Death Penalty Debate Highlights Iowa House Vote
Iowa legislators debated capital punishment with speeches for and against. The House approved extending hangings for kidnappers while proposing life terms or long sentences for murderers. An amendment to preserve the death penalty for kidnapping passed 54 to 47, and the Dietz board of last resort amendment failed 74 to 23.
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Senate
House
Howard Reppert
Des Moines
Riley Dietz
R-Walcott
Rep
Riley
Duffy
Iowa
William Denman
Obituary Notices for Several Iowa Residents
Multiple brief death notices list ages and memorial service times for residents from Shellsburg Traer Ossian Waucoma Sigourney Whyte Mechanicsville Columbus Junction Iowa City Strawberry Point Gill’s and surrounding areas. Services include churches such as St Francis De Sales St Marys Newport St Wenceslaus and Methodist with times from 9:30 to 2.00 p.m. Alerted notables include Susan Brincks 70 Mary Balk unknown etc.
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Shellsburg
Chris Little
Fry and Holland
Traer
James Fay
Ericksson’s. _ Ossian
Susan Brincks
St. Francis de Sales
Waucoma
Mary Balk
St. Mary's Church
Sigourney
Arthur T. Karns
Reynolds
Clarence
Jacob Goldsmith
Ocallala
Neb
Chapman's
Cecil Hasty
Indianapolis
Whyte's
Mechanicsville
George J
Iowa House votes to abolish death penalty for first degree murder
The Iowa House approved a bill by 59 to 44, abolishing the death penalty for first degree murder while retaining it for kidnapping for ransom. The roll call listed 35 Republicans and 24 Democrats in support, with 39 Republicans and 5 Democrats voting against. Absent were five members. The article also notes new appointments at The Gazette Co. and Cedar Rapids Television Co. and announces the death of Howard Nandell, a longtime Quaker Oats and broadcasting staffer.
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Patton
Steele
Grassley
Iowa
Des Moines
UPI
Anderson
Breitbach
Carnathan
Casey
Denman
Duffy
Dunton
Ely
Eveland
Falvey
Kibbie
Maule
Miller
Mueller
Murphy
Murray
Nielsen
Emmet
Paras
Reppert
Steffen
Stevenson
Swisher
Tabor
Worthington
Book
Briles
Busch
Camp
Coffman
Crane
Darrington
den Herder
Dietz
Canadian affair uproar rattles Ottawa and Congress
The debate over a last week statement spills into the Senate subcommittee with attacks on offense and diplomatic ties. Liberal leader Lester Pearson accuses the government of trouble with friends while the Social Credit and Conservative factions maneuver over defense policy and 1963-64 spending estimates as parliamentary tensions rise.
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Ing
Senate
Aiken
R-Vt
Rusk
Canada
Social Credit
Robert Thompson
Commons
House
Funeral services set for church treasurer
The obituary notes a church treasurer who served in that role. Friends may visit at Turner chapel until 9 p.m. Tuesday. The body will be taken to Endsley and Son Funeral home in Peoria for services at 2 p.m. Thursday.
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Turner Chapel
Endsley and Son Funeral Home
Peoria
Obituaries and funeral notices from local churches
Services for Roy G Wright at St Mathews ChurchWednesday 9 by Rt Rev Msgr James D Kearn burial Mt Calvary. Viola M Harnish funeral 2 by Major J E LaLone burial Linwood. Ethel Herma Turner chapel noon Wednesday by Rev Glenn H Hulsebus graveside IOOF cemetery Brooklyn 2 pm. Alice Allbright Sutherland Turner chapel 1:30 Wednesday by Dr Francis W Big cremation. Fannie Cisler Turner chapel 10:30 Thursday by Rev A L Zachar burial Cedar Memorial. rosary 8 pm Wednesday.
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Cisler
Fannie
Turner Chapel
A. L. Zachar
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Father Zachar
Cedar Rapids man Richard LeMont dies after sudden illness
Richard Elmer LeMont 44 died Tuesday after a sudden illness. Born September 10, 1913 in Cedar Falls he was a field service manager for Cryovac Co. He is survived by his wife Maxine and two daughters Colleen and Vicky, a son Stevan, parents Mr. and Mrs. Ray E. LeMont, two sisters and a brother, and one grandchild. He belonged to St. John's Lutheran Church at Ely. Funeral arrangements to be announced later at the chapel following visitation.
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William C. Crawford
The
Gazette Co
Cedar Rapids Television Co
Television
J. F. Hladky, Jr
Gazette
Richard F. Millen
Cedar Rapids
Chemetron Corp
Chicago
John
Mr. Crawford
Vernon Drive
King’s Concrete Co
Boone
Madison School
Old Washington High School
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Pittsburgh
Rude Auto Co
King’s
Howard Frank Nandell
Twenty-seventh Street
Santa Barbara
Calif
Vera Ingraham
Nashua
Quaker Oats Co
Ruth Nandell
Raymond
Earl Nandell
Ojai
Nandell
Crescent Lodge
Last Man's Club
Turner Chapel
Northwestern National Bank
Minneapolis
Order Department
LeFebvre Corp
Hamilton Co
KCRG
Richard Elmer LeMont
Colorado Drive
Cryovac Co
Cedar Falls
Maxine Boyd
Colleen Thomas
Vicky LeMont
Stevan LeMont
LeMont
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Ely
Obituary of Robert Eugene Shaw of Cedar Rapids
Robert Eugene Shaw, a Cedar Rapids resident for four years, died Tuesday after a brief illness. Born May 19, 1901 in Des Moines, he was married to Charlotte Dittmer in 1923. He worked 34 years at Standard Oil in Peoria and later managed Veterinary Specialties, Inc. He leaves wife, two daughters Barbara Ann Shaw and Joanne Beale, two sons Robert E. Shaw Jr. and Millard Shaw, a brother Donald G. Shaw and sister Edith Lockwood, six grandchildren, and was a member of Our Saviors Lutheran.
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Robert Eugene Shaw
Walker Street
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Charlotte Dittmer
Peoria
Standard Oil Co
Veterinarian Specialties, Inc
Barbara Ann Shaw
Joanne Beale
Pekin
Robert E. Shaw Jr
Millard Shaw
Donald G. Shaw
Edith Lockwood
Shaw
Our Saviour’s Lutheran
Alert Officer Nabs 3 Young Escapees
Three youths ages 14 15 and 16 ran away from a Toledo juvenile home Monday evening and were arrested by Independence officer Vern Osborne about 425 am Tuesday. They had stolen a car from Tama resident William Abbott Jr and fled after the vehicle stuck in snow at Ninth street and Ninth avenue SW. The thieves also removed the transmission from a 1961 car and used stolen plates from Harold Long of Independence. The trio was returned to Toledo midmorning Tuesday.
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Toledo
Independence
William W. Abbott, Jr
Tama
Ninth Street
Ninth Avenue
Vern Osborne
Harold Long
Mother of air force chief dies after long illness
Elizabeth Betzlmann mother of the air force systems command chief died Sunday after a long illness in San Antonio.
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San Antonio
Elizabeth Betzlmann
Chhief
Air Force Systems Command
Check-Writing Team Nabbed At Iowa City
Two men charged with forgery after police say they formed a check writing team. George Longan bound over on $1000 bond. David Valken held on $1000 bond. Arrested at an Iowa City bus station while about to board a bus.
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Iowa City
George A. Longan
Springfield
David Valken
Omaha
Vallien
Longan
Charles Snider
Snider
E. J. Finley
Finley
Isaac Martinez
Army
Marengo
Estes Case Echoes Reach Washington and Wall Street
The article notes Billie Sol Estes Pecos promoter and his financial manipulations sending reverberations to Washington and Wall Street. Dunn tells reporters his board troubles stem from his Pecos crime probe, not Estes case, and nothing linked to his investigations surfaced in hearings.
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Billie Sol Estes
Pecos
Washington
Wall Street
Dunn
Board
Estes
Decorah Jaycees Schedule Annual Awards Night
Decorah Jaycees plan their awards night to honor area citizens. Officials have not set a date but preliminaries are underway. Awards include distinguished service, outstanding young farmer, outstanding boss, outstanding new Jaycee, Jaycee certificate of merit and an honorary membership for a Decorah resident.
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Gazette Decorah
Decorah
Decorah Jaycees
Jaycees
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Cascade
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WM. J. Stewart
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Robert E. Shaw
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