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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1964
Page
3
Thuring town report shows five day forecast with temperatures near normal and scattered showers. Noon readings reach 76, with a warm trend into midweek and cool Sunday. Police fine listings include multiple traffic and license violations, followed by funeral notices across Iowa communities and service details.
Mercy birth announcements list daughters and sons for multiple families across Cedar Rapids and Marion with addresses. The section includes divorce-style name changes and a Cedar Rapids Electric Co incident noting children playing with matches ignited siding on a shed at 616 B avenue NE.
Speeding-related incidents include individuals such as Mary Ann Calef Patricia Pyle Mary Jo Hemphill Raymond G. Bonebrake Jr Roger P. Wessling Larry Zirbel Abdallah Igram and Bradley Hooper along with partial addresses on several streets. The fragment mentions a list of names linked to traffic offenses.
The report states two men face charges for assault with intent to commit great bodily injury and intoxication plus disturbing the peace after a scuffle with Lee. Lee, arrested at 279 Owen Street NW, had not lived there since last summer. He previously served a seven day term in Cedar Rapids in April 1962 for assault and battery and was paroled October 10, 1958 after a manslaughter term.
Mary Schoonover alias Mary Dulin, 32, of 220 Sixth Avenue SW, pleaded guilty before Municipal Judge Howard McLaughlin to false uttering of a check. She received a 30 day suspended jail sentence for writing a $10 bad check to a Cedar Rapids supermarket on June 25.
Charles Whapples age 72 of 424 First Street SW was injured when he jumped or fell from the west end of the Third Avenue bridge at 11 45 a m Friday plunging about 25 feet into shallow water. He was pulled to safety by police and firefighters taken to St Luke s Hospital with heel and knee injuries in good condition. Detective Navratil said there were no witnesses to the fall Whapples later said he did not know what happened. He formerly jumped from the Eighth Avenue bridge about two years ago and has been a patient at Veterans Administration hospital Iowa City for the last two years.
The article traces Alexei Kosygin’s ascent from early 1930s party circles to power roles. It notes his 1953 deputy premier promotion, 1941 premier of the RSFSR, 1953 finance minister, and 1964 role on Khrushchev era economic council alongside Mikoyan and Ustinov.
Mrs Edwin Hignett 85 of Arlington is in an Oelwein hospital with back injuries after the car her husband was driving left Highway 3 east of Oelwein Thursday evening The driver was charged with failure to have his car under control
The First Baptist Church of Marion claims pews installed by Turney Wood Products caused damage and seeks 4021.60 in a lawsuit. The church says a written contract dated August 5 1958 covered pews pulpit lectern and racks and the finish has peeled off staining clothing. A jury trial is requested.
Lillian and Robert Neff filed in Linn district court seeking 55 645 43 dollars for injuries and vehicle damage from a Nov 19 1962 crash in Cedar Rapids. Defendant Ralph D Armstrong accused of negligence. Mrs Neff sustained a permanent knee injury and spine injuries with bruises and shock.
Robert E. Gager, 48, of 627 Seventh Avenue SE, withdrew his innocent plea and pled guilty before Judge William Eads to a third offense drunk driving. The judge sentenced him to two years in the state penitentiary at Ft. Madison and placed him on probation after his Feb. 21 arrest at A Avenue and Tenth Street NE when his pickup struck a car stopped for a traffic light.
J. W. Lee Grant Jr., 34, of 260 Twenty-first Avenue SW, arraigned in district court on arson. Judge Charles Penningroth set 20 days to obtain counsel and plead. Grant indicted by Linn County grand jury for starting a $100,000 blaze at the old church building at 334.
Glenn L. McCombs aged 41 of 106 Third Avenue SE and Thomas A. Palmer aged 19 of 4101 Sixteenth Avenue SW were sentenced on forgery charges. McCombs gained ten years in Ft Madison state prison to run concurrently with a revoked seven year sentence from 1963. The forged check for 20 dollars used the name Ralph McCombs. Palmer received six months in Linn County Jail with time served since Aug 31 and was brought back from Sarasota Florida to face charges for forging the name Terry K Grimm on a 40 dollar check.
Larson Thorton L. Larson 43 of Dubuque pleaded guilty before Judge William Eads to passing a bogus $25 check July 1 at the Christian Science reading room in Cedar Rapids. Sentencing scheduled for Oct. 23. Also reported are two shot steers near Mt. Vernon and a maintenance suit between Effie L. Klinger and Edward J. Klinger.
President Johnson said he had no information that would have prompted questioning of top aide Walter Jenkins before his two morals arrests became public. He ordered an FBI inquiry and Jenkins resigned after the arrests surfaced.
IBEA officer Shirley Bollhoefer of Washington high school was elected president of the Iowa Business Education Association in Des Moines. Various ads note garage sales, travel slides, a supervisor election, a late market, and a used car sale with bonuses. Charles Chyba of Cedar Rapids died Friday after a long illness, with services set and survivors listed. reporting includes vandalism on a car windshield and local event notes.
Obituary items note Mrs. Mark J. Myers later Maye dying in Manhattan Kansas at age 67. Born September 23 1876 in Prairieburg Iowa she was a Coe College graduate and former Merchants National Bank official widow of Mark J. Myers. Surviving sister A M Johnston of Manhattan officiants include Rev Walter Kellison. Memorials at Turner chapel. Entombment at Chapel of Memories. In another notice Mrs Waddington long Cedar Rapids resident and Kenwood Park Methodist member died aged 50 years. Surviving daughter Bernice Gunn Kansas City with three grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Memorials at Turner chapel Oak Hill cemetery burial follows.
President Johnson signs into law a measure that guarantees increases for veterans and widows already receiving federal veterans pension. The White House disclosed the signing Friday, noting the pension bill was part of a list of bills signed that day.
Police investigated malicious damage at a house under construction at 1107 Thirty fourth Street SE. Builder Joseph M. Olinger reported a small fire scorched the living room floor and leaves burned there. Thirty drainage tiles were smashed last Saturday.
Memorial services set for Krofta Mrs Wesley Saturday at 9:45 am at Janeba Kuba funeral home and 10 at St Ludmila church. Rosary Friday 7:30 pm. Burial St Johns. McDowell Mrs John Saturday 9 am at Immaculate Conception church. Burial Mt Calvary. Rosary Friday 7 pm at Kuba funeral home. Bednasek Emil Turner chapel noon Saturday. Burial Czech National cemetery. Casket not opened. Brayton Robert Bob Saturday 2 pm at Rohn funeral home. Cremation committal. Friends may call.
A three vehicle crash on Highway 6 about a mile west of Coralville injured two people Friday morning. Clay Walters of Cedar Rapids suffered facial injuries and shock and is in satisfactory condition at Veterans Hospital. Jeanne K. Smith of Tiffin was taken to University Hospitals with a neck injury and lower back strain and was listed in good condition.
President De Gaulle ends a 10 nation Latin American tour in Rio de Janeiro and departs by plane for Paris on Friday.
Mrs. Randall Waddington 84 of Kansas City Missouri and former Cedar Rapids resident died Friday after a brief illness. She was born November 28. She was widow of Randall Parker Waddington and lived in Cedar Rapids 54 years before moving to Kansas City in 1963.
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