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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1967
Page
5
Marion YMCA activities wind down with summer ends September 1 and fall-winter registration set for mid September. Events this week include a carnival fund drive for the pool, a August 22 picnic, and August 25 banner day parade.
Four mail carriers will receive safe driving certificates this week. Marion Postmaster Bernard J. Mullaley will present the awards for two rural routes Royal J. Mathews on route 1 and Harry Covington on route 2 with 19 and nine years of safe service. Arthur O. Steen on city mounted route and Harold E. Beadle on another city route will also be honored after six and nine years without incidents. Awards come through the National Safety Council and the postmaster general.
President Johnson warned Saigon leaders that rigged elections would alienate the American people. Special envoys Taylor and Clifford disclosed the message urging an honest vote amid war conditions. Congress members had urged US pressure for fair ballots as a policy check.
A group of 32 men from LeMars county Texas members of the Texas Agricultural Business Exchange arrived in Oelwein. They will spend three days in Fayette county touring farms industries and local businesses. Luncheon at the Rotary Club and tours of Oelwein industries and farms are planned with further visits to county businesses and farming operations.
With one year to go until convention time, Nixon and Romney must win at least three of four major primaries next spring. New Hampshire Wisconsin Nebraska and Oregon loom, as a losing streak could end each bid for 1968. Reagan Percy and Rockefeller may shake up the field if they enter.
Kathy Ameling nine of Ft Atkinson was hospitalized with a broken leg after a bicycle crash on River Road between St Lucas and Eldorado. Donna Ameling was riding with her sister when Ronald Smith eighteen of Ft Atkinson swerved to avoid Donna and struck Kathy from behind. No charges were filed.
A Citizens for LeMay position paper quotes Gen Curtis LeMay calling for wiping out North Vietnam’s industry. He reportedly demands destruction of factories and industrial installations, starting with the largest, to make the country pay for the war with material assets, not lives.
In Monticello the Seven States Oil Co station was robbed at about 4 40 p m Sunday an estimated 605 in cash was taken by a man and a woman who drove up the car with Delaware county plates The man ordered two dollars worth of signs while the attendant Robert Ponder 17 pumped gas then the robber rifled the cash register.
Gov Harold Hughes announced four year appointments to the Iowa Commission on Alcoholism. Dr John C MacQueen 50 a medical professor succeeds State Sen Earl Elijab who term ends June 30. Rev Wayne Shoemaker 46 Methodist minister Fort Dodge and State Sen Vernon H Kyhl 59 Parkersburg fill expiring terms. Kyhl also gets a full four year term. Shoemaker replaces Rev Carl Sinning who left to join the Iowa liquor commission. Reappointments to four year terms are Dr Ross C King 64 Clinton physician and surgeon and Louis F Fautsch 59 attorney and former police court judge at Dubuque.
Charles W. Cady 73 a retired buttermaker and Toddville resident since 1946 died Sunday evening in a Cedar Rapids hospital. He was born September 13 1893 in Palo married Ella Maye Butterfield October 20 1915 in Walker and lived in Independence before moving to Toddville. Survived by his wife five sons five daughters 43 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. Services 1 30 p m Wednesday at Murdoch chapel Center Point conducted by Kenneth E Pobuda Jehovahs Witnesses burial Walker cemetery. Friends may call after 7 p m.
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