City Briefs Highlight Local Services And Events
In hospital notes Jim Platz of 3857 Terrace Hill Dr NE is a surgical patient at St Luke s hospital with visitors permitted. Local ads announce Giftree Janua sale at 700 7th St SE and free all day delivery from Hladky s Grocery at 1600 4th Ave SE. Other items list bowling open lanes Fridays at Magnificent Tropic Lanes with reservations, Linn ADC meeting at Olivet Presbyterian Church with guest Robert McTaggert, Cedar Rapids Barber College relocation to 426 2nd Ave SE, Charlie Cox Trio performances Fridays at Boiler maker Lounge, Sykora s Bakery reopens, Moose Lodge chicken dinner, Pizza delivery from Chicken Delight, Roots parking lot under new management, and Travelers Protective Association buffet dinner at Roosevelt hotel with spring tulip plants from Pierson s Florists.
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Jim Platz
Terrace Hill Drive
St. Luke’s Hospital
Highway Equipment Co. to receive excise tax refund
Federal Judge Edward J. McManus ruled Friday that Cedar Rapids based Highway Equipment Co. is entitled to a $2,369.60 refund of federal excise tax. The tax was charged on seven bulk feed bodies sold in 1965, but the firm argued the equipment was designed mainly to haul and unload feed on farms and should be exempt.
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Highway Equipment Co
Cedar Rapids
Edward J. McManus Friday
McManus
Home Break-In At Robert J. Shevik Residence
Thieves entered 2209 Chandler Street SW through an unlocked door in a Thursday morning break-in at the Robert J. Shevik home. The bedrooms and basement were ransacked and items including ten records five sport coats nine shirts sweaters jewelry a watch cash and shoes valued at 393.22 were missing.
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Robert J. Shevik
Chandler Street
Push by Allies Into Cambodian Territory Told
Phnom Penh reports say American South Vietnamese forces crossed into Cambodian territory for more than 200 yards on Thursday, killing three Cambodians and wounding one. The incident prompted a visit invitation for International Control Commission and newsmen to the site, amid U.S. assurances that no planned incursions occurred.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
International Control Commission
U.S
Chester Bowles
United States
Storm Worsens in Sicily Earthquake Zone
A violent rain and wind storm battered Sicily's earthquake disaster area flooding refugee tent cities and halting helicopter aid delivery. Cold temperatures bring pneumonia and scarlet fever as thousands seek shelter in mud and hills with limited relief reaching scattered groups.
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Palermo
Sicily
Clovis Man Owes Two Cents Plus Interest on Tax Bill
E. E. Carter received a state notice saying his 1966 New Mexico tax of $52.38 was two cents short. He was told he now owes $6.49 in penalties and interest, totaling $6.51. The notice cites the two-cent deficiency and added charges.
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Clovis, N.M
Clovis Railroad
New Mexico
E. E. Carter
Carter
Russia Blasts Chinese Policy On Vietnam War
Radio Moscow in Japanese language broadcast from Tokyo accuses Maoist China of seeking world domination via the Vietnam War. It claims Mao aims to provoke US-Soviet clash to ignite a nuclear war and use the conflict to elevate China to world leadership.
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Tokyo
Radio Moscow
Red China
Mao Tse-tung
United States
Soviet Union
Soviet Russia
Mao
Russia
China
Moscow
Peking
U.S
Vietnam
Belle Plaine Work Project Is Okayed
The U S Department of Labor approved a 54470 project for work training in Belle Plaine. A grant of 45970 will come under Operation Mainstream to aid 17 unemployed residents.
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Belle Plaine
Kansas City
U.S. Department of Labor
Department
Sudden Death is a Mystery in Santa Maria
Patricia Rush died after a piercing scream early Wednesday. Autopsy surgeon Dr John Blanchard says the death was natural but undetermined. Her father Everett Stephens and family express concern for sisters Beverly Stephens who died similarly in 1963 and two younger daughters Barbara and Diana.
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Santa Maria
Calif
Patricia Rush
Everett Stephens
John Blanchard
Santa Barbara County
Dysart-Geneseo School Bond Issue Approved
Dysart-Geneseo residents approve an $870,000 bond for a high school addition with 635 yes to 116 no in Dysart and 112 yes to 60 no in Geneseo. It marks the first phase of a two phase plan, with a band room and gymnasium planned for the second vote later.
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Dysart
Dysart-Geneseo
Geneseo
Chamber approves 203696 budget for 1968 operations
Chamber of Commerce directors approved a 203696 budget for 1968 to run the central office and 29 committees. Executive vice president Larry Owen announced a new emphasis on the convention bureau program with a budget increase, and the foreign trade bureau was renamed the international trade bureau to better reflect its work and be more visitor friendly.
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Chamber of Commerce
Larry Owen
Chamber
Convention Bureau
Foreign Trade Bureau
International Trade Bureau
Owen
Mail Stalled as Aussie Walkout Hits Ninth Day
Australia faces a nine day postal strike with about 10 000 workers involved and 200 000 bags of mail awaiting movement. Temporary drivers and sorters were hired as volunteers including college students helped process mail amid stalled operations and ongoing union protests. The government will seek arbitration on pay demands and reinstate the dismissed driver when workers return.
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Sydney
Australia
Makers of Thalidomide Face Trial in Germany
A Aachen court will hear criminal charges against nine Chemie Gruenenthal officers and scientists for negligent manslaughter and bodily injuries tied to thalidomide. About 400 co Plaintiffs are registered as prosecutors estimate five thousand malformed children in twenty countries and thousands more stillborn. The drug was marketed in West Germany and other nations after Dr Widukind Lenz linked it to birth defects in 1961.
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Aachen
Germany
Chemie Gruenenthal Pharmaceutical Co
West Germany
Hamburg
Widukind Lenz
Westmar Alumni Club Meet Tuesday at Ox Yoke Inn
Dr. G. O. Thompson Westmar college dean will speak to the Cedar Rapids area chapter of the Westmar College Alumni Club Tuesday at 6 30 p m in the Ox Yoke Inn Amana His topic is What We Are Doing At Westmar Election of officers is scheduled
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G. O. Thompson
Westmar College
Cedar Rapids Area
Westmar College Alumni Club
Ox Yoke Inn
Amana
Westmar
Let want ads help you buy sell or trade
Local want ads invite readers to call 369 1234 for buying selling or trading opportunities. The brief notice emphasizes simple contact to place or respond to ads. It uses a direct call to action and a single phone number.
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the Giftree
Janua Sale
7Th St. SE
the Gazette
Hladky’s Grocery
4Th Ave
Linn Adc
Olivet Presbyterian Church
Tenth’ Street
Robert McTaggert
Linn County
Barber College
2Nd Avenue SE
Charlie Cox
Boilermaker Lounge
16Th Ave. Bridge
Adv
Sykora’s
Moose Lodge
2Nd St. SE
Roots
1St St. N.E
Travelers Protective Association
Roosevelt Hotel
Pierson’s Florists
C.R. Home
Editorial
James Reston
Roscoe Drummond Pearson-Anderson
Rick du Brow
Leonard Lyons
Reeseenee
Gaver
Florabel Muir
Sereen Weene
Dr. Mother
Erma Bombeck
Rex Conn CeCe Neers
Gus Schrader Walton
Heep
Bel Air Drive
Gene Todd
Knepper
Bob Grill
Jack Haldeman
Alicia Jackson
Tommy Flicker Realty Company
Realtors
Don Fahren
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Bob Leedom
Tommy Tucker
Westmar Alumni Club
S. Daft
Grant Williams
Ford
Ford Town
Ford Country
First Ave
40Th Street
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