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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1964
Page
2
Surgeons at the University of Mississippi Medical Center transplanted a heart into a man dying of heart failure. The donor and recipient remained unnamed. The heart beat briefly but could not sustain the recipient, who died after a three hour operation.
Cedar Rapids business and civic leaders met at the Roosevelt hotel as the Chamber of Commerce explored manpower needs. About 74 attendees named 23 hard-to-fill jobs from welders to chemists and suggested school shop courses and expanded vocational programs to motivate youth.
Britain places troops in Kenya at Kenya government request to preserve law and order. Commonwealth Secretary Duncan Sandys calls the move purely precautionary as unrest spreads through East African neighbors, with three new commonwealth states shaken in 13 days.
Czechoslovakia disclosed a $1 million payment to the United Nations, $90,000 above its 1963 operating budget, while officials say overpayment does not affect their resolve to withhold peacekeeping costs. The payment reduces arrearages to below two years of assessments, avoiding loss of General Assembly vote per the UN Charter.
A blizzard swept the northern plains with freezing sleet spreading south into the Midwest. Heavy snow warnings covered the Dakotas through Michigan as traffic grew treacherous. Fargo reported four inches, Lemmon and Duluth three inches. Minneapolis sees high accident rates as frozen sleet coats highways. Weather officials warned the storm has dangerous ingredients.
Wet sticky snow covers Iowa with heaviest falls in the northeast and central areas. North east expected 1 to 2 inches, central Iowa about one inch, southern regions likely drizzle. Colder air moves in by Friday night, snow ends in the northeast by morning, with clearing and fair weather Saturday. Cedar Rapids records 42 ° Friday, 36 ° by noon.
Two U.N. helicopters carried seven American missionaries and two children from Kwilu province to safety, after guerilla attacks killed three Belgian priests. The evacuees included Harold and Gladys Graber and their daughter Jeanette from Pretty Prairie Kansas, plus James Bertsche family and Selma Unruh.
New York UPI report says Elizabeth Taylor's lawyers claim Eddie Fisher seeks one million dollars to finalize a divorce and that Taylor will not pay the sum. The dispute centers on a high profile separation amid ongoing tabloid coverage.
Washington AP reports the Defense Department quietly recalled Gen Lyman Lemnitzer to active duty at retirement age for his rank 64, keeping him in command indefinitely unless NATO requests withdrawal. Lemnitzer, NATO supreme commander since 1962, earns 1785 dollars monthly plus subsistence quarters and a 2200 annual personal allowance.
Tanganyika announced recognition of the new government in Zanzibar on Thursday, signaling diplomatic acknowledgment of the political change. The move comes amid ongoing relations between Tanganyika and Zanzibar within the union.
John J. Hurwitz former Central City school superintendent aged 70 did not appear in Linn district court due to ill health. He pleaded guilty to neglect of duty by a public officer and was fined $300. He had been indicted for embezzling $446.98 from school funds. Judge William Eads noted health and age concerns while accepting the plea.
The senate inquiry chief counsel said Robert Baker refused to be interviewed. President Johnson claimed the 1959 stereo set was a gift from an old friend and Baker aide. Reynolds testified he paid for the $542 record player and for advertising time tied to Johnson, prompting calls to compel Baker under oath.
Ronald Kriegel twenty was killed Thursday night when his car left a T intersection near the Toledo airport. The wreckage was found at 7 45 a m Friday by a passing motorist. Officials cited fog as a factor and brakes were applied before the vehicle entered the ditch. Kriegel was home on leave from the Air Force and his body lay at Mason funeral home in Tama.
James Jenkins, 17, the Balboa high student who raised the American flag during the 1959 balance of flags crisis, returns to the United States aboard the S S Cristobal. He says he was right to raise the flag but worries about future trouble and the lives lost. He plans to finish high school in Cambridge Ohio with relatives, before visiting his Canal Zone home this summer.
A playful quip notes that failing a drivers test leads to becoming parking lot attendants. The joke relies on a pun and light humor about job outcome.
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