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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1963
Page
1
Police halted a desegregation march in Birmingham as hundreds of youths were arrested including Dick Gregory. Police used hoses on spectators and youths, while leaders planned further demonstrations and justice officials sought behind the scenes talks.
New York reports GOP leaders split into camps on how Nelson Rockefeller's remarriage affects his presidential prospects. Some say the divorce mattered more, others see no impact, while others foresee effects for Goldwater and future 1964 politics.
A festive crowd of 10,000 in Tijuana witnessed a bull gore an off guard matador during a Sunday bullfight at the local arena. The incident drew shrieks and moans from spectators as emergency measures were taken.
New York AP reports The Reivers by William Faulkner won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for fiction while no drama award was given. Barbara W. Tuchman earned the general nonfiction prize for The Guns of August. Hector Rondon received the photography prize for his image from Venezuela's 1962 uprising.
A political religious protest against Missouri’s refusal to provide public school bus transportation for parochial students grows in St Louis and Jefferson City. Demonstrations shift from elementary to junior high levels while Kansas City areas see fewer events. Governor Dalton defends state duty to educate, noting students’ right to attend their chosen schools. In Jefferson City 447 Catholic students enroll in public schools, with 362 in elementary and 85 at Simonsen junior high. In Florissant and nearby Washington, Catholic students enter public enrollment numbers rising significantly. State Education Commissioner Wheeler says enrollment could rise if all Catholic students switch.
Betty Miller the veteran flying housewife from Santa Monica California has reached Canton Island on the second leg of her bid to become the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific to Australia.
Six Paducah residents died and two were injured when a pickup truck and a car collided head on north of Paducah Texas on Sunday. The crash occurred in the southeast Texas Panhandle and involved local residents as victims.
The Iowa senate unanimously concurred with house amendments to the medical aid for the aged program, sending the $4 million Kerr-Mills pilot to Gov. Harold Hughes. The plan includes $1.68 million yearly state funding matched by $2.32 million federal funds, with an optional $320,000 annual boost. The amendments remove certain federal objections and exempt eligibility rules tied to prior old age payments.
Iowa Republicans define a plan to raise money by increasing the sales tax from 2 percent to 3 percent, with extension to lodging and rooming houses. The package would cut the personal property tax on household goods, repeal most of the moneys and credits tax, and seek funds for the regents and rural counties. Senate and House considerations include a nursing home care provision and a potential 2 percent dividend surtax to replace lost revenue.
The 20 nation OAS council warned of a distinct possibility of armed clash between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Troop movements along the border numbered in the thousands, with tanks deploying in the area. President Bosch of the Dominican Republic prepared to move into Haiti if provoked.
Col Burton Brown recalls the Corregidor surrender with Lt Gen Wainwright, describing the 11,500 trapped at the fortress, the island’s bombardment, and his three years in Japanese captivity ending in 1945. He notes MacArthur’s move to Australia saved him for future service. Brown, then a coast artillery major, later married with a son pursuing a military career.
Haiti requested a United Nations Security Council session to address the war threat from its dispute with the Dominican Republic. Dominican authorities meanwhile moved thousands of troops to the border with air patrols and naval support, with tanks and assault vehicles in position.
Senator Hugh Scott charged that steel producers in Japan and some European countries secretly formed a cartel to divide the U.S. market. The statement was made in Pittsburgh as part of a wider discussion on foreign steel competition.
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