Weather and Court Notices From Local Daily Record
High Monday 34, low 20, noon 32 with 0.43 inches total for December. Traffic fines listed for Reckless Driving Disobedience to traffic control devices and other offenses. Names include A Williams and Dennis D Thompson among fined individuals. Also births and obituaries noted for multiple families. Open burning and daily service notices recorded with times. Funeral services scheduled for several towns including Strawberry Point and Manchester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Williams
Dennis D. Thompson
Troy Mills
Joyce Hangartner
Hughes
Daniel Bizek
Cedar Rapids
Harry Hart
Oelwein
Richard Howard
Fifth Street
Marlin Pennington
Twenty-sixth Avenue
Kidnaping details emerge as mother recounts crime
A mother described a gunman forcing her to turn, tying her and taping her mouth while a companion watched. Neighbors heard a struggle but saw nothing, and she freed herself in about five minutes before notifying police. The Mackles include son Robert Jr at Wharton in Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mackle
Mackles
Robert, Jr
Wharton School of Finance
Philadelphia
Mackle Family Pioneers Florida Real Estate Boom
Barbara Jane Mackle is part of a renowned Florida real estate clan led by Robert and brothers Frank and Elliott Mackle. From 1950 to 1961 they built Key Biscayne homes, teamed with General Development Corp to sell 21,000 lots in Port Charlotte, and developed Port St. Lucie Port Malabar Sebastian and Vero Beach Highlands. They later led luxury projects on Marco Island the Deltona city project and Spring Hill. The group posted $250 million in sales and $28 million after tax profits in their final years at General Development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Barbara Jane’ Mackle
Robert
Frank
Elliott
Florida
Mackles
Key Biscayne
White House
Nixon
General Development Corp
Port Charlotte
Florida Gulf Coast
Port St. Lucie
Port Malabar
Sebastian
Vero Beach Highlands
General Development
Marco Island
Gulf Coast
Deltona
Spring Hill
Tampa Bay
South Africa Launches First Guided Missile Test
Defense Minister Pieter Botha pressed a button to launch South Africa’s first guided missile from a new Zululand coast testing site, marking a notable advance for the country’s defense program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Vidal
South Africa
Pieter Botha
Zululand
Target Area Aid Concept Abandoned in Linn County
Linn County and Cedar Rapids pivot from fixed target areas to five local decision zones for HACAP programs. Voting for 15 advisory board representatives will be limited to residents meeting federal poverty guidelines, with elections set for January in each precinct.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly Davenport
Hawkeye Area
Ellis
Oak Hill
Davenport
Linn County
Hacap Advisory Board
HACAP
Linn Advisory Board
Linn
Johnson and Jones
Pratt Couple Admit False Uttering of Checks
Duane B. Pratt and his wife Donna Pratt pleaded guilty in municipal court to false uttering of checks. Each received a 20 day suspended sentence and probation to Rev. William Harnish after arrest on municipal court warrants. Mrs Pratt uttered 26 checks totaling $450.39 and Duane 5 checks totaling $141.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duane B. Pratt
Donna
Third Street NW
Clinton Shaeffer
William Harnish
Guaranty Underwriting Group Signals Local Ownership Plan
Becker stated the Guaranty underwriting group will perform minimally yet enable a local ownership solution. He said the bank board intends to retain Guaranty ownership locally amid offers from external financial interests. Shaffer and other directors, including Loomis, noted several major shareholders plan to hold their stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Becker
Guaranty
Shaffer
Shaffer, Becker and
Loomis
Milo G. Blahnik
James L. Cooper
D. Bruce Gibson
Harry G. O'Donnell
Peter O. Stamats
Kenneth W. Watts
Tudor Wilder
Ocean sources push new drugs from algae and octopus
Pharmacologists increasingly seek marine sources for medicines. Marine algae produce antibiotics that inhibit terrestrial organisms. The octopus yields serotonin a potent histamine releaser.
Bond forfeiture hearing set for Carl Sonntag case
Judge Warren Rees set a December 30 hearing at 9 am to decide whether Sonntag's $1,000 bond should be forfeited after he failed to appear for a December 9 narcotics trial. The case, filed under bail bond reform act provisions, cites failure to appear with up to five years in prison.
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Warren Rees
Carl Sonntag
Sonntag
62Nd General Assembly
Rees
Kelcie Melone
Des Moines
River Road
Two Accused of Breakin Plead Innocent in Linn Court
Two men charged with attempted breaking and entering pleaded innocent in Linn district court Monday. LaVern Van Slyke 22 of 1235 Third street SW Sherman Gooding a former soldier from Ft. Knox Ky and Robert R. Elliott 21 of 2356 Blakely boulevard SE were arrested December 10 after a citizen reported three suspicious men outside Kaye's 66 station. Gooding crouched by a tire rack when police arrived Van Slyke was taken to Mercy hospital and Elliott on to a tavern. All three men are free on $2500 bond and Elliott has time to plead or move before Judge William Eads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn
William Faches
LaVern van Slyke
Third Street
Sherman Gooding
A.w.o
Ft. Knox
Robert R. Elliott
Blakely Boulevard
Kaye’s
Tenth Street
Gooding
van Slyke
Mercy Hospital
Elliott
William Eads
Kenneth Wilson Free on Bond in Forgery Case
Kenneth Wilson also known as Kenneth R. Cornwall, 33, of East Chicago, was released on a 7500 bond after Judge J. Paul Naughton approved the appeal bond in Linn district court. He had been sentenced to ten years after a June jury conviction for uttering a forged instrument tied to a $200 plus check pass at the Hiawatha Me Too store on April 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Wilson
East Chicago
Ft. Madison
J. Paul Naughton
Linn
Wilson
Kenneth R. Cornwall
Indiana
Hiawatha Me Too
Schirra Decorated For Apollo Flight
Walter Schirra, commander of the first manned Apollo flight, received the Distinguished Service Medal from Adm. Thomas Moorer. Schirra credited space travel as a new form of transportation and thanked his wife for support during the orbital mission of October 11 to 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Walter Schirra
Adm
Thomas Moorer
Naval Operations
Navy
Schirra
Moorer
Cedar Rapids to raise green fees at three municipal courses
Cedar Rapids plans higher rates for 18 hole rounds at Ellis Twin Pines and Squaw Creek from 1.25 to 1.50 next summer. Jones Park nine holes stays 1. Ten cent night rate at Twin Pines remains 1.50. Season tickets go 45 to 55 and a second family pass from 25 to 35.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Donald Gardner
Ellis
Twin Pines
Squaw Creek
Jones Park
Gardner
Postal Service 1st Honor Award Given President
President Johnson on Tuesday received the first Postal Service Honor Award in a ceremony at the departmental auditorium. The award credits the Johnson administration with improving conditions for postal employees and mail service. Postmaster General Watson presented an album of stamps. Johnson thanked the 740,000 postal workers and recalled conversations with his daughters Luci and Linda about their husbands in Vietnam and the crucial role of letters.
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Washington
Johnson
Postal Service
Watson
Luci
Linda
Vietnam
City Worker Hurt In Fall From Truck
A Cedar Rapids city employee Willie Brewster 44 fell from a city truck as it pulled into Yankee service station Mt. Vernon road and Fifteenth street SE. He was in good condition at Mercy hospital with chest and rib injuries. Driver Richard Grapes was behind the wheel when a hitch struck the curb, blasting the cab door open and tossing Brewster out.
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Cedar Rapids Street
Mt. Vernon Road
Fifteenth Street
Willie Brewster
Tenth Avenue SE
Mercy Hospital
Richard D. Grapes
G Avenue NW
Brewster
Soviet Official Leads Trade Delegation to Prague
Soviet Deputy Premier Nikolai Baibakov departed Moscow with a high powered economic delegation for Prague and Bratislava to inspect factories and research centers in Czechoslovakia. He said the USSR favors expanding economic cooperation with Czechoslovakia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Nikolai Baibakov
Prague
Bratislava
Czechoslovakia
Tass
Soviet Union
Baibakov
Utility Value May Force Budget Cut in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids faces a potential budget cut of about $189,700 as utility value drops lower. The preliminary 30 mill tax plan would earn $223,000 per mill, but reduced utility valuations from $25 million to $23 million lower the per mill yield to $216,755.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
William Heins
Heins
U.S.-Soviet Talks Sought By United Nations Assembly
The UN General Assembly committee urged the United States and the Soviet Union to start talks on limiting missile systems both offensive and defensive. The resolution passed 97 to 0 with five abstentions, signaling a potential Johnson Kosygin meeting within a month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
General Assembly
U.S
Soviet Union
Johnson
Kosygin
Deadly Fumes Poisonings Hit Family Again
Police said Dr. Fennessy left a door open between the garage and the family room and forgot to shut off the car motor when he returned home late Monday night. None of the other children were harmed by the fumes, marking a third poisoning incident after earlier chimney faults.
Obituaries of Mattill and Johnson pass away in Iowa City area
Obituary notices detail the deaths of Helen Isham Mattill of Meth Wick Manor and John I. Mattill’s survivor status and memorial plans. Also noted are Edna Helen Johnson and several other local obituaries with service details and burial places in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City area cemeteries.
Death of Hallmar resident Wilhelmine Ingwersen at 91
Wilhelmine Ingwersen, 91, a Hallmar resident for seven years, died Monday after a long illness. Born January 9, 1877, in Bryant, she spent winters with her niece Mrs. Phillip Shive in Cedar Rapids before moving to Hallmar in 1961. No immediate survivors. Body moved from Turner chapel east to Bragonier-Fay funeral home in Fulton, Ill., for services Wednesday. Burial in Oakland cemetery, Clinton.
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Helen Isham Mattill
Meth- Wick Manor
Henry Albright Mattill
Titusville
Buffalo
N.Y
Mattill
Unitarian Universalist Church
Sierra Club
Alpha Phi
Sigma Xi
Cornell University
New York
Bureau of Standards
Washington
D.C
University of Illinois
University of Utah
University of California
Rochester
Iowa City
University of Iowa Medical School
John I. Mattill
Concord
Mass
Peoples Church
Walter R. Kellison
Oakland Cemetery
Turner Chapel East
John H. Johnson
Loraine Street
Cedar Rapids
Springfield
S.D
Phyllis E. Lowther
Yankton
S. D
Air Corps
North Africa
Collins Radio Co
Afl-Cio
Elizabeth Johnson
D.D
Barbara
Angela
Julie
Lisa
Carl Johnson
Ellsworth Air Force Base
Rapid City
Charles Johnson
Arvada
Colo
Norman Nelson
Aberdeen
Cedar Memorial Funeral Home
Wilhelmine Ingwersen
Hallmar
Bryant
Phillip Shive
Turner Chapel
Bragonier-Fay
Fulton
Ill
Clinton
Wilson and Co seeks extension for waste capacity increase
Wilson and Co requests Cedar Rapids to push back the deadline for requesting higher basic quantities of industrial waste processed by the city plant from January 1, 1969 to January 1, 1970. The firm cites new equipment for measuring flows and notes current agreements allow a ten percent increase.
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Wilson and Co
Cedar Rapids
D. A. Lyon
Chicago
Lyon
Quaker ‘Oats
Penick and Ford
Cargill, Inc
Truck Rules Delay By Legislative Unit
DES MOINES Iowa legislature rules review committee deferred action on permanent regulations that would permit vehicles up to 70 feet long to travel on primary and secondary highways under annual permits. The committee unanimously decided to wait until its January meeting to act on the rules proposed by the highway commission.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa
Highway Commission
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G. Leroy Swore
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Jerome J. Ortmann
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Margaret E. Bell
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Daniel E. Castleberry
Amber Drive
Arline L. Ewing
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Garry D. Lewis
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Thomas J. Dyvad
Twenty-fifth Street
Mark J. Mulvany
Eighth Street
Jean E. Matus
Wilson Avenue
Beverly A. Roy
Seventeenth Street
John J. Murphy
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Judy R. Reed
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Troy Mills Christian Church
Murdoch’s
Walker
Orrien
Ellis Park
Oak Hall- Jackson
Duane
Donna Pratt
C.R
Cedar Memorial Funeral Home and Cemetery
John E. Lapes
3Rd Ave
General Fund
Public Safety
Sanitation
Municipal Enterprises
Henry A. Mattill
Pierson
Snor
Ellis Blvd
Turner’s
Turner Mortuary
First Ave
John B. Turner
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