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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1967
Page
3
In Cao Xa Vietnam priest Father Nguyen Huu Du 47 leads a militant parish of 4000. He trained followers in firearm use and guards the village with mortars and barbed wire. He fled Hanoi in 1954 and says defense is necessary to survive amid Viet Cong pressure. Do they kill? Only in defense.
Sylvia Porter explains umbrella liability coverage as excess protection for wealthy individuals. It starts where auto and home policies end, offering up to several million dollars and covering libel plagiarism and false arrest. Premiums vary by risk, with typical homeowners adding about 50 to 80 dollars yearly for higher limits.
U S Commissioner Alex Akerman found 14 of 20 pacifist demonstrators guilty of loitering after a Pentagon anti war sit in. Thirteen received six months probation and 30 days in jail, suspended if they avoid loitering sleeping or assembling at the Pentagon for six months. One juvenile, Decourcy Squire of Morgantown West Virginia, was kept in custody as a minor. Two were acquitted and the remaining four had their cases bound over to a U S district judge.
Pittsburgh AP report notes the American Baptist Convention urged its 1.5 million members to back state legislation legalizing abortion in rape or incest cases, mental incompetence, or threats to the mother's health, in a 499 to 351 vote at the annual meeting.
Shriners dedicated a new 3.3 million Burns Institute in Cincinnati. The four story facility will employ about 150 staff and treat children under 15 from North America whose families cannot pay for care.
At Le Bourget airport during the fortieth anniversary ceremony for Charles Lindbergh's flight, a dignitaries' stand collapsed. U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen and San Diego Mayor Frank Curran were shaken but uninjured, along with about a dozen others. A replica Spirit of St Louis was taxiing past the Eiffel Tower when the collapse occurred.
In Hollywood AP reports thieves stole a 2 by 3 foot sign outside a garage reading Notice This garage watched by closed circuit TV and a nearby camera. Rose Rubin the building manager posted the sign but police later learned it and the camera were missing.
In Finland 500 hunters equipped with rifles and radios scoured the countryside after a lone wolf sighting near Vaasa. The animal has so far eluded capture as the search continues.
Minnesota lawmakers adjourned after a 37 roll call standoff over a 3 percent sales tax bill. Fifteen Senate Democrats abstained to block passage, upholding Gov. LeVander's veto. The vote left the state without funds for the next two years and signaled a likely special session to finish appropriations and the building program.
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