Vietnam War Briefing and Local Notices
Vietnam activity reported with U S air strikes on jungle targets 40 miles northwest of Saigon and a Viet Cong attack near a scout company post 12 miles south of the capital repelled with casualties. Local notices include a speaker on communism and several community events and obituaries from Cedar Rapids area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wally
Dellas J. Kratoska
Fourteenth Street SE
Mercy Hos- Reds
Binh Duong
Saigon
Tay Hoa
Roosevelt Hotel
William D
Koppenhaver
Fifth Street
Optimist Club
Virgil Carry
Record Cedar Rapids Bird Census Sees 52 Species
A census by 21 Audubon Naturalist Society observers in Cedar Rapids counted 52 bird species within a 15 mile circle around the federal building, up from 42. Highlights included a bald eagle over Cedar Lake and 975 mallard ducks among numerous waterfowl and songbirds listed with counts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Audubon Naturalist Society
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Lake
Federal Building
Shriver to Open Iowa Anti-Poverty Conference午
Des Moines AP reports Director R Sargent Shriver of the Office of Economic Opportunity will open a statewide anti poverty conference in Des Moines January 21. In morning sessions committee members from 94 of Iowa’s 99 counties attend with Gov Harold Hughes speaking at a noon luncheon then five workshops on youth aged job training housing small business development rural problems and health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DES Moines
R. Sargent Shriver
Federal Office of Economic Opportunity
Iowa
Shriver
Harold Hughes
Youth Accused of Stealing Car in Cedar Rapids
A one year old Cedar Rapids youth Gregory D. Conner was arrested after stealing a car from Donald Good a local used car dealer. Police pursued the vehicle at 80 mph through the 3400 block of First Avenue East and halted it in the 4400 block of First Avenue. Two passengers were released. Conner received a 30 day jail sentence for reckless driving and will be processed as a juvenile in the auto theft case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Gregory D. Conner
Conner
H Avenue NW
Donald Good
Charles Polansky
Dennis Reuters
First Avenue E
First Avenue
Center Point man fined after traffic crash deaths
Robert H. Quto of Center Point, 45, was fined 100 dollars on drunken driving and 59 dollars on leaving the scene after his car struck a parked car in the 800 block of Fifteenth street SE. James Mack, 59, died Sunday at City hospital after a separate incident. Other details note Mack’s service in World War I, church and civic involvement, and survivors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Mack
James
Robert H. Quto
Mack
Linn County
Hicle
Cen
Lafayette
Iowa
Ness Ito
Ruth I. Mentzer
Otto
U.S. Army
Evangelical United
Dye-Benson Post
American Legion
Iblock
Fifteenth Street SE
Center Point
Howard Me Volunteer Fire Department
J’ Laughlin
Center
So Point
Joseph C. Leto
Des Moines
John D.bertha Rabik
Buckley
Florida Art
Edna Marshall
Longenue SW. Beach
Calif
Pleads Innocent To Four Charges After Accident
Denean Calvert, 18, of 1501 Richmond road NE, pled innocent Monday to four charges from a traffic crash in the 100 block of Sixth street XW Friday. Trial is set Feb. 4 on three city counts and Jan. 14 on a state charge. Bond set at 830 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denean Calvert
Richmond Road
Sixth Street
Calvert
Nillis Briggman
Park Forest
Briggman
Sixth Street NW
Fifth
Rath Packing Scales Back pork ops
Rath Packing Co. laid off 200 production workers in the pork operations department due to a hog shortage. A spokesman said about 8 percent fewer hogs will be available for the market in the first half of 1966 compared with 1965.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
UPD
Rath Packing Co
Pork
Also Mentioned on This Page
Vietnam
City Briefs
Mekong Delta
Kiwanis Cleb
Rigoberto
John Culver
Roosevelt Fism
Cuba
Roosevelt
Beadle’s
Vernon Road
Camera Club
Bruno Reinicke
YMCA
lCrystal
Penelope Binger
Forrest K. Binger
B Avenue NE
University of Oregon
Kenneth Wilcox
Newman’s
1St Ave
Canopus Club
Don Menning
Washington High School
Embassy Club
James A.peddycoart
Temple City
Las Vegas
Ray Stumpfs
Tenth Avenue
Peddycoart
Cliff Niles
Whittier
John Niles
Fifth Avenue SE
Niles
Ed Hardy
Terry Drive
Kenneth Hollingsworth
Second Avenue
Gazette
MNB
Mencharils National
Rath
Apt
Anos Boe
Ukeul le Ele Ate
27Th St. NW
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!