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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1965
Page
1
The AFL CIO met in San Francisco with 1000 delegates in the civic auditorium to map plans for the next two years. Johnson administration officials attended to court labor votes in 1966 as Democrats seek to maintain a congressional majority.
UPI reported Chairman Adam Clayton Powell urged tripling the 1.5 billion dollar annual anti poverty program. He argued for tighter legislation and broader poor people involvement to fight poverty at home as funds support the Vietnam effort. Powell noted bipartisan inquiry with one unnamed Republican and cited cases in Chicago Newark Harlem and Los Angeles.
A 13 year old boy was arrested after a joint police and fire department probe solved a string of fires around Mercy hospital area in Cedar Rapids. He admitted setting fires Oct 2 Oct 5 Oct 14 and Nov 29, including a vacant Seventh Avenue dwelling gutted Oct 14. He was held for mental health evaluation and charged as a juvenile.
German police arrested 59 year old Herbert Weygandt once head of the Gestapo and SS colonel hiding in Wuppertal under the alias Heinrich Walter. He is suspected of involvement in the deaths of about 56000 Jews in extermination camps and the shooting of Polish slave laborers.
Gemini 6 crew Frank Borman and James Lovell move toward a two week endurance goal as mission control officially advances launch to Sunday at 10 a.m. from Cape Kennedy. Walter Schirra and Thomas Stafford will chase Gemini 7 and attempt a six hour in formation rendezvous. An earthquake with moderate intensity rattled Mexico City but caused no damage reports.
Secretary of State Rusk stated that Peking holds the key to whether the United States faces a clash with Red China over Vietnam. He warned against Soviet propaganda and said the U.S. will meet its commitments to defend South Vietnam while exploring more allied support at the NATO talks.
Britain proposed a 12 nation appeal urging North Vietnam to quit fighting and seek peace. A message to the Soviet government called on Moscow and nine allies from 1954 talks plus India, Canada, and Poland to circulate the appeal among Vietnam control commission members. The effort highlighted the involved parties including the United States, France, Britain, the Soviet Union, Red China, Cambodia, Laos, Vietminh, and South Vietnam.
A South Vietnamese search and destroy mission sparked heavy fighting with a Viet Cong regime 15 miles north of Tam Ky. U.S. artillery and jets supported ground forces, with 206 tons of bombs dropped and 397 sorties flown. A C 130 crashed at Chu Lai, killing one American and injuring three Vietnamese. North Vietnam was accused of increasing aid to the Viet Cong and violating Laos neutrality. Britain and the Soviet Union co chaired Geneva talks, with new proposals for international condemnation of U.S. action and calls to negotiate an end to the war.
In San Francisco a man and a woman robbed a Bank of America branch. The woman stood at the door while the man demanded money and took away 3132 dollars before they fled.
Bonnie Peek, 32, arrested on bad check charges, released on probation to spend holidays with her three children. Her husband Thomas, 30, began a six month term at the state penal farm after pleading for permission to serve his wife’s jail term. He admitted driving her from store to store in the shopping spree and using already borrowed funds to cover $225 in worthless checks.
President Johnson sped up shipment of one and a half million tons of wheat to India to ease an immediate food crisis and authorized a 50 million dollar fertilizer loan. The move followed talks with Secretary of Agriculture Freeman and was announced by White House Press Secretary Moyers.
MOSCOW AP A major reshuffle in the Soviet high command names Alexander Shelepin to a top party post while Nikolai Podgorny becomes president. Podgorny, 62, replaces Anastas Mikoyan, 70, who steps from the presidency after four decades in top roles. Mikoyan will serve in a parliamentary vice president capacity as Podgorny and Mikoyan remain in the 12 member party presidium. Podgorny, a powerful Ukrainian, leaves presidium duties for the new post.
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