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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1962
Page
3
Daily record shows Monday temperatures across cities with highs in the 60s and 70s, lows in the 40s, plus rainfall totals and May normals. Includes barometer, humidity, wind, sunrise and sunset, and year-to-date rainfall. Then lists civil court dispositions with numerous monetary settlements and upcoming funeral services and obituaries for multiple towns.
Myrtle Rathje and Carole M. OConnor named in police notices. Lightning caused damage at 1464 and 1469 Council Street NE on Monday mid afternoon. A juvenile incident involved children playing with matches at 905 Ellis Boulevard NW on Monday afternoon.
Multiple defendants are fined amounts ranging from $10 to $25 plus costs for speeding traffic violations and disobeying signals. Injuring public property and malicious vehicle injury cases noted with bonds forfeited or suspended sentences. Several judgments entered against various defendants including Central Steel and Wire Co. and Mercy Hospital with listed sums.
Archbishop Byrne arrived in Dubuque to assume leadership of the archdiocese covering 30 northeastern Iowa counties. He urged love of God and neighbor to ease world unrest and told parishioners to demonstrate liefde in daily contacts. U S Sen Jack Miller and city officials attended the ceremony and credentialing events.
A series of fast moving storms struck central and northwest Iowa including Collins Mount Joy and near Newton causing roof and barn collapses plus farm damage. Two truck drivers were injured in a vehicle into Iowa River near Montour. A 86 year old naval artist Gordon Hope Grant died in New York.
Two men, Pierce and Rogers, were returned to Cedar Rapids after a bank or station robbery. Rogers denied knowledge of the crime while money recovered from Pierce’s car and a third man released as no link was found. Police traced movements from Omaha to Cedar Rapids with no armed threat.
Donald Birdsell, principal of Washington high school, was named assistant superintendent of Cedar Rapids schools by the school board. He will replace Dean Stoakes on July 1 as Stoakes leaves to lead a Chicago suburb district. Birdsell's salary is set at 13000 annually, up from 11580. He is a 1949 Luther College graduate with a math and science major and holds a 1952 administrative masters from the University of Minnesota. He has worked at Monona, Primghar, and Waverly prior to joining Cedar Rapids in 1959 as assistant principal.
Des Moines UPI The Iowa Supreme Court ruled in a Cedar Rapids malpractice case that counts two and three must not go to trial in district court while count one alleging negligence will proceed. Horace E Lagerpusch seeks 150000 from Dr E L Lindley and St Luke s Methodist Hospital over his wife Gladys death on March 3 1959. The court upheld affirmed counts show the doctor and hospital lacked full control over patient frailties and reactions, making the outcome uncertain even with proper care.
Two Linn district court juries were hearing cases Tuesday. One suit by Ronald Ottaway seeks 17500 from C H Wilson operator of a gas transport firm over a June 11 1960 explosion at Smith oil Marion claim by employee Herschel Neideffer caused the blast. Judge Richter presiding with jurors listed. In a separate criminal case Phyllis M McKean 45 Marion is accused of drunk driving after a Feb 10 arrest. Judge Maxwell presiding with a second panel of jurors.
Judge Charles Penningroth fined Kenneth V. Sharpe 48 of 226 Twenty seventh street NW $300 after he admitted hitting two parked cars in the 1700 block of First avenue Saturday night. Ralph R. Ash 43 of Martello pled guilty to a third offense drunk driving and his sentencing was delayed until June 12. Ash was arrested Feb 16 in Central City.
Glenn C. Flanagan 24 of 849 First Avenue Marion must enter a plea to a larceny charge by May 15. He is accused of taking a power mower from Robert W. Allen 820 Fairview Drive Marion on the evening of April 28. Suspended sentences and civil suits are listed for other local cases including a six month suspended sentence for Donald F. Westphal and several debt and divorce actions.
In today’s want ads a versatile item appears as a must see pick. Readers are encouraged to check listings for practical buys and potential bargains across categories.
The U N Command charged the communists with 66 violations of the armistice by March 19 to April 30. Col. Merriam told the armistice secretaries that 23 cases involved automatic weapons in the demilitarized zone.
Kenneth Crasha and Charles Oakley attend memorials for Cedar Rapids resident and former Manchester driver Melvin Meisner. Services occur Friday at 1 30 p m at Shelly Funeral Home Manchester burial there. Survived by Lavona Hines Brenda Merrel four Cedar Rapids sisters and a Vinton brother. A second service Thursday at 2 p m at Barta Hesser Chapel Cedar Rapids with Cedar Memorial burial. Friends may call after 1 p m Wednesday.
Miss Mary R. Koutnik of 2522 Twenty-sixth Street NW died after a short illness. Born in Cedar Rapids on July 30, 1886 she was a Welch-Cook-Beals Co. retiree. Survived by two sisters and several affiliations. Services Wednesday with Rosary Tuesday evening at Kuba funeral home. Burial at St. John’s.
President Kennedy tells UAW delegates that the government will not intervene in every labor dispute and must rely on public responsibility in forthcoming negotiations in the aircraft and missile industry. Union leader Walter Reuther affirms wage gains tied to productivity, aligning with Kennedy’s stability goals.
John Albert McKeever died and his funeral will be held at Turner chapel at 3 on Wednesday led by Rev. D A Loferski of St. John's Episcopal Church with burial at Shiloh cemetery. He was born July 20 1895 in Cascade and was a World War I veteran. Surviving are a daughter Mrs William Bragg Jr of Iowa City two sons Francis of California and John Edward of Washington DC a brother Edward of Freeport Illinois and a sister Mrs Ward Holmes of East Chicago Illinois.
Coon Stuart MacDonald Turner chapel 1 30 Wednesday Rev Thomas S Hulme. Burial Mound Cemetery Watkins. Koutnik Mary R Wednesday 9 15 Kuba funeral here 9 30 St Wenceslaus church Msgr Anthony Chihak Burial St John's.
President Kennedy argued that national interests depend on productivity gains to lift real wages without inflation. He warned against unjustified wage demands and profit increases that harm the public. A crowd greeted him after the convention address as police restrained a man who rushed the President and a woman who attempted to hug him.
The defense department said it is studying lengthening the army reserve active duty obligation from six months while denying a New York Times report that a four month or 19 week duty reduction is being sought. The agency did not confirm any final policy change.
Ivan G. Hartley, 26, of Amana, drove through a chain across the Bever Park drive to the wading pool Monday night. He was uninjured but charged with damaging public property and forfeited a $15 bond in municipal court. Park caretaker Don White reported Hartley was speeding and flashed his flashlight to warn him.
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