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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1967
Page
3
A cluttered daily page lists temperatures for cities including Bismarck Minneapolis Chicago New Orleans Denver New York Duluth Omaha Los Angeles Phoenix Miami Seattle with highs and lows and rainfall figures. It also covers a five day forecast with mild, near normal temperatures and light precipitation, then shifts to March totals and local life events such as births marriages and public notices along with several court and traffic items.
Speeding, reckless driving and related charges result in fines ranging from 10 to 35 dollars and costs. Notable entries include Roger J. DeMue linaire and Ervin F. Jones each fined 15 dollars, with numerous others listed by street and city for traffic violations and one case for reckless driving.
Cedar Rapids approves a 780000 intercity sewer project extending from Indian Creek in Cedar Rapids to Marion with Marion approval earlier. The council sets April 12 hearing for involuntary annexation, authorizes a 232000 federal grant, and outlines non annexation lines while construction stays in Linn County planning.
The United Nations said Iceland made a voluntary token donation of 2000 dollars to back the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Cyprus.
NFO president Oren Lee Staley says talks will begin to raise milk prices for farmers while large scale milk dumping continues in Iowa. An operation at Jerome Schrader farm dumped about 50,000 pounds of milk near Rockwell and others planned near Waukon and New Hampton. Kenneth Wagner of Castalia noted 50,000 pounds a day are being held back in Fayette County.
Senator Dirksen of Illinois called for intensified war measures after Hanoi rejected Johnsons offer to halt bombing in exchange for slowing infiltration He proposed bombing North Vietnam airfields and interdiction of supply lines around Haiphong harbor.
NCNA reports large numbers of army cadres and men sent into factories and mines to offset production slowdown in the power struggle led by Liu Shao-ch i. The PLA aids proletrian revolutionaries to suppress reactionary elements and help wake people to Mao's line.
Obituaries list Beal McGrady Irma McGrady 70 of 1140 H avenue NE died after a short illness. Lawrence Beers 70 of 726 L street SW died after a long illness. Muriel Griswold 52 formerly of Cedar Rapids died in Houston Texas after a long illness. Gilbert Borschel 75 of 1810 Blake Blvd SE died after a long illness. Herbert Beenk 53 lifelong Cedar Rapids resident died after a short illness. Services listed with churches homes and burial details. Several survivors named including spouses children and stepchildren with locations in Cedar Rapids Decorah Marion Houston and beyond.
Hilda Shanklin wife of Errol J. Shanklin of 1109 Third Avenue SW died Wednesday after a short illness. Born February 19 1905 near Charlotte she married February 2 1935 in Cedar Rapids and had lived here since. Surviving are her husband a son Donald J. Shanklin of Tarzana California two stepsons C Paul Shanklin of Goleta California and Cecil W Shanklin of Loomis California a sister Coleta Hartley of Mt Pleasant and three brothers Leo Fuegen of Charlotte Arnold Fuegen of Boone and Wilbert Fuegen of Independence. Services are at St Patrick's Catholic Church at 9:30 Saturday by Rev J Robert McDonald Burial at St John's Cemetery.
An American hunter Julian Barrett of Buffalo New York and Kenyan hunter Henry Poolman were on a Loitokitok safari when a lion they believed killed sprang at Poolman killing him with a stray bullet. Barrett was mauled and bitten leg by the same lion before it was shot.
A brief classified note invites readers to place low cost want ads by calling 369-1234. The ad emphasizes affordability and simple contact for readers seeking to buy sell or trade items.
Moscow reports the Soviet Union launched its seventh unmanned earth satellite this month and the 11th in two months, part of a burst of space activity. Cosmos 150 was announced with the usual brief description as scientific research.
The court orders abolition of segregated Alabama junior colleges and state colleges and mandates desegregation by September 1967. It requires a uniform statewide plan, a detailed upgrade for Negro schools, a 30 day court report on systems ignoring the decree, and voids the tuition grant law. The ruling cites ongoing state resistance and warns the plan may be interim if ineffective.
Six coal miners were killed in Linares Spain when the mine elevator cables snapped plunging the men more than half a mile to their deaths.
The Linn county board of supervisors approved a special ten year permit for DeWees Pothoff Stone Co to operate an 80 acre quarry about a mile and a half east of Central City. The move follows previous zoning disputes and a tabled request.
Pottawattamie County Sheriff Roy O. Wichael of Council Bluffs backs Linn County Sheriff Walter Grant’s civil service bill for deputies in counties with 50 000 or more population. He called the measure a way to attract more qualified deputies.
The sheriff declares it is not the duty of his office to provide bodyguards for newsmen. He emphasizes limits of law enforcement protection for reporters.
The city reports 90,000 privately owned horses, a 20 percent rise in four years, with annual spending over 30 million for care. An equestrian center in Griffith Park is planned costing 6 to 7 million, featuring a 2.5 million, 5,000-seat stadium and facilities for rodeos horse shows and cattle exhibitions.
A safari in the gardens of Wo burn Abbey operated by the Duke of Bedford killed five European wild boars that escaped their pen and rampaged through the grounds a tourist attraction residence in Bedford England.
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