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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1962
Page
2
University of Iowa honors convocation on May 19 will recognize East Iowa students for outstanding academic work with above B average grades. Notable honorees span many towns including Cedar Rapids, Marion, and Dubuque, with numerous students named from Alburnett, Anamosa, Decorah, Monticello, and others across the region.
Established in 1 by The ena ito 00 published daily and Sunday Third Ave SE Cedar fapige. Subscription rates listed for carrier and mail editions with varied weekly, monthly, and yearly prices. Copy indicates mail restrictions in certain towns and AP news usage rights.
The Rev. Louis M. Urbanek, 49, pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church Prairieburg, died Sunday after a brief illness. Born February 22, 1913 in Ludesberg Czechoslovakia, he was a former communist prisoner 1947 1951. He served at St. Wenceslaus Cedar Rapids and Assumption Little Turkey before St. Joseph's since 1960. Burial details and services announced with rosary and high mass plans in Cedar Rapids and Prairieburg.
Des Moines reports 19-year-old Marilyn Schoeman of Cedar Falls won the Iowa Correct Posture Queen title after edging 13 finalists in a contest by the Chiropractic Society of Iowa. Second place went to Joyce Schoenfelder of Marengo. Schoeman, a sophomore at State College of Iowa, will compete at the national convention in Detroit next month.
Mrs. Ward Masters of Maynard, 64, died Sunday in the Oelwein hospital of cancer and donated her eyes to the eye bank in Iowa City and her body to University Hospitals pathology department. Services set for Tuesday at 1 30 p.m. at Delsing Wright funeral home. Survived by husband, a daughter in New Mexico, and two sons serving in the Army in Germany and at Fort Bragg.
Iowa City files report on University of Iowa journalism students who earned numerous honors at the Fourth Estate Awards. Cedar Rapids senior Larry Rapoport received the Cedar Rapids Gazette Photography Award for 1961 62 and will graduate with a BA in June. Muscatine junior James Esmail won the first WMT News Scholarship in Radio Television Journalism. Orange City junior James Van Klompenberg won the Leon Barnes Community Journalism Award. Knoxville graduate student Richard A. Schreiber received the Conger Reynolds Achievement Award. Mason City senior Philip R. Currie earned the Brewer Torch Press Key and the Sigma Delta Chi Outstanding Male Graduate Award. Hiawatha junior Joan Marie Anderson won the 1962 Iowa Press Women Inc Award.
Hamilton Johnson leads a list of Johnson Award recipients for news and feature writing. Other winners include Paul Carlson Davenport junior Frances Smith from Pemberton New Jersey and William Strabala Iowa City, a February graduate. East Iowa students cited for service to the Hawkeye and Daily Iowan include Larry Prybil George Rampling Iowa City Carolyn Rabe Manchester and Jim Seda Traer.
Elmer William Pokrantz 63 of What Cheer was killed Saturday night when his pickup truck ran off a wet gravel road six miles northwest of Sigourney during a thunderstorm. The truck overturned in a farm field. a neighboring farmer found him dead. He is survived by his wife Jesse. Services set for Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Whyte funeral home in What Cheer.
Archbishop Byrne is installed as seventh archbishop of Dubuque in a 10:30 a.m. rite at St Raphael Cathedral. Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi will preside as papal representative. The procession includes monks, priests, and bishops with abbots present. relatives and religious sisters attend.
Des Moines AP report: Polk County’s first African American judge, Luther T. Glanton Jr., returned from a four month Africa and Far East tour. He said Africans were surprised he presides over both Black and white defendants, noted varying anti white sentiment, and urged Americans to engage more with Africans while praising U.S. aid projects like the Volta River dam. He contrasted American goodwill with Russian efforts and urged greater cultural exchange.
Des Moines police questioned a 14 year old boy in the Ramona Jean Cox murder case. He fits the description of the person seen fleeing Cox's apartment after she was fatally knifed and raped on April 29. Investigators pursue verification of details while he is held for extensive questioning.
The late Lulu Finkenbin's property sold at public auction for 3850 dollars to Leora Nibeck a Hazleton nursing home owner.
Anamosa resident Marijorie Snyder was named president-elect of the Iowa Association of Medical Assistants at a Waterloo meeting. She has led the Linn County chapter as president 1960-61 and held roles as recording secretary bulletin chairman and education chairman in prior years.
Iowa City police detain Gerald Lindley 21 of Massachusetts on a car theft charge. He hitchhiked to Iowa City and stole a parked 1961 car owned by Aaron Braverman. Lindley refueled at a West Liberty area station then fled. a chase ended when the car rolled into a ditch east of West Liberty. Lindley escaped injury.
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