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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1965
Page
5
A Saturn rocket launched from Cape Kennedy carried a satellite nicknamed space bird to orbit. The satellite will measure meteoroid impacts and space debris and report findings via electronic signals.
A new government headed by Phan Van Quat and a 20-member legislative council were installed by Lt. Gen. Nguyen Khanh’s command. Quat urged national unity and said the regime frees the army for further war duties against the Viet Cong. The cabinet mostly comprises northern and central Vietnam natives, with strong Buddhist representation.
The Iowa Senate voted 50 to 5 to require all areas to join a 12 grade high school district by July 1, 1967, despite two attempts to extend the deadline. An amendment to postpone reorganizations failed 36 to 19. The bill moves to the House.
An item notes a town seeking to attach an LLU line to the area for inclusion in a forthcoming district upon completion. The entry references continuation on page 2 column 4.
A cold front brought light snow to Iowa with subzero lows in the north and single digits in parts of the state. A warming trend begins Tuesday night, lifting temperatures into the 20s and 30s by midweek, with most snow accumulations less than an inch.
Fire swept through the four story Commercial hotel in Waukegan Illinois killing a man and leaving another missing. Mildred Humphrey 60 the night clerk said she and her son smelled smoke around 3 30 a m as they woke guests and evacuated. Police say the blaze started in heating equipment and spread via stairwells with some occupants rescued by fire crews.
In Qui Nhon Vietnam the Viet Cong blast at the enlisted men's billet has left 12 Americans confirmed dead and nine missing presumed buried in the rubble. The discovery brings the death toll as investigators search the site for other victims.
Mississippi Governor Paul Johnson asks critics to back off and offer help as a state advisory panel reports police brutality and night riders deny second class status to African Americans. The commission hears testimony on desegregation progress and enforcement of the civil rights act.
A state department spokesman said the United States has reason to believe Communist China is preparing for another nuclear test. The report also mentions political pressure within a party platform and added details on committee members facing intimidation and economic stress.
FBI agents arrested four people in New York City on charges of conspiring to blow up the Washington Monument the Statue of Liberty and the Liberty Bell. The defendants include Robert Collier Walter Bowe Khaleel Sayyed and Michelle Duclos with a cache of dynamite seized in the Bronx. The case highlights undercover work by Patrolman Raymond Wood who infiltrated the Black Liberation Front and met with an associate of Che Guevara at the United Nations.
A man and two boys age 13 and 14 surrendered in a northern Davis County farm field after a four hour spree that included a holdup at a gas station and two gunpoint abductions. Police pursued from Eddyville to Lake Wapello state park with more than 70 officers involved. The trio faces robbery with aggravation charges. Merrill and Jackson jailed locally, Kelley held in Oskaloosa on separate counts.
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