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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1963
Page
2
Frigid highs across the region with lows below zero and light precipitation noted in Ismarck and Duluth. Snow and blowing snow expected Saturday night with strong northerly winds, followed by very cold, largely clear conditions Sunday and a chilly forecast for Monday. Police reports list speeding and other fines across multiple addresses, plus funeral notices for local residents in several towns.
U S District Judge Roy Stephenson denied Rev Carl Bradley a sentence reduction. The Grace Baptist church pastor in Marion was sentenced to two years with 18 months suspended for mail fraud in a sewing machine sales scheme. Term start postponed to March 18.
Shuttleworth and Ingersoll of Cedar Rapids filed a district court suit against Gaddis Enterprises for 4733.68 in attorney fees plus a total bill of 6473.19 for legal work. The petition states the amount unpaid since August 13, 1958.
University of Mississippi authorities suspended a student and warned against further demonstrations as James Meredith faced jeers in the campus cafeteria. Security checked IDs and patrolled the dining hall while Meredith described ongoing harassment and hinted at leaving the semester early if conditions did not improve.
Pravda acknowledges church influence growing in Byelorussia in western Russia. Roman Catholic and Baptist communities attract both elderly and younger residents, while the paper urges communists to evangelize at home. It notes many party members display religious imagery in their homes.
Officials said the bodies of Spencer Trev and Gene Iiei'v, two sailors recovered from the submarine sunk near Grado in 1917, will be returned to their homeland Austria.
Roy Wilkins executive secretary of the NAACP will visit Coe College next Wednesday and Thursday. He will speak in the Coe auditorium at 7 30 p m Wednesday and meet students and faculty during his stay. Wilkins became executive secretary in 1955 after five years as administrator and was acting secretary in 1949-50. He has been with the NAACP since 1931 and edited The Crisis. He chaired the National Emergency Civil Rights Mobilization in 1949-50 advocating fair employment and civil rights legislation.
Notices report Mercy hospital patients Joseph J. Pro chaska and hospitalized Jan Frink with visitor allowances. Urban items include bowling specials at Jubilee Lanes, a funeral attendance for Leo A. Freeman, real estate ads for a $50 000 home, and a paid ad for a January sale. Also mentions Fire Control Technician David E. Odeen on leave and a Christian Science lecture at First Church.
President Kennedy named Philip N Brownstein as new federal housing commissioner in a White House ceremony. The Veterans Administration and other officials praised his record, though some questioned past offers and timing of the selection.
Leslie M. Hays 64 former superintendent of the Iowa Braille and Sightsaving School in Vinton died Friday after a sudden illness. He lived at 1449 Golfview Drive NE, was a 1921 Iowa grad and Creighton MA, and had roles as Pierce School principal and a tenor soloist in Omaha. He served in Vinton from 1939 to 1948 and later sold visual aids for Children’s Press Co. Surviving wife Marie Myrtle May 1922 Cedar Rapids children and grandchildren. Services set at Turner chapel Monday by Dr. Francis W. Pritchard. Burial Cedar Memorial.
Esther Marian Engler widow of Joseph Engler and Cedar Rapids resident for 42 years died Friday after a long illness. Born May 9, 1903 in Ontario Canada she outlived by two sisters Maria Warren Ottawa Canada and Mrs R J Johnson Rowley and two brothers A C and E W Bain Cedar Rapids. Services at Beatty Bearle funeral home at 1 30 Monday burial Linwood Friends may call at the chapel after 1 Sunday.
Milver W. Kuba, former Cedar Rapids resident, died at his Boca Raton home after a brief illness. Born April 3, 1907, in Cedar Rapids, he lived there until 1928. Survived by father Edward A. Kuba, two daughters Mrs. Michael Mark and Mrs. Max Valdez, eight grandchildren, and three brothers. Services set for Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. at Kuba funeral home with Rev. Thomas Hulme officiating. Burial in Czech National. Friends may call after 2 p.m. Monday. casket will not be opened after the service.
Rev. Dr. Arthur Judson Brown aged 106, longtime Presbyterian churchman, died Friday night in New York. He helped found ecumenical groups and the World Council of Churches, served 34 years as secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, and earned honors from Thailand and Greece. He was the oldest man in Who's Who in America and the last surviving member of Carnegie's Church Peace Union.
County obiter notes report Kent J Woods 21 of 3139 Circle Drive NE was jailed Saturday on a morals charge after an incident involving a plane and a line. Police identified no further details as the case proceeds.
Britain's worst winter moods deepen as unofficial power station workers slow output causing voltage cuts across London and surrounding areas. Electric lights dim, radiators heat poorly, and TV pictures shrink as go slow protests threaten further outages while union chiefs consider action and arbitration on pay. Weather remains bitter with London recording a 24 degree low.
The Public Health Service said Pittsburgh infants and young children received an average radioactive milk dose exceeding daily guidelines during November, with a 12 month total of 13,080 microcuries. No injuries were reported from a separate three car crash at Oakland Road NE and Havenne.
Washington reports that the United States and Russia will begin special talks on a nuclear weapons test ban in New York on Monday. William Foster will lead for the United States with N T Fedorenko and Semyon Tsarapkin for Russia. They will coordinate with the Geneva conference and its 17 nations via a subcommittee including Britain.
A Yugoslav court in Belgrade sentenced seven men to five months up to three years five months for aiding an anti government plot. The defendants were charged with involvement in subversive activities aimed at destabilizing the regime.
The first contact with South America via a U.S. communications satellite was made Saturday. Bernard Cooper an engineer at ITT Nutley N J spoke with Joao Carlos Pinheiro de Fonseca an engineer at a station near Rio de Janeiro via the Relay satellite.
John Nolte twenty of Watkins suffered a cut between the eyes and wrist injuries when his west bound car struck a utility pole at Seventeenth street and First avenue SW early Saturday. He was treated at Mercy hospital and released after a five stitch cut. Nolte was charged with failure to drive at a careful and prudent speed.
Dr David L Wolf was elected president of the Catholic Laymen's club at 1540 Forty-eighth Street NE. Bernard Grabek became vice president and Richard Steninger treasurer. Board members named were Thomas Trausch Marcus Mulcahy Joseph Sindelar Jerry Spresser Gary Gohmann and M W O Rieley. Snow caused some Friday delays while trains ran normally according to dispatchers.
Snow totals ranged from 3 to 9 inches across towns like Decorah Cedar Rapids and Tama as bitter temperatures follow. Officials reported near normal roads outside sheltered areas while plows kept rock and hard-surfaced routes clear. Sioux City saw 9 inches and 17 below zero as Tipton cancelled festival travel for 75 students.
A storm blanketed the Midwest with wind driven snow from the Dakotas to Michigan while extreme cold shattered records in Denver Amarillo and other locations. Five inches in Michigan four to seven in Wisconsin and two to seven in Wisconsin hinder travel. Snow across Texas to Maine and three children found dead near Grand Junction linked to the cold. Authorities warned hazardous driving and some cities enacted snow measures.
The Rev Luther A Meyer will be installed Sunday as pastor of St John s Lutheran church Luana during the 9 30 am service Dr H W Siefkes president of the Iowa district of the American Lutheran church conducts the ceremony He is a native of Indiana a Wartburg graduate and previously served in Akron Iowa Michigan and Ohio before Luana succeeding the retired Rev L W Reuther now living in Sumner
The Rev. Norman T. Laesch resigns after five years as pastor here and will preach his last sermon on January 27 before taking a new call at Meadowvale Lutheran Church in Illinois.
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