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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1966
Page
3
Daily records show high temperatures across cities with rain totals and barometric readings. The piece also lists July deaths and funeral notices for Lonnie Carney Sarah Jane Nelson and other residents with service details and burial sites.
Former senator Dodd traveled to West Germany for six days to study Soviet terror networks while asserting the trip aimed to assist Klein. Klein described the inquiry as a misrepresentation and said he saw a chance for Dodd to clarify Fulbright hearing distortions. Columnists Pearson and Anderson allege Dodd aided Klein and aided his German clients.
A list of parties in multiple custody petitions including Glenn Fear Tipton Wayne Hanson Gregory Hapgood Berle Berson Donald Wold Rosita Wolfe Marcella Hall Austin Hall Peters Bundro Zikuda Birnbach West Boots Mercer and others plus a 4:07 a.m. Tuesday fire at Quaker Oats Co involving a roving van and B F Transfer Lines Cedar Rapids truck and Edward M Dunham furniture damaged contained to a feeder on a corn oil expeller
A list of speeding and related traffic violations issued by the Municipal Court Police Division. Defendants include Shiron K. Rogers and many others from Cedar Rapids Marion and surrounding areas, with fines ranging from 10 to 50 dollars plus costs or bonds. Several service notices and church service details are included for various towns.
Dochterman family invites all members to a reunion Sunday from 10 am to 4 pm at Jones Park. Dr John Ritchie has relocated offices to 214 13th St SE two blocks south of Coe College. Optimists City Forester Bob Gardner to speak on parks and Dutch elm disease at Elks club Thursday noon. Josef's advertises men’s hairpieces with contact 366-4366. Linn County CAW CIO seniors pot luck Thursday noon at Ellis branch YMCA. Air conditioners priced from 149.95 at Modern Appliance Co 110 8th Ave SW. Susan Conover named to University of Denver spring dean’s list. Evans smoking cessation therapies advertised with 362-6769. Vandals shattered windows at a vacant 904 Fifteenth Ave SE home over the weekend. Wholesale Feeds Inc reports two hydraulic jacks stolen and a truck tractor windshield smashed over the weekend.
Couples answer questions on the program The Newlywed Game at 1 00 p m on Channel 9 testing how well they know each other.
James E. Coquillette was named president at a board meeting succeeding John T. Hamilton I. He has 19 years at Merchants National Bank and 21 years in banking after a 1943 Coe College graduate. S. E. Coquillette, his father, is in his 47th year with the bank and both men are former Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce leaders.
The Cedar Rapids public library hosts a second Library Night for the Wonderland summer reading program. A baseball game features the Cedar Rapids Cardinals against the Quad City Angels at 7 30 p m with free tickets for children who complete ten books.
William Ferguson assistant executive director of the national council on alcoholism will visit Cedar Rapids Wednesday to confer with local citizens committee on alcoholism officials. He is accompanied by Gordon A. Nelson Des Moines assistant director of the state commission on alcoholism. Ferguson aids local groups develop programs on alcoholism. Local officers include Rev. William B. Harnish president and Rev. Alexander George executive director.
The city council announced that Dr. M. P. Brimmer, the city meat inspector, has been retained by the state department of agriculture for similar duties. A new state inspection duplicates the city service, leading Dr. Brimmer's removal from the city payroll to avoid overlap, as urged by City Health Officer Dr. Carl D. Smith.
Harrington forty three of 308 Jac lyn drive NW was elected president of the National Association of County Engineers at the annual Regions Congress in New Orleans. He has served as county engineer since 1959 and co authored the Maintenance Guide Manual now distributed in over 3 100 counties. He has published more than 40 technical articles.
Linn county zoning commission recommended denying Arthur Pagles's request to reclassify his Mt Vernon SE property from residential A to business G. The panel also urged denial of Willman’s First addition preliminary plat near Toddville, citing spot zoning concerns. It approved Clarence Johnson’s rezoning west of Mt Vernon to G light commercial and considered two preliminary plats near Troy Mills and near Tower Trailer Terrace on highway 190.
John Stepanek of Crestwood Acres told the Linn county board that heavy dirt trucks from Gee Grading and Excavating Co. ripping along Glass road to the John F. Kennedy high school under construction will ruin the recently oiled section within a week. County Engineer to review the situation.
The Linn County Board of Supervisors referred to the county attorney Tuesday a request to compromise unpaid personal property taxes from 1961 to 1963 for Hawkeye Machinery Co. formerly of Cedar Rapids. An attorney, in a letter to the county, noted the tax dispute and proposed terms.
Linn county sheriff Walter Grant asked the county board to approve a $1,400 purchase of two boats two outboard motors and a boat trailer for use by his office. He said current equipment is inadequate for rescue and dragging operations and noted the department has only a 14 foot metal boat with two inches of freeboard when two deputies are aboard.
A jury began deliberation at 11 a.m. Tuesday in the case of Thomas E. Carney II, 18, of 1004 Regent Street NE, charged with resisting a Cedar Rapids police officer during an arrest. He faces up to one year in jail and a $500 fine. Carney was serving a six month sentence for breaking and entering and had failed to return to jail May 7, violating the release program. Jurors include Ella Douda and others from Cedar Rapids, Marion, Lisbon, with alternate Herb Flitsch. Judge David Harris presiding.
George W. Coleman, 56, of Sparta Tennessee, received a one year term at Fort Madison state penitentiary for desertion and abandonment. The sentence includes probation with a condition to support his two children after appearing before Judge B. J. Maxwell.
Cedar Rapids police investigated the theft of a police night stick and gun from special duty officer John Erceg at the Red Barn ballroom on 2500 Zika Avenue NW. The gun was later recovered by a boy not involved in the prank, but the night stick remains missing with no arrests made.
The UCS board will set the fall fund drive target at 7:30 p.m. in the Security building Reddy room, with potential to exceed 900000. New agencies and budget boosts may lift goals by over 10 percent from 817840, including Sheltered Workshop seeking 21000, Alcoholism committee applying for 12000, and a Social Work Training Center requesting 7350. A neighborhood youth corps report from Cedar Rapids, run by YMCA and YWCA, will also be reviewed.
Four Cedar Rapids teenagers and a 5 year old boy were injured in four separate accidents Monday. The girl and boy were treated at Mercy hospital. interests include charges for some drivers. The incidents occurred at First avenue and Third street E and Mt. Vernon road SE.
Young ladies met eligible bachelors on THE DATING GAME airing at 10 30 a m on weekdays on KCRG TV Channel 9. The program invites viewers to watch as couples vie for romance in a classic mid century broadcast format.
Obituaries note the deaths of Margaret E. Schmidt born February 2 1914 in Marion Indiana widow of Alfred W Schmidt long time Cedar Rapids resident and bookkeeper for Armstrongs. Mary Hepker 50 wife of Hubert Hepker Cedar Rapids resident since 1940. Bessie Chalupsky 72 native of Irving died after brief illness. Mildred S Sprague Cedar Rapids resident two years former Des Moines high school teacher. Memorial and funeral services announced with multiple survivors listed.
Mary C Sloup 81 widow of Thomas Sloup died after a long illness at 1817 Third Street SW Born in Czechoslovakia Nov 23 1884 she came to Cedar Rapids in 1902 Surviving daughters grandchildren and siblings noted Funeral services Thursday 2 pm at Janeba Kuba funeral home with burial Czech National Also Louis Sojka 77 died Monday long illness Lifelong Cedar Rapids resident born June 21 1889 Retired butcher United Packing House Workers Local No 3 CSA Prokop Velky lodge Surviving sons and many grandchildren and great grandchildren Services Thursday 2 pm Brushchapel by Jerry Dra
Ronald L. Graham 31 of Illinois pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and was sentenced to ten years in the state penitentiary at Fort Madison. He admitted breaking into the Owen Bremer farmhouse at Central City and stealing clothing a .22 rifle and other items. Sheriff Walter Grant said Graham also confessed to breaking into a Coggon root beer stand operated by R J Emerson and stealing under $15, but no charge was filed on that offense.
Hughes previews a fall continuation of the compromise settling fines against Amish fathers. The Amish elementary schools in rural areas are leased to the Oelwein community school district with certified teachers assigned. Salaries come from a $15,000 Danforth Foundation grant.
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