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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1962
Page
2
Hong Kong faces a year end forecast of 10 000 refugees a month from Communist China adding to a swollen population. Officials warn resettlement capacity may be overwhelmed as border controls tighten and barbed wire barriers rise.
The FAA launches a quarter million dollar research program to prevent plane bombings. Focus includes seeding explosives with inert radioisotopes for detection by Geiger counters, plus X rays fluoroscopes moisture analysis and even animal scent detection. The program runs with about 125000 dollars funded for the next fiscal year and a similar amount following it to study labeled material identification in luggage and material duration.
A nine year old boy Kenneth Red Owl walked three blocks to his home after his left arm was severed when he fell beneath a moving Burlington freight train. He was reported in serious condition at a Sioux City hospital. Kenneth and his seven year old brother Terry jumped on the train and Kenneth fell on the tracks.
Two men died near North Liberty when a car driven at high speed on highways 153 and old 218 left the road and rolled into a ditch. William G. Ward, 26, of Washington Iowa, and his uncle Charles A. Schneider, 49, of Weirgen West Virginia, were thrown from the vehicle and died en route to University Hospitals Iowa City.
The White House stated Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands will meet President Kennedy Monday afternoon. The announcement notes a formal discussion between the royal guest and the U.S. leader during the visit.
The Cedar Rapids Barber Shop chorus known as Harmony Hawks presented a 500 donation to Camp Good Health. Proceeds came from the Parade of barber shop quarters on April 28. The group, active in charity and national contests, supports youth programs through singing events.
Former Navy Secretary John Connally defeats Don Yarborough for the Democratic nomination for Texas governor, according to the Texas election bureau. Robert Johnson’s unofficial count shows Connally ahead by about 26 thousand votes after 227 of 254 counties reported.
In Moscow Khrushchev announced 30 percent meat and 25 percent butter price increases to finance farm mechanization. He admitted inflation pressures and said shortages followed wage rises, while blaming capitalist nations for poverty behind wealth. He spoke to 5,000 Young Communists during a Kremlin event marking Cuban technicians’ visit.
Hubert Templeman, 16, confessed to gunning down the Hofer family of three at their Chesterfield farm. He said he waited two days with a small arsenal beside an upstairs window after Dan Hofer and his wife Lucille and daughter Cristle Sue had housed him earlier. He cited nagging by Mrs. Hofer about his work as motive.
Texas accountant Winn P. Jackson testified that Billie Sol Estes paid a yearly retainer of 6000 dollars to copy a two page balance sheet claiming Estes was worth 13.7 million. Jackson tore up the sheets and threw them away fearing bad publicity after Estes was arrested March 29, 1962.
A mother and her three young children died in a flash fire that tore through a two-family residence in Beverly Massachusetts while three people perished in another blaze in Arvin California. The Beverly fire occurred Saturday and the Arvin incident followed later the same day. Fire investigators are probing the causes of both infernos as residents reel from the losses.
Benny Goodman’s Soviet tour meets three aims by easing jazz’s taboo status, clarifying differences between pop and true jazz, and inspiring a new generation of Soviet musicians. In Sochi and Moscow stops, composers and critics discuss improvisation, influence, and the modern jazz wave while judging the band’s open air concerts and educational impact.
A playful note mocks suburban life claiming residents enjoy unalienable rights such as life and liberty with the pursuit of crabgrass. The quip nods to classic rights language in a humorous civic tone.
All Linn county state house hopefuls and Senator Martin Wiley joined in urging a yes vote on the constitutional amendment to remove Iowa's judiciary from partisan politics. Cedar Rapids candidates Ely Riley Colton Greene and Wiley backed the measure, with Wiley Ely and Riley having voted for it in 1961.
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