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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1963
Page
2
Weather shows high 81 to 96 with partial cloudiness through Sunday and mild next week. Daily town readings include many cities with temperatures and humidity noted. a list of local incidents, legal notices, and service announcements follow including marriages, funerals, and fire-related reports.
The council cautions that fallout radiation risks are long term and largely low but that carbon 14 from last year’s tests will raise natural levels and may double genetic hazards. Estimated annual leukemia and bone cancer deaths from fallout remain far below natural radiation deaths, while genetic risk could rise over decades. The council includes welfare, labor, commerce, agriculture, defense secretaries and the AEC chairman.
City court records show multiple defendants cited for traffic offenses with fines of ten to fifteen dollars plus costs. Names include Merlin Herberger and Rosemary Lafferty among others, with offenses such as speeding failing to yield and disobeying traffic signals.
The FCC loosened the all channel television set rule to exempt sets made on or before April 30, 1966, for shipment to educational institutions. Schools can buy sets receiving channels 2 through 13 with standard equipment at anticipated bargain rates. Previously, sets made after April 30, 1964 for interstate shipment had to receive all channels.
TV 9 reports late Saturday night weather and sports updates as KCRG-TV 9 presents NEWS FINAL at 10 o clock with summaries of regional events and conditions.
Newark AP Anthony Tony Pro Provenzano, on trial for extortion, was unanimously re elected president of New Jersey Teamsters Joint Council 73. The 46 year old local leader faced opposition led by Milton Liss who sought to block the vote until August. Provenzano received a voice vote with no opposition and vowed four more years, noting his four year terms end in May. He earns 6000 annually as council president plus 12000 as an international vice president and 19500 as Local 560 president. Prosecutors allege he extorted 17100 from Dorn Transportation Inc as FBI probes link to a Local 560 death.
Linn county officials have appealed to the Iowa Supreme Court after a district court jury awarded $6,200 in a land condemnation case for a 5.36 acre parcel needed for a farm to market road south of Center Point. The owners Carl Newland and others sought $13,000, with prior awards totaling $2,450. trial denial followed.
An experiment in an honor system began at Idlewild airport customs for foreign visitors and returning U.S. citizens. Passengers filled a simple identification form and declared purchases orally. If successful, the system will expand to all U.S. aerial gateways.
Police report a Cedar Rapids resident Edward P. Brown aged 41 suffered a dislocated right hip when his car left Highway 218 and overturned in a ditch several hundred feet south of Highway 30. He was admitted in good condition to Mercy hospital. Charges are pending.
Industrialist Donald Comer died at 85 in Birmingham after helping build Avondale Mills into a leading textile firm. Comer led the company during its ascent as a national industry power and reshaped the local employment landscape.
Gerald Lee Chapel, 39, of 2228 Bowling Street SW, held on $1000 bond after entering his former employer’s office and stealing $5 from the cash register before leaving. Cedar Rapids police arrested him about an hour later after he admitted drinking a few beers. He faces larceny from a building in the daytime and was arraigned before Judge William Eads, given until Friday to plead.
William Devere Achey Jr age 18 of 1203 Center Point Road NE was ordered to plead by Tuesday to a larceny charge filed Friday after arraignment before Judge William Eads. He allegedly took Helen Bracha’s suitcase from a parked car and admitted stealing a boy statue from Mrs. Hugh Snyder’s yard. Achey posted $1000 bond.
Montezuma resident Larry R. Bryant 20 forfeited $55 in municipal court for failing to appear on a reckless driving charge. He was accused of speeding at 55 mph on the wrong side of the center lane on First Avenue West near Second Street early Saturday. Robert Brooks 31 of Shellsburg was fined $25 after pleading guilty to assault and battery before Judge Howard McLaughlin. A Cedar Rapids youth, 16, filed the complaint alleging Brooks punched him in the left eye.
Friday night activity at Sixteenth Avenue and D Street SW centers on a divorce action. Alice V. Schorg sues Robert E. Schorg seeking separate maintenance in a family court filing.
Ann P. Kirchner and James J. Kirchner receive annulment of marriage. Helen Korsmo and Ronald Korsmo also granted annulment of marriage.
Judge William Eads denies the divorce petition in Beverly J. Randall versus Ronald L. Randall after a trial. The case ends with no dissolution of the marriage and the parties remain married.
In Tokyo, Amer ican Stanvac and British Shell reached a framework to nationalize refining and marketing in Indonesia within 15 years while allowing Caltex to continue current crude production and export for 20 years. They will share profits with Indonesia at 60 percent to 40 percent. The deal follows protracted talks in Tokyo chaired by Indonesian officials and witnessed by Lt. Gov. Wilson Wyatt.
The Food and Drug Administration will mail warnings to about 242 600 practicing physicians. Commissioner George Larrick said the agency will issue statements on important drug developments including adverse reactions and warnings, and will consider reports of adverse reactions from physicians.
Independence Missouri AP Harry Truman praises Goldwater for saying the nation needs another Truman as president. Goldwater spoke in Tucson favoring a forthright policy and comparing the Kennedy era unfavorably. Truman says he won t judge former presidents until a decade or more after death.
Richard A. Gorton son of Mr and Mrs Lester Gorton of 1123 Ninth Street NW earned a $1000 scholarship to pursue a doctorate in school administration at Stanford University. He and his family will relocate to Palo Alto California where he will join a Bay Area public school administrative staff.
Leo J. Smith 34 years a salesman for Newton Manufacturing dies Friday after a sudden illness. Survived by wife Frances married June 2 1927 in Waterloo, three sons Donald Lee Eugene of Cedar Rapids, two daughters Joyce and Mrs James Whitney, seven grandchildren, three sisters, three brothers. Services Monday 9:30 at St Jude’s, burial Mt Calvary. Friends may call after 2 p.m. Sunday Teahen chapel with Legion of Mary Rosary at 3:30 and Daughters of Isabella at 7:30.
Fred Prout 96 a Cedar Rapids resident 61 years died in Chicago after a brief illness. Born June 15 1867 in New York he ran a Cedar Rapids grocery and later a family furniture business. Survived by son John A Prout three daughters 11 grandchildren and 24 great grandchildren. Services Tuesday 9 at St. Pius Church burial Mt Calvary. Rosary Monday at Monahan Stewart funeral home at 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. by Knights of Columbus.
Cedar Rapids widow Drusilla Johnson died Saturday after a long illness. Born April 15 1906 she leaves brother Charles Burdick Cedar Rapids a daughter Mrs Marvin Beck Tampa Florida and four grandchildren. Services 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Turner chapel conducted by Rev D A Loferski of St Johns Episcopal Burial Palo Friends may call at the chapel.
Roger C. Arnold, 26, formerly of Cedar Rapids, was electrocuted Friday in Ft. Smith Ark where he has lived two months. He worked as an electrical engineer for Smith Construction Co. Survived by wife, parents, two sisters and two brothers. Wife from Mt. Pleasant. Body to be shipped to Mt. Pleasant Sunday.
Funeral home services set for Johnston Bessie Lee Johnston at 10 a.m. Monday conducted by Rev. Warren Felter at Shaul Cemetery burial. Friends may call at Turner chapel until 9 p.m. Saturday.
Gary Buck 18 of Cedar Rapids remains in critical condition at University Hospitals after an early Friday accident in Iowa City that also killed a Marion youth. Glenn Faulkner 29 of Tampa Florida is in fair condition with a leg fracture.
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Canadian freighter Howard L Shaw has remained marooned in the Calumet river near Continental Grain Co elevator for 40 days. Dispute among Upper Lakes Shipping SIU and CMU nations led to a boycott and court orders, keeping crew of 27 aboard, earning pay but idle as government actions attempt a resolution.
Agnes Loufek aged 82 sister of John Cerveny of Cedar Rapids died Friday in Davenport. Also notes hospital admission for Venita Rimrodt and A3/c Hugh G. Rick on two week leave from Chanute. Bowling at Jubilee Lanes and C.R. Bowl advertisement.
Leo Marron, 49, of 500 Fifth Avenue SE, reported being assaulted by an unknown man early Saturday. He was taken to a local Iowa City hospital where authorities say his condition is not serious.
A brief bowling item notes three games for one dollar tonight at Magnificent Tropic Lanes. The short notice card emphasizes affordable recreation and local venue details.
Officials at Van Buskirk Inc on Sixth Street Road SW report two chain saws valued at 375 dollars were stolen in the past weeks. The loss is being investigated by company security.
A Sunday bowling offer lists four games for one dollar from 9 a.m. to midnight at Magnificent Tropic Lanes. Local bowlers can enjoy extended hours and a discount rate during the event.
Graduate Donald Jennings, son of Mr and Mrs George Jennings of 622 Nineteenth Avenue SW, was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree from Los Angeles City College this week.
The Westgate California Corp will shut its tuna canning plant and lay off 800 workers starting Tuesday. Exec VP Milton Fillius cites declining sales and a botulism scare linked to a San Francisco plant as part of the problem. Olive and salad dressing packing will continue.
Barry and Mureen Slater in Wigan discover their wedding bed vanished after being placed outside by the groom's parents for pickup. An old bathtub was also left for disposal. Workers took the bed but left the bath, finding the bed already burned when they reached the depot.
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