Christmas and security notices amid Cedar Rapids briefs
A Cedar Rapids page compiles items from ads and notices. Included are hospital updates for Rose Karlik and Mrs. Aaron McNabb, a rifle theft report for William F. Warner, a missing diamond ring claim by Mrs. Wade Scranton, Christmas promotions from local florists, a Christmas tree lot update, and event notices for a library story hour, a New Year’s Eve club gathering, funeral attendance by Mrs. Vincent Spillane, burglaries at an army reserve center, and other seasonal classifieds and service ads from local businesses and organizations.
Ronald L. Bruce Hurt in Crash Near Cedar Rapids
Ronald L. Bruce, 29, of route one, Cedar Rapids, suffered a head laceration after he swerved to avoid a car and struck a bank along Waconia Drive SW. He was admitted to St Luke's hospital in fairly good condition with 30 stitches. No charges were filed.
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Ronald L. Bruce
Route One
Cedar Rapids
Waconia Drive
Sixth Street
St. Luke's Hospital
Bruce
Cedar Rapids 15-Year-Old Arrested In Home Theft
A 15-year-old Cedar Rapids boy was arrested Monday in connection with theft from the Carroll F. Bryant residence on Dec. 8. Items taken totaled 209 dollars including a portable radio rifle shells phonograph records and Indian head pennies. Eggs were also taken and splattered on the wall. The youth was turned over to his parents pending action by Linn County probation officers.
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Cedar Rapids
Southwest Side
Police Juvenile Bureau
Carroll F. Bryant
Twenty-first Avenue
Linn County
Petitions From JC’s Presented At the Pentagon
Cedar Rapids Jaycees president Richard Rehman presented petitions bearing 50 183 signatures from Eastern Iowans to Pentagon official Gen William Berg in Washington. Berg pledged to forward them to Gen Westmoreland in Vietnam and Rehman was later interviewed for Voice of America about the effort.
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Richard Rehman
The
Cedar Rapids
Year in Prison For Collie Wilkins
A federal judge in Birmingham Alabama sentenced Ku Klux Klansman Collie LeRoy Wilkins to one year in prison for violating probation on an illegal firearms possession conviction. Wilkins already faces a 10 year federal term for civil rights conspiracy and had pled guilty to a firearms charge in 1964. The judge cited multiple counts including recent Montgomery conspiracy conviction and a March report of actions in the district.
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Birmingham
Ala
Collie
LeRoy Wilkins
Wilkins
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Detroit
U.S
Clarence W. Allgood
Montgomery
Officer’s claim of travel cited in court testimony
The report notes 21 traveled to Montgomery and left the district on June 6 for a trip to Atlanta, and that he went to North Carolina on May 15. Wilkins, questioned, said in court that he did not deny leaving town and acknowledged possible honest mistakes.
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Montgomery
Atlanta
North Carolina
Wilkins
Tf T
Britain Wins Major Saudi Air Defense Order Over U S
Britain says it will secure more than three quarters of a 100 million pound Saudi Arabia air defense system contract, with Raytheon (U S) to supply Hawk missiles. The two nations competed for over a year as Britain proposed a package deal aligning with a McNamara push for an allied arms market.
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Nounced
John Stonehouse
Aviation
Raytheon
Britain
U.S
Defense
Robert McNamara
Prince Mikasa Takes Responsibility in Tokyo Auto Crash
Tokyo AP reports Prince Mikasa youngest brother of Emperor Hirohito admitted responsibility for an October accident in downtown Tokyo. A taxi collided with the prince’s car near Crown Prince Akihito’s residence leaving minor injuries to others and a lip cut for the prince. Prosecutors will decide on indictment.
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Tokyo
Prince Mikasa
Hirohito
Crown Prince
Akihito
Santo Domingo Threat Fades as Workers Return
The threat of a general strike to oust Dominican military leaders appears to be waning as workers drift back to their jobs. Also, Luise Rainer makes her first TV appearance on COM BAT! KCRG TV Channel 9 at 6 30 Tuesday night.
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Santo Domingo
Luise Rainer
Combat
Kcrg-Tv
Channel 9
Cedar Rapids Police Buy Lie Detector System
The Cedar Rapids police will acquire a polygraph system next year, first such equipment for the department. Two officers will train for six weeks at Keeler Polygraph Institute, Chicago, as part of a $5,000 package that includes the machine and training.
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C.R. Police
Cedar Rapids
Frank Bush
Keeler Polygraph Institute
Chicago
Bush
University of Iowa
Richard Holcomb
Gazette Co. Cedar Rapids Daily Subscription Rates
The Gazette Co publishes daily and Sunday editions from Cedar Rapids Iowa. Night edition 6 issues $1.25 per month or $13 per year. afternoon and Sunday 7 issues $1.35 per month or $14 per year. Foreign and territorial rates apply. No mail subscriptions in towns with Gazette carrier service. The Associated Press holds exclusive republication rights for local news and AP dispatches.
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The
Gazette Co
Third Ave. SE
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
U.S. Territories
Associated Press
Slippery Chain Lakes Bridge blamed for two-vehicle crash
Catherine Batchelder 43 of Toddville suffered minor injuries in a two-vehicle crash on Chain Lakes bridge east of Palo. Sedlecek of Cedar Rapids drove a pickup. No charges were filed. Batchelder treated at St. Luke's and released.
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Catherine Batchelder
Toddville
St. Luke's Hospital
Chain Lakes Bridge
Palo
Chain Lakes County
Batchelder
Marvin L. Sedlecek
Cedar Rapids
Sedlecek
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Rose Karlik
Rapids Avenue
St. Luke's
Novak
Wade Scranton
Drinkward Street
Pierson’s Florists
Flowerphone
William F. Warner
O Avenue NW
Sam Nassif
West Side
Lindale Optimist
Aaron McNabb
Sixteenth Street
St Luke’s Hospital
Cluo
Nelson Jewelers
Adv
Vincent Spillane
Denver
Colo
Lynn Jorgenson
William Herbert
Nineteenth Street
Peg’s Beauty Salon
Army Reserve Center
Sixth Street Road
Harrison School
Don Campbell
Terry Usher
Duane Elsbury
Bill Grafton
Ladd Heath
Bruce Seifert
Virgil Elsbury
al Lusk
John Strait
Douglas Walker
Howard Bean
Southland Street
Evans
Roadrunner
Automobilius Fulluppus
City National
Boy
Jc's
Pentagon
Collie Wilkins
Advertising Council
National Safety Council
N&m
Uncle Sam
London
Prince
Bosh
Gazette
Che
Linn
Just
Third Ave
Calvert Dist. Co
N.Y.C
Baits Suint ON
Dee Calvert
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