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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1965
Page
3
The report lists high and low temperatures, precipitation totals, humidity, and wind at Gazette weather station with daily sun data. Followed by December 20 obituaries and service notices for Marion and nearby towns including Keota Cascade Oxford Junction and Iowa City, naming multiple individuals and funeral details.
Local notices report a fire at a two story house 612 Fifteenth avenue SE after a gas furnace ignited materials on the first floor. Numerous traffic fines listed for speeding, unsafe turning, disobeying signals and other violations across Marion, Cedar Rapids, Atkins and nearby towns.
U S Attorney Robert Morgenthau announced the seizure of heroin valued at $18 million in a Columbus Georgia trailer park. Ninety five kilograms were found in a freezer aboard an army chief warrant officer’s personal property moved from Europe to Columbus. Arrests were made in Columbus and Manhattan, including chief warrant officer Herman Conder and four French nationals and a Brazilian.
Indictments carry up to six months in jail and a 500 dollar fine or both. A city ordinance bars the public works from collecting refuse from businesses unless fees are paid. Trash service at the Mason Temple paused last summer and resumed in September under O Briens orders who argued the temple is not a commercial place under the ordinance.
Donald Foley four suffered serious head injuries and a broken leg when he ran into the street from between parked cars and was struck by a car in Hopkinton Saturday. He remained in Cedar Rapids hospital Monday. This followed another Foley child burn incident six weeks earlier.
Twelve Linn county residents are summoned for grand jury duty in the January term of Linn district court. Jurors include Warren R. Erbe and Edward H. White of Cedar Rapids, Kenneth F. Ben da of Marion, Howard Neal of Mt. Vernon, Elmer Stamy of Monroe, Peter Karch of Otter Creek, J. J. Kelly of Fairfax, Lloyd Kiefer of Maine, William Kindred of Fayette, Leo Novak of Clinton, Mona Street of Washington, and Raymond Wagner of Putnam. They report Tuesday Jan 4 at 9 a.m.
Gary W. Williams 20 of route one pled guilty to a drunk driving charge and was fined 300 dollars plus costs by Judge J. Rees. The judge suspended his license 60 days after his Dec. 17 arrest for an accident at the intersection of First Street and Ninth Avenue SW.
Alonzo A. Fisher sues Wendell B. Bell of 297 Indiandale Road SE in Linn District Court for 6238 in damages claiming Bell’s negligent driving caused a December 24 1963 collision at First Avenue and Thirtieth Street SE that left Fisher with permanent vertebrae injuries.
A four foot plywood Wiseman was stolen from a Nativity scene on an Ely farm. Deputies report two cars drove onto Dick Harger’s lawn around 9 30 p m Monday. A pair of occupants jumped out, seized the figure, and fled.
Washington reports that U S military commanders in Vietnam have authority to fight across the Cambodian border if necessary for self defense. The decision rests with top command, and action would target communists who flee or fire from across the border.
Linn County residents ask the board of supervisors to extend Cedar Rapids public library services beyond Cedar Rapids. PTA members and Toddville residents push countywide access, citing 370 and 970 names on petitions. The board will consult Librarian Jim Marvin but notes no levy until the 1967 budget.
About 125 Linn county residents are summoned for the January term of Linn district court petit jury duty. They must report Monday January 10 at 9 a.m. at the courthouse. List includes Cedar Rapids Marion and Lisbon residents among others, with numerous surnames across townships and suburbs.
Heat from a first floor gas furnace ignited nearby clothes, starting a fire in a two story frame house at 612 Fifteenth avenue SE. Damage was limited to the rear first floor with smoke affecting the rest. occupants Barbara O Bannon and three children in the downstairs apartment and Marvel Cook upstairs were safe. The house is owned by Alphonse O Bannon not related to Mrs O Bannon.
Mt. Vernon speakers report State Rep Richard Radcliffe addressed the Rotary club, denouncing machine politics and urging voters to oust uninformed officeholders. He says both parties ignore independent voters and leaders seek to keep voters under control with old clichés.
A burglar entered through an unlocked back door at the Edward Pospisil home in Bertram early Tuesday and stole 48 Christmas date cookies baked by Madeline Pospisil, 24, who worked at Collins Radio Co. The thief moved quietly as the family slept. Linn County sheriff's deputies investigated.
The Rev Zdnek F Pauk 64 of 4802 Ozark street NE a retired Presbyterian minister died Monday. Born March 30 1901 in Czechoslovakia he was a U S Army major and chaplain in World War II. He served in Binghampton New York West Texas and Cedar Rapids and retired in 1958 due to ill health. Services at Brush chapel Thursday at 2 pm with burial at Cedar Memorial. He was a member of several veterans and fraternal groups and survived by his wife two daughters two sons four grandchildren a sister and five brothers. The report also notes the death of John F Kramer and mentions Paul of Dewitt with Requiem Masses and Rosaries from Teahen chapel. Funeral details list church affiliations and burial at Mt Carmel and Mt Calvary cemeteries with Rosary recitations in the days surrounding services.
James F. Convey age 83 of 200 Seventh Street SW Cedar Rapids died Tuesday after a long illness. A former Quaker Oats Co. employee he lived in Cedar Rapids over 45 years. Born September 28 1882 in Sigourney he was a member of St Patrick's Church. Surviving are his wife Mary five sons George James Joseph and Dale all of Cedar Rapids.
Wednesday at 9 a.m. the service will be held by Rt. Rev. William Roach at Immaculate Conception Church. Parish rosary is Tuesday at 7 30 p.m. Burial at Mt. Calvary. Burial and funeral details reference Brady Cemetery and Mt. Calvary.
UPI reports Mary Hellen Battle 25 of Oak Ridge Tennessee was arrested November 24 in East Berlin while studying at Free University. Charges undisclosed though past cases involve aiding refugees. A Potsdam secret trial began for two American men Moses Herrin 24 and Frederick Matthews 23, also accused in refugee help efforts.
Sheriff Walter Grant said a Monday night report of vandals painting highway signs and reflectors on Highway 64 near Springville was a mistake. The signs were frosted over and appeared to be aluminum paint.
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