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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1966
Page
5
The report notes temperatures 3 to 5 degrees below normal from Thursday through Monday with normal highs in the 80s and lows in the 60s. Rain showers and thunderstorms are expected early and again on Sunday totaling about 0.75 to 1.00 inch. Weather data from Gazette station includes Tuesday high 77 and noon readings, and notable city figures and cemetery notices follow in the day’s local brief.
A notice lists new arrivals for the Kadera family Belle Plaine a daughter Elmer Roh lena Fairfax a son James L Studemann 1371 Hillside drive NW a son Eugene Wilcox route two Marion a daughter Jerry A Ottaway 180 Nineteenth street Marion a daughter Fred Wittke 2925 Johnson avenue NW a daughter Joseph L Tresnak 1903 C street SW twins born.
A Cedar Rapids ledgers list details a family birth, various court actions, traffic fines, and fire calls. Entries include a daughter born to Leland Gustafson, multiple divorces and name changes, and fines for speeding and disobeying signals. Fire calls cite grass and basement blazes, and service details note funeral times across Iowa towns.
Camp Good Health seeks two assistant male counselors of college age for August 14 to 27. Retarded children will be in camp during the two weeks. Applicants call Jim Hulbert, camp director, at 363 0681.
UPI reports U S marines launched Operation Colorado near Chu Lai, engaging heavy combat with North Vietnamese forces. In central highlands near Pleiku, Allied troops counterattacked in Operation Paul Revere II, with 170 North Vietnamese regulars killed and American armor and South Korean units advancing. An HH33 helicopter rescued Major Paul Curtis after his Voodoo jet went down, and air raids north of Haiphong targeted oil depots bridges barges and fires.
Airlines principals and union chiefs issue a telegram and press statements arguing the proposed bill would threaten free collective bargaining, label it a move toward socialism, and say it would cripple the labor movement and workers rights. H. E. Gilbert of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen calls 1963 action a lesson in stifling bargaining.
The Iowa Association of the Deaf plans its 32nd biennial convention at the Roosevelt hotel starting Thursday evening with 7:30 registration. Welcoming remarks by Mayor Bob Johnson and John X Waters precede Friday sessions and a main address by Robert Sanderson. The event includes elections for 1966-68 officers, a 1968 site choice, a banquet, and a Sunday Bever Park outing.
A unusual neurologic illness has hospitalized 17 people at Parkland in Dallas, with one death. Ages range 21 to 87. symptoms include seizures, stiff neck, fever, headaches and eye movement. doctors seek U S Public Health Service help as cases rise since late July.
Rex Kasler, a quiet, determined pilot from Zanesville Indiana, volunteered five times for air force service before receiving a transfer to Vietnam. His mother, Mrs Rex Kasler, recalls his ambition and dreams of the day they learned his plane was shot down in North Vietnam.
Albert L. Woerderhoff 75 of 2036 Washington Ave SE died Tuesday in a Cedar Rapids hospital after a long illness. He operated Woerderhoff's shoe store and was a Knights of Columbus member. Survived by Rose his wife two brothers a sister and a granddaughter. Services Friday at St Matthew's church burial Mt Calvary with rosary and Knights of Columbus prayers at the funeral home Thursday evening. Agnes Barnes lifelong Cedar Rapids resident died Tuesday after a long illness born October 1 1903 married July 15 1922 survived by husband son two sisters three grandchildren and members of Trinity Lutheran Church funeral Friday Turner chapel. John H Hoppe 62 of 1112 C Ave NW died Tuesday after a long illness a life long Cedar Rapids resident employed by Quaker Oats Co 43 years active in bowling. Services Friday 2 p.m. Monahan Stewart chapel conducted by Rev William Pfeffer burial Linwood cemetery. Survived by wife Grace and two sisters Edna Hoppe and Marie VanDeVoorde
Laura Paseka of Meth-Wick Manor died Wednesday after a long illness. Born Sept 10 1903 in Cleveland she moved to Cedar Rapids in 1910 and lived there since. Surviving are her husband of March 11 1950 in Riverside Calif a son a stepdaughter six grandchildren and two sisters. Memorial services Friday at 2 pm at Janeba Kuba funeral home. Burial Czech National Cemetery.
Katharine Hepburn stars in the film Bill of Divorcement airing as Channel 9’s Wednesday movie at 10 25 PM on KCRG TV.
Emil Pazdera will be buried at the Czech National cemetery after funeral services at Hesser Memorial chapel at 2 p.m. Thursday conducted by A E Kannewurf. Friends may call at the chapel. Burial with American Legion services follows. James C Riley funeral services are held Thursday at 2 p.m. at Janeba Kuba funeral home conducted by Jerry Drahovzal. Burial at Czech National.
Attorney General Katzenbach arrived in Montreal to join ABA opponents in blocking a 1966 civil rights bill provision requiring random jury selection from voter lists. Baltimore attorney William Marbury led the drive, arguing random selection would lower jury caliber and collide with Judicial Conference recommendations.
Volunteers from an Arkansas air national guard unit in training at Gulfport Mississippi donated 88 pints of blood to the Red Cross for use in Vietnam.
Cedar Rapids man Leroy Whitney 25 and Harvey Bunker 22 along with Cedar Rapids woman Susan Dziewanowski 20 and Marion woman Patricia Stewart 24 were arrested Tuesday on Bertram township warrants for breaking and entering and assault and battery. The alleged break in and beating occurred Monday night at 518 First Avenue NW Cedar Rapids. Bond set at 1110 for Whitney and Bunker and 1000 for Stewart and Dziewanowski.
Cedar Rapids council approved the rezoning 4-1 with Parks Commissioner Don Gardiner in opposition. Neighbors united against Consolidated Foods and local promoters, arguing the change favors a giant corporation. Objectors promised further testimony as second and third readings approach.
In Kansas City AP reports a 15 percent hike in wheat acreage allotments shocks growers. Some welcome Mondays Agriculture Secretary Freeman’s plan to rebuild stockpiles, hoping for price stability, while others view it as a government scheme to depress wheat prices. Farmers have long chafed at planting restrictions.
A Linn County judge ruled on Wednesday that Cedar Rapids can rezone 835 Center Point Road NE to allow Sine Kalell and Hassan Igram to open a cocktail lounge and restaurant. The court dismissed a church pastor’s bid to block the liquor license, and the city council quickly granted a beer permit. The ruling found no state law prohibiting a 300 foot liquor sale buffer and upheld the council’s ordinance change. Separately, four suspects face conspiracy charges after allegedly stealing 150 post office money orders in a Waterloo-Cedar Rapids scheme.
Preliminary arraignments were held for four Waterloo men charged in Linn district court with cashing stolen postal money orders. James M. Jones 30 and Charles C. Talley 22 had formal arraignments scheduled for Friday at 9 a.m. on forgery charges. Donald Lee Vanda 24 and William Oliver 17 were given further proceedings.
Bertram Villa on Mt. Vernon road and Irene Joyce Laenick were granted beer and cigarette permits by the supervisors on Tuesday. The board also received July reports from the soldiers relief commission totaling 5 401.56 and from the county home showing 15 817.88 spent and 7 780.71 received. A resolution barred parking on the shoulders of the Blairs Ferry road NE stretch between Cedar Rapids and Marion. Williams Brothers Pipe Line Co. may cross a county road with a pipeline. The chairman was authorized to sign a maintenance asphalt contract with L. L. Pelling Co. of Iowa City. Two projects total 23 003.15.
Richard Wold, 22, of Monona was injured early Wednesday when his convertible left highway 150 north of Hiawatha. He escaped serious injury after the car rolled twice and ended on its top at 3:25 a.m. Wold, who reportedly dozed at the wheel, was treated and released from St Luke's hospital. No charges were filed.
Sumitomo Electric Industries will cancel a $267000 copper wire shipment contract to North Vietnam despite Hanoi demand. A spokesman cited a U.S. request to block the deal and said Japan's foreign ministry advised against fulfilling the contract. North Vietnam insisted the agreement be honored.
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