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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1965
Page
1
The Iowa legislature shut down Friday night after a parliamentary tangle in the house. An impasse halted action on a controversial resolution because it required all unexcused members to be present, yet a motion to excuse could not be voted on.
Legislative report notes Iowa lawmakers achieved several policy goals and how state leaders assess these outcomes. Sunday Cedar Rapids Gazette coverage emphasizes reactions from key figures and the implications for governance and voters.
The Iowa Senate adjourned late, killing a proposed sales tax extension to admissions for athletic events, plays, and similar activities sponsored by religious and educational groups. The House, in process of approving a compromise, also adjourned, ending a plan expected to raise about 1.5 million annually despite hopes for property tax relief. The session ended amid a rare political impasse and widespread commentary.
Arthur A Collins, founder of Collins Radio Co. in Cedar Rapids, praised the Gemini 4 mission as an outstanding national achievement. He said his company supplied communications equipment for Gemini and earlier manned flights and is proud to participate in future space exploration efforts.
Sue Ann Downey of Ohio won Miss USA 1965 after leading over 14 semi finalists. The Columbus native, 20, earned 5000 dollars in cash and 5000 in appearance contracts and a spot in Miss Universe. Downey once dreamed of becoming a nun.
Vietnamese government forces aided by U S helicopters fought back after a string of Viet Cong ambushes. They claimed 48 guerrillas killed in one Friday action near Vinh Long with U S crews accounting for 20 of the dead. Four government soldiers and four allied advisers were wounded or killed. A separate clash northeast of Saigon left 18 government dead and 32 missing after a communist battalion attacked three hamlets.
McDivitt and Edward White wear built in alarm clocks in their helmets to avoid both sleeping at once. Ground stations worldwide can summon them by radio signal triggering the astro alarm to wake the astronauts.
Heavy rains drenched Eastern Iowa with about 3.5 inches at Keystone causing flash floods on local creeks and washing out a wooden bridge on the Keystone to Van Horne road. Rainfall varied across towns with Grinnell and Kanawha over two inches, Cedar Rapids just .05, and forecasts calling for more rain into Sunday before gradual clearing Monday.
Soviet Chief Ideologist Mihail Suslov departed Vienna on Friday as part of his Bulgaria visit, signaling a shift in regional diplomacy with Bulgaria.
Kenneth Ward 22, a Marine veteran who had just returned home May 28, died in a one car accident at the junction of highways 119 and 13 near Dorchester. His car left the road and struck a pole. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Ward of Union Prairie Township, survived by six brothers and six sisters and grandparents. Body at Bakke Hanson funeral home.
Bobby Keith Stark a 32 year old salesman from Clarion died at University Hospitals shortly after 5 am from injuries after being run over by a car on American Legion road east of Iowa City. Stark had fallen beside a parked car when struck by eastbound vehicle driven by Robert Stephen Peck 24 of Muscatine dragging the body about 24 feet. Autopsy planned. accident circumstances under investigation.
A lone gunman shot and killed three Farmers State bank employees and wounded a fourth in Battle Creek Nebraska as a manhunt spanned western Nebraska and eastern Colorado. Sheriff Floyd Stahr said every available man within 100 miles joined the pursuit amid muddy roads and rain.
A nine inch rainfall swamped central Kansas and eastern Colorado prompting highway closures on U S 30 77 and 177 and evacuations along the Walnut Medicine rivers. National guard units aided in El Dorado and Medicine Lodge while tornadoes touched down near Shamrock Texas and other spots. Severe winds caused property damage and two inch plus rains were common as waters rose in Wichita Derby and Denver.
Houston AP report details James McDivitt and Ed White aboard a space mission noting meals cost about 255 dollars each. Menu includes cereal bites toast and juice with seafood choices reflected and all foods freeze dried and reconstituted with water.
Severe thunderstorms with damaging winds hail and heavy rain swept central and eastern Kansas into Missouri. At least 11 people died in highway crashes during the storm peak as trees fell power lines broke and floods forced evacuations from low-lying areas.
Robert Smalley resigns from the Republican National Committee to join a California political public relations firm. He leaves his post as director of public relations amid a shift in staff for the party's campaign operations.
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