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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1962
Page
3
A midweek forecast details fair to partly cloudy conditions across regions with cool nights and warmer days later, plus five day outlooks noting near normal temperatures and scattered rain chances. June rainfall totals and city weather figures are listed alongside daily reports and local notices.
The 15th conference of chief administrators of West European and New York airports opened Tuesday in Lisbon.
Perfall cited Col Clyde Russell commander of the Seventh’s 1260 man group returning from a South America inspection tour but he refused to disclose operation details or locations. Specialists from multiple Latin American nations have trained under U S Army leaders in Panama.
The Laotian administration pledges a Vienna inspired settlement with a plan to withdraw all foreign forces. Assistant Secretary Harriman says the U S military advisory group will leave Laos as North Vietnamese troops exit. Khrushchev backs a coalition government to curb Red Chinese expansion.
Indianapolis based Pitman-Moore Co expedited an air shipment of gamma globulin to the hospital ship Hope off South America to manage a hepatitis epidemic. The move underscores biomedical efforts during a maritime health crisis reported by UPI.
Police report a break in at the 420 club on Fifth Street SE discovered shortly before 6 a.m. Cash totaling 470.50 was taken from a rear bar drawer, along with two wrist watches and a wedding ring set valued at 195. The entry was made by prying a rear window board cover.
Wheeler described a social March 18 meeting at Estes home in Pecos Texas with Cain present. He cited Estes discussing alleged chattel mortgages on fictitious fertilizer tanks and a Swiss loan claim later denied. The hearings into Estes tangled dealings continue with potential grand jury bias under review.
The grand jury seeks to determine Estes’s ties to Agriculture Department Official Henry Marshall, who was investigating Estes’s cotton allotment operations when he was found shot to death on June 3, 1961. Cofer notes the writ questions whether Estes is under murder suspicion and if the state can compel testimony.
Billie Sol Estes appeared for about 45 minutes Wednesday morning before a Franklin County grand jury investigating the death of Henry Marshall. Testimony was not released to the press. Attorney General Will Wilson would not say if Estes invoked the Fifth Amendment, noting the testimony concerns evidence development and not alleging Estes as a suspect. Estes entered with lawyer John Cofer and Ranger Capt. Clint Peoples after Cofer filed for a writ of habeas corpus to block his testimony.
The council meets at city hall to review bills and payrolls with final readings of the carval fee ordinance. It includes granting Tow permission to build pavement and sidewalk in Tow's First addition and protest over a sewer project on Wilson avenue SW by Mefordon. A petition seeks sidewalk waivers for M and R industrial addition and permission to construct walks and sewers. A loading zone is planned in front of 622 Third street SE.
Edward Gilbert, industrialist and head of the E. L. Bruce Co., flew to Rio de Janeiro Tuesday night after admitting an unauthorized withdrawal of nearly 2 million dollars from his company. The firm said it sought him since Tuesday afternoon. Bruce stock trading was suspended on the NYSE and OTC markets.
Everett Knowles, 12, was released 21 days after his right arm was rejoined following a freight train severing. Doctors plan periodic exams before a fourth operation to reconnect nerves for sensation, with May 23 the accident date and initial surgeries restoring circulation, aligning bones, and grafting skin.
Budgets totaling 101 541 were tentatively approved on Tuesday night at the first United Good Neighbors campaign budget conference. Increases include 7 239 over last year for three agencies including the Association for Retarded Children Visiting Nurses Assn and Ellis YMCA. The Visiting Nurses budget expands for a new nurse and seeks larger city county support amid legal questions.
Three Eastern Iowa men were reported home on leave Wednesday from the armed forces. Fireman Thomas W. Petersen, of 1330 Twenty first avenue SW, returns for 30 days from the aircraft carrier Princeton at Long Beach California. Seaman Apprentice William F. Panos, 2393 Thompson street SE, visits for 14 days from Navy Electrician School at Great Lakes Illinois. Seaman Apprentice LeRoy T. Kaufman, Walker, for 14 days from the refrigerator supply ship Graffios based at Sasebo Japan.
Fred Peters aged 14 from 3233 Scutter Avenue SE suffered a fracture of the right wrist in a swimming accident at Bever Park Pool. A unidentified swimmer jumped into the pool and landed on Peters briefly before 7 p.m. He was treated at St Luke's Hospital and released.
W R Clippinger longtime rural carrier for Mechanicsville died suddenly Tuesday at his Cedar Rapids home after retiring three years ago. Born December 29 1891 in Pennsylvania, he married Wretha Ambdenstock in Cedar Rapids in 1947. He leaves wife daughter Helen a stepdaughter and three stepsons. Services Friday 1 30pm at Ellis Park Church of God with burial at Rose Hill Mechanicsville.
Frederick Etten aged 66 of Monticello died Tuesday after a sudden illness. Born June 26 1899 near Monticello he married Clara Schultz in 1952 at Cedar Rapids and worked 11 years for Wilson and Co after farming near Monticello. Survived by wife two daughters five sons three sisters and four brothers services at Brush Chapel Friday at 10 with burial in Oakwood Monticello. Friends may call after 9 a.m. Thursday at the chapel.
Services were held Thursday in Lacomia Minnesota for John E. Fick formerly of 266 Johnson Avenue NW.
Mrs Fred Turner’s funeral is at 10 30 a m Thursday in Turner chapel conducted by Dr Francis Pritchard with burial at Oak Hill cemetery the casket not to be opened. Earl Delbert Turner funeral is at 3 p m Thursday in Turner chapel led by Rev Lewis A Miller with burial at Cedar Memorial cemetery.
A union leader alleges entertainers have no voice in branch management and receive poorly enforced contracts. He cites abuses including imposition of unlawful house rules, nonpayment of welfare funds, and shared dressing rooms. Charges were filed in Florida and California as detectives pursue breaking and entering cases.
House Republicans accused the Kennedy administration of blackmail to secure an eight billion dollar increase in the national debt limit. They alleged defense contracts pressured Republicans, including Michigan, New York and Wisconsin members, to back a full eight billion rise rather than six. Representatives Byrnes and Ford cited calls to Chrysler and warned of contract losses if the higher ceiling passed.
Farm editor of The Gazette will speak at noon Thursday at the Roosevelt hotel. The notice also lists other brief community items and local business ads from The Gazette, plus a note on upcoming Kiwanis and breakfast club meetings.
Harold Loomis, 26, pending charges for forging payroll checks, admitted to burglaries at Willman Construction Co in Hiawatha and Ogden and Adams Lumber Co in Cedar Rapids last July. Detectives linked a crowbar found at the lumber yard to the Willman break-in as Loomis confessed. He was arrested in California and returned to Cedar Rapids.
Mayor Bob Johnson announced a flag design contest with four Cedar Rapids high school reps chosen by their art departments. Jefferson's Fred Basker Washington's Doug Warring ton Regis's Jean Kon zen and St. Patrick's Stephen Hogan will submit designs reflecting history and future. The flag will be cloth reproduced and unveiled to the public. A city song contest was also announced with judges Mrs. Stewart Shank Robert Caldwell and Frank Nye.
President Kennedy will deliver a Fourth of July address at Independence Hall Philadelphia the White House announced. He will speak at the final session of the national governors conference.
A small bomb exploded early Wednesday near a crowded branch of the National Institute for Workers' Pensions in Madrid. The bomber was killed in the blast.
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