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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1957
Page
43
Lt. Bennet S. Levin of Muscatine recounts surviving a C124 Globemaster crash near Seoul. The disaster on Friday night killed 24 of 159 aboard. nine bodies recovered while rescue was hampered by 18 foot tides. Helicopters evacuated the uninjured after hours of waiting and flames.
Excellent opportunity and future for young men with national hardware and sporting goods manufacturer. Previous sales experience helpful but not necessary. We will train. Must have car and willing to travel a reasonable size territory. Good income plus all expenses. Advancement, Age 19-32.
Special to The Gazette reports four Hazleton youths escaped serious injury when their car left Highway 3 east of Oelwein and overturned around noon Sunday. Driver Robert Kimball 20 and passengers Bob Richard Chuck Oates and Harloid Roepke were treated for cuts and bruises and released from the hospital.
At Anamosa Iowa the Dale Carnegie Course in Human Relations graduation ceremony honored 34 prisoners. Warden Ray Parcell praised dramatic public speaking gains and newfound poise among the inmates. Several graduates spoke, crediting the program with transforming attitudes and smiles. University of Iowa sociology professor Robert Caldwell also addressed the event.
Ken Wall of Cedar Rapids took first overall in a Sports Car Club of America Iowa Region postcard rally driving a Borgward TS-1500. The event featured a designated point west of Iowa City and a regularity run toward Cedar Rapids, with speeds kept to set targets. In the sports category, Ken Lundgren led from Moline in a Porsche followed by Bill Cass of Cedar Rapids in an MGA and Leo Woodford of Cedar Rapids in an MGTD.
Dick Julis led Cedar Rapids in an MG TD while George Erbeck drove a Porsche Touring to top a field that included Herman Nebiker Jr and Dale Heil. Stan Patisurzak and Morgan J Foster Jr followed in a Studebaker and MG Magnette with John Hamilton in a Mercury. The Sports Car club announced a gymkhana March 17 at Ottumwa airport.
Jaime Ortiz Patino, Bolivian tin heir, won $56,000 damages in a libel case brought in London. The suit followed a newspaper accusation of his alleged sadism against his wife Joanne Connelley Sweeny Patino. The wife refused to aid the defense.
The testimony alleges cruelty by the husband led to the divorce. He described his wife as acting like a spoiled brat and as a drug addict, and claimed he found her in a stupor in a secondary boarding house after she vanished during their Capri honeymoon.
Mr and Mrs Henry Bencke of 2944 Oakland Road NE returned home from Cameron Missouri where Mr Bencke had been hospitalized for a week after an auto crash. Their car was struck by a vehicle driven by Mrs Glenn Peterson of Des Moines on icy pavement five miles north of Cameron. Bencke suffered a concussion and Mrs Bencke was not injured.
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