Weather and notices roundup from the Midwest and beyond
The record lists Saturday highs and lows across multiple cities from Bismarck to Miami, with a forecast of increasing cloudiness and thunderstorms Sunday, then fair and cooler Monday. It also reports August totals, barometer drop, humidity at 6 p.m., wind at the Municipal airport, sun and moon times, year-ago figures, and a long list of births and obituaries with names and locations.
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Totel
Billie Sol Estes Sued for 10.5 Million Tax Claim
In Pecos Texas Billie Sol Estes the bankrupt promoter previously sentenced to 23 years faces a tax lien The IRS filed a 10 530 842 dollar claim against Estes and his wife at Reeves County courthouse Friday confirming substantial tax owed summary indicates the government seeks payment of 10.5 million dollars from the couple.
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Pecos
Texas
Billie Sol Estes
West Texas
Internal Revenue Service
Reeves County Court House
Senator Ribicoff Endorses Treaty With Call For Peace
Ribicoff said the United States has much to gain from ratifying the treaty and warned that Senate rejection would be a calamitous blow to national prestige and world leadership. He urged the measure as a path to dispelled fear and relaxed tensions.
Home Run Club co-owner reports theft at early morning
Robert G. Collins of the Home Run club reported to police that about $36 in small change was taken from under a counter at 1222 Hawthorne Drive SW between 3 and 3:30 a.m. Saturday.
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Robert G. Collins
Hawthorne Drive
Cedar Rapids Gazette Established in 1883 by The Gert Co
The Cedar Rapids Gazette, established in 1883 by The Gert Co, publishes daily and Sunday from Ave SE Cedar Rapids Iowa. Subscription rates list carrier 45 cents per week and mail options including night edition and Sunday issues with monthly and yearly prices. No mail subscriptions are accepted in towns with Gazette carrier service.
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Gert Co
Bird Ave
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Newspaper Rights Notice Noted by AP
The Associated Press reserves exclusive rights to republish all local news and AP dispatches appearing in this newspaper. This policy ensures AP material can be redistributed by authorized outlets while maintaining attribution.
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Associated Press
FDR Cottage Auction Draws Low Bids at Val Kil Farm
Auctioneer recounts meager bidding at the Franklin D. Roosevelt National Shrine cottage sale near Hyde Park. Items tied to Mrs. Roosevelt include a bed tray and rose wood chair, with the vase and dog beds bringing only modest sums as bidders showed little interest in history attached to the Roosevelts.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt National Shrine
Val- Kill
Roosevelt
Falla
Tractor Upset Injures Youth at Waukon Intersection
Ray Wacker, 17, of rural Waukon, suffered broken ribs and possible internal injuries when the tractor he was driving upset at a Waukon intersection. He was pinned beneath the vehicle for about 20 minutes before wrecker crews freed him and he was hospitalized in Waukon. He had been participating in the Allamakee county fair tractor pulling contest.
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Waukon
Ray Wacker
A. E. Wacker
Allamakee
Quasqueton Meeting on Dial Telephones Open to Subscribers
The Quasqueton Telephone Co will hold a meeting Monday at 8 p.m. in the Legion hall for all subscribers. Dial telephones will be discussed.
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Quasqueton
Quasqueton Telephone Co
Legion Hall
Services Slated For 3 Elkader Crash Victims
Three Elkader residents died in a head on crash on highway 53 near La Crosse Wisconsin. Services set for William and Mrs. Muench at St Josephs Elkader. Rites for Mrs Ehrhardt at St Josephs with the body at Witt funeral home. Surviving relatives include two daughters and several relatives. Two others in the other vehicle were hospitalized.
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Decorah — Myer Sacquirie
Big
Canoe Lutheran Church
Steine Funeral Home
Independence
Norma May Hovey
First United Presbyterian Church
White's
Elkader
William Muench
St. Joseph’s Church
McTaggart’s
John Ehrhardt
St. Joseph's Church
Witt’s
la Crosse
Wis
William M. Muench
Jeanne
Alberta Ehrhardt
McTaggart
Shirley
University of Iowa
Kay
Muench
Joseph
Ehrhardt
Witt Funeral Home
Gerald Funk
Dubuque
Andrew Baumgartner
Cedar Rapids
Duane Johanningmeier
30 Become Sick From Insecticide
About 30 people were treated at a hospital in Toppenish Washington after exposure to a crop dusting chemical described as a nerve poison. An area of about one square mile was evacuated and two men plus a small child remained for observation while others were released. The insecticide tetraethylpyrophosphate had been sprayed on hop fields from two airplanes under a thermal inversion. Two cattle died from the spray.
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Yakima County
Sheriff's Office
Nick's Dixieland Club Closes After 27 Years in Greenwich Village
New York AP Nick's in Greenwich Village ends after 27 years as a Dixieland jazz venue. Final chorus of Tin Roof Blues fades as musicians and patrons reflect on changing tastes. Regulars included Davison, Russell, Teagarden, Spanier, and Davidson recalls Nick Rongetti's legacy amid dwindling crowds.
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New York
Greenwich Village
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Nick’s
Pee Wee Russell
Jack Teagarden
Muggsy Spanier
Wild Bill Davison
St Paul Scouts Win Tournament of Drums at Kingston
The St Paul Scouts drum and bugle corps of St Paul Minnesota won the Tournament of Drums at Kingston Stadium over five visiting units. Madison Scouts took second, St Matthias Cadets Milwaukee third. Also competing were Custers Brigade Round Lake Illinois Fort Dodge Lancers and Purple Knights Rockford Illinois.
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St. Paul
Minn
Kingston Stadium
Madison
Wis
St. Matthias Cadets
Milwaukee
Custer’s Brigade
Round Lake
Ill
Fort Dodge Lancers
Purple Knights
Rockford
St. Matthias
Skelly
Iowana Council
Hus
Buddhists Temporarily Halt Crisis Reports in Vietnam
In Hue South Vietnam Buddhists pause personal crisis reports until the new American ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge arrives in Saigon on Aug 23. A spokesman said the push will likely start after Lodge arrives and noted Lodge is an ally of President Ngo Dinh Diem's government. The Buddhists say they face religious freedom and civil rights restrictions by Roman Catholic state leaders.
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Hue
Vietnam
South Vietnam
Henry Cabot Lodge
Saigon
Lodge
Frederick E
Notting
Ngo Dinh Diem
Moon Base Plans Move Toward Permanent Station
The report outlines a phased moon program with forerunners by 1970 and a full scale base ready for operation by 1972 or 1973. It envisions an 18 person station for up to six months, recycling wastes into oxygen and water, producing fuel from lunar rock, and indoor farming with on site repairs.
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Aerospace
Space Agency
Earth
Morning Glory on KCRG TV 9 Tonight Starring Hepburn Fairbanks
Katharine Hepburn and Douglas Fairbanks Jr star in Morning Glory a love classic airing tonight on KCRG TV 9 at 10 30 PM. The program features a famed duo in a period romance and showcases classic cinema from the studio library.
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Katharine Hepburn
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Kcrg-Tv
Navy Airmen Survive Six Hours After Plane Ditch
Six U S Navy airmen survived six hours adrift in a life raft after their Dakota C-117 ditched in a stormy Salerno bay. Pilot Lt Cmdr Harold H Kelly and five crewmen were rescued by Italian and American forces near Naples as USS Altair and Partenope assisted, with flares guiding rescuers.
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Naples
Italy
U. S. Navy
Salerno Bay
Cmdr
Harold H. Kelly
Pensacola
Fla
Naples-Capri
Partenope
Altair
C R Apartment Gutted by Blaze
A southeast side two and a half story apartment building at 417 Sixth Street SE was gutted by a fire likely started by a lit cigarette. Firefighters controlled the blaze by 9 20 p m and rescued resident Ed DeVepo 48 from a third floor ledge. No injuries reported. Property owner is Frank Bedell of 3102 Parkview Court SE.
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George van Trees
Sixth Street
Ed DeVepo
DeVepo
Frank Bedell
Parkview Court SE
Windshield Vandalism Recurs Across Cedar Rapids Used Lots
Pellets damaged 39 windshields across three Cedar Rapids used car lots on Saturday, echoing a May and June spree. Schamberger Motor Co., Rapids Chevrolet, and Handler Motors suffered the hits, with 39 windshields numbered across 3 sites. Detectives say juveniles or adults could be responsible, noting similar pellet damage in prior weekends and the difficulty of identifying the pellet gun type.
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Cedar Rapids
Schamberger Motor Co
Second Avenue SE
Rapids Chevrolet Co
First Avenue E
Handler Motors
Eighth Street
First Avenue SE
Racial News At a Glance Across Several States
Reports from Jersey City Goldsboro Americus Danville New York and Tallahassee outline racial tensions and actions. Two white men 20 and 21 face assault with intent to kill in the slaying of a 14 year old Negro girl Serina Taylor in Jersey City. Police arrest 100 demonstrators in Goldsboro after a segregated restaurant protest. Sixty plus demonstrators jailed in Americus for desegregation disorders. Danville shows few pickets as tobacco industry concerns rise. In New York racial picketing ceases after a diner hires more non white workers. In Tallahassee Negro leaders say major stores agree to hire Negro clerks.
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Jersey City
N. J
Serina Taylor
Goldsboro
N.C
Americus
Danville
New York
Bronx
Tallahassee
Fla
Man Loses Wallet Near Kory Inn in City
Clarence Engledow 72 Fif teenth avenue SW told police his brown leather wallet containing about 85 dollars and identification cards was lost early Saturday near the Kory Inn at 1004 First avenue N.
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Clarence Engledow
Fifteenth Avenue SW
Kory Inn
First Avenue
Drug price case on tetracycline patents and alleged conspirac y
The FTC decision finds not proven a conspiracy by Pfizer and Cyanamid over tetracycline patents but notes information withheld that aided price fixing. The ruling cites price uniformity and frequent contact among firms, while Pfizer Bristol Myers defend innocence and plan appeals. Dr Bowman denounces the decision and vows to seek court vindication.
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Pfizer
Cyanamid
A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr
Commission
Pfizer & Co
Philip I. Bowman
Bristol Laboratories
Bristol- Myers Co
Bristol
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