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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1962
Page
15
Alan Gill reviews NBC’s Noah and the Flood, praising Stravinsky as a bold visual poet and noting the New York Ballet’s performance as a highlight. The choreographic effects by Balanchine and Ter Arutunian’s camera work create dazzling, sometimes overwhelming images.
An 18 year old Lisbon youth, Bob Harmann, suffered facial cuts when the car struck a bridge platform after hitting two 10 inch holes on a county road two miles west and a half mile north of Mt. Vernon. Harmann was treated by a Mt. Vernon doctor. he rode with Neil B. Stine, 20, also of Lisbon.
East Berlin machine gunners killed one of their own during an escape attempt under the wall. Four of thirteen East Germans reached freedom through a 90 foot tunnel. West Berlin students built the tunnel from the U S sector to an East Berlin building. The tunnel leader avoided naming details and led the escape crawl. East German guards later detained four women and a child, fate of the remaining escapees unclear.
In Needles California an open desert highway crash kills two women and three children en route to New York. Katharine Kennedy 35 of Reedsea Rose Smith 50 of Upland and Kennedy’s two children aged 10 and 9 died as the camper veered then overturned and burned after the gas tank exploded. A motorist and a moving van driver witnessed the fatal slide and fire.
HOLLYWOOD AP The studio 20th Century Fox filed a breach of contract suit against Dean Martin seeking 3 339 000 for leaving the film Something's Got To Give after Monroe was fired. The suit alleges Martin quit the project harming the production and profits.
A small plane crashed into a crowd during an aerial show in Warsaw killing four people and injuring fifteen as spectators watched. The accident prompted emergency responses and investigations into the incident.
Chesley Hathcock of Yuba City California filed in U S district court for an accounting of 250 million dollars in cash and property allegedly seized by the Internal Revenue Service The suit names Treasury Secretary Dillon and other IRS officials and claims 116 million was seized from El Paso banks through Chastain and Lockhart aliases It accuses officials of impounding and seizing cash and real and personal property valued over 250 million dollars and seeks restitution and accounting
Hathcock seeks a U S district court accounting of 250 million dollars plus 6 percent interest claiming the government has seized money and property since 1957. He alleges investments abroad were taken and shipped back to the United States where the internal revenue service then took control of the funds and diamonds.
In Huntsville Alabama a solid missile fuel ignited in a Thiokol Chemical Co testing laboratory killing one worker and injuring two others. The accident occurred Monday during routine testing at the Thiokol facility.
A crane landed on the main runway of Shrewsbury air base blocking flights for almost an hour as airmen chased it. They captured the bird and sent it to a zoo.
The KCRG TV 9 broadcast examines questioning of Republicans by Democrats during the Report 1 from Congress program aired Tuesday at 9 30 PM raising questions about policy and performance.
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