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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1967
Page
1
Cedar Rapids officials plan a city owned transit start after 74 percent approval from about 13,700 voters. Regional Transit Authority will aim for dispersed routes to residential areas while addressing exhaust nuisance from older buses and setting clear expectations on routes and timing.
The editorial calls for revising state registration law to aid election years. It notes failures of the 1965 mobile registration system and favors restoring temporary registration sites run by city clerks with help from volunteers and party groups, supplementing permanent offices at city hall.
The piece weighs a new federal program adding breakfast at school against the established Fed Start EAD START anti poverty effort. It argues breakfast reduces parental involvement and questions effects on a child’s sense of responsibility and motivation, noting concerns that progress may be offset by dependence.
Washington looks at dual battles abroad and at home as senators push gunnered reforms. Ribicoff and Percy forge plans for job training and low cost housing while critics urge less federal control and more revenue sharing. Gardner says money must fund better ways to do the job.
A reader defends displaying the American flag at night citing tradition and patriotism amid Vietnam era tensions. The letter argues no law forbids night display, invites differing Catholic views on birth control, and endorses free will and personal faith alongside national pride.
To the Editor this letter criticizes a Tuesday January editorial about birth control questions referencing the Vatican Osservatore Della Domenica. The writer assumes subscribers are churchmen and others of Christian faith and questions the editor’s secular stance.
In 1957 St Wenceslaus Homecoming crowned Rose Sebetka during ceremonies at the St Wenceslaus gym as the St Wenceslaus Red Hawks beat St Columbkines of Dubuque 60 to 50. Attendants were Carol Ann Miller Barbara Tresnak Sharon West and Stella Schmidt. City and state officials discussed new roles during a three day meeting at the Roosevelt hotel. Officers named included Henry Stumpff Floyd Hayden Mike Kennedy C D Schuckert Pete Rikkells and Leo Quinn. A University of Iowa official praised veteran students and Dr Russell Cole visited Washington with President Truman’s family. Sue Randall became worthy adviser of the Cedar Rapids Rainbow Girls. The 1937 Iowa Legislature adjourned in tribute to Mrs. Alex Miller. Henry Houseman Jr Scoutmaster of Troop 8 and George Prastka of Troop 11 are noted.
The item notes two Eagle Scout court of honor recipients and Alice Ferber Linn County relief director oversaw excess garments from the WPA sewing project sent to the Ohio River Valley flood area. Marion F. Robb was elected president of the Marion Service Club at a gathering in Memorial Hall.
A columnist critiques a Havana dispatch on Fidel Castro’s plan to grow crops in the Escambray mountains using a micro climate. The piece notes onions asparagus grapes and strawberries as crops and questions any multiple harvests per year. It quotes Castro praising women’s emancipation as key, while contrasting with critics who say the Cuban Women’s Federation coerces women into farm labor. The column cites Willard Wirtz and Paul Bethel to frame alleged coercion and contrasts with U.S. labor norms. The author portrays Cuban women as working under coercive emancipation and questions the practicality of the plan.
At the Republican National Committee gathering in New Orleans moderates waver about George Romney. They cite Romney’s organization delays and Vietnam and foreign policy issues as reasons to doubt a Romney victory, with Percy and Rockefeller raised as alternatives.
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