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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1964
Page
2
Gov. Harold Hughes said he will keep visiting prisons and other institutions if necessary, defending the practice against Republican charges of meddling. He cited approval from the board of control and the Corrections director, and urged addressing Iowa's penal system publicly to ventilate its treatment.
Roy Klein 72 a retired farmer from North English and Wellman areas died Tuesday in a Wellman nursing home after a long illness. The body is at Jones funeral home Williamsburg. Survivors include four daughters Carroll Goettsch and Ronald Young Cedar Rapids Herman Knipfer Madison Wis and Melvin Grimm Dysart and three sons Wayne Iowa City Dale Mt. Pleasant Emery Dubuque 22 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
A tornado appeared northeast of Des Moines in Poweshiek and Jasper counties moving east at about 25 mph. Officials called the event a freak and said conditions were normal with no anticipated tornado activity. The twister lifted back into the sky without touching the ground.
Dr. Joseph Lovell the nation’s first surgeon general constructed Blair House in 1824, a residence later used for Mount Vernon and diplomatic purposes.
DES MOINES AP The Iowa employment security commission says workers aged 45 and up form a major labor source for Iowa with about 439 000 or 42 percent of the workforce. Iowa also has the highest share of residents 65 or older about 331 000 or nearly 12 percent. May is Senior Citizens month aimed at correcting misconceptions and removing job barriers. Commission chairman Ross M Carroll notes the 25 to 44 age group has little growth and is shrinking as a share of the labor force.
University of Iowa graduate student Ralph Arzoomanian of Cranston Rhode Island has accepted a month long Hollywood trip to observe a one hour MCA dramatic show from meetings to production. He is among 27 MCA playwriting fellows nationwide. The offer followed MCA rep William Davad noting his comedy Lady Esther as outstanding.
The statement notes a shift in employment needs with a growing reliance on older workers and an expanding under 25 age group as a trend for the labor market. It highlights demographic balance concerns shaping hiring practices.
Seniors from towns across eastern Iowa are listed for Commencement at Upper Iowa University on May 25. The 114 degree recipients will graduate in Dorman Memorial Gymnasium at 10:30 a.m., with Dr. Henry G. Harmon of Drake University delivering the commencement address.
A gust of wind is blamed for a north Iowa collision that killed Lloyd Paul Findley 45 of Mason City. Findley, Northwestern Bell plant manager at Mason City, lost control of his car on Highway 18 and was broadside by a semi driven by Bert W. Arnold 60 of Minneapolis, who was not injured.
A sequence of names appears listing several individuals with associated towns or places including Mary Kathryn Nolan May nard-Luanne Huffman Mari lyn Anne Petratz Monona Edward Vern Hupfer Oelwein Mrs Mabel Schreiber Dowing Douglas Victor Halsted Ashley A Smith Rowley Pauline Davenbaugh Strawberry Point Charles R Kimpston Wadena Fremont H Ogle Waterville Sandra M Mey er Waukon Charles D Lonning.
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AMES AP Kenneth L. Knight, after 21 years in the navy, studies Iowa mosquitoes as associate professor at Iowa State University. He aims a long range program to map breeding, seasonal distribution and biology of medically important arthropods including ticks. Knight's work involves NSF undergraduates and graduate assistants focusing on aedes vexans and Culex pipiens and notes urbanization increases mosquito opportunities.
A third dog rabies clinic will be held Thursday from 1 to 2 p.m. behind the fire station at Decorah city hall. The event aims to vaccinate canines in the community and provide vaccination certificates.
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