Weather summary and obituaries from multiple towns
Highs and lows listed for cities including Miami Bismarck Minneapolis New York Seattle Los Angeles and Washington with rainfall totals for November and year-to-date. Additional notes on barometer humidity wind and sun times. Obituary notices follow for Gardner Kipple Schacherer Buckmaster Brockway Masters and others with service details across Iowa towns.
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Alonte
Miami
Bismarck
Minnapolis
N. Orleans
New York
Duluty
Phoenix
Mouston
Seattle
L Angeles
Washington
Ford Defends College Football Against Johnson Quip
Rep Gerald Ford former Michigan football star criticized President Johnson for saying college football does not reflect a peace loving America. Ford called the remark demeaning to college football and praised players for competing in clean sport.
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Washington
Gerald Ford
R-Mich
University of Michigan
Johnson
U.S
Ford
Michigan
House
Vong Savang
Laos
United States
California
America
Pentagon
Two Accused of Violating Iowa Beer Statutes
In Cedar Rapids two people faced charges after an incident at Russo's on First avenue NW. Gary L. Fabert, 21, Center Point, was charged with making beer available to a minor and posted 30 dollars bond. Diana L. Nathem, 19, of 1265 Third Avenue SE, was charged with consuming beer as a minor and also posted 30 dollars bond.
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Cedar Rapids
Russo’s
First Avenue NW
Center Point
Gary L. Fabert
Diana L. Nathem
Third Avenue SE
Russo's
Landmark homes moved in pieces near Cape Horn
Residents recount a dramatic relocation of their homes assembled on site after a landmark move near Cape Horn. Mrs. Arnold Hendrix says she plans to stay despite a garage crack, insisting the state must offer more than compensation for what she calls her home and view.
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Cape Horn
Arnold Hendrix
Deaths Mrs Louis Mottet Elnora Parsons Mottet
Elnora Parsons Mottet 62 of route one Cedar Rapids died Saturday after a long illness. Born March 19 1905 at Solon she married Louis R Mottet November 24 1927 in Iowa City. Survived by husband a daughter a son two more sons four sisters a brother and 11 grandchildren. Services 3 p m Monday Chapel of Memories with Dr Glenn McMichael officiating. Burial Cedar Memorial cemetery. Friends may call after noon Sunday at Cedar Memorial funeral home.
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Elnora Parsons Mottet
Route One
Cedar Rapids
Solon
Louis R. Mottet
Iowa City
Charles Harms
Marion
George Mottet
Howard Mottet
Loton
Raymond Lewis
Funeral services for George L. Webby and Joseph Vanous
Sunday services held at Kuba funeral home and St George Syrian Orthodox church with Rev Elias Ziton, burial at St George cemetery. Joseph Vanous to be honored at Brush chapel and funeral, burial at Czech National cemetery.
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Vanous
Joseph
Brush
A. T. Washington
Czech National Cemetery
Pedestrian Among Victims In C R Mishaps
Three people suffered minor injuries in Cedar Rapids traffic accidents on Friday. Rebecca Zelezy faces a charge for failure to maintain control after rear ending Julia Dye on First Avenue at Twenty seventh Street East. Dye was taken for X rays at St Luke's. Gordon Glenz of Paynesville was charged after his car hit Anthony Gallo on the Sixteenth Avenue Bridge, pushing Gallo into Larry Murphy's car. Gallo's back injuries were not certain. A mother struck her son's leg when pulling onto Higley Avenue and stopping. Erroll Decker, five, was treated and released after X rays at Mercy Hospital.
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Cedar Rapids
Rebecca A. Zelezy
Fourteenth Street
Julia A. Dye
Second Avenue
First Avenue
Twentyseventh Street
Julia Dye
St. Luke’s
Gordon A. Glenz
Paynesville
Minn
Anthony J. Gallo
Center Point Road
Sixteenth Avenue Bridge
Gallo
Larry G. Murphy
Sixth Street
Mercy Hospital
Burkhalter Proposes Cash Bounty for Viet Cong Killings
Retired Maj. Gen. Louis D. Burkhalter of Cedar Rapids urged a cash bounty for each Viet Cong killed by South Vietnamese forces. He argued the incentive could provoke stronger action to destroy the Viet Cong and suggested using U.S. manpower and equipment to cut northbound support. Burkhalter spoke at National Guard ceremonies honoring eight Iowa citizen-soldiers.
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Des Moines Iap
Louis D. Burkhalter
Cedar Rapids
Burkhalter
Iowa
13Rd
National Guard Army Reserve
James Hilger
Kingsley
John Kline
Boone
Larry Stephens
Glenwood
Glen Clausen
Council Bluffs
Norman Zahradnik
Cedar Rapis
Delbert Burris
Elma
Marvin Focht
Stanton
Gordon Brodie
Merrill
Alcoholism Study Aims at Cedar Rapids Council Report
A two month study by Mayor Bob Johnson’s committee on alcoholism will be presented to the Cedar Rapids city council within two weeks. The panel, formed to explore using liquor profits for anti alcoholism efforts, met Friday to review recommendations including a permanent alcoholism committee replacing the temporary agency.
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Bob Johnson
Abbott Lipsky
Cedar Rapids
Lipsky
Iowa
Third Person Implicated in Theft of Auto
A third person is implicated in a car theft case involving a Washington high school vehicle. Two 11 year old suspects were arrested after taking Rex H. Phillips’s car from Cedar Rapids to Dubuque and back, where they allegedly stole another auto. Burrell T. Rupe of Walker is charged with larceny of a motor vehicle and is held in Cedar Rapids jail.
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Washington High School
Rex H. Phillips
Rompot
Dubuque
Cedar Rapids
Burrell T. Rupe
Walker
Rupe
Dubuane
Courthouse details affidavit tax exemption for furniture and more
Linn County Auditor Charles Werner explains the 2.50 exemption on taxable personal property for 1967 assessments payable in 1968. Taxable items include boats machinery livestock inventories and furnishings in rented houses. household items and personal items used around the homestead are non taxable. Affidavits must be notarized or acknowledged and those moved since assessment should notify the auditor.
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Linn County
Charles Werner
Werner
Leo R Johnson Charged With Resisting Arrest After Hotel Fight
Cedar Rapids resident Leo R Johnson aged 26 of 1435 Fifth Avenue SE was arrested Friday night on charges of resisting arrest and disturbing the peace after a fight at the Holiday Inn. Police say two officers separated the men and Johnson scuffled, breaking an officer's watch. the other man fled. Johnson posted a $110 bond and was released.
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Cedar Rapids
Leo R. Johnson
Fifth Avenue SE
Holiday Inn
Johnson
Three youths charged in truck theft at Haegg Roofing
Three youths ages 15 and 16 were arrested early Saturday for larceny of a motor vehicle after officers found two 16 year olds backing a company truck from the Haegg Roofing Co lot on Ninth Street S W. A third youth on the roof had taken and returned a truck. All were released to parents and referred to the probation department. One truck remains missing.
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Haegg Roofing Co
Ninth Street
S.W
Palice
It’s a Big Country channel nine feature night
A Saturday schedule lists a 9:30 p.m. double feature on CH.9 starring Van Johnson and Gene Kelly.
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van Johnson
Gene Kelly
Johnson in Vietnam War Tour Seeks Steady Course
President Johnson traveled from the White House to Fort Benning then toured Marine installations aboard the Enterprise. He spoke of a restrained victory in Vietnam, praised Marines at El Toro and Pendleton, and noted the looming wedding of his daughter Lynda to Marine Capt. Charles Robb while aboard the carrier.
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White House
Fort Benning
California
el Toro Marine Station
Camp Pendleton
U.S
Vietnam
Pendleton
Enterprise
Defense
McNamara
Johnson
Lynda
Charles Robb
Youth Arrested for Disturbing Peace at YMCA
A 17 year old boy was arrested at 3 30 am Saturday on charges of disturbing the peace and resisting an officer. Authorities said the youth caused a disturbance with loud language at the YMCA and fought officers trying to place him in a squad car. He reportedly fought again at police headquarters and was held Saturday afternoon.
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YMCA
First Known Case Tests Religious Healing Versus Law
Mothers spokesman recalled the case as unprecedented in memory. District Attorney Edmund Dinis argued religious practice cannot override state law and that guardians must protect children until they reach an age of reason. Skinner said Mrs Sheridan’s failure to call a doctor reflected Christian Science faith in divine healing.
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Edmund Dinis
Commonwealth
Skinner
Sheridan
Three Nabbed in Kidnapping Tied to 1966 Dahmer Case
Sam Bowers and two others were arrested in the Laurel area on state indictments for kidnapping and conspiracy to obstruct justice connected to the 1966 firebomb death of Vernon Dahmer near Hattiesburg. Billy Pitts pled guilty in the related Watkins case. federal indictments allege Klan ties and threats against civil rights workers.
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Pascagoula
Miss
Sam Bowers
FBI
Hattiesburg
Bowers
Cecil Sessums
Deavours Nix
Laurel
Amk
Vernon Dahmer
Dahmer
Forrest County
NAACP
Donald Cumbest
Nix
Sessums
Bekley
Meridian
Philadelphia
Miss. Sessum
Sessum
Bvelops
Jones County
Klavern
White Knights
Klan Bureau
Vandals Break Into Lumsden Home In Southeast City
Marlys A. Lumsden reported a break in at 1435 First Avenue SE between 5 p.m. Friday and 1 30 a.m. Saturday. Entry was gained by forcing a basement door safety chain. Burglars ransacked rooms, sprayed obscenities, and took a television set a clock radio and a stuffed donkey valued at 120 dollars.
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Marlys A. Lumsden
First Avenue SE
Veterans Day Speaker: Freedom Is Not Free
Dr. Loren T. Jenks a retired army colonel told Veterans Day services at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum that freedom demands ongoing support and sacrifice. He noted Vietnam morale and reenlistment as proof that freedom must be paid for with duty, and praised students and the VFW band for the program.
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Loren T. Jenks
Iowa
Jenks
Vietnam
City Briefs and Small Thefts Reported in Weekend Ads
Multiple petty thefts appear in city notices including an outboard motor and battery from a garage at 1080 Favenue NW, a cash box worth 50 dollars from the Roosevelt hotel timekeeper’s office, and an antenna and amplifier from an apartment basement. Also noted are a missing set of records valued at 200 dollars, a holiday fair at St Paul’s, and a frostings special advertised through December 15th.
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Don Quass
1080 Favenue NW
Slower Halves Still Coming From Mint
The Treasury says Kennedy half-dollars remain scarce but secure for the future. Eva Adams notes mint output fell from 24 million to 15 million monthly this year, as coin circulation improves and demand stabilizes. Dick Shanafelt, 88, a Rough Riders official, dies in Kansas. mint plans 100 million halves for first half of 1968.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Kennedy
Eva Adams
The
Mint
Rough Rider
Lawrence
Kan
Dick Shanafelt
Rough Riders
Teddy Roosevelt
Communications Sessions Next Week in Cedar Rapids
A two day conference for Area Ten school administrators titled New iConcepts in Communication will be held Monday and Tuesday at the Linn County Office Building. Eastman Kodak Co. will present a multimedia Concepts in Communication 1967. Dr Raymond V Wiman of the University of Iowa will address Why Educational Media. Sessions run 8 30 a m to 3 30 p m each day.
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Area Ten Community College
Eastman Kodak Co
Raymond V. Wiman
University of Iowa
Linn County
Second Avenue SE
Prisoners Profile: Pilzer Described From Page One
The article continues detailing prisoner Pilzer, noting his appearance with shorts and an open neck sports shirt, a trimmed mustache and pencil goatee. He is described as lean, not tanned, and sporting a crew cut.
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Pilzer
Mother Told Of Release Of Soldier From Cambodia
Mrs James Jackson mother of Sergeant James Jackson Jr says a telegram from the Army shows her son has been released by the Viet Cong to Cambodia. The note signed by Adjutant General Kenneth Wickham says he will move to Bangkok then to evacuation routes and ultimately to a U S service hospital near home, possibly Walter Reed. She has no details on his condition or arrival timing.
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Talcott
W. Va
James Jackson
Set
James Jackson, Jr
Department of the Army
Cambodia
Kenneth Wickham
Jackson
Bangkok
Thailand
U.S. Service
Walter Reed
Washington
U.S
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Daily Record
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Gazelle
Fourteenth Avenue
Thirtieth Street
Waconia Avenue
Locust Drive
Eleventh Street
Sixteenth Avenue
Park Avenue
Garrison
Mini Gardner
Tucedus
Campbell's
Sand Springs
Charley E. Martin
Buck Creek
Hopkinton
Gadtsch’s. West Branch
Nona C. Kipple
Tipton Bible Church
Sheets and Son
Tipton
Manchester
Mary T. Schacherer
St. Mary’s Church
Dunkerton
Grace Buckmaster Joy
First Baptist Church
Brant’s
Oclwein
Hawkeye
Marr Brockway
Alpha Methodist Church
Bethel
Emerson’s
Louis Mottet
C.R
C.R. Council
Cedar Memorial Ne
Tranquil Locati Funeral Home
Auditor’s Office
John E. Lapes
3Rd Ave
Mississippi
Lcot
C.R. House
LaSalle W High School Boys’ Glee Club
VFW
Roosevelt Hotel
Mt. Vernon Ave
Charles R. Rorabaugh
Oakland Road
the Gazette
St. Paul’s
Glen Harris
Highland Drive
Encore Beauty Salon
Square Dance Records
YWCA
Turner's
Turner Mortuary
First Ave
John B. Turner
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