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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1963
Page
8
Television Today quotes Abe Burrows offering advice on breaking into comedy and writing for TV. He stresses originality plus stealing proven bases, beating the audience to the joke, and keeping the ball unseen. He contrasts radio and TV workloads and notes TV’s reliance on next week’s ideas and universal, timeless humor.
Television station guide lists KCRG TV 9 Cedar Rapids, WMT TV 2 Cedar Rapids, KWWL TV 7 Waterloo, and KTVO 3 Ottumwa with channel numbers and affiliations.
A compact Iowa News and Weather brief lists the 9 ABC News 2 Report to Iowa with a 7 Deadline and 3 News Weather segment. It references Lloyd Bridges and Hazel in Laramie with 13 Weather News. The Wednesday Morning Movit Password appears adjacent to Ben Jerrod and cartoons.
A coalition of major religious leaders agreed with President Kennedy to form a national committee to address the civil rights crisis at all levels. J Irwin Miller of the National Council of Churches will head the panel with subcommittees to tackle job and welfare issues. The plan drew enthusiastic backing from 243 religious figures across races and faiths.
Dick Gregory, a Negro comedian, is free on a $25 000 appeal bond after a recorder's court conviction for parading without a permit. He received 180 days in jail and a $100 fine plus costs. Gregory posted bond after his Monday conviction following May 6 arrest during anti segregation drives in Birmingham where about 600 were arrested.
Ot tumwa civil service commission ruled that fireman Garvin Scots could not be forced to paint station living quarters while others had a choice in duties. The panel found discrimination since two other firefighters faced different tasks and granted Scots back pay for the six day suspension from May 14.
Albany AP reports New York education Commissioner James Allen ordered local boards to eliminate racial imbalances in public schools. Malverne on Long Island must desegregate Woodfield Road Elementary by September. Allen defines a 50 percent or more Negro enrollment as racially imbalanced. No NYC guidance given though Harlem is cited as largely Negro. Also notes bicycle registrations at police stations Tue through Sat.
Police Chief George Matias reminded bicycle owners that the deadline for purchasing 1963 licenses is July 1. Beginning that day the department will start confiscating or collecting those without the new plates.
Auto production by various manufacturers for the latest week and the 1963 totals to date, compared with a year earlier, were reported by Automotive News Monday.
Thirty Cedar Rapids and Marion high school students were chosen for the demonstration class at the Coe campus in the French Summer Institute. Dr. Herbert Wiese announced 46 teachers from 18 states are enrolled for the eight week program taught by Dr. Jay Paul Minn of Purdue University with additional faculty and evening lectures through August 2.
Aldo Moro abandoned efforts to form a center-left government as Pietro Nenni’s Socialist party walked out. The coalition of Christian Democrats Republicans and Democratic Socialists had agreed on a new regime but Nenni’s defection fractured the plan pushing Italy into a political crisis days before President Kennedy’s visit. Disputes within the Socialist party split and some factions aligned with left-wing extremists.
The text notes doubts about Italy forming a stable government by June 30 for Kennedy's two day visit. Observers say Socialists may not finalize their stance until their party congress next month, with some seeing overtures toward cooperation with communists.
The city council denied Hassen Murray’s petition to rezone 1066 Center Point Road NE to allow liquor by the drink. The plan commission had recommended denial, with the council deeming the use unsuitable for the neighborhood.
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