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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1966
Page
6
Five day outlook shows below normal temperatures across the region with snow Thursday and late Sunday. Normal highs range from the twenties to the thirties and lows from the single digits to the teens. A list of obituaries and birth notices follows with names and addresses of local families.
A Cedar Rapids report covers multiple traffic offenses with fines ranging from 10 to 15 dollars and costs for drivers listed by name and address. It also lists numerous civil case judgments and jury trial awards against multiple defendants with varied sums, alongside a burned-out blower motor incident at 4428 F avenue.
Kathryn Smith Border 78 of 110 Second Street NW Cedar Rapids died Wednesday. Born January 12 1888 in Cedar Rapids she was widow of Byron B Border. Survived by sons Jack Smith Dale Smith and Lee Smith 12 grandchildren two great grandchildren. Memorial services at Turner Chapel date to be announced Burial Linwood Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
Elizabeth Turner is to be cremated in a chapel service at 1 30 p m Saturday conducted by Rev W Greer McCrory Friends may call at the chapel until 1 p m Saturday The casket will not be opened after the service
The report urges mandatory biannual vehicle inspections and uniform accident reporting nationwide. It argues federal action can advance safety without hard state rights clashes, citing design flaws and driver error as core causes. It notes drinking drivers and elderly or young drivers are at higher risk, but most crashes involve responsible normal drivers making errors.
The President outlined aims to eradicate malaria in the Western Hemisphere and parts of Africa Asia and the Near East within ten years and wipe out smallpox worldwide by 1975. He also proposed doubling the American Food for Peace beneficiaries from 70 million to 150 million within five years and emphasized a health education package combining old and new programs.
Snow and ice blanketed a wide region with 20 to 30 inch accumulations in the Midwest and Virginia saw rain sleet and freezing rain. Helicopters delivered supplies to isolated areas in Loudoun county while schools closed and transport slowed across Indiana Illinois New York Maryland Arkansas and California amid record one day snowfalls and emergency measures.
Gov Harold E. Hughes approves a six county house to house Medicare Alert drive led by LEAP to enroll about 9,500 seniors in Linn Johnson Iowa Tama Benton and Poweshiek counties. The $23,600 effort is funded by $21,000 federal grant with in kind local support and aims for mass meetings and door to door contact starting February 12 13.
Cedar Rapids Mayor Bob Johnson faces renewed criticism from the Cedar Rapids Labor Assembly as Gerald Ketchum urges a second look at United Community Service led Medicare Alert. Gov Hughes and Rep Culver are cited as opposing the six county project. Johnson reiterates his stance that the program will not work and favors Social Security offices for surveys.
Britain's Prince Charles arrives in Melbourne to start a 14 week exchange student term at a mountain school. He travels with a formal welcome and plans to attend classes and events during the term.
Ben J. Mouchka, 46, of Walford, was injured Wednesday morning when his clothing became caught in the drive shaft of a block casting machine at Cedar Rapids Block Co. He was admitted to Mercy Hospital for surgery.
Edward Atkins a Cedar Rapids Fire Department member eight months on duty was suspended 28 days by Fire Chief Jesse Hunter for February conduct unbecoming a member. Police log shows his arrest for drunkenness around 10 p.m. Saturday.
Merle Oberon stars in Walter Wanger's Night In Paradise airing on Channel 9 at 10 25 P M Wednesday. The program promises a suspenseful drama with Oberon's performance highlighted for viewers.
Senate discussions center on reviving the 1954 Geneva conference to negotiate peace in Southeast Asia. Mansfield and Fulbright urge inviting China and North Vietnam to join if Hanoi and Peking agree, while the U N Security Council delays a vote on U S peace talks. Kosygin criticizes the U S air war as against national independence and freedom.
Linn County nurses Karen Pittman and Cynthia Lund resign to join the Cedar Rapids Marion Public Health Nursing Assn. The merger, approved last month, aims to improve countywide nursing services. The new agency will absorb about 15 000 dollars of the county budget. 58 000 dollars is the 1966 agency budget with city county and patient fees.
The Linn County Board on Tuesday approved Treasurer Donald H. Cover's report for the last half of 1965 showing receipts and disbursements totaling 20 396 426 12 dollars. A resolution authorized circulation of an official statement for a 1 million dollar Linn County conservation bond issue to finance Squaw Creek and Pinicon Ridge parks. The board also approved funds from the 1966 budget and accepted official bonds for deputy sheriffs and county staff. A proposed closed circuit TV security system for the county jail, costing 19 621 dollars, was discussed with Sheriff Grant and Motorola representatives.
Linn Board of Supervisors ordered architect Leo C Peiffer to draw final plans for remodeling the county jail The project estimated at 12000 to 15000 dollars includes converting the jail office to a visiting room creating juvenile female detention quarters on the northeast second floor and converting the east porch into sheriff civil deputies offices at the courthouse.
The motion hearing on Ralph M. Renshaw’s second offense drunk driving was continued to February 11 by Judge Harold Vietor. Renshaw, 69, of 1816 M Street SW, was found guilty by a jury on January 18 after a December 9 charge following an auto accident near First Street and Third Avenue SW.
Washington AP witnesses told Senate that Agriculture Secretary Freeman uses government stocks to depress prices. Led by Sens Mundt and Young they urged raising the resale floor to at least 115 percent of support plus carrying charges while opposing sales that could wreck market prices. Harry Graham for the National Grange backed keeping the 105 percent floor. Marvin McLain of the American Farm Bureau warned against CCC selling to crash prices.
A California dealer delivered a 100 pound opal from Australia to San Francisco on Tuesday. He estimated the gem could fetch about $500000 if cut into individual stones.
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