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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1961
Page
4
The Center Point Peoples Bank and Trust Co. burglary May 18 is estimated at 6800 dollars. About 5500 dollars came from safety deposit boxes and 1300 from the bank's own funds, mostly coins not in the main vault. FBI and bank officials doubt a precise total will emerge.
The Gazette reports Iowa City will host Airport Appreciation Day July 23 at the municipal airport from 8 30 a m to 5 p m. Gene Brawner chairs the event sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber of Commerce. A fly in breakfast runs 8 30 to 10 30 a m with public viewing of civilian and military aircraft 9 a m to 5 p m. Air force crews conduct guided tours and a model airplane show runs all day. Scenic rides by Ozark Air Lines and Iowa City Flying Service. An air show starts at 1 p m featuring a 20 minute F 102 fighter flyover and bomber flyovers with a guard helicopter demo and marine reservist mobility demonstration. All times DST.
James Hamilton 81 was found dead at his What Cheer home Thursday morning. A retired farmer, he is survived by four sons Mervel Ted James Jr Edwin and two daughters, plus a brother a sister 13 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Services Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Christian church with body at Wiley funeral home.
A joint bid by the Des Moines National Bank, Farmers and Merchants Savings, and First State Bank of Manchester led two bids on 600,000 dollars in bonds for a new elementary school. The net interest rate on the issue was 3.40115 percent.
Marengo schools will offer a foreign language this fall for the first time in several years. Judith Lemke, a 1958 University of Iowa graduate, will teach French at Iowa Valley High School and English as well. She has been teaching in Abilene Texas.
Forty six East Iowans received University Merit awards of 100 dollars for 1961 62 at the University of Iowa. Recipients include Elizabeth Butschi John Heefner Janis Bulgren Susan Higley Elaine Schrimp er Jo McConnell from Anamosa Cedar Rapids Coralville Hiawatha Iowa City Manchester Marion Oxford Sigourney and others.
Manchester's U S weather bureau received two day by day reports from the local fish hatchery showing a mother wren nesting in the weather box and the hatchery staff noting egg dates in June. Hatchery worker Gilbert Bliss trapped four young chipmunks as the family fed them milk from an eye toward group observations.
Edward Mills of Lockridge Iowa recently helped police by hitching a ride with a knife wielding robber in a stolen car near Villa Park Illinois. Mills said the driver alternately turned ignition back on during a police chase and fled into the woods after the crash. Police pursue the armed fugitive who robbed a Northlake restaurant operator named Robert G Brewer before taking his car.
The chipmunks grew tame and roamed the house until Bliss built a wooden cage. They chewed it to pieces and now live in a wire cage with a drinking fountain Bliss also provided. Bliss notes they enjoy ear rubs and feed on corn and oatmeal.
One man died and six others were injured when 20 cars derailed from a 101 car North Western freight train near Sergeant Bluff Iowa. Victim Boyd Hunt 69 Omaha died after hours in a Sioux City hospital. Others injured were transients in empty box cars including William Bush 57 Des Moines Frank Phillips 48 Stringtown Okla Floyd Box 54 Bokoshe Okla John Vohtioko 45 Parma Ohio Robert Williams 55 Laurel Md and Phillomie Kanstrup 40 Sioux Falls S D.
The county board of education schedules a July 12 hearing at 8 30 p m on the proposed 1962 budget which calls for 33475 to be raised by taxation.
Gillette Grove Iowa AP reports a Quaker Oats grain elevator burned to the ground Thursday night with about 2000 bushels of corn lost. The blaze began about 10 30 p m and raged over more than three hours with no wind. Firefighters from eight nearby towns kept flames from spreading to a nearby lumber yard. No damage estimate was set. An earlier elevator at the same site burned about ten years ago and was rebuilt.
Coralville board of education schedules public hearing for July 17 at 7 30 p m on the 1961 62 budget totaling 320 157 with 286 071 in taxes A higher property valuation could drop the millage from 55 32 to about 52 or 53 mills and trim tax cost despite a 16 000 rise over last year.
Fragmented OCR notes show pricing for afternoon editions and yearly rates, including 78.5 and 1.10 per issue figures, with references to mailing rules and carrier towns. Specifics are unclear due to garbled text but indicate regionally varied subscription terms and sales notes.
Washington reports 15790 federal civilians in Iowa at year end, with post office and various agencies accounting for the state’s share. National total across the United States and territories reaches 2372580, with 2212848 in the states. County figures in eastern Iowa list Dubuque 307, Linn 504, Johnson 955, and other counties with smaller counts.
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