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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1963
Page
3
The forecast calls for snow and turning colder midweek with lows of 10 to 15 below. By Thursday high near 15 with northwest winds, and a partly cloudy, not so cold end to the week. Five day outlook shows averages 2 to 5 degrees below normal through next Monday.
The Iowa House voted 78 to 24 to allow any person to draw building plans but require licensure to call themselves architects. The measure, now sent to the senate, limits use of the title to registered professionals.
A labor dispute led to the Swift & Co meatpacking plant in Sioux City being ordered closed indefinitely. The action began after seven employees were suspended and grew to idle all 650 workers, leaving the plant shuttered.
Khrushchev delivers a televised rally speech defending peaceful coexistence while pressing for disarmament within four to five years. He criticizes Western inspections as espionage and warns that without a German peace treaty there can be no lasting world peace, citing West Berlin and NATO.
Democrats retain strong control of Chicago City Council after municipal elections held Tuesday.
J Axel Johnson aged 73 a former Cedar Rapids resident and retired president of the Iowa division of the Borden Co died in Clearwater Florida Tuesday evening He spent 26 years with Borden and led the Iowa division the last decade after moving to Florida in 1958 Funeral services will be held in Clearwater Maass funeral home He was born in Denmark a graduate of Iowa State Survived by wife Emma son Robert of Chicago daughter Jane of Rock Island and three sisters in California and Denmark.
George McCollister, 66, a former Cedar Rapids resident and Gazette advertising staffer, died suddenly Tuesday in Long Beach California after a year of ill health. Born June 6 1896 near Iowa City he served in World War I and later ran an advertising business in California. Surviving are his wife a son Bill and his mother Ada with another son Perry dead weeks ago. Services set Friday at Billday funeral chapel in Long Beach.
Mary Louise Bowman widow of Charles T Bowman and Cedar Rapids resident for 58 years died in a nursing home Tuesday. Born January 22 1881 in Gratz Pennsylvania she lived formerly at 816 Ellis Boulevard NW. Survived by daughter Mrs Everett Ball Middleport Ohio son Carl E Bowman Cedar Rapids two sisters Mrs Joseph Vanous Cedar Rapids and Mrs J A Hershberger Sedgewick Kansas a brother Harry Umholtz Yates Center Kansas four grandchildren and a great grandchild. Services at Beatty Bearle Funeral Home Friday at 1 30 pm conducted by Rev Walter E Kellison of Peoples Church burial Cedar Memorial. Friends may call after 7 Wednesday.
Herbert L Sanders dies with funeral Thursday at 2 led by Rev Elmer C Boom at Kuba funeral home. Joseph A Bur Walsh funeral Thursday at St Matthew s church with burial at Mt Calvary. Rosary at Monahan Stewart s Wednesday at 7 30 p m for friends to recite.
Courthouse records show 36 year old Max G. McLaughlin arraigned Tuesday before Judge Donald Barnes on a second offense drunken driving charge. He was arrested Monday night by Cedar Rapids police in the 1200 block of Fifteenth Avenue SE and given until Monday to plead.
Paris UPI reports France pushed the income tax declaration deadline from March 1 to March 4 due to business and communications problems caused by severe weather.
Cedar Rapids school board members outlined a balanced education program for the Cedar Rapids College Marion districts, aiming for equal opportunities and tax fairness amid regional growth. Realtors cited bus transport issues affecting ninth graders, noting districts sometimes operate outside code. President Jensen said state law limits transport for ninth graders, a possible upcoming change may adjust two mile rules.
An NLRB investigator led by Kenneth Loebel arrived in Cedar Rapids to probe alleged violations of an NLRB bargaining order at Witwer Grocer Co. The union says the firm failed to bargain in good faith. the Jan. 12 order prompted a constructive proposal Tuesday, with no further developments reported on the seventeenth day of the strike.
Advertising in The Gazette Want Ads turns dust catching devices into money making items. Readers are invited to place ads to reach buyers and sellers efficiently and with wide local exposure.
The council meets at 10 a.m. Thursday to approve bills and payroll. Petitions from Roger Turnbull for a street light on Westwood Drive NW between 2818 and 2832. A request from Kenneth Marsh et al for a sanitary sewer on Wilson Avenue SW from Highway 149 west to the west line of Niman's First addition.
A Thursday noon tour of the Roosevelt hotel is planned. Doug Thompson greets friends at Paramount Barbershop. Mercy hospital reports patient Richard Merchant, 205 Edgewood road INW, with visitors allowed. Beverly Yancey Benson now at Beau Monde Beauty Salon 1222 Lincoln Ave NE under new ownership. Mrs. Alfrieda Dietz dies at 73. services Friday in Davenport. Mary Crest college honor rolls include Mary Ann Washburn and Margaret Whisler. Cub Pack 221 awards 13 members at blue and gold banquet.
Mrs Riley Shamburger of Birmingham says she wrote to President Kennedy about her son's disappearance in the Cuban invasion. The White House reports Major General Godfrey McHugh answered that the organization which hired him conveyed all that was known about his death.
Governor Hughes backs a multi bill approach to raise new revenue including a 1.5 percent personal income tax, a 1 percent sales tax hike, and a 1.5 percent corporate tax increase. Estimated totals show $95 million annually, with net gains after repeals. Co sponsors span Republican and Democratic senators. Other measures push withholding of income tax, higher tax rates, monthly sales tax deposits, and a penny more on motor fuel.
The piece denounces alleged double-dealing by Red China allied factions and Tito supporters while reaffirming willingness to hold bilateral talks with fraternal parties. It questions whether public attacks were mistaken and urges sincere return to equal inter-party consultation.
A bill introduced by Senator Richard Stephens would sharply limit the Department of Public Instruction's accrediting power over high school districts. It sets required offerings, guarantees state aid after courses are certified, and lowers minimum course standards. The measure is among 48 bills submitted as the deadline nears. Another bill would repeal the right to work law and form a state labor relations board.
Ben Allen, 80, longtime newspaperman and adviser to Herbert Hoover before, during and after the Hoover administration, died Tuesday night in Palo Alto after a long illness.
Rep. James Bromwell of Louisiana was appointed Wednesday as a new member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee. The move expands committee membership as Bromwell joins key lawmakers shaping veterans policy and benefits.
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