Weather and obituaries mixed in Aug 1968 notices
The page lists daily weather figures for Saturday including high 66 and low 61, barometer steady, humidity at 6 p.m., wind from WNW at 9 mph, and sun and moon rise/set times. It also records numerous August death notices and funeral services from towns like Monticello, Columbus Junction, Deep River, Elkader, and Vinton, with names, ages, and service details.
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Gazette
Center Junction
Henry B. Boner
Goettsch Funeral Home
Monticello
Columbus Junction
Pennie Mae Johnston
Stacy Lewis
Deep River
William H. Tanke
McAninch’s
Victor
Calvary Lutheran Church
Elkader
Michael Garaghty
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Rosary
McTaggart’s. High
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Feeney-Knutson
Volga
George Oldfather
West Union
Selma Randall
Burnham and Wood
Vinton
Thomas Phillippe
Fry and Holland
Slight Change in Agnew Schedule for Cedar Rapids Visit
Arrival time in Cedar Rapids moved to 2 p.m. on Wednesday. Agnew will speak at 8 p.m. at the Roosevelt hotel. A 3:30 p.m. press conference follows, then the 4:45 p.m. opening of Linn county GOP headquarters. This is his first campaign stop since the Miami Beach convention nominating him.
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Cedar Rapids
Spiro Agnew
Agnew
Roosevelt Hotel
Linn County
Miami Beach
G.O.P
Maryland
Fatal head-on Crash Claims 62 Year Old Man
CRESCO AP Bernard Bulls 62 of Grundy Center died in a weekend collision with a car driven by John Werning 20 of Cedar Rapids on U.S. Highway 63 near the Iowa 9 junction. Patrol said Werning crossed the center line and hit Bulls head on. Werning was hospitalized at Cresco St Josephs with condition not released.
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Cresco (Ap
Bernard Bulls
Grundy Center
John Werning
Cedar Rapids
U.S. Highway 63
Here
Highway Patrol
Werning
Bulls
Cresco St. Joseph’s Hospital
Hanoi Decries U S Bombing Policy as Fierce Attacks
North Vietnam charged the United States with extermination level bombing despite Johnson's limited bombing pledge. Hanoi cited intensified raids on populated centers and production areas, claiming geographic expansion and escalation while targeting water works and agriculture.
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Tokyo
North Vietnam
United States
President Johnson
Hanoi
U.S
Johnson
Action Against Imported Meat Urged by Miller
Washington AP Senator Jack Miller Iowa called for a rollback on meat import quotas citing heavy domestic competition. Imports rose 21 percent last year and would reach 983 million pounds for 1968 unless Congress acts to change the law.
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Washington
Jack Miller
Iowa
Miller
Congress
Saigon Inflation Up Five Percent In Week
UPI reports Saigon retail prices rose five percent in the seven days to August 26, blamed on heightened Viet Cong activity.
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Saigon
UPI
U.S
Press Teams File Protest With Daley
A group of major U.S. news organizations protested Chicago police conduct at the Democratic convention. They accused officers of beating and harassing reporters and called for an FBI inquiry and a city investigation. The telegram urged protecting press freedom and not allowing police to suppress reporting.
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New York
UPI
Chicago
Richard Daley
Leonard Goldenson
American Broadcasting Company
Bailey K. Howard
Chicago Sun‘Times
News
Frank Stanton
Columbia Broadcasting System
Otis Chandler
The
Los Angeles Times
Julian Goodman
National Broadcasting Company
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
New York Times
Hedley Donovan
Time Magazine
Katharine Graham
Washington Post
Newsweek Magazine
FBI
Daley
America
Three Escape Injury as Car Drops into Slough
Three Cedar Rapids men narrowly escaped drowning when their car skidded into a slough behind the Quaker Oats plant at about 8 PM. Driver Harry Tatro and his brother Sharon exited. passenger Burnell Hines became trapped until prospectors Tom Whitehead and Tom Hemminger helped pull him from the back seat. None required medical aid.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar Lake
Harry Tatro
Tenth Street
Sharon
Eleventh Street
Burnell Hines
Tom Whitehead
Tom Hemminger
Tatro
Hines
Quaker Oats
Want ads offer quick help to locate lost items
Classified want ads help readers recover lost belongings quickly. Advertisers promise fast responses, connecting seekers with helpers and potential finders through local listings and notices.
Backers Form McCarthy Coalition in Iowa Ballot Bid
A Des Moines gathering formed the Coalition for McCarthy and voted to place Eugene McCarthy on the November Iowa ballot with Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr as running mate. About 200 people attended as debates touched on campaign structure and electors. Secretary of State Melvin Synhorst said filings would be made this weekend to place McCarthy on the ballot, with a midnight Sunday deadline.
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Des Moines
UPI
McCarthy
Melvin Synhorst
Don Gibson
Indianola
Gibson
Harold) Hughes
Plymat
William, Jr
Hughes
Jerry Walker
Waterloo
Steve Schodde
Polk County
Hubert Humphrey
Richard Nixon
Memorial Services and Burials at Cedar Memorial
Memorial services were held for Harry E Hanson at St John s Episcopal Church with burial at Cedar Memorial. Katharine N Nissen s service took place at First Lutheran Church with burial at Cedar Memorial cemetery. Steven Paul Plowman s funeral was at the Chapel of Memories with burial at Cedar Memorial cemetery. Cedar Memorial Funeral Home directed arrangements.
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Plowman
Steven Paul
Chapel of Memories
Milo van der Krol
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Cedar Memorial Funeral Home
Humphrey plans cautious campaign after Chicago convention
Vice president designate Edmund Muskie remains his only companion as Humphrey outlines a restrained strategy. He will fly to New York for Labor Day, then retreat to a secret location to craft early message and avoid lengthy rallies. Debates with Nixon are still hoped for, seen as pivotal after Nixon Kennedy debates in 1960.
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Chicago
Edmund Muskie
Maine
Humphrey
Muskie
New York
Nixon
Kennedy
Inmate Missing From Anamosa Reformatory
A Coun cil Bluffs man Jerry Hanson 28 was reported missing from the Iowa reformatory at Anamosa after failing to return from a work release. Hanson sentenced in 1961 for murder in Pottawattamie county, held in hospital section, deemed potentially dangerous by hospital superintendent Dr. John Dickinson.
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Anamosa
UPI
Council Bluffs
Iowa Reformatory
Jerry Hanson
Reformatory
Pottawattamie
Hanson
John Dickinson
Laos Guerrillas Claim Shoot Down Of Two U.S. Planes
Laotian Pathet Lao guerrillas said on Saturday they shot down two U.S. Air Force fighters over Laos on August 24. The claim appeared in dispatches carried by UPI from Tokyo.
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Tokyo
UPI
Pathet Lao
Laos
Johnson Urges Continued Quest for Human Dignity
President Johnson in a Labor Day message says America will advance toward universal human decency and wipe out poverty and misery while noting vast gains in prosperity. Labor leaders urge workers to reaffirm civic duty and participate in the upcoming election.
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Johnson
Austin
Tex
America
Truck Driver and His Forty Thieves Sentenced in Hungary
In Budapest forty thieves led by Sandor Kurucz a government stores truck driver were sentenced in district court for stealing about 12000 dollars worth of non ferrous metals from state stocks and selling them to private craftsmen. Sentences ranged from three years to six months with some suspended.
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Budapest
Sandor Kurucz
Priest suspended for attacks on pontiff stand
Washington Cardinal O'Boyle suspended Rev. T. Joseph O'Donoghue of St. Francis de Sales in northeast Washington for insubordination and causing scandal amid opposition to Pope Paul VI's birth control encyclical. He may not preach hear confessions or celebrate Mass.
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Washington
Patrick Cardinal
O’boyle
Paul
T. Joseph O’donghue
St. Francis de Sales Church
Father O’donoghue
Washington Area
Father O'Donoghue
Camp Good Health Fund Tribute Totals Report
A compiled memorial listing shows multiple donations and costs for Camp Good Health. Donations include 25.00 from Denver Adams for Mrs C O Ogden and 10.00, 5.00 and 14,945.00 totaling 10,231.11 14,945.00 4,713.89 in various in memory gifts from individuals and office staff. The record includes names like Mrs Earl A Bickel and Idelle Ainley with memorials and a birthday note for Mary K Berry.
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C. O. Ogden
Denver
Adams
Earl A. Bickel
Wray, Robb and Bickel
Libbie Sopousek
Jessie Ogden
Idelle
Injured Coggon Driver Improves to Fair Condition
James Desorel 18 of rural Coggon was moved from critical to fair condition at Mercy Hospital after his car hit a bridge abutment on Highway 13. The earlier critical status was updated to improved overnight.
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James Desorel
Coggon
Mercy Hospital
Local newspaper rates and mail terms
Established in 1883 by The Genetic and public daily and 3s on Third Ave Cedar Rapids Iowa. Night edition and Sunday six issues monthly rate 1.70. By carrier 65 cents and by mail 16 dollars a year. No mail subscriptions in areas with Gazette carrier service. Associated Press holds exclusive republication rights.
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Genetic and Publi Daily
Third Ave
Cedar Rapids
Rapids
Lowa
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U.S. Senate
Herschel Shosteck
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