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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1963
Page
7
The forecast shows partly cloudy skies with scattered storms east tonight and warmer northeast and east central Thursday. Normal highs 85 to 89 and lows 60 to 68. rainfall 0.20 to 0.50 inches, mostly later in the period. Local notices list fines, sentences, births, and incidents across multiple addresses and cases.
Court records show fines for multiple defendants including H W Mantz Jr and others with $10 to $25 penalties plus costs. Separate notices list names and church services for residents in Marion Sigourney Tipton Monticello Independence Belle Plaine and Delhi, with funeral notices for Marilyn Collman and others.
A seventy year old antique organ in good condition with carving engravings is sold in the Gazette Want Ad section. Buyers and sellers meet at Classification 22B at 110 20th Ave SW with ad takers reachable via EM 2-112.
Henry V Jambor 81 formerly of Cedar Rapids died at an Independence hospital after a long illness. Born July 15 1882 in Cassava Czechoslovakia he came to the United States in 1902 and ran a Cedar Rapids shoe store. Surviving are his daughter Mrs Jarmilla Hartman son Henry V Jr five grandchildren two great grandchildren and a sister Mrs Mary Vampola. Memorial services Thursday at 2 in Kuba funeral home burial Czech National Friends may call.
Funeral services are set for Robert W. Bammert at Beatty-Bearle Funeral Home at 10 30 Thursday with Rev. William Harnish. Burial will be in Shiloh Cemetery Hiawatha. Survivors include his mother Ella Bammert of Cedar Rapids. Leah Anna Frazee will be laid to rest in Cedar Memorial chapel at 1 30 Thursday with the First Reader of the First Church of Christ Scientist officiating. Friends may visit the chapel after 10 a.m. Thursday.
Cocoa Beach Florida AP Mike Douglas a 15 year old fisherman who endured a 33 hour battle with a huge jew fish last week landed a 70 pound tarp on Tuesday from the same pier.
A 28 year old Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to 90 days in jail on three charges after an early morning chase and fight with a policeman. Raymond E. Padfield, of 1011 Tenth Street SW, received 30 days for reckless driving turning off lights to avoid arrest and indecent exposure.
Ward, acquitted on charges of living on immoral earnings and attempting to procure a girl under 21, was hospitalized after a medical bulletin reported a serious condition but signs of improvement. Jones, an advertising executive, said Ward slept on his sofa since July 2 and was found unresponsive after a ringing phone. Hospital authorities indicated possible recovery.
In New York two aging royals were fined $100 each for public smoking. Judge Herman Weinkranz said fines must be equal, noting this was the fourth offense. An attorney blamed their age and smoky condition, while the liners Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary docked in port last month.
The United Federation of Postal Clerks will file in federal court to compel the Post Office Department to follow its merit promotion plan instead of Kennedy’s equal opportunity order. Dallas officials say 53 white employees were bypassed to promote three Black supervisors, prompting union action.
Sen Barry Goldwater challenged the administrations claim of swift Senate ratification, saying public opinion will shape but not guarantee approval. He noted 60 40 opposition in his home state Phoenix and said joint chiefs opinions may influence decisions, while Humphrey urged listening to the people before voting.
The United Nations Economic and Social Council suspended South Africa from the UNECA, a subsidiary agency, due to its apartheid segregation policies. The move marks a formal disciplinary action within the U.N. system aimed at pressuring Pretoria to end discriminatory racial policies.
President Kennedy’s news conference Thursday will be carried on KCRG radio at 2 p.m. and on KCRG television at 3 30 p.m.
Ex convict Gail Burkett said his driver license was forged in the state penitentiary print shop by inmate Gail Burkett paid $20 to make the license. The forged card dated expiration 1962 instead of 1963 and Burkett was charged with driving the wrong way on a one way street and reckless driving. The state criminal investigation and board of control opened an inquiry. Burkett was released May 13, 1962 after a 10 year robbery sentence in Washington county begun August 14, 1957.
Bethlehem Steel appoints Stewart Cort to the presidency aged 52 succeeding Edmund Martin who becomes vice chairman under Arthur Homer the chairman and chief executive officer.
The article recalls Hurley’s contested 1952 senate race with incumbent Chavez, whom the Senate refused to unseat in 1954 by a 53-36 vote. It outlines Hurley’s wartime service, high-level government roles, decorations, and postwar career, noting survivors including his wife, a son, and three daughters.
New Delhi police report shows 15,938 breaches of Indian prohibition laws were registered in the last fiscal year. The national excise department released the figures on Wednesday.
William T. Bradley, 45, perched on a 140 foot water tower inside the state penitentiary in Fort Madison for a fourth day amid light rain. Warden John Bennett said officials will wait him out as Bradley uses water from the tank and reportedly carries a blanket a razor and a food bucket. Bradley from Sioux City Illinois began his ascent at 7 20 a m Sunday and is serving 25 years for assault with intent to commit bodily injury and habitual crime.
In a candid interview Governor Hughes says he has reservations about running again at 41 and will decide next year. He notes liquor laws' impact on his fate and doubts time for major executive branch reorganization though experts deem it needed for stronger authority.
Loyal Robinson aged 34 of 1445 Richmond Road NE suffered injuries after the milk truck he drove lost control and tipped over on Memorial Drive SE. He was taken to Mercy hospital for elbow arm and hand laceration surgery. he works for Bindler's Dairy.
In Saigon the South Vietnamese government fights a moral campaign banning dancing and many songs while street prostitution and bar girl activity thrive. Officials blame American presence for loosened morals, as opium remains easy to obtain and Vietnamese women learn English and money.
The United Nations Security Council voted 8 to 0 with the United States Britain and France abstaining to urge Portugal to end repression in its African territories and move toward independence. The resolution, while watered down, urges measures to prevent military aid used to suppress, deplores Portugal's refusal to obey UN self determination calls, and flags a seriously disturbing peace situation.
Oscar Gustafson 51 operator of the Cave tavern in Waterloo demanded a preliminary hearing after arraignment in Cedar Rapids municipal court on a charge of attempting to produce an abortion. He and Dr. Harold A. Lockhart 58 Cedar Rapids physician are charged over a June 20 abortion in Cedar Rapids involving a 22 year old Minneapolis woman. Gustafson's hearing is set for Aug 19 at 1 30 p.m. He was released on a $5000 bond. Dr. Lockhart waived to the grand jury after arraignment July 19.
Bangkok AP reports a Thai border policeman was killed a patrolman wounded and a Malayan frontier patrolman seriously injured this week in a clash with a Chinese Communist band along the Thai Malayan border, per the Bangkok Post.
Report describes a skirmish on a machine gun range where Corporal George Larson of Davison Michigan died. Sergeant Abraham Mc Manus from Hamlet North Carolina and Private First Class Robert Eldridge of St Louis credited with killing two North Koreans. Cooper leads an improvised line as soldiers face a sudden fire.
Thirteen people died and 30 were injured when a bus lost control on a hill and crashed into a mountainside in Cebu province, Manila reports.
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