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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1964
Page
8
Alan Gill reviews NBCs That Was the Week That Was noting a mixed premiere with chaotic stage bits and sharp satire. He praises Doro Merande and Elliott Reid while doubting the show’s ecumenical spirit and urges honesty and audience connection for future episodes.
A local cinema announces the schedule for nine films including End of the Affair and House of Stra. The listings show contemporary titles and a 10 ton feature slated for the week, with Toniaht as a noted presenter.
The Interstate Commerce Commission approved a 13.1 percent average parcel post rate increase including catalog mailings. The change aims to cover costs and reduce the department deficit, with rates set by parcel weight and zone traveled. Local two pound parcels would rise to 29 cents, while some heavy items retain current pricing.
British film star Diana Dors filed for divorce from comedian Dickie Dawson in Los Angeles citing extreme cruelty. She claims he kept her in a Beverly Hills home like a prisoner, threatened her life and safety, and embarrassed her before friends and family, including locking her room door.
The navy disclosed two flights by Badger bombers over the Hornet in visual range but offered few details. Russian A-4B Skyhawks intercepted the Russians who were guided into and out of the task group area while a Russian missile firing submarine remained under radar and watch.
In international waters near Hokkaido the Russian Badger bombers and a missile submarine escorted by a destroyer approached within miles of the carrier Hornet and its screen including Keys Walke Larson Carpenter Renshaw and Radford. Navy planes intercepted the overflights and there was no contact or hostile act.
Fifty-two boars averaged about 177 per head at the inaugural sale at the CCA swine testing station on highway 30 west of Lisbon. Hampshires topped the sale with two head selling for 350 and 300 to Farmers Hybrids of Hampton and Paul McNutt of Iowa City respectively.
The Senate confirmed Thursday the nomination of John R. Reilly a Justice Department official to the Federal Trade Commission. Reilly of Dubuque Iowa has served as a special assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s antitrust security division.
Four college students pled innocent to larceny and injury to city property after a pantry raid at police headquarters in Des Moines. Ralph Brauer Donald McIntyre James Scoutten and Charles Pyle released on their own recognizance with a hearing set for February 6. Brauer and Pyle are Grinnell College students Scoutten attends Cornell College and McIntyre is at Upper Iowa University. They were accused of taking signs from Drake University fraternity and sorority houses.
A student reportedly crawled through a 16 by 20 inch air conditioning duct at the city jail, unlocked a pantry door, and returned with six butcher knives and six packages of breakfast rolls. Jailers found the items and one inmate taunted that the jail isn’t impregnable.
The government announced plans for a Kennedy memorial park in a peaceful wood near Dunganstown, County Wexford, within a forest reserve. Irish groups in the United States have proposed raising about $100,000 for the project, near Kennedy’s ancestral home and last year’s visiting site.
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