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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1966
Page
3
The report lists a five day forecast for northeast to southwest Iowa with temperatures 3 to 5 degrees below normal and details high and low readings. It also compiles extensive funeral notices and services across Iowa communities with names, ages, and service times.
Cedar Rapids gains a direct telephone line to the IRS taxpayer assistance office for income tax questions. The 366 0436 number is open 8 a.m. to 4 45 p.m. Monday through Friday until the April 15 deadline. Calls to specific officials go through the central switchboard. The service is intended for quick answers and personal visits remain possible.
James L. Queisner, 19, listed YMCA as his address, was arrested early Wednesday on a drunk driving charge after police observed erratic driving near A avenue and Seventh Street NE around 1 am. He remained in Linn County jail under $500 bond Wednesday.
Public Improvements Commissioner Don Canney announced a Monday January 31 deadline for submitting petitions for concrete paving projects this year. No petitions for the first 1966 program will be accepted after January 31. An additional paving program may be developed later in spring if interest and funds permit.
Mayor Lindsay presses for an interim framework to restore subway and bus service as Transit Authority and two striking unions seek a workable plan. Deputy Mayor Price says talks aim for a general framework with details to be bargained. Quill’s hospitalization follows his arrest for contempt, raising questions about his health.
Government pressure aims to steer structural steel pricing as U S Steel raises prices while Bethlehem and Inland hold firm. Moyers and Ackley say no White House consent was sought, yet officials hint White House officials had discussed the issue. Industry sources foresee adjustments to stay competitive.
Linn county and Cedar Rapids city resolved a dispute over who should remove a dead tree at 1121 Twenty-first Avenue SW. The tree split weeks earlier with half fallen, half upright, posing an eyesore and hazard to children. The county conceded after neighbors pressured for action.
Tehran based Red Lion and Sun spokesman Dr Hussein Khatibi said Iran will dispatch twenty nurses to South Vietnam in response to a request from the South Vietnamese Red Cross. The Iranian Red Cross equivalent acts to help war victims amid ongoing conflict.
Malcolm Scott Hallman 82 former principal of Cedar Rapids Franklin and Washington high schools died Sunday at his Spearfish home cremated in Denver after private services. Born September 19 1883 in Maple Shade Pa he led Washington then Franklin from 1926 to 1948 retiring to the Black Hills. Surviving wife Haldie F Hallman a daughter Mrs Jake Tugger Sea Cliff NY and two grandsons a memorial scholarship to Ray Fidler Spearfish SD. Infant Teahen Pates son of Donald and unnamed mother died Tuesday born the same day. Surviving Dory and Robert Berth omen Teresa Linda Nancy grandparents Kenneth Berth omen and Homer Pates Evansdale. Grave side services Friday Mt Calvary cemetery by Rt Rev Msgr A W Chihak St Wenceslaus with Teahen's handling arrangements.
Janet and Joseph Podzimek sue Robert C. Fultz in Cedar Rapids for 11887 in auto accident damages from a four three car collision near Eighth Avenue SW and L Street on April 30 1964. Podzimek wife seeks 9188 and husband 2599 for injuries to wrist hand and fingers.
The county attorney spokesman said deliberations of the grand jury should be completed Thursday. Members include foreman Warren R. Erbe of Cedar Rapids and Wayne Hinton, Coggan, Dean Clark of Lisbon, William Kindred of Fayette township, Lloyd Kiefer of Maine township, Elmer Stamy of Monroe township, Mona Street of Washington township, who replaced Kenneth Wear of Grant township after Wear was excused for a family death. The jury began meeting Tuesday.
James E and Rosemary Thompson of 2153 Twentieth Street NW sue their landlady Faith Rose for 3489 stating negligence for failing to warn about a defective rotten basement stairs leading to the main floor. On February 27 1965 Rosemary Thompson suffered severe injuries when the stairs collapsed.
New York Police Commissioner Henry Barnes was late to work as his chauffeur driven car veered on the Grand Central Parkway at about 50 mph. He cited a steering breakdown for the mishap, and the car was towed away.
In Stockholm an appeal for peace in Vietnam was delivered to the U S embassy with 13 907 individual and 27 287 collective signatures. The petition calls for the withdrawal of all American troops from Vietnam.
The letter asserts no bases or military presence in Vietnam, calls for South Vietnamese democratic choice, and urges reunification by the two peoples. Goldberg asks the UN Security Council to treat the message as a document and recalls Johnson’s 1965 letters offering unconditional U.N. engagement to restore peace and security. He hopes UN organs and states will intensify efforts toward these aims.
Cedar Rapids city council overruled objections to paving assessments on Forest drive SE between Mt. Vernon road and Bever avenue. The city will levy about $34,300 of the $46,300 project cost on property owners while about $12,000 is city funded. Richard Downs objected to costs and parking removal. residents agreed to parking restrictions if street width was reduced to protect trees.
Randy D. Lawrence of 3716 First Avenue NE was fined $25 and costs in municipal court on a reckless driving charge. He pled guilty before Judge Loren M. Hullinger Jr after being charged December 31 for driving erratically in the 200 and 300 blocks of Nineteenth Street SE.
West German police reported four East Germans fled across minefields into West Germany on Tuesday night. The group included two 13-year-old girls and three adults. They escaped from East to West in a border area near Ulzen.
City council authorized a nine month closure of Third Avenue between First Street SE and First Street SW for bridge reconstruction. The bridge closes Sunday at 2 p.m. Eastbound traffic must detour via First Street SW to Second Avenue, with two eastbound lanes on the Second Avenue bridge. Access to City Parkade will be limited during the work.
Linn county supervisors approve merging the Linn County Public Health Nursing Service with the Cedar Rapids Marion Public Health Nursing Association. The combined agency will serve about 160000 residents, extend elder care, school nurse services, and nonpay patients, with eight new nurses planned and a new name Linn County Public Health Nursing Assn.
Marion Mayor Ralph Potter was elected chair of Linn county regional planning commission at the Roosevelt hotel. He follows Anthony R. Scolaro while Lou Shepard becomes secretary, succeeding Cedar Rapids Mayor Bob Johnson. Dr. Wolfgang Roeseler outlined a countywide transportation study required to comply with the 1962 highway act.
A Washington official said the in-school poverty program for Linn county must wait for federal funds for the neighborhood youth corps for fiscal 1967 starting July 1. Cedar Rapids must re submit its Cedar Rapids application with regional officials assistance. Depletion of in school funds will not affect summer work programs for needy youths.
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