Weather and city notes plus daily notices and fines
Daily weather figures list highs and lows for multiple cities with rainfall and barometer data. The page records legislative action in Iowa, including printing specifications and a veto items amendment, plus births, marriages, divorces, and numerous traffic fines and notices from Monday into Tuesday with police and fire department calls and service notices across towns like Marion and Denver.
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Iowa
Senate
House
Berger resigns as executive director of Family Service Agency
John N. Berger resigns as executive director of Family Service Agency after seven years. His departure effective March 15 leads to Berger and his family moving to Reading, Pennsylvania where he will head the newly merged Family Guidance Center. No replacement has been named.
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John N. Berger
Family Service Agency
Berger
United Good Neighbor
Linn County
FSA
Reading
Family Guidance Center
the Center
Child Guidance Clinic
Children’s Aid Society
Robert K. Hotchkiss
Gladys Shufford
Family Service Assn. of America
Congress Deliberates Budget Gimmicks Amid Defense Focus
GOP leaders attack the Johnson administration for “new accounting” that hides debt while pursuing “new economics.” They urge curbs on non defense outlays such as space and public works, arguing budget increases disguise true figures. Senators Curtis Hruska and Rep Evins push for spending cuts to avoid tax hikes.
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IOU
Laird
Johnson
G.O.P
Curtis
R-Neb
Evins
D-Tenn
Hruska
Community crowd weighs in on Mrs. Jones school tenure
More than 60 people attended a school board meeting where supporters urged Mrs. Jones to remain. The board, after an executive session, decided community sentiment would risk harm to children if she were removed. No charges were filed. Jones had changed names amid divorce and remarriage rumors.
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Durland
Jones
Warren Richart
Kindergarten News
Burglars Take $477 in Coins From C R Myers Home
Thieves broke into Garland Myers at 402 A avenue NW between 1130 and 1330 hours on Monday and stole 447 in coins including 155 in half dollars 180 in quarters 52 in nickels and 600 in dimes.
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Garland Myers
Avenue NW
Myers
Power struggle clouds China as Red Chinese leaders fight for control
Reports warn Mao’s faction may not command the army as 3.5 million troops are poised to act. Leadership splits hint at chaos in Shansi while anti Mao youths clash with Liu Shao Chi loyalists in Canton. Red Guards defect yet Mao loyalists dispute mass mobilization claims.
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Shansi
Canton
Mao
Liu Shao-Chi
New China News Agency
Lin
China
Deaths John A Phillips Jr longtime Cedar Rapids veteran
John A Phillips Jr of 116 Thirty fifth Street Drive SE died Tuesday after a short illness. A World War II veteran he lived most of his life in Cedar Rapids and was active in several local organizations. Survived by a daughter Wendy E Phillips two sons John A Phillips and Darrell Phillips a sister Mildred Costarella a half brother Eugene Phillips and a half sister Alberta Rosetta. Services 3 p.m. Thursday Turner Chapel East with Rev Lloyd Dutrow burial Linwood Cemetery. Friends may call after 11 a.m Wednesday.
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John A. Phillips, Jr
Thirty-fifth Street Drive
Cedar Rapids
Mysti
Ulin American Legion
Ancient Landmark Lodge
Olin
Apollo Commandery
el Kabir Shrine
The
Moose Lodge
Eagles Lodge
Wendy Eileen Phillips
John A. Phillips
Darrell Phillips
Mildred Costarella
Chicago
Eugene Phillips
Alberta Rosetta
Osage
Kan
Turner Chapel
Lloyd Dutrow
Linwood Cemetery
Obituaries for Anna Stusak and Robert Kessler
Anna Stusak widow of Frank Stusak died Monday after a long illness born July 13 1885 in Cedar Rapids she lived here all her life and was a member of several Czech and veterans organizations. Services Thursday at Brush chapel then St Wenceslaus church with burial in Czech National cemetery. Msgr Chihak to recite the Rosary Wednesday. Robert L Kessler died Monday after a short illness longtime Cedar Rapids resident married to Bernice Fritz in 1950 he belonged to Hanford American Legion post 40 and 8 and the Amvets. Survivors include wife two sons and three daughters, his parents and two sisters. Services Thursday at Turner chapel west with military rites at Linwood cemetery forthcoming.
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Anna Stusak
Second ‘Street
Frank Stusak
Cedar Rapids
Ceske Vlastenky Lodge
Unity of Czech Ladies and Men
CSA
Charles Landergott
West Palm Beach
Fla
Leonard
Lumir
Mary Bartosh
Brush Chapel
St. Wenceslaus Church
Anthony W. Chihak
Czech National Cemetery
Msgr
Chihak
Robert L. Kessler
Third Street
Martin Brothers
Waterloo
Bernice Fritz
Monticello
Ind
Hanford American Legion Post
The
Amvets
Joel Kessler
Juliana Curtis
Betty Cowgar
Elaine Cowgar
Earl H. Kessler
Obituary: Elmer Wright 64 former Cedar Rapids resident
Elmer Wright aged 64 former Cedar Rapids resident died Saturday in Anaheim California. A partner in Be-Rignt Auto Co he left Cedar Rapids in 1940. Survived by wife Hilda two sons David Bey Cedar Rapids Philip Wright Anaheim two daughters Judy Rawson Long Beach Barbara Simmons Anaheim a brother Dick Wright Williamsburg Services Tuesday at Anaheim
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Elmer Wright
Cedar Rapids
Anaheim
Calif
Be-Rignt Auto Co
Wright
Hilda
David Bey
Philip Wright
Judy Rawson
Long Beach
Barbara Simmons
Dick Wright
Williamsburg
Memorial Services and Burials for Local Residents
Memorial services and funerals are announced for several residents. Yunker George RequiemMass at Immaculate Conception at 10 a.m. Wednesday, burial Mt Calvary. Rosary 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Brady mortuary. Mallie Bohumil service 10 a.m. Wednesday at Brush chapel, burial Czech National cemetery. Whitters Charles Paul service 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at St Pius X, burial Mt Calvary. Rosary 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in chapel. Minor Robert J. service 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Turner chapel west, burial Cedar Memorial. Taylor Ellis Colonel service 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Turner chapel west. Crescent Lodge 25 AF&AM conduct. cremation committal to follow. friends may call Wednesday and until 10 a.m. Thursday. casket not opened after service.
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West Branch
Paul DeForrest
Leavenworth
Kans
Oak Ridge Cemetery
West Liberty
Friends
Barker's
Waukon
Leif Larson
Burke's
Lansing
Dyersville
Herb Westemeier
St. Francis Basilica
Kramer's
Yunker
George
William Roach
Immaculate Conception Church
Mt. Calvary
Brady Mortuary
Mallie
Bohumil
Brush Chapel
Jerry Drahovzal
Czech National Cemetery
Whitters
Charles Paul
St. Pius X
John Sims
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Turner Chapel
Father Sims
Police Seek Truck Driver To Complete Report
Cedar Rapids police want to identify a truck driver involved in a minor pedestrian collision at Tenth Street NW and First Avenue Sunday at 5 45 p m. The driver spoke with the pedestrian who declined medical treatment. Police ask the man to report to the traffic bureau. Pedestrian Lucille Rogers 44 of 1021 A Avenue NW sustained a cut finger and a cut on her left elbow.
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Cedar Rapids
Tenth Street
First Avenue
Lucille Rogers
A Avenue NW
Baker Defends Return of Campaign Funds to Kerr
Baker, a former pageboy from Pickens South Carolina, denies stealing about eighty thousand dollars of a hundred thousand in campaign contributions. He says he turned the money over to Kerr in late 1962. Kerr died January 1 1963. Government cross examination totaled about twelve hours and questioned transfers in late 1962 with Baker admitting possible memory gaps.
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California Savings and Loan
Baker
Kerr
Pickens
S. C
U.S
William Bittman
Bittman
Washington
Los Angeles
New York
Las Vegas
Johnson budgets war aid as peace talks stall
President Johnson outlined a requested spending package totaling about 12.3 billion, with 6.8 billion for equipment and materiel, 3.3 billion for operating costs, 1.4 billion for pay and training, 624.5 million for facilities, and 135 million for research. He said current year outlays would exceed 1966 estimates by 9.1 billion, but only 5.2 billion of the supplemental would be spent this year.
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Johnson
Kiesinger Pays Visit to Berlin
West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger flew to West Berlin on Tuesday for his first visit since taking office last December.
Inmate Sues Over Detainer Hindering Rehab Programs
Lloyd W. Morris alias Jack Lucas, 39, an inmate at the Atlanta federal penitentiary, petitions for a writ of habeas corpus claiming a Linn county detainer prevents his participation in rehabilitation. He seeks a speedy trial on a 1961 false uttering charge, or dismissal if not possible, and requests court appointment of counsel. He faces a $1,550 bad check charge from April 14, 1961, and was sentenced December 23, 1965, for interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle.
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Federal Penitentiary
Atlanta
Linn County
Lloyd W. Morris
Jack Lucas
Morris
John J. Zachar
Cedar Rapids
Judge Dismisses Forgery Trial in Linn County Case
Roger Wardenburg, 22, of Cedar Rapids faced forgery charges for allegedly endorsing a 41.05 check to Kathie Welsh on August 16. Judge Harold D. Vietor granted the dismissal after the state failed to prove the crime occurred in Linn County. Potential appeal noted by County Attorney Jack Fulton. Jurors named from Cedar Rapids Springville Marion and Lisbon with one alternate.
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Roger Wardenburg
Cedar Rapids
Harold D. Vietor
Jack Fulton
Vietor
Wardenburg
Linn County
Kathie Welsh
Darrell Kitchen
Edna M. Ellickson
John Dale Peet
Harold J. Ward
E. J. Hoff
Margaret E. Langridge
Delores Ridenour
Blayne R. Barnhart
Betty M. Null
Carl Carney
Springville
Thelma R. Sparling
Marion
Wilma Reynolds
Lisbon
June R Griffin
Smith to Ottumwa Jail for 5 Months
Linn county sheriff deputies transported Robert M. Smith of Cedar Rapids to the Wapello county jail in Ottumwa where he will serve five months on a false uttering of a check conviction. He was sentenced to ten years in Fort Madison for breaking and entering. Default judgments awarded in two civil cases: Kirkby Distributing Co. vs Frank Breen for 279.49 and Charlotte Sims vs Jess M. Valandigham for 305 in auto damages.
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Linn County
Robert M. Smith
Cedar Rapids
Wapello
Ottumwa
Smith
Linn
Fort Madison
Reckless Driving Charge Lodged Against Motorist
Duane F. E. McQuerry aged 17 of 4069 Scutter avenue SE was charged with reckless driving after a car went out of control on Forest drive SE. The vehicle struck two trees and stopped on a lawn at 320 Forest drive causing about 100 dollars in damage. He is to appear in municipal court on Saturday.
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Duane FE. McQuerry
Scutter Avenue
Forest Drive
McQuerry
City Sells Six Properties to Return to Tax Rolls
The city plans to auction six properties to boost tax rolls. Two downtown waterworks buildings at 708 Third Street SE and a meter shop on Seventh Avenue will be sold with minimum bids of 100000 and 27000 respectively. Four parks parcels on Ellis Lane NW Twentieth Street NW Johnson Avenue SW and a triangular lot near Olivet Church will also have minimum bids set after appraisals. A public hearing and sealed bids are scheduled for February 15.
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Deusen
C Avenue NW
Omar Hochstetter
Fifth Avenue SE
Louis P. Muller
Victor
Martin J. Zieser
Ryan
Cletus V. Moser, Jr
Oklahoma Avenue SW
Willard B. Neal
Mt. Vernon
Don L. Wilkinson
First Street
Bob Johnson
Third Street
Seventh Avenue
Parks Department
Ellis Lane
Ellis Park
Tenth Street NW
Don Gardner
Twentieth Street
Gardner
Apache Park
Johnson Avenue
Tenth Street
Olivet Presbyterian Church
Iowa's Congress Districts Illegal Says Legislator
Sen. Tom Riley told a senate reapportionment sub committee that Iowa’s current congressional districts are illegal after a recent Supreme Court decision in Indiana. He noted Indiana’s 9 percent population variance and cited Iowa’s Second district at 442000, 51 000 above average, with the Seventh at 353000, 40000 below average, a 25 percent disparity.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Supreme Court
Indiana
Tom Riley
Cedar Rapids
Senate
Riley
City votes on bus system plan with RTA oversight
In 1965 election, turnout varied by site with Jefferson high school 253 to 414 and Lincoln 362 to 465 at the same hour. Voters weighed city ownership of a bus system, with approval likely leading to lease to a private operator under a three member regional transit authority named by the council.
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Jefferson High School
Lincoln School
Regional Transit Authority
RTA
Philippine President Marcos Undergoes Gallbladder Surgery
Manila aides said President Ferdinand Marcos underwent successful Tuesday surgery to remove an inflamed gall bladder. No complications reported, and he will recover in hospital under observation.
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Manila
UPS
Ferdinand Marcos
Signing of Space Pact Expected Friday
The treaty prohibiting placing nuclear weapons in orbit will be signed by the United States Britain and the Soviet Union on Friday. It will be signed simultaneously in Washington Moscow and London and was unanimously approved by the U N General Assembly last month. The pact bans orbiting nuclear hardware and keeps the moon and other celestial bodies free of such weapons open to adherence by all governments whether U N members or not.
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Washington
Earth
U.S
Britain
Soviet Union
Moscow
London
U.N General Assembly
U.N
Healthy Teeth Pulled To Get Free Dentures
A Polish weekly reports dentists hear many requests to pull healthy teeth. It notes the health service provides free dentures only to patients with at least five teeth removed.
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Warsaw
Politkya
Health Service
Army Draft Inducts Three Linn County Men for January Call
Linn County Draft Board inducted LaVerne R. Achenbach Richard A. Heskie and Richard J. Connor in January. Enlistees sent to Ft. Bliss Texas for basic training include Robert W. Petersen Jr. and Richard H. Janss. Alan L. Bergman heads to Ft. Dix New Jersey for officer training. Seaman Apprentice James A. Lopshire on 14 day leave from San Diego en route to Hawaii.
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Linn County
LaVerne R. Achenbach
Fifth Street
Richard A. Heskie
B Avenue
Richard J. Connor
Tenth Street
Army
Ft. Bliss
Texas
Robert W. Petersen, Jr
Hale
Richard H. Janss
Keystone
Alan L. Bergman
Hiawatha
Ft. Dix
N. J
James A. Lopshire
Robert Lopshire
Ainsworth
San Diego
Hawaii
Culver Names Nominees for Air Academy
Congressman John C. Culver announced nominees for appointment to the Air Force Academy. Top nominee will gain admission to the class entering next summer. Applications for the 1968 class are open through Sept 30. Nominees include Timothy Thomson, James Hendricks, Paul Koob, Leon Hofer, Theron Weimer, and Curtis Butikofer.
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John C. Culver
Air Force Academy
Congressman Culver
Timothy A. Thomson
Mr. Vernon
James Richard Hendricks
Clinton
Paul H. Koob
Maquoketa
Man Accused of Drunk Driving Arrest in Central City
James H. Sauer, 58, of Central City, was arrested Tuesday morning on Highway 13 south of Central City by a Linn County deputy sheriff and charged with drunk driving. The county attorney ordered Sauer released on his own recognizance with arraignment set for a later time.
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James H. Sauer
Central City
Highway 13
Linn County
Jack Fulton
Sauer
Driver Charged in Earlville Crash Deaths
Philip Becker, 23, of Earlville, faces reckless and careless driving charges in Dubuque municipal court, following a Sunday crash that killed two Dubuque women. He is scheduled to appear Wednesday morning.
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Earlville
Philip Becker
Dubuque Municipal Court
Dubuque
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