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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1967
Page
3
Weather details include Saturday highs of 86 and 79 with a 50 percent humidity reading at 6 p.m. Local sunrise and sunset times plus moon phase noted. Obituaries list multiple deaths with service times and burial details for towns including Arlington Atkins Belle Plaine Decorah Dyersville Manchester Tama Vinton Waukon West Branch Williamsburg and others.
Joe Junior Floyd a 42 year old Union Pacific switchman was found shot in a swamp in Council Bluffs with two bullet fragments in his head. A post mortem indicated the victim was slain within 12 hours prior to discovery around 10 30 am. Police found no weapon at the scene.
The Maharashtra government announced denial of loans and relief subsidies to families with more than three children as part of a family planning push. The move aims to curb population growth and boost funding to smaller families through incentives for those with fewer children.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette established in 1883 by The Gazette Co. is published daily and Sunday at 500 Third Ave SE Cedar Rapids Iowa 52406. Subscription rates are listed for carrier and mail delivery with prices for night and Sunday editions and various annual rates, noting no mail or service in areas with Gazette carrier service. The Associated Press holds exclusive republication rights for local news and AP dispatches.
Elma Beth Krall died Saturday afternoon after a sudden illness at a wedding reception in Solon St Mary's auditorium. Born November 1, 1887 in Center Point she married Fred W. Krall June 2, 1956 at Independence. Surviving: husband two daughters Pauline Moncrief Dorothea Wilcox a son George Glass four grandchildren and brother Leo Rogers. Services Monday at 3 p.m. at Turner's east Center Point burial Center Point. Friends may call after 11 a.m. today.
Memorial services are announced for Holland Virginia Stark with a high memorial mass on Monday at 9 30 in St Patrick s church conducted by Rev J Robert Mc Donald. A rosary is listed for today at 8 p m in Teahen chapel with friends O Deen John Albert Monday at 1 30 by Dr Edgar Walker of Des Moines at Turners West burial at Cedar Memorial.
A presidential board announced a final and binding settlement of all issues in the dispute between 75 railroads and the railway conductors and brakemen. The pact includes a 6 percent wage increase retroactive to Sept 1 and covers 19 000 workers through June 30 of next year. Details to be issued later after two issues are arbitrated. The board was chaired by Msgr George C Higgins with arbitrators Rolf Valtin and Lloyd H Bailer.
The Israeli army said 150 looters broke into a Gaza camp near Rafa, looting goods valued at hundreds of thousands of pounds. After warning shots and a hand grenade attack on guards, 12 looters, all men, were killed in the ensuing clash as reinforcements were called in.
Camp Good Health will display a 50 star flag on July Fourth funded by the American Legion Auxiliary after replacing an outdated flag. The camp is run by the Children's Home for disadvantaged youths and supported by Gazette readers for more than four decades. Contributions noted include a second quarter pledge from Quaker Oats Employees and many memorial gifts totaling over 140 dollars last week.
Legislature approves $81.5 million yearly to operate Iowa universities and allied schools, $34.8 million for state institutions, and $31.9 million for social welfare. Road fund adds $45 million for highways. Rifts over Attorney General Turner pay and judicial raises echo through late night sessions as lawmakers push building and conservation appropriations and debate constitutional conventions and arts council funding.
Pasadena based AP report cites Dr. Charles Richter from Caltech seismology lab saying a potentially destructive quake struck around 4 16 p m likely near Fairbanks Alaska with magnitude 6 7 on the Richter scale The quake was about 2500 miles northwest of Pasadena but Alaska has reported no quakes.
Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly star in High Society. ABC presents the Sunday night movie at 8 on KCRG TV Channel 9 in color.
A motion to lift the call failed and the senate faced a dilemma as it deferred action on the alcoholism bill. Leaders hoped to adjourn by midnight but final adjournment slipped into the early morning hours with the plan to pass the second part of the school aid property tax relief package.
Des Moines reports Representative Leigh Curran of Mason City is believed exhausted rather than experiencing a heart seizure as stated by Majority Leader Floyd Millen of Farmington during Saturday night House proceedings.
Police say in Detroit a 24 year old postal worker killed his wife with a shotgun and then killed himself in a locked home. Two infant daughters Theresa 17 months and Sheryl 4 months starved to death inside the house. the family dog survived. A relative found the scene after telephone silence for over a week.
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