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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1965
Page
3
USDA and market reports show barrows gilts and hogs up about 1.00. sows 50 to 75 cents higher. Cattle slaughter steers gain 25 to 50 with prime weights 29.00 to 29.25 per 100 pounds. cows and bulls mixed. Lambs mostly 50 points lower with varied weights and pelts. Multiple lots and grades listed for 100 to 1,435 pound ranges.
James H. Lindberg a Cedar Rapids senior has been chosen president of Bemidji State college student senate for next year. He is a Washington high school graduate and a history major. The piece also notes the 67th Correll College May Music Festival second concert in King Memorial chapel featuring pianist Sylvia Zaremba with Beethoven Debussy and Balakireff works.
Cedar Rapids hog market held steady with Friday bids for 200 to 230 lb butchers at 18.75 to 19.00 and 300 lb packers sow bids at 16.25 to 16.50. Weight adjustments deduct 25 to 50 cents per grade bands over 300. Eggs priced 22 cents for large, 1 1/2 cents for B large, checks 13. Minnie Curtis, 85, fell in her garden and lay undiscovered until Clifton found her about 5 p.m. She is hospitalized with unknown injuries.
Henry J. Loufek, 54, of 1412 J Street SW, fined $150 plus costs after a car-truck collision on the Sixteenth Avenue Bridge. Judge Hullinger imposed $25 for left of center, $100 for leaving the scene, and $25 for intoxication. He fled the scene and was located intoxicated near Fourteenth Avenue and C Street SW. Loufek, who suffered a lip laceration, was treated at St Luke’s Hospital and released.
Allen Smith 16 of Bever avenue SE suffered leg and pelvis injuries in a car bicycle collision at Bever avenue and Nineteenth street 3E Friday at 3 44 p m He was listed in fairly good condition Saturday at St Luke s hospital Police said Smith rode his bicycle into the path of a car driven by John D Baker 92 of 520 Thirty second street SE Smith was charged with failing to yield right of way to oncoming traffic.
Rodney D. Winder 32 of 326 Sixth Street NE received until 2 p.m. Monday to waive or demand a preliminary hearing on a false uttering of a check charge. He allegedly wrote a $396 bad check to Rapids Chevrolet on April 22 drawn on a local bank and was jailed in Linn County on $2,000 bond after a court appearance.
Margaret DeFore 48 of 4031 Vine avenue SE sustained several fractured ribs in a two car collision at Eighth avenue and Fifth street SE Friday at 4 pm. Police said her car was struck by Ronald D. Jennings 20 of 1736 First avenue NE who was fined 10 dollars and costs for failing to yield at a stop intersection.
Theodore Houck, 15, held without bail for the grand jury on a murder charge tied to a racial outburst on April 26. The white boy is charged with shooting 18 year old Preston Ferguson, a Black man, at Parkesburg. Judge Thomas Cawthrop ordered trial as an adult. Houck was sent to the county juvenile home pending the grand jury.
New York AP report states Edward R. Murrow death on April a left an estate worth about 950000. Papers filed Friday show the entire estate to benefit his widow and his only son a Yale freshman. Trust agreements were established to manage the bequest.
A Marshalltown couple James R. Descher 24 and Alene 21 and Des Moines teen Phillip Galvan 16 died in separate Iowa crashes early Saturday raising the 1965 toll to 211. Deschers died when their car hit a truck on highway 69 north of Leon. Galvan lost control on highway 415 near Des Moines and crashed into a pillar of I 80. Davenport man William Davis 44 died in a one car crash on lowa 6 after hitting a pole while hospitalised from earlier injuries.
Waterloo resident Robert Wood 21 an employee of Cedar Valley Tree Service Co was electrocuted Friday after contacting a 2700 volt power line while trimming a tree Authorities described the incident as a fatal accident and noted the tree service company employed him.
Students of Mrs Warren Levings will present a piano recital Sunday at 2 30 p m in Linn Mar junior high school Readings include Kenny and Kathy Cameron Linn Barrett Dana DeWitt Rene Ostedahl Roberta and Kathy Kuryluk Lisa Scott Marsha Levings David Marsh Vicki Haveman Jennifer Dawson and Cullen Marsh Also listed are local businesses and church services with various pastors and times for worship Readings mention Bay Site Cedar Rapids and McGowan's Country Club additions plus rental ads and classified line about Easy Way to rent workers buyers plus Mother's Day cards at Sorg Pharmacy The notices include multiple church listings with service times sermons and speakers on Sunday morning and evening for Grace Baptist St Joseph's Catholic Christian Lutheran First Methodist Prairie Chapel and other local congregations plus Missourison St Paul Lutheran Reformed Presbyterian and Church of God Seventh Day listings with worship times Sunday school and sermon topics.
Sunday services listed for Marion churches include Bethel Baptist with Rev. Paul H. Stenstrom at Sunday school 9 30 and First Baptist with Rev. Lawrence B. Sprankle at worship 9 30. Sermon title: These.
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