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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1964
Page
3
Five day forecast notes Iowa temperatures to run 4 to 8 degrees below normal through Wednesday with highs 84 to 90 and lows 62 to 68. Precipitation expected moderate to heavy, showers and thunderstorms possible, totals 1 to 3 inches.
Birth announcements list many newborns with parental names and addresses across multiple families in Marengo Hiawatha and Cedar Rapids. The notes include town events such as overheated transformer, diesel spill and plane stand by at Municipal airport, plus traffic and vehicle violations with fined amounts. Funeral services are announced for numerous small-town residents with church names and burial plans. Community notices close with a request for Camp Good Health contributions.
Goldwater urged unity on a platform formed by diverse views while warning against appeasing communism. He pressed for strong Free World leadership and a tough stance against communism, saying the party should not drift on foreign policy. Scranton allies push moderates and seek a minority report as a platform fight grows.
The Iowa Natural Resources Council states it retains authority to limit building in floodplains, despite Linn county supervisors rescinding a related resolution. The council cites state law granting jurisdiction over structures in floodways, while noting delays in finalizing the Indian Creek and Prairie Creek floodplain studies and the lack of a public hearing on preliminary floodway outlines.
Courthouse report notes Thomas F. Kenney aged 29 escaped from Linn county jail Wednesday and was recaptured Thursday by Deputy Herbert Wilkins on First Avenue Cedar Rapids. He is held in solitary for ten days and escape charges will be filed. He was serving a 12 month sentence for failing to pay a $100 fine for breaking and entering.
The Republican platform committee warned that tickets to hearings were forged with unauthorized people admitted. Security was tightened while officials could not determine the forger or total forged tickets, noting some genuine cards failed entry due to a full hall and forged tickets bore a black signature instead of blue green.
Larry Lee Smith 26 of Oelwein was sentenced to one year in the men s reformatory at Anamosa after pleading guilty to child desertion and abandonment. District Judge Charles Penningroth granted him a parole. Smith deserted his two children aged 5 and 3 on December 30.
New management of L P Christensen Associates filed in Linn district court for an injunction to prevent Lambert P Christensen from practicing accounting in the Cedar Rapids area. Richard Cerral Jones of Cedar Rapids sues over an earlier transfer of the bookkeeping business to Jones and Christensen.
William A. Rife, 30, of 132644 Second Street SE, pled innocent in district court to breaking and entering. Judge Charles Penningroth set a $1,000 bond. Police found Rife at 3 a.m. inside the South Side Inn at 1326 Second Street SE, crouched behind the bar with a .32 caliber pistol in hand. the gun, not loaded, had been taken from a drawer behind the bar.
Harold D. Lathrop aged 32 of Marion died at Mercy hospital after emergency surgery for head injuries from a motorcycle collision with a car driven by Ruby Violet Schmidt at Collins road and F avenue NE. Lathrop's death brings Cedar Rapids area traffic fatalities for 1964 to four. His body was taken to Murdoch funeral home.
Mrs Goodyear lifelong Cedar Rapids resident died Thursday evening born April 6 1908 married March 7 1931 Survived by husband son John Thomas daughter Rosemary Blood brother John P Warner two sisters five grandchildren retired 1961 secretary to hotel manager church choir director and organist services Monday 10 30 a m Turner chapel burial Cedar Memorial friends may call
Anna E Swatosh 68 of 357 Twenty-third street NW widow of Emil Swatosh died early Friday after a prolonged illness. Born in St Paul Minnesota August 29 1895 she lived in Cedar Rapids since 1917. Survived by two sons William A and Robert L both of Cedar Rapids four grandchildren a sister Mary Kazparak North Tonawanda NY one brother Frank Kotz Brownsville Texas. Requiem Mass Immaculate Conception Church Monday 9 am with Rt Rev Msgr William Roach officiating Burial St Johns Msgr Roach to recite Rosary at Kuba funeral home 7:30 pm Sunday friends may call after 1 pm Saturday.
Eugene Lanfier, 38, of 1624 Greene Avenue NE, was sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary at Fort Madison and placed on probation on a charge of receiving stolen property. He was found guilty at a jury trial that ended June 2 for buying 37 cartons of cigarets stolen in a Dubuque break by three men who killed a Grinnell police officer.
Detroit UPI Henry Ford II, industrialist and supporter of President Johnson, endorsed Gov Romney for a second term Thursday in a political endorsement reported from Detroit.
Cedar Rapids widow Lucille G. Boyles 51 of 11844 First street NE died Thursday after a long illness. Born July 12, 1912, she leaves sister Ellen Lehman Cedar Rapids and brother George Watson Chicago. Memorial services set for 3 p.m. Saturday at Turner chapel. burial Shiloh cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
The agriculture department forecast the 1964 Iowa corn crop at 792,666,000 bushels, averaging 81 bushels per acre. This compares with 860,320,000 bushels in 1963.
One hundred members from 50 communities attend the Iowa Hotels and Motel Association 54th annual convention at the Roosevelt hotel. Women discuss hypnosis while husbands golf. lectures cover liquor cost controls and legislative matters. events include a Czech banquet and a Sunday brunch hosted by Sutherland Cook.
Taxpayers challenge city actions authorizing a $111000 corridor study for a Cedar Rapids expressway. They allege May payments totaling $21925 from the Cedar Valley Roadway fund improperly used road use tax money and cite Iowa Code section 312.6 restricting road funds to construction and maintenance. The project estimated at $45 million would connect Hiawatha to Highway 218 via Cedar Rapids, with federal and state funds covering most costs.
A low pressure system over the plains and a weak Great Lakes high bring southerly breezes and moisture into Iowa through Saturday night. A Sunday storm will bring showers and cooler western temperatures. Iowa highs 84 to 90 and lows 62 to 63. Rainfall 1 to 3 inches.
The segment Politics 64 airs Friday night on KCRG TV 9 after the station’s Fight of the Week. The program lineup emphasizes political topics and local issues presented in a televised format.
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