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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1968
Page
3
Daily Record weather summary shows high 81 and low 68 with noon temps around 70 to 76 on Tuesday. Regional readings include LaCrosse 8.1 fall 0.6, Dam No. 9 18.9, Dubuque 12.2, Davenport 8.8, Keokuk 7.2 with small changes, and SE wind at 17 mph. Sun times and barometer noted.
The notice lists several births in Iowa: Kenneth J. Martin Marion a daughter Daniel L. Flanagan Anamosa a daughter John D. Pudil a son Michael R. Waterhouse Anamosa a son Bruce E. Phillips Eighth street SE a daughter Walter Brauer Brentwood drive NE a daughter Roger Potts Marion a son Frederick Verhulst Lost Valley road SE a daughter Donald Stansbery Crest ridge avenue SW a son. Also birthing mentions at Iowa City Cedar Falls and names of families. Police summaries include malfunction sprinkler head 4700 J street SW and 716 Fifth avenue SE assist, plus multiple traffic fines for speeding disobeying signals and other violations with names and locations.
A compilation of obituaries from various Iowa towns lists the deceased with ages and funeral details. Entries include Vinton Fry and Holland Sigourney Reynolds followed by dates and times for services and burial locations. Names span Ostrander Bodholdt Lindsey Con ley Ostwinkle Orr Carpenter Leonard Hartwig Mid dendorf Franzen Cole Flaherty Ver Straeten Vorbrich and others with church callings and rosaries noted.
The hijacking of an El Al Boeing 707 to Algiers involved eight Israelis aboard among passengers including seven Italian priests. Algeria and Israel remain at war, with Algeria denying advance knowledge of the hijack. El Al operates multiple jets and charter planes. a Swiss charter replaced the hijacked aircraft.
Belle Plaine authorities seek a man who took a used portable TV from S and W Home and Auto Supply around 11 am. He paid $30 down, claimed a break fast, returned to pay the balance, then said he paid in full and drove away with Alabama plates, flashing a large roll of bills.
Freddie and The New Generation with New Christy Minstrels airs in color on KCRG TV Channel 9 at 9 PM Tuesday. The program highlights classic folk acts and a contemporary lineup in a television special.
State Sen. Tom Riley charged that 40 Coe Upward Bound students flew to Minneapolis for a 35 minute Aretha Franklin concert at a cost of about $2,000 in federal funds. Upward Bound officials defended the trip as part of a six week study with 50 students attending a three hour city program and cultural activities.
Lim county supervisors approved final plans and specifications for the Edgewood road bridge from Cedar Rapids to Blairs Ferry road. Dudley Henderson opposed spending from the rural tax levy and abstained on the claim. bids set for Aug. 14 and the council will act next day. Hullinger’s claim totaled 975 dollars. Naughton signed. Allnutt accused of striking a police detective with a crowbar during tavern break in.
A Linn county condemnation jury awarded five residential properties for the Civic Center urban renewal project. The titleholders and awards include the O'Brien property at 835 Second Street NW for 7500 dollars, Sykora at 814 Vernal Street NW for 15000, Alvin Brown at 823 Third Street NW for 8500, Riley as administrator with Ward and Lathim at 723 Third Street NW for 8000, and Shoudy at 109 G Avenue NW for 4500. Cedar Rapids jurors named were Burton R. Galaway Barbara Brousard W. E. Jackson Sam Orebaugh and Sandra Buse, plus R. B. Wolfe of Mt. Pleasant.
L. M. Hullinger is authorized to receive $975 for his unsuccessful appeal on behalf of Charles E. Allnutt of Marion from a 1965 conviction for assault with intent to inflict great bodily injury. The Linn county board of supervisors acted on the matter.
Michael L. Chismore, 20, of 880 Eleventh Street NE, was given two concurrent 30 day sentences in Linn County Jail on charges of making a false report and striking an unattended vehicle. Judge Loren Hullinger imposed the sentences. He had falsely reported his car stolen at 3 30 a m July 19, but it had been in an accident while he was driving. He left the scene without identifying himself and the other charge arose from hitting an unattended vehicle.
Larry L. Cobb of 1402 First Avenue NW was charged Monday with failure to have his vehicle under control and no Iowa driver’s license after rear ending a car driven by Ronald W. Farr of 4920 Gordon Avenue NW. Farr, who was stopped for a red light at First Avenue and Sixth Street West, was treated at Mercy Hospital for a back injury and released.
An Iowa grass roots workshop for Sen. Eugene McCarthy will take place Saturday from 9 30 a m to 4 p m at the Savery hotel in Des Moines. Linn county group led by Kenneth Jans Cedar Rapids will attend to mobilize support for McCarthy’s presidential bid. Interested residents may call 366 2079 to attend.
Cincinnati police arrested Thomas Edward McKeown twenty in the Sheraton-Gibson lobby after security director Capt. Ben Dixon received an aide tip linked to Gov. Lester Maddox. McKeown, of Cincinnati, had a .22 pistol handcuffs and a false badge, with WLW staffer Jane Juracek noting a press conference sit-in.
Combat reports describe light casualties and minimal damage from U S and South Vietnamese forces as Viet Cong mortars and 100 pound rockets struck Da Nang Hue and Quang Ngai. In Quang Ngai city hall and militia stations were attacked. civilian deaths and soldier injuries occurred. Allied intelligence forecasts a renewed August offensive aiming at Saigon Da Nang and surrounding provinces.
Jefferson Seminary founded in 1798 in Louisville Kentucky laid the groundwork for the University of Louisville. UL stands as the oldest municipal university in the United States today.
Edward G. Kruger 76 of 1515 Sixteenth avenue SE died after a long illness. Born in Waukon on September 17, 1891 he married Mary Kugel in 1913. He lived in Cedar Rapids since 1966 leaving a wife, daughter Mrs. John Fields Cedar Rapids two sons Vernon Cedar Rapids and Leo Iowa City six grandchildren three great grandchildren two sisters and three brothers. Memorial services at Kuba funeral home east at 1:30 Wednesday and 2 Thursday in Waukon with burial in Oakland cemetery. Friends may call Kuba funeral home.
Vernon E. Dudley 58 of 508 Fifth avenue SE died after a short illness. Born May 27 1910 near Coggin He married Esther Ankeny. He worked for Quaker Oats Co. Surviving are his wife three brothers Arthur Dudley Cedar Rapids LeRoy Dudley Walker Harold Dudley Des Moines two sisters Marie Annis Independence and Darlene Spore Fairfax Services at Turner chapel east 10:30 Thursday by Rev Allen Van Cleve Burial Spring Grove cemetery east of Troy Mills Friends may call at the chapel.
C. J. Larson, 78, longtime Cedar Rapids resident, died Sunday in Tucson Arizona. A former general agent for Pacific Mutual Life Insurance, he opened a shoe store in Independence in 1946 and lived in Oelwein and Waterloo before moving to Tucson in 1965. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at the Lutheran church in LeRoy Minnesota.
Memorial services set for Petrus Frank P Janeba at Kuba funeral home west at 9 15 Wednesday followed by a Requiem Mass at 9 30 at St Ludmila s church officiated by Rev A L Zachar Burial will be at St John s Church processed by local clergy and family members.
About 1,000 troops will be kept in Chicago armories each night during the Democratic national convention. A total of 5,500 members of the 33rd infantry brigade will rotate duty from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. each night of the convention starting Aug. 26. Brig. Gen. Harold Patton said troops will stay in armories unless needed on the streets, noting no special threat of trouble beyond newspaper reports.
The Cedar River at Charles City is 2.7 feet and the Cedar at Waterloo 7.07 feet, both below flood stage. Turkey River near Garber at 7 feet remains below its 17 foot flood stage with minor rises expected in 12 hours. Wapsipinicon at Independence and DeWitt crest projections hover near flood thresholds with 11.5 feet and 9.9 feet respectively. Tuesday rainfall totals include Charles City 2.50 inches Osage 2.10 Fayette 0.12 Elkader 0.52 Lansing 0.64 inches as the Weather Bureau warns of continued thunderstorms and warm nights.
Cedar Rapids City Council discussed raising sewer rental rates from 50 to 70 percent of the minimum water bill to reduce sewer bond taxes. City Treasurer William R. Heins showed a chart claiming higher sewer revenues would offset tax levy cuts, potentially lowering overall bills from 63.70 to 59.84 for a 500 dollar property tax. The council directed Heins to work with Finance Commissioner Stewart Shank on a detailed chart while tabling a proposed general water rate increase. The water department’s long term expansion and operation costs require rates, with the plan marking the first rise in ten years.
A Vinton woman died and her sister was injured in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of highways 220 and 140 in Amana around noon Tuesday. Rebecca R. Cashman, 67, of St. Luke's Cedar Rapids, the car driver, was killed? injured per report while the truck driver Wilfred E. Smithson, 30, of Bellevue, was uninjured. The other sister passenger’s name was not released.
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