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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1963
Page
3
The forecast calls for cloudy windy conditions with snow squalls and a cold wave across northwest and extreme west regions Friday night and Saturday. Lows Friday night in the 20s, temperatures dropping to near zero Saturday night. northerly winds 25 to 40 mph. Further outlook shows considerable cloudiness with snow flurries and very cold conditions Sunday.
Scolaro says he agreed to restitution for $100 in bad checks and to cover trip expenses estimated at $835 to Florida in exchange for dropping charges. Sheriff Smith backs the exploratory trips while Auditor Burrill seeks stricter expense reporting and oversight. Supervisors Sutera Henderson and Burrill weigh the duty and propriety of a supervisor accompanying deputies on prisoner returns.
Frank L. Snitil aged 62 of 619 Eleventh Avenue SE Cedar Rapids died at home after a long illness. He was a retired sheet metal worker and lifelong Cedar Rapids resident born September 13, 1886. He served as trustee of St. Wenceslaus Church and belonged to Catholic Sokols Holy Name Society Rosary Society Cadets of St. George and Sheet Metal Workers Local 263. Surviving: wife Matilda Schwankl two daughters Mrs Edward Stava and Mrs Milton Sopousek a son Raphael F two brothers Rudolph J Barstow and a sister Anna Ouellette seven grandchildren and a predeceased son Frank Jr. Rosaries Sunday 7:30 and 8 p.m. Services Monday 9 at Kuba Funeral Home and 9:30 at St. Wenceslaus Church with burial at St. John's. Friends may call after 11 Saturday.
The Iowa senate voted 39 to 0 to appropriate 334000 dollars to finish buying a new prison honor farm located six miles south of Newton and sent the bill to the house for consideration.
Mound City boosters concede to government seizure of county ASC records and equipment. Government sought December last to move items to a new ASC office in Herreid. Residents blocked access but end of court action marks surrender of resistance.
The Ohio pardon and parole commission unanimously rejected a bid to free convicted wife slayer Dr. Samuel Sheppard from life in prison.
T J Vincent aged 83 from Cedar Rapids died Thursday at Friendship Haven Fort Dodge where he spent recent winters. Born 1866 in Washington County he was a farm equipment salesman. Survived by son Verle of Whittier California two daughters Mrs H M Buck Peoria Illinois and Mrs O W Lawrence Cedar Rapids with whom he lived many years three grandchildren and two great grandchildren. He was a member of St Pauls Methodist church and the Senior Mens Christian club. Services Monday 11 at McCullough funeral home Algona with burial in Algona.
Word came of the death of A G Schultz a former Cedar Rapids resident in Waterloo on Wednesday. He worked 25 years for Northrup King and Co before retirement. Survived by wife daughter Vivian and three brothers Fred Lone Rock Ben Spencer and W J Schultz Cedar Rapids. Services Saturday at 3 in Parrott and Wood funeral home Waterloo.
Wayne H. Snyder 57, of Cedar Rapids, died in Chicago Friday after leaving Cedar Rapids 24 years ago. Survivors include two sisters Mrs. Harry Kleinfelter and Mrs. Arthur Steinke and a brother Harold, all of Cedar Rapids.
Burt E. Dean, 22, of 1508 Davey NW, dies in a Cedar Rapids hospital from injuries after being run over by a tractor wheel at the Allis-Chalmers plant where he worked. The report notes the accident occurred about 10:30 a.m. Thursday. Sabin polio vaccine to be used in Cedar Rapids in March with doses to follow in April and May. The Jaycees coordinate the mass immunization with Linn County Medical Society staff at six sites on Cedar Rapids' east and west sides.
Burt Edgar Dean born February 3 1940 at Grafton New Hampshire. Survived by parents Frank R and Mrs Dean of Grafton. Body moved from Turner chapel to Grafton for services and burial.
Severe weather and floods crippled transport from California to Idaho and Nevada. High water closed three transcontinental highways in northern California while flood damage hit U.S. 40 and 50 corridors and a 12 mile stretch of U.S. 40A. In Idaho and Colorado, rising temperatures and chinook winds sent floods into basements and toppled power lines with gusts over 70 mph. A Napa river surge swept a station wagon into danger and a dumped vehicle incident left a mother and six children scrambling to safety.
New York Democrats rebut a Republican claim that federal agents were sent to gather information against Gov. Rockefeller. State Democratic Chairman William McKeon calls the charge a red herring and accuses Rockefeller of trying to doublecross voters and raise taxes.
Four civil cases in the Eastern division of Iowa were assigned trial dates in Cedar Rapids. Delores Brandt v Howard Bell Olson and Fred Carlson Co v Walter Galus will go to trial April 9 in Waterloo if unsettled by Feb 11, and David James Taylor v Arlene Taylor et al. faces April 22 in Cedar Rapids unless settled by March 20. US v Associated Manufacturers and Paul Christiansen trial is Feb 13 in Cedar Rapids with a settlement deadline Feb 8, and Eldon Huisman v Rock Island Railroad trial set for April 16 in Waterloo if no settlement by Feb 11.
Iowa City is spotlighted in a Cedar Rapids Gazette feature by Art Hough. The article profiles violinist Charles Treger and notes his lively artistic life. Additional pieces discuss a local resident fluent in German and French and very proficient in Russian.
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