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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1966
Page
27
Daily Record shows high and low temperatures for Thursday with 75 and 94?9?5 readings, notes on precipitation, and a five day outlook near normal east and above normal west. Normal highs 65 to 70, lows 2 to 47. Rainfall none for Oct. 6 totals discussed alongside barometer and wind data. Obituaries and notices follow including births and divorces.
Judd attacked Republicans for poor salesmanship while addressing Second District voters in Marion. He argued for presenting policies with flair, recalled Kennedy era programs like Peace Corps and Food for Peace, and urged a hard line in Vietnam without yielding to Communists.
Paris traffic returns to normal as thousands of foot-sore Parisians fill the subway after a 24-hour walkout by metro workers ended.
President Johnson proposes modernizing NATO and Atlantic institutions, integrating Western Europe, and accelerating East West engagement. He calls for easing export controls, expanding financing to Poland Hungary Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia, aiding Fiat’s Russia plant, and relaxing travel to communist states. He urges peaceful German reunification with Eastern European consent.
Washington AP reports Congress approved a $2.94 billion foreign aid appropriation by voice vote after the House passed it 189 to 89. Rep. Passman called claims of a cut dishonest though the total was $443.4 million under Johnson's request and the lowest in nine years.
The senate confirmed Vice Adm. Rufus Taylor as deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The confirmation occurred Friday in Washington.
Victor D. Merveaux 66 of 532 Twenty second Street SE died Thursday night after a long illness. He built the Merveaux Typewriter and Adding Machine Exchange for 48 years and was active in Cedar Rapids civic groups including the Elks and Crescent Masonic lodge. He is survived by his wife Nina, a daughter, five grandchildren, and a brother. Services at 2 p.m. Saturday at Hesser Memorial chapel with burial at Cedar Memorial.
Rita E. Cramer of Cedar Rapids and later Chicago died Thursday. She was born February 21 1894 in Worth county and is survived by two sons two daughters seven grandchildren two great grandchildren and three sisters. Services will be at Turner chapel at 1 30 p m Monday with burial in Linwood cemetery. Harley P Van Dyke a Cedar Rapids machinist for Allis Chalmers died in Iowa City after a brief illness born February 15 1902 in Benton county. Survived by a daughter and a sister services at Turner chapel 1 30 Saturday burial in Shellsburg. Mrs Perry McCollister formerly Kathryn Lynch of Cedar Rapids died suddenly in West Covina California survived by three children.
Two Cedar Rapids men were arrested after a police chase on the southeast side. Robert M. Smith 25 of 1311 Second Street SE faces injuring or terrorizing in inhabitants of a dwelling charges. James Santee 19 of 1026 Eleventh Street NW faces parole violation. Smiths charge filed May 14. Randall sustained minor hand injury and was treated. Santee arrested after 11 am in a private home. Authorities say Smith threw a bottle through a window in an earlier May 14 incident leading to a warrant.
Lawmakers voted 47 to 23 against sending the bill to the labor committee and debated federal efforts to desegregate schools under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. An amendment curbing Commissioner Harold Howe's power to defer funds was approved, while another limited requirements to assign or transport students to balance schools. Local districts may still use federal funds to bus pupils or pursue other desegregation programs.
Washington AP reports that Senate house conferees on the 1.75 billion anti poverty measure made no progress in resolving differences at their first session Friday.
Dublin hosts an All-Ireland Football Championship broadcast this Saturday afternoon at 1 30 on Channel 9 as part of ABC Wide World of Sports lineup.
Sandra Elders, 29, an inmate at the Rockwell City reform school, pled guilty before Judge B J Maxwell to forging the name of Mrs. Robert Smith of Cedar Rapids on a $250 check and passing it May 22 at Boyson Jewelry Store. She is serving a one year sentence in Linn county for a false altering of a check conviction.
Three Cedar Rapids residents on Waconia Avenue SW sue Waconia Sorghum Co claiming plant smoke and waste damaged homes, furniture, and health. Charles Alexander seeks 25 000. Royce Gene Leon and Louise Holets seek 12 000 each. Plant operates nearly 24 hours causing odors and air pollution.
Linn County Sheriff Wal ter Grant said five inmates in cell block three will miss their p.m. coffee break for three days after paper was stuffed into a cell lock. The clogged mechanism failed to engage until investigators late Thursday found the issue. A jailer secured a second guard while examining the block.
R Fikers of the Des Moines Veterans Administration Center will be at the Linn County courthouse next Wednesday to provide personal assistance with VA benefits. The VA urges eligible veterans to plan their education under the GI bill now and notes that those unable to attend may write the Des Moines center for help.
Floyd Dirks of rural Central City filed a $4 357 10 accident damage suit Friday against George H Harris of Marion claiming negligence for failing to keep his car under control after his vehicle struck the rear of Dirks vehicle.
A plaintiff reports neck and shoulder injuries after a collision on October 14, 1964 at the highway 150 and C avenue NE intersection caused by a car driven by Dirks. Medical care extended for months.
Leo Baburek and his son Ronald sue Frances Mae Snyder for 10400 in auto damage. Ronald seeks 10000 personal damages and Leo 400 for a car damaged beyond repair from a Feb 11 1965 collision at Thirty second Street SE and First Avenue E.
Glenn R. Suits of 2202 Ninth Street NW pled innocent before Judge William R. Eads to a false uttering of a $20 bad check alleged to have been passed July 25 to Kory Inn. Proceedings include case petition Dismissed in Lawrence W. and Wilma C. Farris vs. Gaddis Enterprises, Inc. contract.
Two Cedar Rapids youths aged 14 and 12 were arrested for stealing a car registered to Sammy Turner. The vehicle was found on Fifth Street SE after the younger boy was caught for bicycle theft and confessed. Both face juvenile larceny charges and were sent to Linn County probation officers.
The Air Force will appoint a panel from the Academy of Sciences to review the Colorado UFO report after its completion. The panel will be independent of the investigating team, offering an extra check on the method of investigation.
President Johnson will not attend the National Corn Picking Contest near Cedar Rapids on Oct 13 14. The White House cited unable to accept the invitation. Sen George McGovern and Sen Jack Miller will speak for Democrats and Republicans respectively. Governors Hughes and Murray also speak. Local bands perform on Thursday and Friday.
The crash at Jim Palmer corner threw a car into a ditch and struck a utility pole killing Philip Stewart born July 18 1947 and James Hammes a student at Northeast Missouri State Teachers College. Both bodies are at Powell funeral home in Keota with services set. Philip Stewart leaves a sister Mrs Walter Moore and brothers Timothy in Vietnam and John at home. Hammes’ service is at SS Peter and Paul church near Harper.
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