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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1968
Page
19
Highs Friday and overnight lows listed with rainfall totals and June normals. Also notes births, adoptions, fires, rescues, and a long slate of funeral services across Iowa towns with times and locations.
About 200 people attended the arraignment as Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was brought into the courtroom in a wheelchair. He requested a public defender and faced assault with intent to murder charges. Guards and security checkpoints guarded the 400 seat chapel as officials prepared for the day’s proceedings.
Officials quarantine the river after a fish kill from minnows to catfish. Tests on sewer trunks and river water are planned to locate toxins while authorities warn the public to avoid contact with the river and fish. City crews inspect sewer lines and patrol riverbanks as the event extends downstream to Palisades Park.
Three people died and three were injured when a car left the road on Interstate 80, crashed through a bridge railing into Indian Creek six miles west of Newton. Names were withheld pending kin notification. all victims were from out of state. Ronald Wise of Hibbing Minnesota died in a separate collision on Highway 218 near St. Ansgar. Jaymie Lea Jones, 19, of Cedar Rapids, daughter of Mr and Mrs Irwin Jones, was born May 29 1951 in Fort Myers Florida and had lived in Cedar Rapids two years. she attended Jefferson High and St Patrick's church. Funeral arrangements are pending with Turner Chapel West.
Sylvia Grishaber of 1647 Forty second Street SE has earned an Associate of Arts degree from Missouri Baptist College in Hannibal.
Bonn AP Henry Cabot Lodge warned that Robert Kennedy's assassination could chill capable young Americans from pursuing public life. The remark was made Saturday amid reactions in the wake of the tragedy.
Parents of the sixth grade class at Grant school hosted a picnic for members at Jones park Friday night. The students will enter Wilson Junior High School next September. Organizers hope the picnic becomes a school tradition.
In Saigon light fighting spread in two districts as the five week peace talks offensive pushes civilian casualties to 196 dead and 672 wounded. Ngo Cong Duc called for halting Paris negotiations if Viet Cong keeps shelling civilians. Marines reported 64 enemy killed, 15 dead in battle near Da Nang, two helicopters shot down with eight crewmen wounded. Government forces claimed 12 Viet Cong killed and 13 captured in Cholon.
A. June Franklin, state representative from Des Moines, told the 66th Iowa Association of Colored Women convention that change requires involvement beyond white officials. She urged churches to join the fight for equality in Iowa, echoing the motto Lifting as We Climb. Mamie B. Reese, national president of the National Association of Colored Women, will speak at a Saturday banquet finishing the two day event at the Roosevelt Hotel.
Cedar Rapids building department grants two foundation permits to Collins Radio Co. One covers a 75 000 cooling tower base at 855 Thirty-fifth Street NEc for the main plant air conditioning. The other, 50 000, starts a 200 by 100 foot structure at ao26 C avenue NE for telephone switching facilities and maintenance quarters servicing all Collins Radio Co. buildings in Cedar Rapids.
Want ads will seek out sellers of items you want as listed by Diai 309 1234.
Jasper Casteel of Independence Missouri says a blue and white aircraft part found in the Mississippi river bluffs near Dubuque is not from his Stinson. The Epper sons, Mr and Mrs David Epperson of Independence, have been missing since their Lamoni to Madison flight on May 26. Civil Air Patrol Col William Cass and Civil Defense Director Bill Bjorenson joined Casteel to inspect the recovered fragment Friday.
Esther Matthews a 41 year old Dallas mother of five received the first heart transplants in Parkland hospital. The donor was Bobby Blocker a 26 year old Euless used car dealer who died in a Dallas auto crash. The operation began Thursday and the heart functioned for about an hour and a half before failing for unknown reasons.
Officials reported that a measles epidemic in an Accra area village has claimed 11 young lives and prompted health warnings.
Death notice for Corry Jon McBride infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Marc McBride of 716 Ninth Street NW born June 3, 1968 in Cedar Rapids. Survived by parents a brother Craig David Lynn Partin M. Loyd McBride and Donald Ladage a great grandmother Sophie Hansel. Memorial service Monday at Turner Chapel West 10 30 a m with burial at Linwood Cemetery. Friends may call chapel until 10 a m Monday. Casket will not be opened after service.
Boston story reports neurosurgeon Dr. James Poppen stating Robert Kennedy was legally and medically dead seven hours before his heart stopped. He warned even if Kennedy lived, paralysis, loss of sight to the left, and a Parkinsons like facial disorder would have followed.
In stifling heat a mile-long line of mourners and dignitaries queued for more than 48 hours to pass Robert Kennedy’s bier inside St Patrick’s Cathedral New York. Harlem youths and suburban women alike joined 151000-plus attendees as crowds swelled from dawn Friday to early Saturday with police noting over 100 faintings and a shaded rest area set up near the cathedral.
Russell Williams, 19, of 4300 F avenue NW, held on bonds totaling $1830 on five charges. He allegedly tried to flee town in the trunk of a car driven by James J. Healey, 22, of Victor, who was released on a $500 bond. Williams faces assault and battery charges for an incident May 19 and resisted officers during arrest.
The service drew 2 100 invited with 69 senators and 40 representatives led by Humphrey. U S Ambassador Harriman, ex-Defense Secretary McNamara, Lord Harlech and astronaut John Glenn attended. Ushers included Salinger and O'Donnell while athletes Grier and Rafer Johnson helped seize the alleged assassin.
A Denver murder suspect won a trial postponement after his attorney argued jurors may be emotionally upset by the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Deputy public defender Truman Coles said jurors might be swayed by passion and hysteria rather than evidence.
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