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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1963
Page
5
Legislative notes by Frank Nye show in the April 18 poll 56 of 108 house members favored liquor by the drink, 43 opposed, and 9 undecided. The actual 68 to 40 vote last Friday involved reps representing 2,073,898 population versus 683,639 for the 40 nays, a gap of 1,390,259.
More than 50 bands march May 18 in Cedar Rapids for the Eastern Iowa Band Festival. A reviewing-stand corps will judge bands while a second anonymous corps observes queen nominees and attends the queens luncheon. Winners in the A and B divisions and the 1963 Miss Eastern Iowa will be announced at Kingston Stadium. Sue Vesely and Jan Vanek emerge as queen nominees with extensive school and extracurricular involvement.
Tipton High seniors won a Lions club fundraiser by bidding 57.50 to eat for two hours at Don Thompsons Dairy Queen. They filled a borrowed 1954 Buick with 43 students who consumed 95 hamburgers 28 tenderloins 57 fries 49 candy bars 30 malts 19 sundaes 48 drinks and 41 banana splits totaling around 90 dollars in food.
DES MOINES AP Dr Charles P Miller of Burlington named Outstanding Chiropractor of the Year by the Chiropractic Society of Iowa at its annual convention. Dr D O Nutting Spencer elected president with new officers Dr Anthony Untz Dyersville Dr John Carswell Davenport Dr M E Shelton Ocowiein and Glen Madsen West Des Moines as secretary treasurer Elaine Sonnichsen 18 Denison named Miss Correct Posture of 1963 at joint society meeting.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette established a new publication location at First Avenue in Cedar Rapids Iowa with the Gazette printing and distributing services under the same ownership.
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