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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1963
Page
3
Buchanan and Delaware officials search Winthrop area for two Black men who allegedly tried to break into a vacant farm house near Highways 182 and 20. A neighbor saw one man flee into a cornfield and another drive away in a blue Ford. A patrol plane assists the search.
Hook 5510 Klinger street SW fined 60 dollars and costs for 12 violations. Drunkenness in Erman West erfield with no address received 30 day suspended sentence. West Liberty Edith James aged 79. services Thursday at 2 Snyder's. Urbana Harry A Sturtz aged 65. services Friday at 2 Prairie Creek Christian church. Friends may call Fry and Holland in Vinton after 4 Thursday.
Riverside incident on the Riverside Washington county road left Berley Daniel Moore dead at 39 and Roy Servus seriously hurt. Clarence Ross Jr. 37 of Kinross drove the truck. Ross was uninjured. Moore was a construction worker and father of seven. The crash occurred three miles south of Riverside. the Moore car was demolished and the National By-Products Co. truck sustained about 700 dollars in damage.
Six Republicans and two Democrats demand delay for a special committee review while others back a wheat surplus trade with Russia. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee to study long term policies toward the communist bloc after a closed session with Secretary Rusk. Fulbright said a substantial number favored proceeding with the wheat deal despite aid cut battles.
The Cedar Rapids ambulance service dispute widens as officials feud over responses and funding. Fire Chief Jesse Hunter rejects calls to demote Assistant Chief Earl Mueller after an emergency van crash while responding to a presumed dying man later found to have an epileptic seizure. The crash injured the ambulance and damaged the fire van, with both still in use. The city has long subsidized ambulances, with prior operators paid monthly sums. Howell, a mayoral candidate for public improvements, has operated largely solo as council debates future participation.
The city moves to hire six men to staff ambulance service. Two men have approached Commissioner Frank Bush about starting an ambulance business with outside backing. The team will run three eight hour shifts from the police department, funded by a contingent fund.
An emergency accident near Sun Valley tested the city's ambulance service. Police dispatched a unit after a call to Mercy hospital where two accident victims were treated for severe lacerations. One victim was Daniel Vileta of 1423 Third Street SE. the second name was withheld awaiting relatives' notification. The crash occurred outside the city limits.
North Liberty authorities list Patty Elaine Lewis aged 15 as missing since the evening of September 30. The Cedar Rapids baby-sitting claim and an unloaded route home are noted. she is 5 feet 2 inches, 120 pounds, with black hair and light brown eyes.
Nightingale, a 43 year old parole violator from Jones County, escaped from a work detail on reformatory farm No 1 at the northwest edge of Anamosa. He is described as light complexioned with blue eyes and brown hair.
Ralph Leo, 69, Cedar Rapids musician, died in Hot Springs S D after hospital treatment. A famed concert singer and son of pioneer music teacher E A Leo, he studied at Washington High and Juilliard, won a 1916 national voice contest, served as a Marine in World War I, taught at Bush Conservatory and the University of Texas, toured eleven years as a concert artist, and later taught privately in Cedar Rapids. He survived by two daughters Uno Lake and Abel Gonzalez. funeral arrangements pending.
Sofus Axel Andersen age 102 a Cedar Rapids resident died in Iowa City after a long illness. Born August 2, 1897 in Aalborg Denmark he married Hilda Little in 1919. He was a longtime superintendent for Rinderknecht Construction and later city inspector. Survived by wife five daughters seven grandchildren two brothers and many relatives. Memorial services Friday at Turner chapel with burial at Linwood cemetery conducted by the American Legion.
A Cedar Rapids resident named Elihue Foote is noted for a prior life in the city before relocating. The brief reference lists his name and origin without additional context or details.
A sequence of funeral and burial arrangements is listed for residents including Denny Mrs J W at Immaculate Conception with burial at Mt Calvary, Paula Mary A at Janeba Kuba funeral home, Happel Martha A at Bearle funeral home, Janzam Minnie Wilhelmina at Turner chapel, Seaton Marjorie L at Chapel for Memories, Burge Minnie E at Turner chapel, Chiverton Mrs Roy E at St Matthew's, Monahan Mary at Assumption church. Rosaries and parish services are noted for each, with burial locations Cedar Memorial or Mt Calvary.
Harold Miller faced a skunk in his Longmont basement and enlisted Earl Richardson's animal ward to solve the problem. Richardson fired a tranquilizing charge with a compressed air rifle, rendering the animal harmless until it could be removed far from town.
Hurricane chief of the Agrarian Reform Institute warned heavy losses across crops in Cuba, with sugar cane severely affected. He projected a serious reduction in the next crop’s expected maximum yield and noted rice and cotton losses would require imports, with farm plans shifting toward sugar cane, cattle raising, and immediate food needs.
In Dayton Ohio an 18 year old, Preston McCrery of Miamisburg, receives a cornea transplant after a cross city effort. The Ohio highway patrol Columbus police and doctors from Dayton and Columbus coordinated a rapid transfer, with a University Hospital cornea shipped by air to Grandview Hospital. The operation began at 8:35 p.m. and continued overnight. The patient remains in satisfactory condition as doctors assess the outcome in the days ahead. The eye injury traces to a seven year old acid attack and a later accident that left his other eye blind.
In Cedar Rapids during fire prevention week, Jerry Mayer of St. Paul demonstrated that vapors from fuels are heavier than air and that even an empty container demands respect. He cited a gallon of gasoline producing 13 000 cubic feet of vapors and urged ignition avoidance. Four men elected to the 1964 board of governors are Don Kensinger Keith Murphy Don Fahren and Louie Scroggins.
The Junior Chamber of Commerce and the League for Women Voters announced a public meet the candidates night for municipal offices. The event is set for next Wednesday at 8 p.m. October 16 at the Roosevelt hotel with six candidates invited and Grant Price of WMT as moderator.
Furman University in Greenville voluntarily lowers racial barriers becoming the first white college in the state to do so. Trustees vote to consider all qualified applicants with one dissenter, though no Negro applications had yet been received. Clemson and the University of South Carolina admit Negro students under federal orders.
Paroled killer James Sherbondy, 43, traced to Chicago and armed, sent a letter to his brother asking that his Chicago car be picked up. He killed a Colorado sheriff's deputy in 1937 at age 17, later led two prison breaks and was called the most dangerous man in the Colorado penitentiary. He was paroled in October 1962 and had vanished since.
In Tokyo the two leaders of a Chinese Communist engineering mission departed for home Wednesday without their defecting interpreter. The defection story centers on the unresolved status of the interpreter as the officials proceeded with travel.
The notice promotes Turner Memorial Service stressing unhurried efficiency and tailored cost options. It claims Turner delivers every facility you wish with every detail attended, emphasizing personal choice in service quality.
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