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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1969
Page
4
Hennessey Brothers Construction Co builds a 36 inch resupply water main from the city water purification plant on Shaver road NE to the B avenue NE area. A flood control embankment is included and a city road will top the dike. Contract totals $814,515.
In Tunis the Libyan military rulers threaten severe punishment for publishing photographs of the leaders or military installations. A decree broadcast by Radio Tripoli bans any photos or transmission abroad, targeting editors editors and foreign correspondents after seizing power while King Idris was abroad.
San Francisco State College president S I Hayakawa said there is a sharp decline in support for radical student leaders on campuses nationwide. He told the Lawyers Wives of California that these leaders exposed themselves as power grabbers rather than noble people with noble aims.
Cedar Rapids requests 136 565 79 dollars in federal disaster relief to cover flood damages and related costs from this summer's Cedar River inundations. Public Services Director Richard Jensen may sign aid documents under the disaster act. Damages span five departments including streets and sewer maintenance with precise sub totals listed.
Nahashon Isaac Nienga Njoroge 34, a Kikuyu, was found guilty of Tom Mboya's murder and sentenced to death by hanging in Nairobi. Judge Alfred Simpson announced the sentence as the defendant faced the court with calm, and the defense has 14 days to appeal to the Eastern Africa appeal court.
Adam Gimbel, 74, longtime president of Saks Fifth Avenue, died Tuesday of pancreatitis. He built Saks into a nationwide chain of dollar stores and retired February 1, 1968.
Dr. Donald D. Weir appointed director of rehabilitation at St. Luke's Hospital overseeing a 12,000 square foot facility offering hydrotherapy electrotherapy physical speech and occupational therapy. A Sussex Wisconsin native, he earned degrees at Drake University University of Iowa and completed residencies at Johns Hopkins among others and has held academic and professional positions including UNC medical school associate professor and rehabilitation program coordinator. The Weirs will reside at 2132 Lincolnshire Drive SE with their three children.
Hollywood interviews with ABC personalities headline a color 9:00 PM Wednesday preview. George Patrick hosts a look at new fall entertainment with studio guests and anticipated premieres.
Beeville Texas Chamber of Commerce manager Frank Atkins admitted Kansas outgrows Texas in sunflowers after Beeville challenged a Kansas-grown bloom. A Cot tonwood Falls grower, C B Humphrey, reported a sunflower reaching 17 inch diameter, surpassing the Texas claim of 14 inches.
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin said in Calcutta there is no conflict in Hanoi over who will lead North Vietnam now Ho Chi Minh is dead. He noted North Vietnamese leaders have reached understanding on governance and declined to discuss Viet Nam's stance toward China.
The Cedar Rapids public library will resume preschool story hours next week at the main library and the Kenwood branch. Mary Nassif returns as storyteller, Wednesdays 10:30 to 11 in the main library auditorium and Thursdays 10:40 to 11 at Kenwood, free for children ages 3 to 5.
New York columnist Hal Boyle collects miscellany from mail and public life. The piece notes left handedness of Kim Novak and Charlie Chaplin, army hearing concerns for recruits, federal employment growth, mental health statistics, smog effects, office mobility, obesity, daylight saving heritage, and quirky folklore items.
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