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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1963
Page
1
President Kennedy's wheat production plan failed in a Tuesday referendum, drawing 47.8 percent of the 1.14 million votes. The result spurs a low price support scheme for farmers who cut production, while rejecting acreage controls for 1964. Administration says it will honor the farmers choice and pursue market-driven production.
Gordon Cooper rode through a confetti drenched Canyon of Heroes as millions cheered in New York after his space flight. Police estimated four to four and a half million lined sidewalks and rooftops to greet the astronaut. Mayor Wagner praised the mission while Cooper credited many unnamed contributors in a city triumph. Webb and Cooper received the Medal of Honor at a luncheon.
Iowa farmers vote 5432 to 3098 in a referendum on the administration wheat program. The result falls short of two thirds with 64 percent for and 36 percent against. Secretary Freeman warns of chaos if the plan fails, while Senator Ellender vows to block further wheat legislation this session.
Temperatures in Iowa hit record lows for May with Cedar Rapids Mason City and Sioux City at 31 degrees. Des Moines 33 and Davenport the warmest at 37. Nurserymen saw no damage in Cedar Rapids while farmers reported nipped corn edges and damaged soybeans in Spencer and Clay County. Skies clear with 10 to 15 mph winds. no frost expected in western areas but eastern parts may freeze again.
Cedar Rapids man Stanislavs Reinis files for divorce from Elza Reinis who remained in Latvia after separation in 1944 by the Russian army. He, a displaced person then, spent six years in a German DP camp, came to the U.S. in 1950, earned an Iowa State horticulture degree, and serves as a Cedar Rapids parks department landscape architect. He learned three months ago his wife remarried and has two young boys.
A Springfield reader in Springville voices frustration in a front page letter to the Illinois State Journal about paying personal property tax despite being only 15 and not owning a bicycle. The writer mentions waiting to see what his sister receives from a will and cites a tricycle owned by the sibling.
Rep. Francis Walter of Pennsylvania chairman of the House Committee on Un American Activities is gravely ill with leukemia his physician announced on Wednesday.
A provocative line argues crime deterrence through government management as a policy concept. It frames the notion as a strong solution, implying state oversight could curb criminal activity and strengthen enforcement.
Vatican reports Pope John XXIII, 81, suffers a new setback and cancels a weekly audience on doctors orders. He blesses a crowd from his window for about three minutes at St. Peters, pale but with strong voice, as surgeons monitor his condition.
Iowa state institutions show women with higher grades than men across three schools. University of Iowa Iowa State College and State University report women exceed men in overall averages and top grade brackets while men show higher rates only in the bottom D and below range.
In Nepal a hopeful base camp report says two American expeditions may have reached Everest summit via different routes. William Unsoeld, Dr. Thomas Hornbein, Luther Jerstad, and Barry Bishop are named climbers facing dwindling oxygen, food, and time as monsoon windows close.
An explosion at a Melbourne laboratory inside a soup factory on Wednesday killed two workers and injured others. Rescue teams cordoned off the site as investigators began assessing the cause.
A gas blast on a Tuesday morning at the Shorewood restaurant injured three plumbers from Cedar Rapids and damaged mainly the kitchen and rear walls. About 25 workers were on site. The blast occurred as a gas water heater was being lit after bleeding the line. All injured men were treated and released from St. Luke's hospital.
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