements will be announced later as friends may call Sunday afternoon.
Johnson told labor leaders on April 28 that he would repeat his cautions to business chiefs about holding wages and prices to curb inflation. He denied evaluating Defense Secretary McNamara as a potential vice president. At the conference Truman quipped that the President runs the foreign policy and that the public has finally learned this.
Moscow accuses China of slander and cheating over Asia Africa talks. Pravda blasts China for blocking Soviet invitation to the conference next March in Africa. Chen Yi’s Indonesian meeting seen as provoking the dispute. Russia says China sought to isolate the Soviets from Asia and Africa.
Tokyo based UPI reports China and Czechoslovakia signed a 1964 trade agreement. China will import steel products textiles machine tools trucks and machine parts in exchange for mineral ores animal products and other goods.
Leslie L. Webster age 72 of 1106 Fifteenth Avenue SE Cedar Rapids died at Veterans Hospital Iowa City after a brief illness. He was born July 23 1891 in Troy Mills and lived in Cedar Rapids since 1923 a Weyerhaeuser Co. retiree. Surviving: wife Mabel Wenger six daughters six sons 31 grandchildren a sister and a half sister. World War I veteran and American Legion Hanford post member. Memorial service Tuesday 2 p.m. Kuba funeral home burial Troy Mills cemetery. Friends may call after 3 p.m. Sunday.
Robert Allen Arnold five year old son of Mr and Mrs Walter S Arnold of 930 Thirty Ninth Street SE died Friday after a brief illness He was born February 12 1959 in Cedar Rapids He survived by parents two sisters Sharon and Karen two brothers Sidney and David grandparents Edmund and Mary Butz Walker and Alice Arnold Manchester great grandmother Mary Butz Greensburg Ind He was a member of All Saints church Memorial services will be held at All Saints Church Monday at 10 a.m. by Rev Edmund J Becker Burial will be at Mt Calvary Friends may call Turner Chapel Father Becker to recite the Rosary in the chapel at 8 p.m Sunday
Kimberly Jean Butler infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Jimmie Butler 816 Staubcourt NE Cedar Rapids died at 5 am Saturday in a Cedar Rapids hospital born April 13 1964 Surviving are her parents grandparents Dan McLeod Spencer Jean Armstrong Cedar Rapids great grandfather C R Fahrney Cedar Rapids Memorial graveside services Cedar Memorial Cemetery 1 30 pm Monday by Dr John P Woods casket will not be opened Turner chapel in charge
Memorial services for Charles R Klein will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Chapel of Memories in Cedar Memorial Cemetery conducted by Rev. Fred T. Miller. Friends may call at Brosh chapel prior to the service.
Thomas Tobin, 30, was stuck in a narrow flue between a shop and a wallpaper store in Ashton under Lyne for 12 hours. Manager Winifred Callaghan alerted police after failing to locate the source. Firefighters breached the wall on different floors to free him in 90 minutes. Tobin was charged with breaking in and attempting theft.
London reports a new low in infant mortality for England and Wales, with statistics published Saturday showing declining deaths among newborns across the region.
President Johnson spent a 17 hour day touring Pittsburgh and Inez Kentucky meeting steel and sawmill workers. He spoke of a bright highway of hope for the impoverished and unemployed and pressed education, promising to push an Appalachia aid package in a forthcoming congressional message. He met Tom Fletcher and family in Inez and urged schooling for Fletcher’s sons.
Police nabbed Whitmore after a patrolman and detective spotted and seized him following a series of murders in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Whitmore admitted the double slayings, detailing an entry through a rear stairway to apartment 30, where he attacked Miss Wylie and Miss Hoffert with a bottle and carving knives before fleeing.
Kenneth D. Stiverson, 19, of 508 Fifth Avenue SE, was given until May 8 to plead to a charge of assault with intent to murder in Linn district court. He is jailed on a $5,000 bond after arraignment before Judge Charles Penningroth. Stiverson allegedly stabbed Jerry Thomas, 22, at Thomas's home with a hunting knife. Thomas, a Cedar Rapids fur tanning firm coworker, was reported in fairly good condition at St Luke's hospital. Authorities say Stiverson claimed the stabbing was in response to his wife Patricia's complaint that Thomas assaulted her the night before. Thomas denied the accusation.
Harry E. Hawthorn, 49, of 3115 Emerald avenue SE, was arrested Friday night on a drunk driving charge. Police spotted him driving erratically at First avenue and Twenty sixth street drive SE at 9 24 p.m. He was released without bail Saturday morning pending a municipal court appearance.
Courthouse records show 21 year old A. Baker of 560 Hillview drive Marion was arraigned before Judge Charles Penningroth on a first offense drunk driving charge. He was arrested Friday at 2 15 a m at Seventh avenue and Sixth street by Marion police and given until Tuesday to plead.
Iowa City readers heard Bayard Rustin argue the civil rights crisis mirrors national crisis with 50 million poor. He urged white poor to act, linking housing schools and jobs to civil rights, and criticized Johnson’s war on poverty as phony. He dismissed third party moves and called demonstrations symbolic.
Douglas J. Lacy, 19, of 1337 Twenty-first avenue SW, was fined $75 and costs in municipal court Saturday on charges of speeding and burning off car lights to avoid arrest. Patrolman Jack Hines said she began chasing Lacy’s speeding car on Sixth Street SW about 8:45 p.m. Friday. Lacy turned off the lights near Hawkeye Downs then headed toward the north gate, where the chase ended as the gate closed. Judge Howard McLaughlin fined $50 for turning off the lights and $25 for speeding.
Municipal court dismissed charges against LeRoy Boots and Eugene Lowman of Springville. Various ads report a camera theft, a stolen water pump at a Marion site, bowling league openings, rental ads, a teen injury from a collapsing jack, obituary notes for Mrs Retta Sheldon, a Merit scholar attending Augustana College, and a chiropractor resuming hours. Local notices include restaurant ads and a misquoted college choice.
Cuban students march from Havana University to the Swiss occupied U S embassy protesting American troops. Floyd T Parsons of Guantanamo Bay Havana Highland Drive NW fined 100 and costs in municipal court for leaving scene after striking a parked car on Thirteenth Street SW at 1 30 a m March 29. Judge Loren Hullinger Jr imposed the fine.
Mongolia has asked Chinese Communist technicians to leave the country, according to New China News Agency. The move comes as Mongolia maintains ties with Moscow and seeks to balance regional influence.
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