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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1968
Page
26
Hollywood NBC ABC telecast Saturday features No 32 O J Simpson and USC vs UCLA at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The late game follows Nebraska vs Oklahoma as TV fans anticipate Simpson's remarkable second-half drives and a 238 yard outing in a top ranked USC rally.
Fran Ryan, star of the Doris Day TV show, said she always felt Howard would emerge from the mountains. The wreckage of her husband’s small plane was discovered in southern Oregon fifteen years after it vanished.
A twin engine plane carrying members of the governor’s Employment Advisory Commission studying unemployment in Arctic villages crashed near Barrow Alaska. Seven were killed and an eighth injured critically. Governor Hickel proclaimed a day of mourning.
Osceola county authorities identified 21 year old Kenneth Sinkey of Ashton as the Marine Corps veteran killed when his car collided with a truck on Highway 33. Sinkey recently returned from Vietnam and was discharged October 3.
Tass says a new rail line connecting Italy with the Volga river will be inaugurated next May. The route spans about 2,500 miles, making it one of the world’s longest rail connections.
Water loo Attorney William Ball of Cedar Rapids is named executive assistant to Governor-elect Robert Ray. Ball, 39, will help assemble the governor's staff. He is a partner in Butterfield Hultman Ball Beekman & Peterson and a 1956 University of Iowa law graduate. Ball chaired the Republican state platform committee in 1966 and 1968 and was a 1968 Republican national convention alternate delegate. He previously served two terms as Black Hawk County attorney. He is the son of Marie Ball of Cedar Rapids.
John A. Slach 52 of Solon died Wednesday at Veterans hospital in Iowa City after a brief illness. A WWII veteran and former Solon mayor active in community projects, he is survived by a sister, multiple brothers and half-siblings. Services Saturday at Brush funeral home at 8:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. at St Mary’s Church. Burial with graveside military honors by the Stinocher post. Rosary at 8 p.m. Friday.
Ten task forces named by President elect Nixon aim to pinpoint issues in each problem area and show where he can act immediately. Led by George Shultz and Paul McCracken, with Herbert Stein guiding behavioral and fiscal policy research, early reports will go to Nixon and the cabinet.
The UPI report lists executives from Lionel D. Edie and Co. and the Conservation Foundation among organizations connected to the award. The contract covers design and development of a new quiet submarine, reflecting defense research priorities in Washington.
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