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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1968
Page
15
Waterloo's East High School resumes classes with 1700 students including 300 Black pupils after a walkout and curfew tensions. Principal Garlock warns of possible year end closure if trouble returns while guards withdraw and a Black History course is added.
The House appropriations subcommittee on foreign aid trimmed the program to 1.6 billion in the annual bill, down from nearly 2 billion authorized earlier. President Johnson’s request was 2.8 billion. Subcommittee chief Rep. Otto Passman noted the cuts may displease the executive branch but ease taxpayer burden, with reductions in development loan and technical cooperation funds.
Editorial by Louis Harris on the poll and Evans and Novak plus Jack Anderson. Entertainment notes include Rick Du Brow and Leonard Lyons. Sports coverage by Gus Schrader and Lana Prep of Week. Bowling by Don Walton. Rex Conn's What’s What column. Weather map reference and Sam Shulsky financial note. Art Buchwald humor on the picture page.
Cedar Rapids planning department received permission to delete $2124 of work from the Cedar Lake urban renewal demolition contract. Eight parcels cannot be delivered by October 1 including Linn County Humane Society office on C avenue NE and several Eighth street NE houses. Humane Society building likely vacant December. Remaining Cedar Lake structures to be razed under Civic Center urban renewal contracts with General Excavating Co. of Sioux Falls, IL. The $154000 contract amount and extended timeline to mid October are noted.
City briefs list events and notices from UAW senior pot luck at Ellis YMCA to AA Ala Teen meeting at Central Park. Activities include bowling leagues at Tropic Lanes, subdistrict GOP meeting to nominate Lippert, story hour at the library, and upcoming surgery for George S Chismore. updates on services and local clubs appear throughout.
Meth-Wick Manor announces immediate effect for an event at Toddville Legion Hall on Sept 21 starting 5 30 with Chicken Noodle Supper and sho me made pie Adults 1 25 and under 15 Adv In memory of Peter G Witwer Witwer Company Insurance 701 MNB Bldg will be closed Thurs 19 Adv
The Cedar Rapids city council voted Tuesday to add a two year reversionary clause to zoning changes on J street SW between Thirty third and Thirty sixth avenues SW. Radec Corp seeks R-1 to R-3G along J street and R-1 to R-1 on adjacent land. Last week the council began inserting reversionary clauses for industrial commercial and multiple family districts. The clause sets the project back to old zoning if development does not begin in the specified period.
More than 250 mainland army reservists at Schofield barracks Hawaii received a temporary reprieve from deployment to Vietnam. The soldiers claim illegal call to duty and seek $10,000 damages each. A federal court hearing date has not been set.
A 20 year old Cornell college student from Mt. Vernon Iowa was dumped in a Nebraska cornfield by six fraternity brothers from Corner. He escaped after spending the night in Colfax county jail and declined charges saying they are his friends. Deputy Sheriff Poole lent him 10 dollars to return home. He had been bound gagged and robbed.
Washington UPI report notes President Johnson asking Congress to expand adult education programs. He cites 24 million Americans lacking the equivalent of an eighth grade education and presents the first annual report of the national advisory committee on adult education.
A local promotional blurb touts a color program featuring a standout performer airing Tuesday at 9:00 PM on KCRG TV Nine.
Judge John B. Reilly dropped charges of illegal narcotic possession against Lonnie Bell and Gregory E. Karrick after ruling no narcotics were shown in their arrest at a marijuana party on Shaver road NE. An 18 year old girl, Patricia Ann O Shea, received a continuance for her preliminary hearing to November 2.
Arab gunners shelled Bet She'an with 12 mm rockets injuring eight civilians. Israel retaliated on Irbid with artillery. no casualties reported. Jordanian and Israeli forces exchanged fire near the Allenby bridge. Moshe Dayan warned of possible renewed war. Damascus claims US involvement in the broader conflict.
A preliminary hearing for Elliott C. Ricehill charged with murder in the July 2 beating death of 75 year old Mabel Bigley will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Cedar Rapids municipal court. Ricehill, who underwent psychiatric evaluation, has ties to Winnebago Nebraska and has prior charges in the area. Bigley’s body was found July 3 in her apartment at 1182 First Street NE with cause listed as multiple blows to the right chest.
Linda McGinnis of 85 Central Avenue Marion was fined 70 dollars or 37 days in Linn county jail on four traffic charges from May 8. The charges include failure to have vehicle under control from a May 8 accident and three counts of no driver's license on May 26 June 11 and June 13.
Police report a bus plunged from a bridge into a stream in Rawalpindi killing fourteen people and injuring twenty six. Rescue teams are at the scene and investigations commence into the cause.
Mt Mercy College officials announced staff will form a single speakers bureau to serve Eastern Town organizations. Last year the bureau gave 92 programs to audiences exceeding 9 000 persons. Thirteen leaders will speak on topics from education to travel.
William McMaster, former Republican governor of South Dakota from 1920 to 1994, died Sunday in Dixon Illinois at age 91.
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