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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1965
Page
12
United Community Service members elected 11 new directors to their board and presented 49 awards to Cedar Rapids firms and individuals at the UCS annual meeting. President Har desty reported year end 1964 finances at 492,359.56 with 16 major accomplishments listed for 1964.
Cedar Rapids police officers sell wallet sized emergency information cards to raise funds for the Jerry Rabiner Memorial Boys Ranch. The statewide project by the Iowa State Policemen's Assn supports a 160 acre tract northwest of Fort Dodge and honors a former spy chief.
A heated exchange between Williams and his brother escalated amid a tense confrontation. Details remain unclear as witnesses report conflicting accounts of the incident and potential insults. Authorities have urged calm as investigations continue.
An informal 8 p.m. YMCA Auditorium session will outline urban renewal for Cedar Lake area property owners. Planning Director Don Salyer notes a tentative date for the final public hearing before project execution.
Seven eastern Iowans, including Victor J. and Salyer, are enlisted in the air force for electronics careers and report to Lackland Air Force Base Texas for recruit training. Several others named are listed among enlistees. one man returns from Germany on leave. another joins Navy reserve in Cedar Rapids as Seaman Recruit.
A federal grand jury indicted three New York men and two Canadian women for conspiring to blow up the Statue of Liberty the Washington Monument and the Liberty Bell. Michelle Saunier 30 Montreal teacher studying at University of Montreal for a doctorate in philosophy named among the defendants.
cops used rubber truncheons to disperse several thousand Madrid university students marching on the education ministry in the heart of the Spanish capital.
Police report a car carburetor valued at eighty dollars stolen from a Steber Motors lot on A Avenue NE. Community notices include a sewing bee at YWCA on Fifteenth Avenue, a flower show at Pierson's Day Magazine, a preschool story hour in the public library auditorium, and Cub Scouts Blue and Gold banquet at St Patrick's School.
Essie D. Silver formerly Thompson 83 of Center Point died Sunday at Buena Vista County hospital Storm Lake She born April 9 1881 in Center Point married Earl E Silver in Cedar Rapids July 20 1910 He died in 1956 She belonged to Center Point Methodist WSCS past matron of Order of Eastern Star Center Point Garden Club Services set for Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Center Point Methodist Church Also notes on a driver jailed for two days and a local potato market advertisement follow.
A damaged air pump hose was reported at Skelly station on 16th Street NE Cedar Rapids Tuesday night. The notice outlines Gazette subscription rates and edition details while mentioning city council and Associated Press service.
In Chicago AP reports malignant abnormal brain tissue removed from Albert Cardinal Meyer was identified as an astrocytoma about the size of a walnut. The degree of malignancy remains undetermined. His general condition was stable after a four hour twenty minute operation on February 25.
Commerce Secretary Connor expressed hope that steel producers and union leaders would agree to extend the May 1 contract deadline. The UPI report notes the administration pressing for a settlement to avoid a labor dispute and possible production disruption.
A transport gas truck struck a utility pole on the western edge of Manchester Iowa during storms between 3 and 8 am Tuesday. Maynard Hills 34 of Clover City Iowa lost control on Highway 13, the truck knocked down the pole and a transformer, wires hot for a time, Hills escaped injury.
New York AP reports Hillis Mills editorial consultant to Time and Life magazines since 1961 and former Time senior editor died Monday at age 57.
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