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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1962
Page
3
The long fragment lists forecast details including partly cloudy skies with scattered thunderstorms over the state Sunday and night in the east and south. It includes church services, deaths and births notices for multiple individuals, and municipal weather readings such as barometer, humidity, and wind.
The text warns of risks from proliferating nuclear stockpiles, miscommunication and accident in modern weapons, the potential for outer space to become a battlefield, and diverting resources from schools hospitals and highways to weapons development. It contrasts U S and USSR with France growing war capabilities.
Deaths include Fred Arthur Paradies of Blairs Ferry Cedar Rapids as a church member with services planned at Immaculate Conception. Blanche E Shrope 57 Cedar Rapids resident for 55 years dies after brief illness with multiple survivors and scheduled services. Other notices mention Omer E Dill, Curt Schaefer, and Wells with burial plans and Masonic services.
A meeting to organize a collegiate summer theater in Cedar Rapids will be held in Beyer Park pavilion at 8 on Tuesday night. High school and college students or recent graduates are eligible to participate. Margaret G. Meyer will direct productions. Questions may be phoned to Aga 3365 or 344925.
Iowa state auditor Akers cites Des Moines payments to McCulloch and two former Polk County auditors for servicing county owned voting machines used in city elections. He notes lack of itemized county reporting and questions legality of outside labor and city reimbursements.
Notices list memorial services for Margaret Gerdes 72 at Lutheran church Monday at 1 30, Roland Miller 55 Sunday 2 30 at Methodist church, Mabel Singleton 5 percent services Tuesday 10 at St Marys Catholic church, plus services at Erickson's Strawberry Point Gill's Webster-Ctrs Powell's in South English and Hosary Monday 8 at Powell's.
A past years report flagged serious deficiencies in voting machine preparation and handling. The issues spanned reliability, security, and operational procedures, highlighting systemic weaknesses and the need for reform.
Toronto greeted Queen Mother Elizabeth with official ceremony and cheering crowds. A thunderous artillery salute shattered two storey windows near city hall, signaling the grand reception.
Monday council session opens with invocation by Rev Elmer C Boom at Faith Evangelical United Brethren Church. Petitions include zoning change at Jayan e Wenng roads NE and nursing home at 1425 First Ave SW. Ordinance permits a nursing home and sidewalk construction on Sauter Ave SE. Requests for a public restroom in Greene Square and pavement on Illingis St from Wisconsin St to Linwood Ave SW.
The Board of Education meeting at 346 Second Avenue SW features John States of Jefferson and David Jensen of Washington presenting a curriculum report titled Our First Year in Distributive Education. Dr. R A Zmoos will speak for the committee on exceptional children. Summer work, physics equipment purchases, and staff changes including 13 hires, 3 retirements, and 11 resignations are outlined.
Atty. Gen. Gideon Hausner described a plan to aid Adolf Eichmann's death by action via a postcard from Australia bearing stamps and a razor. Separately, in Wichita, Stanley Emerson collapsed in a hospital ER after chest pains. doctors revived him with external massage, a respirator, and chest surgery.
The ninth Earl's death triggers a vacancy in South Dorset forcing a special by election. Opposition leader says Conservative support plunged in recent by elections, while Macmillan pushes for a global disarmament pact and critiques Soviet influence. Local unrest and political tension color the national scene.
Rear Adm. Eugene McKinney, Pacific area commander of the Military Sea Transportation Service, will retire July 1 after 39 years. In Buenos Aires, a federal court of appeals upheld a ruling denying a habeas corpus petition for deposed President Pr paddiz imprisoned by the present government.
A group of seven women and a European woman were seriously wounded Saturday in two Northeast Paris shootings. Investigators report machine gun fire from passing cars carried out by European assailants.
The article notes IBM profits rising 23.2 percent to over 207 million and revenues up 189 percent to 1.494 billion as earnings justify the stock’s lofty growth expectations. It traces IBM origins from 1912 and the Watson era, detailing payroll growth and multiple stock splits.
More than six thousand are expected at a Regis high school reception for Archbishop James F. O'Byrne of Dubuque. Mayor Bob Johnson will escort him from the Town House to Regis, with parishes welcoming in order: St. Pius X and St. Joseph's Marion at 2:00, St. Matthew's and St. Wenceslaus at 2:30, Immaculate Conception and All Saints at 3:00, and St. Patrick's and St. Ludmila's at 3:30.
A 1-year-old man was arrested Saturday in a Cedar Rapids tavern and gave the police the name Charles Weston of Bessemer Alabama. Detectives identified him as James Cherry of 616 Tenth Avenue SE. Cherry admitted the alias but provided little about a series of nearby tavern break ins. He has a prior record of breaking and entering and larceny in Waterloo since 1949 and is charged now in the tavern case. Police found $70 and many cigars on him.
Two cars collided and one sideswiped a bicycle near Ontario Oregon. Three people died including Mrs Marvin Kahle of Dubuque Iowa and four others were injured in the Saturday crash.
James R. Mcintosh, 23, of B31 A avenue NE, was arrested Saturday accused of stealing $8.65 from a sleeping room at 43 McKinley Street SE. Police say he took the money Friday during laundry deliveries and he faces larceny charges.
Judy Hite, five year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Hite, rural Albany area, fell from a hay rack on the family farm Saturday afternoon. She was taken to St Luke's hospital around 4 p m and admitted for observation.
Two unions representing workers in nationalized industries in Paris decided on Saturday to hold twelve hour gas and electricity strikes next Tuesday and Wednesday.
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