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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1969
Page
2
Daily Record weather details with highs and lows for many cities and page notices. Includes rainfall, barometer, humidity, wind, sunrise and sunset. lists July births in Cedar Rapids Marion and surrounding areas. divorce decrees. and funeral notices for several towns including Decorah Aurora Ridgeway Wellman North English Conroy Anamosa Center Point Coggon.
Lightning hit the main feeder at the Westwood substation near Twenty first street NW causing a large outage across a northwest Cedar Rapids area bounded by Eighteenth street to Edgewood road north to highway 94 and south to Johnson avenue. About a dozen rural outages reported. Wet cables disrupted phones briefly. Crews worked Thursday to restore service while Cedar River levels remained a concern as storms linger.
The nation moved to honor the Apollo 11 flight with state and city holidays or closings. Governors and mayors in several states ordered offices closed or limited operations while others kept normal schedules. Boeing planned business as usual despite the national excitement.
President Nixon praised Apollo 11 astronauts while recalling Apollo 1 victims Grissom White and Chaffee. He stressed that lunar explorers carry tribute to those who helped blaze the path and urged international unity through space achievement.
Columnists span James Reston Drew Pearson Louis Harris and women writers Edith Head Abby Van Buren Erma Bombeck with a picture page and entertainment picks Florabel Muir Leonard Lyons Rick DuBrow and Nancy Gilbert. General notes include The Jacobys bridge column and Dr Andelman with sports and financial panels by Sam Shulsky and Gas Schrader.
NASA reported Apollo 11 crews dealing with a potentially faulty flow indicator in an oxygen vent. Armstrong and Collins slept seven hours while Aldrin slept 50 hours. all were in good condition. The crew noted a TV pass from 60,000 miles out showing Earth with North America visible and Mexico to the south. They planned 13 lunar orbits, docking to begin descent Sunday afternoon Iowa time for the first moon walk about ten hours later.
Obituary notices for Frances LaVonne OConnor and Wayne W Bates detail Cedar Rapids residents, factory and church affiliations, survivors, and memorial plans. The second half summarizes flood outflow and rainfall effects across Iowa with impacts near Creston, Cedar Rapids, Osceola, and Davenport, noting rising rivers, farm damage, and continued showers forecast.
Alice L. Hoff 85 widow of William E. Hoff died Wednesday after a long illness. She had been living with her daughter and son-in-law Arvel and Mrs. Stewart at 1526 Twelfth Avenue SE. Survived by three other daughters Minnie Campbell Jean Bauer Goldin Martin. six sons John H. Hoff William F. Hoff Glen R. Hoff Archie Hoff Vincent Hoff Thomas Hoff. a sister Daisy Dougherty plus 39 grandchildren and many great and great-great grandchildren. Services pending at Best Funeral Home North English with burial from Brethren church and cemetery near South English.
Jacob Sanders a retired Cedar Rapids auto dealer died Thursday morning after a long illness. Born May 18 1879 in Russia he married Bessie Zaretsky in June 1905 in Russia. He was a Temple Judah member and leaves five daughters Dessie Olevsky Skokie Till Anne Fastow Cedar Rapids Dora Greenfield Brooklyn N Y Sylvia Tucker New Jersey and Marilyn Sanders Downing NJ and five sons Joseph A Sanders Evansville Herschal L Sanders North Hollywood Marvin M Sanders Cedar Rapids William Sanders San Mateo and Harold Sanders Marion. 14 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Memorial services may be held at Turner chapel east Friday by Rabbi Isaac Neuman with burial at Eben Israel cemetery. Friends may call after 9 a m Friday at the chapel.
Memorial services are planned for Wasek Sykstus Friday at 9 a.m. at St Wenceslaus with burial at Mt Calvary. Brady mortuary handles arrangements. Harry L Miner to be memorialized at 1 30 p.m. Friday at Chapel of Memories with burial at Cedar Memorial cemetery. Casket to be closed at 1 p.m. Friday. Helen F Thayer grave side service at 10 30 a.m. Friday in Cedar Memorial cemetery. Kosek Emma D memorial at 11 a.m. Friday at Hus Memorial Presbyterian with burial at Czech National cemetery. Donald Leland Black service at Knox Presbyterian at 1 30 p.m. Friday, graveside at Evergreen cemetery Red Oak at 1 p.m. Saturday. Burial arrangements by Turner east or west.
Chris M Nelson a Cedar Rapids native who moved to Indianapolis died there Thursday He was born November 2 1890 in Kansas City Missouri and married Ruth Campbell in Cedar Rapids in June 1916 He worked for Link Belt Speeder until his 1962 retirement He is survived by his wife a son Donald Nelson Cedar Lake Indiana a daughter Mrs Richard Hale Indianapolis five grandchildren four great grandchildren and a sister Mrs Tillie McCorkill Kansas City Kansas The funeral will be at chapel west at 3 p m Saturday Burial Cedar Memorial Friends may call at Turner chapel west after 6 p.m Friday
Gloria Ann Hopkins 35 of route 3 Cedar Rapids wife of Norman E Hopkins died early Thursday after a long illness. Born in Cedar Rapids November 23 1933 she married May 27 1955 in Cedar Rapids. Survived by husband a son John a sister Mrs Ronald J Ard of Pacific Grove California and her parents Mr and Mrs Evan Paula of Cedar Rapids. Memorial services Saturday at 2 pm at Janeba Kuba funeral home west by Rev Lyle R Graff of Hus Memorial United Presbyterian church burial Czech National. Casket remains open until 12:30 Saturday and will not be opened after the service. Friends may call after 7 Thursday.
Rainfall varied along the Iowa river with Union reporting 3.2 inches and Liscomb over 2 inches on Wednesday night while downstream lighter totals included .58 inch at Marshalltown and .69 inch at Ladora. By Thursday noon the reservoir stood at 711.22 feet up .4 foot in 24 hours with outflow held at 12 000 cubic feet per second and officials considering increase to keep the reservoir within banks.
Linn county deputies in four offices did not receive the intended windfall raises on July 1. Auditors paused the higher deputies’ pay while awaiting correct calculations, and the county attorney’s opinions split on whether salaries should follow principal officers’ increases or the legislated higher amounts. A special session to fix the issue was proposed by Supervisor Emmons.
A Gingerich auto traveling west on Ely road turned onto Highway 30 and was rear ended by Jerry Husmann 20 Scotch Grove. The Gingerich car then collided head on with Marion Kahler 25 Palo driving an eastbound truck. Both Husmann and Kahler were treated and released. Funeral plans for the Gingerich couple are pending. A squad car crash during response caused no injuries. Hartin cited for failure to yield to an emergency vehicle. Cedar Rapids traffic deaths rise to seven for the year.
Iowa Electric Light and Power Co officials urged residents to report red lights on transformers indicating overloads. The surge in air conditioner use has strained units, with 491 new central units sold in Cedar Rapids this summer. Overloaded transformers are replaced with larger ones as needed.
Thomas R. Park, 20, of 404 Fourteenth Street SE, appeared in municipal court before Judge John Reilly and demanded a preliminary hearing on a larceny in the nighttime charge. Reilly set the hearing for August 21. Park, charged July 11 with allegedly taking an $80 auto hood from a car owned by Jon Dales, 1416 Oakland Road NE, on May 24, was released on his own recognizance.
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