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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1966
Page
4
Hollywood mourns Buster Keaton, legendary comedian who bridged silent film and modern television. He died at his home from lung cancer Tuesday after a three month battle. his family kept the illness private.
Cedar Rapids Mayor Robert Johnson urged Gov. Harold Hughes to veto the six county Medicare Alert plan. Johnson sent a veto request. the governor's office acknowledged receipt. LEAP officials say the plan would sign up Medicare eligibility by March 31 and cost 23600 with a 21000 federal grant.
U S planes hit targets in North Vietnam while American and allied ground forces trapped Viet Cong along South Vietnam’s coast. Air losses included one air force and two navy planes. one air force pilot remained missing after cloud cover concealment. Operation Masher pressured Viet Cong from three sides over a 13 by 10 mile area. heavy fighting yielded 488 reported dead, 12 prisoners, and 408 suspects.
At the United Nations the Soviet Union objected to a U.S. request to bring the Vietnam question to the Security Council. Soviet Ambassador Fedorenko accused the move of masking expansion of the war, while U.S. Ambassador Goldberg urged inviting both North and South Vietnam to participate in debates. The sides debated agenda and the viability of a negotiated settlement amid power-veto considerations.
Hollywood AP reports Mickey Rooney sought reconciliation with his fifth wife Barbara Thoma Rooney. Police say Barbara and Milos Milosevic shot her then Milos killed himself in Rooney's Brentwood home. Rooney, hospitalized for an intestinal infection, was not involved in the shooting.
Hedda Hopper, famed gossip columnist and longtime The Gazette entertainment feature, died Tuesday at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital after contracting a virus and double pneumonia with heart complications. Her son actor William Hopper announced the death. Hopper gained fame as a pioneering radio and film gossip maven and a feud with Louella Parsons marked her career. Born Elda Furry on a Pennsylvania farm, she left to pursue acting then newswriting and column work in 1936.
Patricia Lawford sister of the late President Kennedy was granted a divorce from actor Peter Lawford on grounds of mental cruelty in Sun Valley Idaho. She established residence December 20 and was awarded custody of their four children with visitation rights. The pair, married eleven years, had been separated since January and had lived apart for some time. No financial arrangements were disclosed.
Air force troops forcibly remove about 60 Black squatters at the deactivated Greenville air base. Major General and Lt Col George Andrews coordinate the operation as 150 troops flown in to secure the site. Authorities say the aim is to protect federal property while civilians protest for aid and land.
Singapore report says Indonesian President Sukarno elevated Army Chief Suharto from major general to lieutenant general, a move linked to claims he leads a campaign against Sukarno.
UPI reports Captain Richard G. Head, 28, Cedar Rapids native turned Des Moines resident, describes a late night snipe hunt over the Mekong river delta. Flying in a five-plane formation, they used radar ships and a flareship to locate sampans aiding Viet Cong supply lines.
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