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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1966
Page
3
Chicago reports slow trading with cattle receipts about 11 000 head and hogs 17 000 amid uneven demand. Prices show slaughter steers steady to 25 cents higher, with sow and hog categories varying and weekly top quotes noted for prime cuts. Des Moines bids reflect fair demand with steady to slightly lower prices and sizable week-to-week volume shifts.
C R Markets reported 25c lower hog prices on Saturday with Friday bids for bulk 200 to 230 lb butchers at 22.75 to 23.00 and packing sows down to 21.50 to 21.75.
Barron Motor Supply Co. at 728 Third Avenue SE was burglarized Friday night. Two safes were forced open, yielding about $304.61 from a floor safe while a smaller fire box held papers. Entry was gained by forcing a north side loading door. no tools were left behind. Detectives investigate.
Washington Frederick W Mast president of Jens Cleser and Sons Construction Co Water Joe has been elected vice president of the Associated General Contractors of America in a nationwide industry vote.
Ten Cub Scouts at Hiawatha school received Friday awards: Bruce Stolba, Eric Hamad, Gerald Cramblett, Blake Anderson, Ron Tuefel, Steve Tuefel, Kelly Jordan, Ron Williams, John Van Lieber, Chris Brayman. Pack 23 awarded twenty scouts during Thursday night at Hoover School: Kevin Skinner, David Alberts, Jed Brown, Bruce Borthwick, Jeff Dahn, David Burns, David Brandon, Kenneth Sasek, Glen Sasek, Tom Christensen, Terry Smejkal, Jeff Doonan, David Steff, Steve Subak, Jeff Upah, Howard Johnson, Rick Collins, Mark Spear, Jamie Ward, Dave Barrett.
Rep Richard Radi of Lisbon cites rising workloads and rapid societal changes. He argues Iowa should move to annual sessions to avoid fatigue and poor lawmaking, warning that biennial meetings risk inefficiency in governing a 250 million dollar enterprise.
Camp Hiaga selects eight high school girls from five communities for the Netahi unit counselors in training. The announcement came at a camporee in the Harding school gym with over 200 attendees. Selected staff include Jean Hanna Jane Harvey Miriam Kollman Kathy O'Meara Linda Johnson Jody Myers and Brenda Smiley. Barb Rolfing, now in Sycamore New Jersey, attended as a former Cedar Rapids resident. Shirley Kohl and Sandra Mineck served as camp chorus hosts.
Sixteen freshmen students at St. Luke's School of Nursing have been named to the honor roll for the second term. The list includes Judy Bickel Coggan, Shirley Dietrich Williamsburg, Norma Frye Independence, Deloris James Ottumwa, Barbara King Osage Beach, Twila Mor row Diagonal, Judy Retter Van Horne LaNora Shaffer Maquoketa, Janie Sievers Clin ton, Sandra Smith Morley, Carol Straub Des Moines, Sharon Sywassink Muscatine, Sandra Tomash Swisher, Kathy Wenger Brooklyn, Ruth Wilson Springville, and Mary Zimmerman Olin.
C R youths Richard G. Frey and Henry Orton both 18 years old, of 1614 X Avenue NE and 909 Wiley Boulevard, were fined 25 dollars each Saturday for fighting in the 100 block of Third Street NE after 11 p.m. Friday. Frey also faced a resisting arrest charge, pled innocent, and awaits trial April 22 before Municipal Judge Howard McLaughlin. Frey remained free on a 110 dollar bond.
About 50 University of Iowa students picketed the post office in Iowa City for an hour in protest of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Roughly 15 others sat on the floor in the federal building’s selective service office while singing. The Iowa Vietnam Days Committee organized events through Saturday with a Memorial Union hootenanny planned for the night.
Two civil suits seek $40 500 in damages from Clarence Milton Miller of Cedar Rapids after a crash near Marion last Aug 1. The plaintiffs say Miller drove over 80 mph on a curve and was drunk, causing injuries to Kathy Bliss and Sandra Rasmussen who were passengers in his convertible. Meanwhile Daniel L Konen 17 was given two 30 day suspended jail terms after a high speed chase on Bowling street sw at 1 20 am Tuesday.
Bennie E. Pierson, 18, of Oxford Junction, saw larceny of a motor vehicle charges dropped. Jennie L. Bottoms, 35, of 1237 Fourth street NW, charged with reckless driving after a Cedar Rapids man’s car was struck twice on E avenue and Eighth street NW while she allegedly stole the vehicle. Police say the parked auto belonged to Wilbert Klotz of Newhall and Hutchison, Cedar Rapids, noting promissory notes involved in separate filings.
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