Weather overview and August figures from Daily Record
The forecast covers Thursday to Monday with average temperatures 5 to 10 degrees below normal highs 83 to 88 lows 60 to 67 and precipitation of one quarter to one half inch as showers and thunderstorms Friday night and Saturday. August totals show trace rainfall and normal 2.97 with year-to-date 17.77 for 1967. Funeral notices include Mrs. Howard Strain 82 and others listed with service times across several towns.
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Ak Wood Cemetery
Goettsch’s. Belle Plaine
Frank Kodras
Hoover-Valentine
Marengo
Riots and Investigations Highlighted by Senate Hearing
Testimony cites H. Rap Brown speech as spark for a Cambridge riot. Eastland panel seeks incitement causes and possible penalties. Police describe armed crowds, snipers, and widespread violence after the speech with officials questioning if unrest was planned.
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Brice Kinnamon
Cambridge
H. Rap Brown
Brown
Kinnamon
McClellan
D - Ark
Rioting Across Cities Draws Police and Guardsmen Firefight
Police and National Guardsmen faced sniping and unrest as curfews produced numerous arrests. A police post in a department store warehouse endured gunfire while rioters battled in multiple areas. In Wyandanch New York teens lobbed gasoline bottles, damaging a school. Chicago and Birmingham incidents added to the day’s turmoil.
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Na‘tional
Kinamon Questioned Baptism Name Provokes Snickers
In a courtroom exchange, Dirksen insists on calling Hubert Gerald Brown by his baptismal name Kinamon. The insistence prompts audience laughter as he repeats Kinamon, highlighting a naming dispute raised during the hearing.
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Hubert Gerald Brown
Kinnamon
Kinamon
Dirksen
Brown
Suit to collect for hearing aid dismissed in Linn Court
In Linn district court Tuesday a case seeking $363.90 from Mrs. Joseph Matus, 1242 Thirtieth Street NE, was dismissed. Plaintiff Richard E. Kabel of Kabeltone Hearing Service claimed she was falsely informed she needed the aid and that Rachel knew the test results were false. A licensed doctor later found no hearing problem. Rachel requested dismissal without prejudice.
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Linn
Richard E. Kabel
Kabeltone Hearing Service
Joseph Matus
Thirtieth Street
Matus
Rachel
Judge Extends Schomberg Breakin Case to Next Term
Judge Warren J. Rees continued the breaking and entering case of Charles R. Schomberg 17 of 1111 Ninth Street SE to the next term. Schomberg is charged in a May 9 breakin at Schomberger Motor Co 717 Third Avenue SE and pled innocent on May 19 after undergoing a court ordered psychiatric examination.
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Warren J. Rees
Charles R. Schomberg
Ninth Street SE
Schomberg
Schomberger Motor Co
Third Avenue SE
Want ad readers seek bargains to sell now
Classified readers are urged to place bargain offers with the call 369-1234. This want ad notes readers aim to sell their bargains quickly through the simple telephone listing.
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Dial
Cedar Rapids Sells Urban Renewal Land to Highway Agency
The Cedar Rapids city council approved a warranty deed transferring 33 parcels in the Cedar Lake urban renewal area to the Iowa State Highway Commission for right of way on the Cedar Valley Expressway. The sale price is 288000 dollars and marks the city’s first proceeds from urban renewal land sales.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa State Highway Commission
Cedar Lake
Highway Commission
Deaths Edward L. Nelson 76 Cedar Rapids Resident Dies
Edward L. Nelson of 235 Twenty-sixth Street NW died after a brief illness. Born July 13 1891, he retired in 1956 from Quaker Oats Co. and belonged to unions and Masonic bodies. Survived by Grace Graybear wife four sons eight grandchildren and a sister. Memorial services Friday at Turner Chapel West. Burial at Cedar Memorial cemetery. Master Masons to meet at 1 p.m. Friday.
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Edward L. Nelson
Twenty-sixth Street
Cedar Rapids
Grace M Graybear
Omaha
Quaker Oats Co
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Crescent Lodge
Apollo Commandery
el Kabir Shrine
Clair V
Jackson, Mich
Leonard L
Hopkins, Minn
Kenneth E
Floyd Thompson
Turner Chapel West
D. A.loferski
St. John's Episcopal Church
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Mayme Heefner 89 widow of John Heefner dies after long illness
Mayme Heefner age 89 longtime Linn county resident and Cedar Rapids widow of John F. Heefner died Tuesday in a Springville nursing home after a long illness Born December 11 1877 near Toddville she moved to Cedar Rapids in 1935 and lived there over 20 years She was a member of Greens Grove Community church and the Macabees Surviving are a daughter two sons five grandchildren 15 great grandchildren and seven great great grandchildren A sister Mrs Ila Turner of Russell Illinois Services 130 p m Friday at Murdoch chapel Marion with Rev Charles Moore Burial Dunkard cemetery Midway Friends may call after 7 p m
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Mayme Heefner
John F. Heefner
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Springville
Toddville
Heefner
Greens Grove Community Church
Macabees
Harold Briney
Dunnellon
Fla
Darwin
L. Heefner
John L. Heefner
Marion
Ila Turner
Russell, Ill
Murdoch Chapel
Charles Moore
Dunkard
Midway
Tillie Slapnicka 82 Cedar Rapids Resident Dies After Illness
Tillie M Slapnicka 82 lifelong Cedar Rapids resident died Wednesday after a long illness born November 13 1884 married Otto F Slapnicka May 17 1905 She was a member of Eastern Star Gethsemane White Shrine Ambar Grotto Auxiliary Survived by daughter Irma T Dahl son Otto F Slapnicka Jr two granddaughters and five great grandchildren Services pending at Cedar Memorial funeral home callers welcome after 1 p m Thursday and at Memories Chapel after 10 a m Friday
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Tillie M. Slapnicka
B Avenue NE
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Memorial Funeral Home
Chapel of Memories
Clarence M. Groth to be laid to rest at local chapel
Clarence M. Groth will be interred in the Chapel of Memories after a service at Turner Chapel East at 1 30 p m Thursday conducted by the Very Rev C D A Loferski Entombment will follow at the Chapel of Memories
City Sells 3.6 Million in Bonds for Parks Sewers Airport
Cedar Rapids will offer 3 620 000 general obligation bonds in September to fund sewer construction fire protection park development and airport improvements. Bonds allocate 1.5 million each for sewer and airport 420 000 for parks and 200 000 for fire equipment.
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Cedar Rapids
Stewart Shank
Shank
Donald Gardner
Governor Hughes visits Cedar Rapids youth work program
Governor Hughes toured the Jane Boyd Community House and Cedar Rapids with local officials to observe minority employment needs. He met 30 youths in the new program directed by Nelson Evans, with plans for weekend work and summer projects overseen by business leaders and the Chamber of Commerce.
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Jane Boyd
Hughes
Cedar Rapids
Cecil A. Reed
Iowa Employment Security Commission
John Mackey
Iowa Comprehensive Alcoholism Project
Dwight Jensen
Jensen
Davenport
Sioux City
Tyler School
Nelson Evans
Bob Johnson
Chamber of Commerce
Johnson
Lamping
Robert Kaylor
Evans
Bridge Closure Strangles Near Southwest Traffic
Streets on the near southwest side clog during Sixteenth avenue bridge closure for rock island crossing repair. City says work should finish Thursday or Friday. Police route east and west bound traffic via First Second Third and Sixth streets and use Second Avenue Bridge when possible.
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Sixteenth Avenue
Rock Island
City Street Department
Eighth Avenue
First Street
Sixth Streets
Second Avenue
Springville Girl Hurt in Crash
Kelly Sholts aged 3 daughter of Ralph and Mrs Sholts of Springville remained in fair condition at St Luke s hospital Wednesday after a car struck her in Springville in the morning. Driver Eugene Ball route one Springville said she ran from behind a car at Main and Mill streets. No charges filed.
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Kelly Sholts
Ralph Sholts
Springville
St. Luke’s Hospital
Eugene Ball
Route One
Main
Mill Streets
Four Cedar Rapids Boys Arrested Over Noelridge Park Vandalism
Four Cedar Rapids youths were arrested by juvenile officers this week in connection with vandalism at Noelridge park recreation center last fall. Juvenile Bureau Capt. Lester Woodward said three were arrested on tips from a fourth boy who was detained on a separate juvenile offense last weekend.
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Cedar Rapids
Noelridge Park
Juvenile Bureau
Lester Woodward
Auto Club Defines Freeway Standards in Contrast to Expressway
SAN FRANCISCO API The National Automobile Club clarifies what constitutes a freeway as a multilane highway with full access control no grade crossings no stop signs and no left turns. It notes that an expressway may allow left turns or grade crossings at certain intersections.
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Eastland
U.S
Pentagon
Justice Department
Congress
Ervin
D-N.c
Auto Club
San Francisco
API
National Automobile Club
Club
Selassie Goes to Yugoslavia for Talks with Tito
Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia left Addis Ababa for Yugoslavia on Wednesday to discuss bilateral issues with President Josip Broz Tito.
Mortar Fire Is Familiar in Vietnam War Front
In Saigon the sound of 82MM mortars becomes a daily dread for U.S. troops. The piece explains mortar basics from tube to finned shell, crew roles, and defects in enemy fire. It notes mortar ranges from a few hundred feet to 3,000 meters, and that countermeasures include forward observers, radar, and artillery or air support.
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Vietnam
Saigon
UPI
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
Thhat
G.I
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