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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1963
Page
3
Partly cloudy forecast through Friday with a colder night and a warmer end of week. Iowa legislative items include bills on pharmacist licensing, districting, public school funding, and court retirement pensions. Local notices record births, marriages, fire calls, traffic penalties, and funeral services across multiple towns.
Secretary McNamara says Soviet flights over the Atlantic and Pacific show a pattern, not isolated incidents. He notes a recent overflight of the carrier Kitty Hawk in the North Pacific and the Enterprise and Princeton in the Atlantic and Pacific in February, stressing readiness to defend against such incursions.
The article notes a new feature in Soviet activity claiming a legal right to operate in international waters. It highlights longer range Soviet aircraft venturing farther afield, previously using small and medium planes from bases near the Russian borders to scout U S ships. The newer missions appeared as routine reconnaissance.
The Cedar Rapids city council filed a sidewalk project calling for 7 546 lineal feet of residential sidewalks on the east side this summer. Excludes properties with petitions. estimated cost 20 751 50 at 55 cents per square foot plus engineering at 3 cents. Includes 505 lineal feet of 10 foot sidewalk in the loop area along Fourth street SE and south side of Second avenue SE between Fourth and Fifth streets.
Iowa Attorney General Evan L. Hultman ruled that the state seal is a symbol of sovereignty reserved to the governor and cannot be used for commercial or advertising purposes. The ruling addresses whether other departments may use it on letterheads and publications and notes cuffs bearing the seal circulated to legislators.
DES MOINES Swift action as the house passes a disability retirement measure for judges and sends it to the senate for concurrence before forwarding to the governor. Other bills include allowing pre 1959 bus firms to certify within 10 days and a proposal to add a fifth judge to Iowa’s 18th judicial district covering Cedar, Jones and Linn counties.
Rep Katherine Falvey argues a college aid measure could boost families with college aged dependents and tip the scale toward sending a child to college. Rep Lawrence Carstensen fears tax base erosion and dismisses a $37.50 aid as inadequate to shift meal plans or student choices.
The National Labor Relations Board ruled the Teamsters must remove trucking industry contract clauses found to preserve illegal cargo boycotts. The five member board said contracts with truckers in 22 states compel employers to stop doing business with rivals the union opposes, in violation of 1959 anti boycott legislation.
television listings note Corky and the White Shadow appearing on KCRG-TV with Sherrif Steve Show at 5 p.m. Friday on Channel 9. The program features local entertainment and community topics.
A fire in a house woke the parents and niece Cindy. Mrs. McMurrin called the fire department as all fled except Saxton who was unconscious from smoke. Firemen found him near his bed. The hallway was charred by intense heat. the rear of the house suffered extensive damage.
County Attorney Jack Fulton forwarded a partial three year extradition cost list to County Auditor John Burrill. Supervisor Anthony Scolaro asked for all extradition proceedings on February 4 after criticizing trips to Florida and California. The compiled totals cover 19 prisoners from ten states with 5069.98 in costs for 18 returns.
The deadline to display 1963 license plates is now April 1 instead of March 15. Deputy Treasurer Lloyd Curtis announced the extension in a telephone call from the state Department of Public Safety. Motorists failing to display new plates will not be ticketed until April 1. A separate item reports Judge Donald Barnes denying a lease enforcement bid by Robert D. and Dorothy E. Lynch over a tavern at 629 Second Avenue SE.
King and Tom Kacere claim $1 507.12 on a promissory note. United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co. vs Rob ert H Jamison seeks $186 19 for damages to two cars from paint spraying at Unique motel August 20 1961. Donald J Graham sues Richard D Richards for $124 18 in damages from a March 21 1961 car crash at Nineteenth street and Second avenue SE.
Clair R. Ohls Jr. and Terry L. Shelton, both of 525 Eleventh street, Marion, pled guilty to breaking and entering. Ohls received ten years in the Anamosa men's reformatory and a bench parole from Judge Charles Penningroth. Shelton got ten years in the reformatory after pleading guilty.
Max McLaughlin 36 of Springville pled innocent to a second offense drunken driving charge at arraignment before Judge Charles Penningroth. He was arrested Monday night by Cedar Rapids police in the 1200 block of Fifteenth Avenue SE.
Ronald R. Lathrop a 17 year old from Central City pleaded guilty to larceny of a motor vehicle. Judge Donald Barnes sentenced him to 10 years at Anamosa re formatory with bench parole after a Feb 6 arrest following a collision on Highway 151 near Monticello. The 1963 model car was stolen from Glen Minor. A 15 year old from Central City arrested with him was turned over to juvenile authorities.
Larry Grissom aged 25 of the Allison hotel pled guilty before Judge Charles Penningroth to false uttering of a check and received seven years in the men s Reformatory at Anamosa. He admitted writing 11 bad checks in Cedar Rapids and other checks in Des Moines Dubuque and Waterloo.
An Associated Press report on a nationwide poll will appear in Sunday's Cedar Rapids Gazette. It asks how people would use tax cut savings, whether they would spend more or save, and how such changes might affect the economy.
The first in person talks between the United Packinghouse Workers and Witwer Grocer Co. of Cedar Rapids were set for 2 p.m. with federal mediators. Kenneth Loebel of Minneapolis, an investigator for the NLRB, attended to probe a charge that the company refused to bargain in good faith.
Brig. Gen. Harvey Douglas Higley, a 1903 West Point graduate and brother of Fred Higley of Cedar Rapids, died Tuesday in Carmel California. Services will be held Friday at St John's Chapel in Del Monte, with military rites planned for March 11 at Arlington National. Paul Mortuary of Pacific Grove is in charge of arrangements.
The city council rejected two bids for the First Avenue bridge project as far above the estimate. Des Moines firm Craemer and Bayse bid 862304 while Davenport's McCarthy Improvement Co. bid 1099697.77, with the estimate at 712330. Traffic disruption and a four year bond are disputed as bids are reconsidered.
Services for Randa Mrs. and Mary Louise Bowman Beatty Bearle are set at 1:30 p.m. with the Rev. John M. Hardy officiating at Hesser Memorial chapel. Burial follows at Cedar Memorial. Friends may contribute to the memorial fund of the First Christian church.
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