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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1966
Page
1
Daily Record weather shows high and low temperatures for Monday and precipitation totals across multiple cities including Bismarck and Chicago, with detailed figures and barometer notes. The entry lists March rainfall totals, temperature records, sun and moon timings, and a series of birth announcements and local incidents.
The Municipal Court lists numerous speeding and traffic offenses with defendants from Richland, Swisher, Marion, Vinton, and other areas. Fines range from 10 to 20 dollars plus costs, plus bond forfeitures for some cases and suspended sentences for others. The notices include names, addresses, and court actions along with several obituary notices and service details for local churches.
Quentin C. Washburn 46 of 3023 Meadowbrook drive SE Cedar Rapids died Monday after a long illness. Born October 12 1919 in Troy Mills he served in World War II and worked 20 years at Rapids Chevrolet. Survived by wife Leona daughter Joellyn three brothers and two sisters. Funeral at All Saints church with burial at Mt Calvary cemetery. Rosaries to be recited at the funeral home by Catholic Daughters and Immaculata circle with military rites at the grave.
Christopher Ulysses Broadston of 350 Red Fox Road SE Cedar Rapids died after a long illness. Born June 24 1897 in Montezuma he married Orvilla Chehak in Iowa City in 1955. Survived by wife a daughter Virginia and a son James from a previous marriage sister Helen Coffey and three brothers Clifford Ralph Harold, all of Montezuma Des Moines and North Platte Neb grandchildren. Memorial services 1 30 p m Thursday Turner chapel and graveside services 3 30 p m Thursday in Montezuma. Friends may call at the chapel.
Memorial services for Kathryn Litts are set for Wednesday at 9 a.m. at Immaculate Conception Church officiated by Very Rev Msgr William A Roach. Burial will follow at Linwood Cemetery. Friends may call at Monahan Stewart Funeral Home.
North American Aviation congratulated Collins Radio Co for its role in the Feb 26 Apollo test mission. The flight marked the first space test of Collins data and communication systems aboard spacecraft 009, supporting tracking telemetry recovery and data recording for NASA.
Iowa executive council approves overhaul of Capitol grounds police under Lloyd Jackson supervision. Richard L. Holcomb's study spurs changes including a police chief hire a patrol car armed officers heat detectors modernization. Holcomb says no cost increase.
Wayne D. Hurst, 19, of 1212 Thirty-second Street NE, was charged with failing to keep his vehicle under control after his car struck a city bus at D avenue and Twenty-first Street NE on Monday. Bus driver Robert W. Wade, 44, and two passengers escaped injury. Hurst and Hulst escaped uninjured. Bus damage about $350. Hulst’s car about $200.
The Iowa Highway Commission named Donald Canny of Cedar Rapids to the Iowa highway research board. Canny, Cedar Rapids public improvements commissioner, replaces John L. Franklin of West Des Moines who resigned.
James R. Blakely, 21, Davenport, an inmate at the Iowa State Reformatory in Anamosa serving a 10 year term for larceny, escaped while under examinations at University hospitals in Iowa City. He was recaptured in Davenport about an hour after his escape.
The Linn County board of supervisors again voiced disapproval of high costs for court appointed defense of indigents. Chairman Linstrom and Dudley Henderson opposed two court orders totaling 795 for defense work, while Anthony Scolaro supported payment, saying there is no choice. They noted prior year payments and criticized current rates as excessive, though district judges had approved the bills and Iowa law requires payment.
County supervisors backed a plan to use a 1924 Iowa law to purge junk vehicles. Treasurer must list unpaid licenses by March 15, sheriff to collect fees and may seize and sell the cars. Scolaro praised the measure but Henderson urged broader discussion before adoption.
Thomas C. Weatherman a 19 year old from Marshalltown pled guilty to a false uttering a check before Judge Harold D Vietor. Sentencing set for 10 am next Tuesday. Accused of passing more than 1000 dollars in bad checks in Iowa from September to December 1965 including a 58.92 dollar check to Bauman and Co Mt Vernon on November 1. Eight other communities have hold orders in Independence Waterloo Storm Lake Knoxville Maquoketa Anamosa Montezuma Osceola. Held in county jail on 500 dollar bond.
A Linn county meeting at Cliff's Snack Bar will explore a juvenile detention home and shelter care unit. After a Dutch Treat dinner, attendees tour Linn county jail and Cedar Rapids police facilities before Juvenile Judge Howard McLaughlin leads a public discussion.
Louisville AP reports Thomas Cox, 35, labeled a "one-man crime wave" by Judge Frank Rooke, was sentenced to 15 life terms Monday for 15 armed robberies.
Carl Ehde 76 of four miles east of Waukon Iowa was killed while helping his brother in law Merle Sweatt cut trees. A tractor pulling down the cut trees with a chain overturned crushing Ehde. The body lay at Martin Funeral Home with services set for Thursday at 1 30 p m.
A 7:30 tonight cancer education session for Robins area women will be held at the Robins Community club. Dr. Thomas G. Wright of Marion, for Linn County Medical Society, will answer questions after showing two films Time and Two Women and Breast Self-Examination with Mary Harrington of the Linn County Cancer Society speakers bureau.
The government rested its case in the Abraham Pilicer federal indictment trial as Defense Counsel Robert F. Wilson began calling witnesses. Key testimony reviewed FDA investigative methods, undercover buys, and Pilicer’s alleged knowledge of illegal drug sales by Pilco Laboratories.
A Cedar Rapids couple Lil yan Gean and Warren H. Johnson filed a $15,000 automobile accident damage suit Monday against Randal K. Mahurin and Kenneth Fish Jr. The petition cites injuries to Mrs. John and seeks compensation.
At 9 p.m. Tuesday on Channel 9 a politically ambitious man appears to threaten the fugitive in a television segment. The image frames a tense chase as the antagonist presses for pursuit. A local audience watches unfold a dramatic confrontation on screen.
Gary Pope, 17, of 1400 Fourth Street NW was attacked Monday night while at home. He heard a noise at the rear, was struck from behind, and after regaining consciousness ten minutes later walked to 1408 Fourth Street NW. He was not hurt badly and did not require medical treatment. Mrs Phelps alerted Pope’s mother and police were notified.
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