Snowstorm hits Iowa with heavy snowfall and cold
A weekend blizzard paralyzed northern Iowa as roads slicked and plows worked nonstop. The Des Moines river ice jam threatened floods around Ottumwa and Eldon, prompting National Guard aerial surveys and potential dynamite blasting if needed. Two deaths are linked to the storm, one from a heart attack shoveling snow and another a car crash near Waucoma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Junior Miller
Des Moines
Ottumwa
Miller
Eldon
National Guard
Harry LaFranz
Hudson
Waucoma
Jerome Eiick
New Hampton
Rochester
Kennedy Seeks Standby Capital Improvements Act of 1962
The president urges prompt congressional action on a standby capital improvements bill aimed at countering recession risks. He notes the postwar recovery status as satisfactory, calls the plan a preventive shield against future downturns, and includes a letter to Vice President Johnson and Speaker McCormack with bill text and provisions analysis.
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State of the Union
Congress
Midwest Snow and Sleet Strikes Eight States
A weekend blizzard dumped up to two feet of snow and sheets of ice across the eight state storm belt from the Dakotas to Michigan. Sioux Falls, South Dakota recorded thirty-one inches as the heavy snow spread into North Dakota Nebraska Wisconsin Iowa Illinois and Michigan with freezing rain and snow likely from the upper Great Lakes to the mid Atlantic region.
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Midwest
Dakotas
Michigan
Sioux Falls
S.D
South Dakota
Minnesota
North Dakota
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Upper Great Lakes
Upper Lakes
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Odds Were High But Papers Did Make It Through
Gazette circulation crews faced 24 hour delays as snowbound routes caused many deliveries to run late or be combined with Monday copies. Drivers endured road closures drifted lanes and a long night in a fire station while some towns received papers later or with Sunday editions.
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Gazette
The
Viet Cong Frees 210 Plantation Workers in Vietnam
The Viet Cong released 210 abducted plantation workers captured during the Lunar New Year holiday February 5 to 7 in Binh Duong province about 50 miles north of Saigon. The government said the workers had been lectured and forced to carry propaganda documents.
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Saigon
Viet Cong
Binh Duong
Here
Dr A H Kraus Dies at 78 in Marengo
Dr. A H Kraus, 78, retired Marengo veterinarian, died Sunday after practicing from 1922 to 1942. He and his wife owned Sudbury Court motel. Survived by wife and daughter Mrs Harold Stake. A member of Marengo Masonic Lodge and Knights Templar in Cedar Rapids. Services Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Masonic temple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marengo
A. H Kraus
Kraus
Sudbury Court
Harold Stake
Marengo Masonic Lodge
Knights Templar
Cedar Rapids
Masonic Temple
Death of Frederick Vosmek 72 in Cedar Rapids
Frederick Vosmek 72 of Cedar Rapids died Sunday after a long illness. Born June 22, 1885 in Bohemia he worked 56 years for Chandler Pump Co before retirement. He married Irma Koehler in 1934 and she survives. Funeral services Tuesday at Turner Chapel with Crescent lodge burial at Linwood. Masons meet at 2:30.
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Frederick “‘Duke
Vosmek
Sixth Street
Cedar Rapids
Chandler Pump Co
Bohemia
Irma Koehler
Warren Feller
Crescent Lodge
Linwood
Masonic Hall
Cedar Rapids widow Kristina Svoboda dies after illness
Kristina Svoboda widow of Joseph Svoboda died Saturday after a short illness. Born December 21, 1872 in Czechoslovakia, she lived in Cedar Rapids 50 years. Survived by four daughters Josephine Andrick Betty Collogan Pauline Coble Mary McConaughy and two sons Frank and Louie with 13 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren. Services at Brush chapel at 10 Tuesday by Rt Rev Msgr Anthony W Chihak. Burial at Czech National chapel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kristina Svoboda
Seventeenth Avenue SE
Joseph Svoboda
Czechoslovakia
Cedar Rapids
Josephine Andrick
Betty Collogan
Pauline Coble
Pasadena
Calif
Mary McConaughy
Sumner
Wash
Frank
Louie
Brush Chapel
Anthony W. Chihak
Cedar Rapids Engineer Emil L. Serovy Jr. Dies at 77
Emil L. Serovy Jr. of Cedar Rapids died Monday after a brief illness. Born April 21, 1910, in Cedar Rapids, he worked 32 years as an engineer for Hubbard Ice Co. He was a Good Fellows Assn. member. Survivors include his wife Dorothy Reif Serovy, two daughters Eldon Hornstein and Robert Bemer, a son Richard, his father Emil L. Serovy, and five grandchildren. Services will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Janeba-Kuba Funeral Home, with burial at Cedar Memorial. Friends may call Tuesday at the funeral home.
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Emil L. Serovy, Jr
M Street
Cedar Rapids
Serovy
Hubbard Ice Co
The
Good Fellows Assn
Dorothy Reif Serovy
Eldon Hornstein
Robert Bemer
Richard
Emil L. Serovy
Jerry Drahovzal
Cedar Memorial
William A Kventensky dies Cedar Rapids dock foreman
William A. Kventensky 2735 Fourteenth Avenue SE Cedar Rapids dock foreman for Pepsi Cola Co and 33 years resident died Sunday. Born Fairfax July 25 1902 he was an elder at Hus Memorial Presbyterian Church. Survived by wife Georgia Kubik Kventensky daughter Mrs Leo R Kalous son William and sister Mrs William J Kubik all of Cedar Rapids. Services at Barta Hesser chapel Wednesday at 1 30 with Rev William Harnish burial Oak Hill chapel after 2 p.m. Tuesday.
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William A. Kventensky
Fourteenth Avenue SE
Pepsi Cola Co
Cedar Rapids
Fairfax
Kventensky
Hus Memorial Presbyterian Church
Georgia Kubik Kventensky
Leo R. Kalous
William
William J. Kubik
William Harnish
Oak Hill
Emma Watts, Widow of Jay Watts, Dies in Neosha
Emma Mary Watts 1889 birth in Watkins dies in Neosha Missouri Saturday. Survived by daughter Mary J. Wright Neosha and sister Leah Frazee Berkeley California. Former First Lutheran member and past president of Spanish American War auxiliary. Service 1 30 Wednesday by Rev John W Ried. Burial Cedar Memorial. Friends may call for chapel after 9 Wednesday.
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Emma Mary Watts
Jay Watts
Cedar Rapids
Neosha
Watkins
Mary J. Wright
Leah Frazee
Berkeley
Calif
Guthrie Dies. Longtime Cedar Rapids Resident and Builder Materials Co. Employee
Claude F. Guthrie of 2628 Twenty-fourth Avenue SE died Sunday after 30 years in Cedar Rapids residence. Born March 17, 1893 in Minersville Kansas, he married Ida Lou Conner in Rock Island. He worked 11 years for Builders Material Co before retiring in 1958.
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Claude F. Guthrie
Twenty-fourth Avenue
Builders Material Co
Cedar Rapids
Minersville
Kan
Ida Lou Conner
Rock Island
Obituary Notice From Pleasant Plains Ill
A Cedar Rapids arrival from Muscatine with a sister Mrs Dorothy Olds of Wyanet Ill. Services at Hensley chapel Pleasant Plains Ill at 2 30 Thursday Burial Pleasant Plains Friends may call Beatty Bearle chapel until 9 p m Monday
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Cedar Rapids
Muscatine
Dorothy Olds
Wyanet
Ill
Hensley Chapel
Pleasant Plains
Beatty-Bearle Chapel
Death notice for Joseph Sprynel 74 Cedar Rapids resident
Joseph Sprynel aged 74 died Sunday. Born December 22, 1887 in Czechoslovakia he immigrated to Cedar Rapids in 1911. Survived by three daughters Mrs John Hoos Detroit Mrs Donald Vorel and Maxine Boyd Cedar Rapids a granddaughter and a sister Mrs Mary Gallo Chicago. Private services at Brush chapel 2 p.m. Tuesday conducted by Rev Milo Filipi. Burial Czech National cemetery. Chapel hours after 6 p.m. Monday.
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Joseph Sprynel
Czechoslovakia
Cedar Rapids
John Hoos
Detroit
Donald Vorel
Maxine Boyd
Mary Gallo
Chicago
Brush Chapel
Milo Filipi
Czech National Cemetery
Mrs Cunningham Funeral at St Patrick Church
The service for Mrs Donald Cunningham is set for 10:30 Tuesday at St Patrick's Church with Rev J Robert McDonald officiating Burial will follow at Holy Cross Cemetery Anamosa Rosary will be prayed at 8 p.m. Monday at Teahen Funeral Home.
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Cunningham
Donald
St. Patrick’s Church
Robert McDonald
Holy Cross Cemetery
Anamosa
Teahen Chapel
Sub Snagged By Tugboat
NORFOLK Virginia AP A tugboat snagged the submarine Balao off the Florida coast. Balao based at Key West was 110 feet below when Torrent IV towing a Houston to Port Everglades barge snagged it. One radar antenna damaged another, masthead light damaged, and holes punched in the superstructure. Neither tug nor barge damaged.
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Atlantic Fleet Submarine Force
Balao
Key West
Torrent IV
Houston
Port Everglades
Fla
Object to Zoning Proposal Grows in Seventeenth Ave Block
Three petitions and five letters opposing rezoning from R-3 to B-1 for 218 224 and 230 Seventeenth Avenue and 234 Eighteenth Avenue SW to allow a supermarket and parking lot total 310 signatures. Leroy Bird and others seek the change. plan commission meeting set for Tuesday at noon at the Roosevelt hotel.
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Seventeenth Avenue
City Plan Commission
Eighteenth Avenue
Leroy Bird
Roosevelt Hotel
Radio of Soviet Ship Is Sealed by U S Soldiers
Izvestia reported that the Soviet ship Miklukho Maklai was boarded by armed U S soldiers in the Panama Canal Zone and her radio equipment sealed. The government newspaper said the ship dropped anchor at Balboa near the Pacific end of the canal, but did not specify when the incident occurred.
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Moscow
Izvestia
Miklukho Maklai
U. S
Panama Canal Zone
Balboa
Pacific
Canal
Five in Texas Family Die of Asphyxiation
In Lubbock Texas five members of the Ricardo Guerra family were found dead Sunday in their farmhouse one mile west of Heckville in the Panhandle. Officers said several open gas heaters were burning and the victims died from asphyxiation.
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Lubbock, Texas
Ricardo Guerra
Heckville
Texas Panhandle
No Change in A C Deadline for Allis Chalmers Plant
Monday afternoon reports the Tuesday strike deadline remains 11 a m for workers at the Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Co plant in Cedar Rapids. United Auto Workers president Oscar Byam said local and national meetings were in progress as talks continued. Federal mediators entered companywide negotiations in Milwaukee with no progress reported as the strike deadline neared.
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Allis-Chalmers ‘Manufacturing Co
Cedar Rapids
Oscar Byam
United Auto Workers
Milwaukee
Allis-Chalmers
Courthouse selects juries in two cases in district court
Monday juries were being chosen for two district court cases. A $10,000 personal injury suit filed Oct 23 1959 by Selma M. Sorenson of Missouri Valley against Lloyd R. Sorenson of Cedar Rapids alleges a dangerous dog caused Sorenson to fall. A criminal trial before Judge Donald P Barnes concerns Bert G Cronk charged with assault with intent to rob Allen E Decious of Marion on a gravel road Nov 18. Cronk pled not guilty Dec 13 and his estranged wife Kay pled guilty Nov 20 and received a bench parole.
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Charles Penningroth
Selma M. Sorenson
Missouri Valley
Lloyd R. Sorenson
Cedar Rapids
Donald P. Barnes
Bert G. Cronk
Cronk
Allen E. Decious
Thirteenth Avenue
Marion
Lincolnway
Kay
Pleads Guilty to Desertion Charge
William McNeill aged 24 of 1215 Third Street NW pled guilty before Judge Charles Penningroth to desertion and abandonment of minor children. He received a six month suspended sentence after being charged by his former wife Patricia Higham with abandoning their two children aged 4 and 5.
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William McNeill
Third Street NW
Charles Penningroth
McNeill
Patricia Higham
Fined $300 for Drunk Driving in Marion
Robert D. Kinkade, 28, of Racine Wisconsin, pled guilty before Judge Donald P. Barnes to drunk driving. He was arrested Friday by Marion police after being seen driving the wrong way on a one way street in Marion, and was fined $300 plus costs.
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Robert D. Kinkade
Racine
Wis
Donald P. Barnes
Kinkade
Marion
Suit Filed Bernice Carsner v James Carsner Support
Bernice F Carsner sues James Carsner seeking uniform support. Court action filed in the appropriate jurisdiction requests regular maintenance as part of a divorce or separation proceeding. Proceedings indicate a dispute over ongoing financial support obligations.
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Bernice F.carsner
James Carsner
Snow Plows Clear Adel Lincoln Way Area After Storm
C R Cleans Adel street SE the Lincoln way Village area and surrounding districts used Snow plows and V shaped units to reopen 95 percent of streets by Sunday noon. By 3 p.m. all major routes were cleared though drifted roads and abandoned cars remained. county crews faced 1200 miles of work with northeast drifted worst. Officials feared more snow with ditches full and limited storage.
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Adel Street
Lincolnway Village
Lightning disrupts KCRG radio, resumes by Sunday noon
Hit by lightning on a Saturday night, one of KCRG's three towers knocked off air. By 6 p.m. Sunday the station was operating full scale. The strike cut transmitters and cut studio-tower communications. Staff and phone company workers moved equipment overnight to restart Sunday broadcasts. Service fully restored by 11:55 a.m. and normal operations from studios resumed by 6.
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Kcrg Radio
City struggles with snow impact on transit and power
Loop area plowed Monday night and businesses urged to shovel sidewalks by 2 a.m. for easier cleanup. City Lines reported many buses stuck, later restored to a near normal schedule. United and Ozark airlines resumed routine service after storms. Greyhound noted bus delays north south routes. air and power outages affected several lines and towns.
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Eggleston
City Lines
Iowa Road Report Details District Ice and Snow Conditions
UPI reports from the Iowa Highway Patrol detail district by district road conditions. Des Moines area 100 percent ice and snow packed. southeast scattered icy spots. Denison 100 percent snow covered. Cedar Rapids 75 to 100 percent snow and ice covered. many routes under varying one way traffic.
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Des Moines
UPI
Osceola
Atlantic
Denison
Cherokee
Spencer
Central
Fort Dodge
Mason City
Cedar Falls
Oclwein
Cedar Rapids
Dysart
DeWitt
Sailors Whiling Test Time Away
Washington AP reports a hundred navy men occupy cramped underground quarters on day three of a two week test to study effects of long stay in a nuclear fallout shelter.
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Washington
Archbishop O'Brien Dies in Indiana at 83
Archbishop William O'Brien, 83, head of the Catholic Church Extension Society, died Monday at Little Company of Mary Hospital in San Pierre Indiana. He led the society and was a prominent church figure in the Midwest, with extensive charitable work.
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Archbishop O'Brien
Indiana
Chicago
William O’brien
The
Catholic Church Extension Society
Little Company of Mary Hospital
San Pierre
Ind
Norway School Bond Issue Sale Detail
A bond issue to finance an 80000 addition to the Consolidated grade school was sold Friday to Carleton D. Beh Co Des Moines with Benton County Savings Bank Norway. Interest rate on the bonds will be 3.086067 percent. Eight bids were submitted.
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Norway
Carleton D. Beh Co
Des Moines
Benton County Savings Bank of Norway
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Swisher
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White Oak Road
John Kepler
Benton Street
Ronald Lessard
Fourth Avenue
Norman Wells
Route 2
Nyle Workman
Springville
William Baldwin
Danbury Street
Donald Kluda
Solon
True Bergman
Johnson Avenue NW
Richard Carlyle
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Dennis R. Dunahugh
Joyce A. Martin
Garland C. Groom
Sharon K. Meyer
Glen A. Yarrington
Collette M. Waite
Lee D. Hartner
Susan M. Bott
Minneapolis
Keith R. Knapp
Walker
Glenda Rae Carson
Coggan
Donald L. Myers
Gladys A. Myers
Donna Lee Bizek
Lester H. Bizek
Margie Fry
Lyle D. Fry
Gerald Minor
Frances H. Minor
Wilma J. Perdue
Lonny R. Perdue
Lucille A. Popelar
Kenneth C. Popelar
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Seventeenth Street
Washington Avenue SE
Robert Craig
Sixth Avenue
Kenneth Willman
Mike Haddy
Fred Weber, Jr
Theodore Nelson
Thirty-first Street
John Wright, Jr
Avenue NE
Gerald Malloy
Ridgewood Terrace
Harvey Mannen
Old West Paint Creek Lutheran Church
Bakke-Hanson’s
Oxford Junction
Martin Fritz
Castle Grove
Anna McDonald
Immaculate Conception
Devaney's
Monticello
Opal Treptow
Presbyterian Church
Hunter S
L. P. Gra
Kennedy
Associated Press
John E. Lapes
3Rd Ave
Red Viet Cong
A. H. Kraus
Frederick Vosmek
Emil Serovy, Jr
William Kventensky
Emma Watts
Claude Guthrie
Third Ave. SE
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Norfolk, Va
Florida
Texas
Pierson
Ellis Blvd
C.R
United
Ozark Airlines
Ozark
R. K. Goudy
Greyhound Bus Lines
Goudy
Iowa Electric Light and Power Co
Twelfth Street
Milwaukee Tracks
Wmt-Tv
Lafayette
Alburnett
Center Point
Robins
Light Company
Troy Mills
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
Turner's
John B. Turner & Son
2Nd Ave
5.E
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