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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1965
Page
1
Five day forecast notes temperatures averaging 4 to 8 degrees below normal with colder conditions Friday and Sunday and warmer Saturday. Precipitation expected about one half to one inch with rain Friday and Sunday. Local normals and past readings, river/dam data, and family notices follow.
The Cedar Rapids area lists numerous speeding fines, penalties and addresses for offenses including leaving scene of an accident, disobeying stop signs and traffic signals, and drunkenness. The notice also lists multiple obituaries with service details for churches and chapels in towns such as Guttenberg Swisher Toledo Strawberry Point and Waukon, naming individuals and arrangements.
The city faced a massive blackout with many injured from falls and heart attacks and at least one death from a stairway fall. A candlelit jury verdict appeared, thousands stayed home, and schools and stock markets delayed openings. Residents aided each other as looting occurred sparsely and authorities restored order.
Mrs Oscar Walker 74 of 935 Fourth Street SW died Tuesday after a lingering illness. Born April 3 1891 in Shellsburg she wed Oscar Walker Oct 27 1909. Surviving are her husband three sons four daughters thirty grandchildren five great grandchildren five sisters and one brother. Memorial services Friday at 1 30 p m at Hesser Memorial chapel by Elder Robert Goransson with graveside in Shellsburg.
The infant son of Mr and Mrs Laurence Donner of Cedar Rapids died at birth on Wednesday. Surviving are grandparents Mr and Mrs Leland Donner and Mr and Mrs Stanley Procok of Cedar Rapids. Private graveside services were held Wednesday afternoon at Mt Calvary Cemetery conducted by Rev J Robert McDonald. Teahen Funeral Home handled arrangements.
Memorial services for Lorene and Tillie at First Presbyterian near Ely at 10 a.m. Thursday conducted by Rev. Arthur Nash with burial in the church cemetery. Brush chapel in Sparks hosts Harlan M Turner chapel at 1 30 p.m. Thursday with Rev. Paul K H Figge and burial at Cedar Memorial. Graveside services by Hanford post American Legion. Simonsen Bert Hilbert Beatty Bearle funeral home at 1 30 p.m. Thursday with Rev. L George Pimlott of St. James Methodist. burial Cedar Memorial cemetery.
A young pacifist who set himself on fire in front of the United Nations to protest the Vietnam War died Wednesday in New York. He had turned himself in as an act of protest and later succumbed to his injuries.
Jay Landis, 30, of Davenport, pleaded guilty to uttering a false check. His sentencing was set for 10 am next Wednesday. He allegedly passed a $40 bad check at the Me Too Food store on Sept. 19.
Cedar Rapids minors John Kelchen aged 19 and Kay Verge aged 19 were fined 100 dollars and costs after arrest for illegally possessing beer. Daryle Dorsch, 25, of Marion area, was fined 100 dollars and costs for making beer available to minors. Verge awaits serving a 30 day alternative sentence in county jail.
City council approved the first relocation payments to Cedar Lake area residents displaced by urban renewal. Four residents received 24.50 total. three got 3.50 each for cab fare and one received 14. The official noted these may be the only cash benefits for some, with other adjustments possible later.
Richard Dale Stoddard age 18 of 3718 F avenue NE received a ten year suspended sentence at the men’s reformatory in Anamosa for larceny of a motor vehicle and a six month suspended sentence in the county jail for operating a motor vehicle without owner consent. He pled guilty to both charges after being accused of stealing a car from Helen Hosch of 1501 Washington avenue SE on July 19. Stoddard appeared before Judge Harold Vietor.
A Linn district court jury found LeRoy Merrifield of Coggan guilty of a drunk driving charge. Judge Warren Rees deferred sentencing and gave Merrifield ten days to file a motion for a new trial after arrest on January 15 north of Hiawatha on highway 150.
Judge Harold Victor ordered a drunk driving charge against Virgil Harrison Marcy 56 of 4515 Tama Street Marion sent to the grand jury after police stopped him August sixth at F Avenue and Thirteenth Street NW for driving with one head light.
A 30 000 curies batch of radioactive cobalt 60 was trucked from Harwell to Melsungen West Germany for a Gamma irradiation plant to sterilize medical equipment. This marks Britain's largest radioactive material shipment to Europe.
Cedar Rapids high school seniors from five schools participated in the eighth annual Youth Appreciation week at city hall. Thirteen students were assigned city roles including Jamie Soukup acting as mayor, with others filling posts such as building official and police chief.
Dr John C Walker Coe College chaplain urged over 100 listeners at the Roosevelt Hotel to use physical strength courage and intellect for others welfare In urging responsibility he cited Plato on choosing good leadership and warned against consumer oriented values and fading ideals from earlier days
Randy Nazette, 15, son of Mr and Mrs Richard Nazette of 2224 Country Club Parkway SE, was honored at a noon Youth Appreciation luncheon for saving a woman trapped under a overturned pontoon boat on Coralville lake on Sept 5. Morris Dicker, district governor of Optimist International, presented a plaque. A physician letter urged Cedar Rapids Red Cross to recognize him further.
AP reports Paul Antier former agriculture minister and one of five candidates challenging Charles de Gaulle in the December 5 election has won an endorsement from Pierre Proujade, whose earlier tax revolt failed to sustain power. Antier is not seen as a strong foe to De Gaulle.
Andrew Quinn was sentenced to life in prison in Glasgow on Tuesday, the first killer given a term after Britain officially abolished the death penalty days earlier.
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