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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1969
Page
16
A bystander watches as two Illinois Central trains collide in Riverdale a Chicago suburb. Two men die another is critically injured a fourth is missing and sixty five cars derail after engines with 128 coal cars crash into an automobile train at high speed.
The University of Iowa hosts a reunion of the 1939 Ironmen football team. In a photo with Iowa City businessman Roland Smith, Captain Irwin Prasse Chicago End Ken Pettit Manchester Guard, End Dick Evans Green Bay Packers, Center Bill Diehl Indianapolis, and Fullback Ray Murphy Des Moines, the group chats and years later still look fit and ready for action.
Joseph Tomarchio of the White House police models the updated attire with visible hip holsters replacing concealed guns since 1946. The uniform features gold shoulder patches on black, with gold trouser and sleeve stripes, signaling a fresh official look.
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