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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1963
Page
1
City weather notes show high temperatures around the 90s and scattered thundershowers cooling next. Local incidents include gas line leak, alarm-triggered heat event, grass burning, and multiple traffic-related fines and suspensions across numerous residents and addresses.
Elizabeth Glanville named to Mills College spring honors list in Oakland, California. Page also lists July 4 picnic cancellation, Cub Scout awards at Ellis Park, and various local ads including bowling specials and a church break in with no losses. Joseph Shobes reports a violin theft from his garage, plus service ads from local salons and insurers.
Police warned children and parents around Fortieth Street Drive SE after a construction shed break in. Merle Hennessey of Hennessey Bros Construction said five or six dynamite caps and possibly one stick of dynamite were taken. Authorities fear unaware youths may handle the explosives.
Obituary notices list several local deaths including Manchester-Verner T. Joslyn 86 services Sunday at Karn Creek Methodist Gill’s Quasqueton Jennie Brown 89 former resident to Pasadena Calif services Monday Quasqueton Union Church Van Horne William Hickey 89 services Monday Immaculate Conception church Fellmer’s Keystone Arlington Maxine Dempster 41 services Monday Church of Christ Gleim’s Elgin Mrs Henry McMillan 40 Muehlenthaler’s Waucoma George Hoeger 68 Reed’s Anamosa Mrs John Stupka 83 services Monday Goettsch’s
Rep. Earl Wilson charged Collins Radio Co. with an unauthorized sole-source deal for AN/PRC-41 walkie talkies. He cited $5,126 per radio plus $1,593 per kit and claimed the Navy assured competitive bidding, noting Collins delivered few units and delayed tests despite a 1963 contract. Collins denied the charges, noting 34 radios delivered and 18 in final tests as of last week.
A Minuteman missile from Vandenberg Base in California launched along the Pacific range Friday toward an undisclosed target area. The test move involved military engineers and tracked systems, with officials keeping specifics confidential.
Kennedy mingled with crowds in Galway Limerick and Shannon and joked that a White House knock would yield a hundred thousand welcomes. He departed with Princess Lee Radziwill and Jean Smith, as a band played Come Back to Erin. He thanked staff at the Dublin embassy before leaving with President de Valera.
Lee Osborn 73 of 929 Hull Ave SE Cedar Rapids longtime park custodian and child welfare organizer died Friday night in Iowa City VA hospital after a long illness. He helped develop Sinclair playground and staged Uncle Lees Roundup for children and founded Osborn Park. He led the 1949 Christmas visit to Eldora and Mitchellville correctional facilities. He born December 24 1889 in Tipton worked as auctioneer before moving to Cedar Rapids in 1930. Survived by wife Anna two brothers two stepsons ten step-grandchildren two step-great-grandchildren plus many relatives. Burial Czech National Cemetery with military graveside rites by American Legion. Memorial services Monday at 1:30 p.m. at Kuba funeral home. Burial at Czech National Cemetery.
Karl Moulton 79 of De Land Florida and former Cedar Rapids resident died June 13 at his daughter Mrs Cloid Green’s home in Charlottesville Virginia. He was a retired civil engineer for Olin Mathieson and recalled by Olin Foundation to work on Cornell College Mt Vernon campus. Burial was in Oswego New York. Survived by wife two sons 11 grandchildren.
Raymond Shields 83 of 846 Fifth Avenue SE died at home Friday. Born in Boone on August 27 1881 he married Minnie Blanche Lathrop in Mt Vernon New York September 15 1903. Survived by wife daughter Helen Mary Smith three sons six grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral Monday 1 30 pm Beatty Bearle with Rev Don Andersen Calvary Baptist Church burial Cedar Memorial. Friends may call after 7 pm tonight.
Services held at Florence St. John Episcopal Church at 10 30 a m Monday by Rector D A Lofer Ski Burial at Union Cemetery Milwaukee at 11 a m Tuesday Friends may call at Beatty Beurle mortuary
Cedar Rapids Marion Council of Churches approves a civic rights program urging citizens to register opinions with legislators. The board also instructs its social action committee to draft local study guidelines and supports a city human relations commission.
Mrs Della Hilton 65 died at her son Paul's Houston Texas home. Born March 10 1887 in Iowa City she leaves brother Clyde Doyle of Cedar Rapids and two grandchildren. She was married to Earl Hilton and belonged to St Patrick's church. Body to return Brady mortuary and funeral arrangements will be announced.
John J. Conrad aged 59 of 26 Blake Terrace SE died suddenly at 7:30 a.m. Friday at the Veterans hospital in Wood Wisconsin where he had been a patient since September. He was born October 3, 1903 and married Laura Lindahl on July 6, 1956. He was a member of Local 447 Painters and Paperhangers union Cedar Rapids and the United Com.
Ferdinand Miller, who avoids modern devices, raced a half mile in his buggy to reach a telephone as a barn burned to the ground in Chardon Ohio. Firefighters arrived too late to save the structure.
About 56 dollars was stolen from a cash register at the Ivyl Spears cafe located at 4121 Sixteenth Avenue SW. Police noted the back door was found unlocked Saturday morning with no signs of forced entry and nothing else missing.
Contessa lures Gis into an ambush in a scene from THE GALLANT MEN airing at 6:30 Saturday night on Television 9.
Des Moines and all city radio stations were off the air with walls torn and utilities failing. Power lines toppled as 20,000 homes lost refrigerators and lights while telephone service was cut to about 1,000 in Des Moines. Storms caused roof and fence damage at Lee Taylor Stadium and the Iowa State fair grandstands. A tree fell on a car carrying a mother and four children but no injuries occurred. three people were treated for injuries. Rainfall totals included Parkersburg 1.75 inches and Ottumwa 1.36 inches, with highs from 88 to 96 degrees across the state.
Gary Martin, 21, a passenger in a car driven by William Stevens, 23, suffered severe injuries after the vehicle left a Marion area road and struck a barbed wire fence. He was treated at St Luke's hospital in fair condition. Stevens faced a charge of failing to keep the car under control.
CHELWOOD GATE England AP a hotel owner held a birthday party at the Ashdown Forest hotel for Colin Streeter despite Kennedy in Britain The hotel houses an on site communications system for the President near Birch Grove Prime Minister Macmillan’s residence Streeter’s 21st birthday proceeds as planned with his father Reginald Streeter antique dealer East Grinstead noting arrangements were made months earlier and the owner even gave up his bedroom for telephone lines.
U S and Russia agree on July 15 for opening of nuclear test ban talks in Moscow. President Kennedy announced basic agreement on June 10 with mid July as target time. State Department spokesman said Russia had not set a date, but officials stated the report was in error.
A 33-year-old Cedar Rapids woman Barbara J. Mikkalson sustained abrasions to her left arm and leg after a two car collision at the First avenue and Twenty-seventh street NE intersection near noon Friday. Anthony T. Pluene 86 of 1224 Thirteenth street NW was turning left and was charged with failing to yield the right of way.
A district court suit filed Friday seeks 11 965 50 dollars for injuries to Kenneth W Flickinger a 12 year old Cedar Rapids boy after a bicycle collision with a truck door opened by Elvin J Shultz The petition also seeks 1 143 50 for hospital bills of the boy s father Harley Flickinger Names defendants include Elvin J Shultz and J F Shultz Co The incident occurred October 14 in the 1000 block Avenue NE A jury trial is requested. the truck owner is the Shultz company.
A suit seeks 2853 dollars for legal services against A S Inc and Lincoln Sales and Service Inc. A related case dismisses a larceny charge against James Ray Marthaler of 717 Sixth Street SE after his federal sentence for interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle.
Officer Charles Polansky suffered a fracture while subduing 22 year old Joseph D Walters arrested for drunkenness at the police station. Walters, brought to the booking room, struggled with officers and received a 30 day suspended sentence and a $25 fine. Polansky was treated at St Luke’s hospital and released.
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