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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1966
Page
1
Cedar Rapids City Lines plans to end Sunday and holiday trips and all after 6:30 p.m. service except store openings as drivers threaten strike over a new contract. A mayoral advisory panel studies subsidies and possible school bus merger while council battles wage disputes, calling for frank, public discussion of transit needs and options.
Linn county faces a drastic shift in its social welfare support as the medical aid fund for 1966 is cut to 20 700 dollars with seven months remaining. Officials warn only emergency cases may be served, risking life threatening outcomes. Medicare offers limited relief while 1967 budgeting begins.
A revelation that 1,200 liquor licensees are among 5,000 stockholders in a new Iowa distillery shows why regulations must adapt. Current rules ban distillers or wholesalers from owning liquor outlets, but do not address licensees owning stock in distilleries. The piece argues for updated guidance reflecting future industry growth.
Vice president Hubert Humphrey backs Milton Shapp in Pennsylvania governor race as a strategic surge to bolster his faltering bid for party leadership. Aides fear Kennedy’s rise and see Shapp’s win as key, while old guards resist the alliance and critique the risky intervention. The clash with Casey and Clark tests Humphrey’s influence in state politics and a potential patronage prize.
Marquis Childs surveys Lady Bird Johnson as she leads a nationwide beautification push. Her highway billboard bill, rest stops, and scenic overlooks reshape landscapes while Head Start philanthropy and public appearances elevate the First Lady's role amid national politics.
A swift robber burst into a plant cashier window and demanded the welfare fund, group life and pension premiums, and the withholding taxes, instructing the teller to ignore the payroll. Police search for the armed intruder.
A readers’ forum letter condemns Towa Iowa implied consent as an invasion of rights. Judge Van Allen criticized the law and the Iowa legislature, while a second reader argues for road-building progress at a cost to the elderly. Another writer defends college students facing draft pressure and work burdens.
An elderly couple suggests a city led program to relocate aging homeowners onto a shared land tract. They propose moving houses to allow property use for duplexes for working families, funded by rent or sale, with social security tenants paying rent where possible.
A group of Cedar Rapids businessmen announced plans to establish a national bank in northeast Cedar Rapids in 1956. Incorporators include Howard Cherry Sutherland Dows Howard Hall Reginald Figge John Hamilton III and S E Coquillette all of Cedar Rapids.
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