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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1962
Page
1
Unionville staff recount a dramatic search for Gayne Gilbert Smith, a 21 year old farmhand wanted for five killings. Rain soaked the woods as officers pressed a sweeping hunt after Smith fled in a car and vanished into timbered hills, with no sign or body found.
Israel's Supreme Court upheld Adolf Eichmann's death sentence for his role in the Nazi crimes. The ruling rejected his claim of being only a cog in the apparatus and left a slim chance for clemency. Court actions point to a possible mid June decision on mercy, with execution likely soon after at Ramleh Prison near Tel Aviv.
Joe Maher of Muscatine will speak at Memorial Day ceremonies here on Wednesday at Greenwood Cemetery. If rain, the program moves to Muscatine High School auditorium. A 9:30 a.m. procession forms at the chapel, with Muscatine West Dugler High School band and Charles Piotrowski directing. Rev. Lewis W. Furda gives the invocation, Girl Scout Gail Grenner reads General Logan’s Orders, and a high school quartet sings. Boy Scout Chris Allenbernd reads Gettysburg Address. Fred Call delivers roll call of deceased veterans. many local veterans listed. Firing squads from VFW and American Legion, taps by Charles Fish and David Warner. Navy Mothers oversee Riverside Park service at 11 a.m. A Muscatine Central Junior High band concert follows. Albert Weeks oversees float launching. VEW and American Legion salute with Charles Fish and David Werner performing taps.
The Muscatine Journal will not publish on Wednesday in observance of Memorial Day. The journal office will remain closed that day and most business places will also be closed.
Rep. H. Re Gross of Iowa is endorsed for re election in his congressional district by the Americans for Constitutional Action. The endorsement was announced today in town, signaling continued support for Gross and his Republican stance.
Washington reports Iowa and publican brothers Bourke Hickenooper and Jack Miller vote against President Kennedy on the $1.5 billion public works measure. The Senate passed the bill 44 to 2 despite GOP objections.
Hodges urged an early tax overhaul including net reductions in individual and corporate income taxes. He proposed the Treasury announce depreciation schedule revisions piecemeal as they become available, despite Treasury pushback.
Report to Senate Aviation Subcommittee describes shrapnel in three stewardesses killed when Continental Airlines jet crashed near Missouri Iowa border last Tuesday. Forty five people died as likely dynamite explosion blew a side of the plane per Civil Aeronautics Board chairman Alan Boyd.
In Muscatine and southeast Iowa during the Civil War the 37th Iowa Infantry known as the Greybeards included older men and a few younger ones. Pvt. Gurtis King enlisted at Muscatine in 1862, 6 foot 2, later discharged for disability, possibly the oldest enlistee in U.S. Army history.
Four window washers die when the platform they rode aboard caroms down the Equitable Building in midtown Manhattan. Authorities say brakes failed on the remote engine moving the platform. Three men were killed on impact, a fourth died at a hospital. the incident occurred below the 23rd floor near Radio City Music Hall.
Across Iowa a line of tornadoes and heavy rains caused farm damage near Humeston and Gilman, with fatalities in Fairfax and Ottumwa. Homes flooded basements in Cedar Rapids. outages in Keokuk and Sigourney. Numerous outbuildings leveled, farms damaged, and rescue crews working as two to four inches of rain fell in hours.
Francis, fined ten pounds today in Perth Australia on Francis Street, for driving his sports car with one knee while combing his hair with one hand and patting it down with the other as he headed to see his girl.
Stocks slid with heavy selling as gains flickered and then faded. Major indexes and world exchanges plunged while volume spiked, led by declines in Ford and Woolworth as Dow components lagged and market panic broadened.
A Greyhound bus passenger went berserk stabbing the driver and two men. Milo Breksen, 27, of San Francisco, was shot and killed by police after threatening to kill about 40 passengers. Two others hospitalized with shock.
Malcolm Seont Carpenter, 31, received today a bachelor of science in aeronautical engineering from the University of Colorado after missing a final heat transfer exam 13 years ago. President Quigg Newton called his astronaut training more than makeup. The ceremony marked his alma mater’s recognition of his perseverance. Iowa vehicle deaths by the Associated Press list dates May 3, 1882 to May 2, 1961.
Centerville and federal investigators kept silent on a possible link between a murder mystery and the Continental Airlines jet crash that killed 45. A CAB team recovered a T C D briefcase among debris and suggested a bomb may have been aboard.
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