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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1963
Page
4
Linn County supervisors and County Engineer Harrington condemn juries for draining road right of way funds. The piece argues juries repeatedly fund awards higher than necessary, increasing public costs, and suggests reforms may help though sentimentality remains a barrier.
The legislature passes the idle funds bill allowing school boards cities and counties to place idle money earning no more than 90 days in local banks or government securities if banks refuse to pay interest. The measure follows a four year old law enabling the state treasurer to invest long idle funds in securities returning substantial annual interest. If banks do not pay interest subdivisions may invest in government securities—common sense according to bankers.
The senate passed a bill clarifying that cities may levy the full 30 mills for seven operating funds without deducting revenue from the moneys and credits tax. Critics said the tax isn’t equitably collected, and budgeting timing makes it hard to know available revenue. The bill aims to correct this and is praised as the proper course.
George McGhee, named ambassador to West Germany, faces a critical post as Adenauer era shifts to Ludwig Erhard. The United States eyes Bonn as a center of allied policy amid De Gaulle's France and broader Europe. McGhee's experience as trouble-shooter and balance wheel may guide delicate Franco British American coordination and German influence in nuclear strategy.
Washington reports show Khrushchev backpedaling from a test ban agreement. Drummond surveys years of negotiations, noting reduced on-site inspections from 20 to 7 annually, then to two or three, while Moscow demands secrecy. The piece argues a closed Soviet system resists inspection and that until total secrecy outweighs inspection benefits, no treaty will emerge.
In a widening flareup, Sen Frank Mogg and Rep Morris Udall push to shift smoking regulation under the Food and Drug Administration. They fault current nicotine and arsenic tolerances, seek warning labels, and argue for FDA oversight or a full ban.
A modern electronic cherry sorter handles 3500 cherries per minute near a ton per hour. It uses an electric eye and suction cups to place fruit, then air jets ejects any with marks into a discard. The piece notes readers’ possible preference for watermelons over cherries and recalls George Washington’s cherry residence dispute.
A boy at an exclusive restaurant is wowed by the surroundings and, after finishing a large steak, asks to bag it for the dog. His father laughs as the lad declares, We've gona get a dog, signaling a family plan sparked by the meal. The item ends with a garbled phrase about a traveler.
This Day notes the 1953 Iowa State Medical Society meeting in Des Moines adopting a resolution to establish the Erskine Memorial Lectureship honoring Dr. Arthur W. Erskine of Cedar Rapids. Other items include a new Iowa Democratic farm committee, Kozik named Outstanding Young Farmer, and war-time directory mailings.
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