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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1964
Page
1
The daily record shows high and low temperatures for multiple cities and a five day forecast. Temperatures will run 4 to 6 degrees below normal with only minor daily changes and rainfall averaging .75 to 1 inch mostly in the first half of the period.
The article notes six successful Saturn I flights and describes plans for three more tests to orbit large scientific satellites. It discusses Wernher von Braun and Marshall Space Flight Center progress, upscaled Saturn 1B tests from 1967, and the planned Saturn V to reach the moon by 1969 with Apollo missions involving a separate lunar landing crew.
McNamara describes radar innovations using ionospheric reflections to detect missile firings within seconds, potentially doubling current warning times across Canada. He notes anti-satellite networks SPASUR and spacetrack, discusses Nike-X, Thor and Sprint missiles, and cites substantial R&D spend on over‑the‑horizon radar and related systems.
Detectives reported a Thursday night burglary at the Sixteenth Avenue Home Appliance Co. netting an estimated 840 dollars in cash and merchandise. Loot included about 75 dollars cash a 16 inch portable TV two portable stereo phonographs ten transistor radios a clock radio 45 r.p.m. records and 50 long play albums. Entry was gained by smashing a rear window ten feet above the ground.
Dana Egge a 16 year old of 1308 Hinkley Avenue NW was treated at Mercy Hospital for cuts and bruises after being thrown from a motorcycle on a gravel road near Highway 30 West at about 9 30 p m Thursday evening Security officials say the rider left the road and overturned causing minor injuries.
Cedar Rapids City Attorney seeks a Linn County court ruling on a state law requiring refunds for water main assessments in cities over 75 000. Six residents of the Zika area NW contend the extension assessment should qualify for rebates. The suit argues enforcement would be discriminatory against past assessees and seeks invalidation if discriminatory.
Washington church leaders clash after Very Rev Francis Sayre III criticizes voters as facing a sterile presidential choice. Bishop William Creighton rejects the claim, urging focus on international peace human rights and alleviating need instead.
William Luther McGREGOR was named president of the Mar Mac school board at this week's organizational meeting. The board convened to establish its authority and set the new leadership for the coming term.
William C. Foster, head of the U S Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, traveled to Paris to brief the NATO Council on the stalled Geneva disarmament negotiations.
Gary Eugene Kramer sues William Sueppel and the Iowa Department of Public Safety in Linn district court. He alleges the safety department lacks jurisdiction over city ordinances after a Cedar Rapids summons on May 28 and a license suspension for one year. He seeks a stay and cancellation of the suspension.
Robert Garrett of 500 First Avenue NE received a seven year prison term in Linn district court for false uttering of a check. The sentence runs concurrently with a ten year term from a 1961 check charge after parole on the earlier case was revoked. Garrett pleaded guilty to passing a $20 check while holding no bank account.
Gean Elvin Von Voltenburg, 35, of Springville, pled innocent to possession of burglary tools. He was arrested Sept. 8 after a merchant police officer saw him in an alley between First and Second streets NE, with a crow bar screwdriver and a table knife. Petit jurors are not to report until Monday, Sept. 28, and no jury trials are scheduled next.
Two captured Indonesian guerillas said they parachuted into the jungles on Sept. 2 while unaware they were in Malaysia. They were shown to reporters in Labis under guard, answering through an interpreter.
Hospitalized at Mercy and St. Luke's hospitals include Avery Litts and P F Lowe with surgical conditions. Community events list a Junior Leagues signup at Tropic Lanes and a Van Note family reunion at the Farm Bureau building in Marion. A youth, Ronald Breckman, 20, was arrested for possessing an altered driver’s license. A wallet reported missing belonged to Elden Tritt in the First Street SE area.
The contract raises the annual improvement factor to 2.8 percent or seven cents an hour in September 1966, adds two cents an hour, and implements full company payment of group life, disability, and hospital medical insurance for retirees starting next November. A Christmas bonus depends on the unemployment fund level, with a 65 percent cap. The retirement provisions improve pensions and allow early retirement at 60 with 30 years service, while GM negotiations begin Monday and AMC remains unsettled amid potential strikes.
The Hearst newspapers endorsed President Johnson for re election in an editorial signed by Boston editor William Randolph Hearst Jr. They praised Johnson and Humphrey as able and experienced leaders and noted they had not supported a Democrat for president since 1932.
Police and the Springfield Leader and Press received anonymous calls two hours before Barry Goldwater’s campaign speech in Springfield Missouri. Calls urged that Goldwater would be shot here today, delivered with disguises and repeated by a female caller to the newspaper reporter on scene.
Dan Adams of a Milwaukee firm says The Cedars will include one and two bedroom units with some efficiencies. Completion expected in about six months. Parking will be from Avenue NE. Local contracts to be let later. Cedar Rapids growth spurred investment as firm expands from Milwaukee to Wausau Janesville Peoria Rockford. Cedar Rapids Christian school moved to Edgewood building and seeks to buy land and build its own school within years.
Funeral services for Fellow are set for 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Hesser Memorial chapel and 1 p.m. at St. John Hellenic Orthodox Church by Rev. Gust Hatzidakis with burial at Linwood. A Trisagion will be observed at 8 p.m. at the chapel. Anna Margaret Williams will be interred at Cedar Memorial Cemetery following a 1:30 p.m. Saturday service by Dr. A. H. Hoefle at Turner Chapel. Ovid Le Roy Farris will have a 1:30 p.m. Monday service by Rev. Don Anderson, with burial at Linwood Cemetery.
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