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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1963
Page
8
ITV primary contests unfold in Iowa with Cedar Rapids featuring three candidates for safety commissioner. Incumbent Frank Bosh, Ralph Mikesell, and Blake St Clair vie for two general election spots with Cedar Rapids turnout urged to reflect support for stable governance.
Report details Governor Hughes considering reactivating the bi partisan Loveless Committee of 100 to outline Iowa's future. A new 25 to 40 member panel would update the original material, aiming to boost the state's economy amid space age prosperity gaps.
Iowa Supreme Court refused to allow paying $10,000 for a .29 acre tract along Highway 141 in Manning after a Carroll County jury valued it at $125. The ruling says the award was eighty times the set value and unacceptable. The decision preserves taxpayer interests and condemns overbearing jury awards.
Bud Wilkinson told friends he may resign as head of the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness due to a dispute over publicizing Eisenhower. He said the move would breach a promise to keep politics out of the program and may push him toward a Senate run as a Republican.
Roscoe Drummond argues that recent events from Peking to Havana reveal economic failures of communism. He points to Soviet agrarian inefficiency, China's stagnation after the leap forward, Cuba's decline, East Germany’s mass arrests, and growing Sino Soviet tensions as signs the system cannot deliver a thriving society.
John Chamberlain argues the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize was misdirected to Linus Pauling and praises Stephen Galatti director general of the American Field Service for 75 years of quiet peace work. Galatti runs a student exchange program funded largely by private effort, guiding 13,000 students from 66 nations and sending 8,300 Americans abroad since 1947.
Louis Harris reports Nixon edges Goldwater as the best Republican challenger to President Kennedy with Goldwater still a strong second. Rockefeller and Romney lose ground while Nixon expands appeal among Midwest small towns and women, signaling a GOP crossroads in 1964.
Recap of past Iowa events notes John Waterbeck of Hartwick winning the 1953 two row division at Nieburh farm near Blairs town. Also mentions SUI football changes with senior manager staff led by Bill Quinby Cedar Rapids, and mayor Milo Sedlacek’s renomination bid amid 1943 shifts with Governor Hickenlooper naming John M. Grimes state treasurer after Bagley’s death October 20. mentions a Liberty ship naming Frank J Cahel, a Linn County Sunday school convention October 25 at Marion, and related 1933 riots and PTA and nursing notes.
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