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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1968
Page
7
Highs near 90 Friday with a mild overnight drop, no rainfall. June totals show 2.10 inches, normal 5.28, year to date 11.94. Fort Leonard Wood and Aurora births noted, plus numerous funeral notices across Oelwein Koszta Keota and surrounding towns with multiple service times.
A Duquesne University law student testified before a House subcommittee that Humble Oil paid him not to play the company’s “heads and tails” game after he correctly identified winners by shining light through a card. He said the odds were 1 in 2,789, and that officials settled with him to keep quiet.
President Johnson adds three members to the violence causes and prevention commission. The new appointees are Ernest William McFarland 73 Phoenix chief judge of the Arizona supreme court and former senate majority leader Leon Jaworski senior partner of a Houston law firm and friend of the President and Dr W Walter Menninger of the Menninger clinic Topeka Kansas.
Arnold E. Hakanson, 40, of 359 Fifteenth Avenue SW, was held in the city jail on drunk driving and leaving the scene charges after colliding with Lumir A. Horak, 1038 Mt. Vernon Road SE, at Sixteenth Avenue and Second Street SW Friday evening. He was observed fleeing the scene and stopped nearby by officers.
Larry J. Shubert 22 of 2916 Johnson avenue NW and Donna L. Simon 20 of 1049 Fifth avenue SE were free Saturday on bonds of 30 for beer law violations. They were arrested Friday night at Russo's 912 First avenue NW. Shubert charged with making beer available to a minor and Miss Simon charged with consuming beer as a minor.
Free daily delivery service advertised by Hladky's Grocery and Market at 1600 4th Ave SE. St Luke's patients Mrs Lillian Foster and Mrs Walter Wittmer listed with addresses. Ronald Korsmo held on assault charges after incident with Vera Wiedemeier. Rex Rector named to dean's list at North Dakota State University Fargo. Sertoma sponsors freedom week.
Remi Brooke daughter of the first Black senator since Reconstruction married Donald R. Hasler son of a white machinist. The Roman Catholic ceremony was at Sen Edward W Brooke's summer home in Martha's Vineyard. The couple planned a honeymoon at Niagara Falls New York aboard a private jet offered by attorney F Lee Bailey with pilot.
Los Angeles recorded the year’s first smog alert as temperatures reached 88 degrees and ozone in the west San Gabriel Valley hit .50 parts per million. The measure indicates pollution levels in the air.
Sen Strom Thurmond of South Carolina announced at a news conference that Nixon has the 22 SC Republican delegates on the first ballot at the national convention. He said Nixon offers the best path to end domestic unrest and costly foreign policy, praising Nixon’s leadership and urging a Nixon endorsement by delegates.
In San Francisco hippies welcomed summer with a spontaneous Haight-Ashbury parade that halted traffic for a day of solstice happenings. Impromptu rock and theater performances erupted in Golden Gate Park and around Haight Street as police scattered unsanctioned gatherings. The Gorilla Band led a mass eastward procession attracting about a thousand celebrants before the crowd dispersed peacefully.
The Defense Department reports Marine Pfc. Michael G. Rindone son of Mr and Mrs Peter P Rindone of Council Bluffs has died of wounds suffered in combat in Vietnam.
Death notice for Jack S. Wright infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Wright of 11317 Third Street NW Cedar Rapids. Survived by parents two brothers Eddie R. and Ronald E. and sister Paula B. all of Cedar Rapids. grandparents Robert Thomas Diamond Missouri Ray Johnson Disney Oklahoma and Jack S. Wright Wichita Kansas. great grandparents Mrs. Jess Matteer Picher Oklahoma and Mrs. Beatrice Thomas Joplin Missouri. Services are pending at Turner chapel east.
Gertrude B. Rimmer 81 of 1005 Seventh Street SE Cedar Rapids died Saturday after a brief illness. Born October 1 1886 near Maquoketa she was a Unity center member. Survived by two sons Leonard and LeRoy Rimmer both of 1006 Seventh Street SE two grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Memorial services 1:30 p.m. Monday at Turner chapel east conducted by Mabel Swanson. Burial Hickory Grove cemetery near Onslow. Friends may call at the chapel.
Memorial services for Edward F Bernstorf will be held at the Chapel of Memories at 2 p.m. Monday with the Rev. E Ko berg officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Memorial. Friends may call at the Rohn funeral home until 10 a.m. Monday and then at the chapel.
The IAM 1 million members demand an average 25 cent an hour pay raise in talks with major aerospace firms for about 250 000 workers. IAM president Paul Siemiller says settlements in auto can and aluminum push aiming to avoid a strike this year. Contracts with IAM and UAW expire this summer and fall.
The piece details Viet Cong and North Vietnamese pushes around Saigon amid peace talks in Paris. U S forces report saturation B 52 bombing near Saigon and strikes on suspected staging areas while shells damage a British ship. North Vietnamese deaths are tallied near Mu Gia Pass.
After an 18 month wait LBJ delays signing the tax increase. The Senate approved 64 to 16 and the measure is expected to raise $15.6 billion. Taxpayers face higher withholdings starting 15 days after payroll changes. The 1968 surcharge acts at 7.5 percent for the year due to retroactive timing.
Salt Lake City UP former U S education commissioner Dr Sterling M McMurrin dean of the University of Utah graduate school warns the Mormon Church will lose tens of thousands of members who refuse to identify with any institution that does not address civil rights for Negroes He criticizes denial of full fellowship to Negro members and notes discrimination lacks official doctrine but persists in practices OXFORD JUNCTION The Rev Nevin Williams will give a farewell at the Assembly of God church Thursday at 730 p m as he and his family plan to leave July 3 for Africa
Mayor Daley unveiled a $539 million subway plan to replace the elevated Loop in downtown Chicago. Construction starts next year and should finish in seven to eight years, replacing the aging 1897 system to handle growing commuter demand.
Detectives said Deets Distributing Co. at 1027 Ninths Street SW was entered Friday night by breaking a north window. nothing stolen. Tools were taken from Transport Truck and Equipment Co. at 2519 Sixteenth Avenue SW after a plywood front door was knocked in Friday night.
A late morning blaze gut the southwest Belle Plaine residence rented from Earl Fisher. Two boys perished from smoke inhalation and burns as the fire rekindled later when Myron Miller attempted to fight the flames with a garden hose before firefighters arrived. Fire Chief Al Byers said the cause was not immediately determined.
Washington based on UPI reports states former President Eisenhower is recovering so well from his fifth heart attack that Walter Reed doctors have discontinued daily medical bulletins. A spokesman said heartbeat irregularities have further decreased and the general remains in high spirits enjoying light reading.
Raymond Hyke aged 34 from rural Elma died at University Hospitals from injuries after a truck accident at the east ramp interchange of I 80 West Liberty on April 2.
Ft Carson investigation details possible deception behind a protest letter signed by 113 Iowa guardsmen claiming inadequate combat training at the post. Some signers believed they were requesting commissary and base privileges for dependents or better club entertainment. Authorities say the letter to Gov Hughes and lawmakers may have been signed on blank paper and could have been misused.
Twenty one Luther League members from Immanuel Lutheran church in Littleport and Hope Lutheran church in Elkport will ride a chartered bus from Decorah to Chelan Washington for nearly two weeks at the American Lutheran Church retreat camp Holden Village. The camp sits in the Cascade mountains near Chelan, reachable only by boat. Costs are split with half by congregations, a quarter by the Luther League, and a quarter by individuals, with Rev J Daniel Diekhoff and several spouses accompanying the group. They are due back July 10.
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