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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1965
Page
24
A Saturday disturbance in an Iowa city escalated with barricades and projectiles as police dispersed a mob after fires and smoke. Officers reported minor injuries and arrests, with later weather notes and local obituaries and birth notices detailing residents from Independence, Edgewood, and Manchester.
The gas war drives major dealers to cut prices while some stations report supplier reluctance to match cuts. In Arnolds Park, special police testified that Lockerby was a key instigator in the riot, confessing heavy drinking and hazy memories. Mayor Bob Saunders urged accountability.
Beer drinking youths rioted in resort towns across Ohio Missouri and New York during the Fourth of July weekend. More than 600 arrests were made with property damage and minor injuries reported. The article notes a late spring price war in gasoline and a brief fall in prices last September.
Local classifieds invite readers to place want ads by dialing 362-1121, offering a quick way to buy or trade items and services.
Clarence resident Ted Sanger, 7, son of Mr and Mrs Ray Sanger, suffered severe facial lacerations when pulled into pulleys in a barn during a youth council event. He was taken to Mercy hospital Cedar Rapids for surgery and later reported in good condition. A second item notes a tent valued at $15 stolen from 1333 Thirty-ninth street SE Saturday night.
In Geneva-on-the-Lake and Rockaway Beach Ohio, teens and young adults clashed with officers using fists rocks and fireworks. Police jailed about 175 youths at Rockaway Beach where 8 000 holiday visitors swarmed the area. The governor ordered national guardsmen into Geneva-on-the-Lake to curb a repeat of the weekend violence.
Police seek the driver of a 1957 model car that plunged into the Cedar River off Otis road SE near Miller road after midnight Sunday. The vehicle overturned and rested upright in several feet of water. the driver escaped, waded ashore, and walked away. The car was registered to George Schmitt, with an updated address on Twelfth Avenue SW and Eighth Avenue SE. Two wreckers retrieved the auto.
William Reilly today at Cedar Rapids aged 26 died after a short illness. Born August 12 1944 in Nevada Missouri he worked as an engineer for Northwestern Railroad until 1947 and later at Taylor Music Co. He was survived by his wife Janet Tyler Reilly two daughters five sons eight grandchildren five brothers and three sisters. Bertha Becicka 74 of 1203 Fifteenth Street SE widow of Joseph Becicka died after a long illness. Requiem mass for Reilly is set at St Patrick’s parish with burial at St John’s cemetery and rosary services in Teahen chapel.
Cedar Rapids police reported a quiet Fourth of July weekend with about a dozen firecracker complaints and no arrests. Three youths ages 16 and two 15 year olds were charged as juveniles with disturbing the peace after firing a blank starter pistol about 100 times on Ray Drive NW and tossing fireworks into a trash canal at Jones Park. They were turned over to their parents awaiting county probation action.
Cedar Rapids men David W. Donahoe and Hobart F. Fowler were charged with bootlegging after a detective posing as a buyer aligned with Leland Meikle and Ralph Gearhart led to their arrest at a hotel. The same reports note the death of Myrtle M. Burke at 350 H Avenue NE after a long illness with services and burial details provided.
Two Cedar Rapids youths sustained minor injuries when their motorcycle was struck by a car at Eighth Avenue and Fourteenth Street SE Monday at 1 50 am. They were treated at area hospitals and released. Nearby, a trestle inspection noted hydrogen levels and equipment readings.
Police cite Harvard scientist Szymanski and others as officials report a half-dozen deaths in a weekend incident on Tenth Avenue, Marion. Investigators say the implosion was caused by a sudden air surge as gauges were turned off, while a motorcycle rider Lerch faces unrelated charges.
Arlington resident sustained leg injuries and breathing trouble after a morning break in at Ed's Spale Lee Distributing Co. Thieves removed five blank starter pistols seven rolls of blank cartridges and a case of beer from a boxcar behind American Transfer & Storage. Pistols valued at 4 each. Detective work continues as managers report additional pistol stolen during business hours.
Five year old Brad Seaton son of Mr and Mrs Robert Seaton of 441 Day Street NW suffered second degree burns Sunday after sitting on a burning sparkler. He received emergency care at St Luke's hospital and was released.
Fisherman Harry Merchant 59 of Cedar Rapids died after falling down an embankment while fishing in a stream. He was taken by ambulance to St Luke's hospital in Marion and funeral arrangements are being made at Murdoch funeral home near Highway 30 E Cedar Rapids.
An accident on highway 22 near the junction with highway 1 left Ely-Wayne Van Auken with a minor chest wound from a rifle fired during a target shooting incident. Barbara Kay Jarrard 2% and Dianna Lee Jarrard 34 are reported dead. funeral details and survivors listed for both families.
A Marshalltown couple and their 9 year old daughter died when their vehicle was struck by an unspecified vehicle on Saturday. Police are investigating the crash and have not released further details.
Ely residents Van Auken and his wife reported a man being shot at in their yard but later found no wound. Glenn D. Ilgentritz, 55, was charged with embezzlement by an agent after allegedly taking beer from the Hickory restaurant and claiming a pellet gun threat. Eli Abodeely filed the complaint and Ilgentritz was held in the city jail.
In Vichy Rubirosa married Miss Darrieux after a noted exile period. In Cedar Rapids a teen, Ruth Clemons, survived a trestle train shooting while her neighbors Mr and Mrs Winter and Clarita Winter were killed. a .22 caliber bullet was linked to local youths with rifles seized and no charges planned.
Clarita Marie turned back to fetch a vacuum jug with root beer as an officer notes the Clemons girl said she would have reached safety if she had kept running. The fragment suggests a perilous outdoor moment with a missing context.
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