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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1965
Page
10
Soldiers browse a post exchange filled with hi fi sets records cameras and golf clubs. A lone bean bag priced at 85 cents stands out. The buyer feels homesick and buys it hoping to be the war’s only one with such a personal item.
A mixed group protesting civil rights met at four Sumerville restaurants and a drug store injuring one Black worker James Gray and five others, four white. Gray, head of Fayette County Student Union, was treated by a private physician. No one required hospitalization.
Reported theft cases linger with no warrants or charges filed. City officials and police discuss suspects including a 45 year old grocer and a 42 year old associate linked to a philatelic agency burglary worth $96,000 in rare stamps and coins.
In Saigon Hal Boyle reports the surreal task of obtaining military attire as a correspondent. He tours a pawned market den, shops with a Chinese tailor Luong who croons delays, buys oversized boots and a heavy rucksack from a past Dien Bien Phu era, and ends with a PX stop for chocolate and shaving lather.
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