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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1966
Page
9
Television Today reports ABC cancelled the Mike Nichols hour amid Stage 67 upheaval and explores Kempinski as a replacement with Alan Larkin Alan King Emmy Wiener Lee Grant and Sir John Gielgud attached. Sinatra specials loom as talks with Anheuser Busch and NBC continue.
Keokuk man Tilton Bottger received a suspended 30 day speeding sentence to allow a vacation in Europe. District Judge J R Leary ordered return by Aug 1 to serve remaining time. State Senator Messerly criticized the ruling amid a 1965 law allowing jail prisoner work releases. Bottger was cited for speeds up to 120 mph.
Iowa farmers push soybean planting to 90 percent, ahead of 82 percent five year average. Corn planting nearly finished with about 30 percent cultivated. Reports note generally good crop condition and normal stands despite localized replanting and weather impacts.
Prague reports the ruling communist party calls for wide integration of Czechoslovakia’s economy into the Soviet led system while allowing limited cooperation with the west for licenses and trade. A note mentions a wounded GI withholding key information on a local TV update.
Billy Graham reports strong attendance in the London crusade with total five night turnout at Earls Court about 92 576 and 3453 decisions for Christ. He warns against premarital intimacy and urges modesty for girls and caution for youths on media and leisure.
Two mothers and a baby were abducted from in front of a Lansing church by a gunman. The suspect fled with the victims but abandoned the car on a country road after hours of detention. An armed man seized a woman in the vehicle during the incident.
The House approved unanimously a tax break for self employed persons who set up their own retirement plans. The measure would double income tax deductions and was sent to the Senate amid administration protests. The treasury said the plan would mainly benefit high paid doctors dentists and lawyers.
Iowa City report says Paul Donald Smith of Hayward California pled innocent to robbery with aggravation and rape in Johnson County District Court. Judge Clair Hamilton set June 27 as trial date with $20,000 bond, custody maintained. Smith arrested May 27 after Swisher incident. In Webster City, 69 year old Hattie Britson died when her car was hit by an Illinois Central freight train near the depot.
Construction tradesmen in the Minneapolis St. Paul area win wage and fringe benefit increases exceeding the 3.2 percent voluntary ceiling. New contracts raise bricklayers to 1.05 per hour over three years and builders’ laborers by 80 cents, with unions arguing the guideline is unfair to labor amid limited annual work.
State Trooper Royal Gaddy spotted a suspect four miles west of Laxs during a kidnapping incident. Gaddy, lowered from a National Guard helicopter, crept up and captured him without a struggle.
Zenith introduces a 25 inch rectangular tube table model at 449.95 and a walnut vinyl cabinet version at 469.95. A prior distributor price showed the lowest Zenith 25 inch model at 525.95. Admiral also releases a 23 inch rectangular tube table model at 438.88 down from 499.95. Read Gazette classified ads daily.
James H. Aydelott longtime authority on rail transport and former vice president of the Association of American Railroads died Saturday night at his home in La Grange Illinois He was 82 years old and renowned in railroad circles for his work in transportation policy and safety.
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