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Deaths Mrs. Hobbs, 75, Dies Here Today City Press-Citizen-Friday, April 23, 1965 First Russian Communications Satellite in Orbit MOSCOW (P) The Soviet Union annouced today that it had put its first communications satellite into orbit and had suecessfully carried out television transmissions between Moscow and Vladivostok, 4.000 miles east of the Soviet capital on the Sea of Japan. Tass, the Soviet news agency, said the satellite Molniya 1 went into a "high elliptical orbit" today. "All the equipment installed on board and the entire ground complex are operating normally," Tass said. Molniya means lightning.

Telstar I. the first United si States communications satellite, was launched into orbit July 10, 1962. Its successor, Telstar II went into orbit May 7, 1963. The announcement said the main task of Molniya 1 "is to relay television programs and long distance bilaterial multichannel telephone, radiophoto and telegraph communications." MOLNIYA LIKE the early U.S. Telstar satellites is not in sychronous orbit and is not continuously available for communications relays across the Soviet Union.

Early Bird, the U.S. communications satellite launched over the Atlantic ocean on April 6. is in an orbit synchronized to the revolution of the earth so that it is constantly in position to relay signals between the United States and Europe, On Sunday, Early Bird is to inaugurate two-way live telecasts between Europe and North America. TASS SAID Molniya's period of revolution is 11 hours, 48 minutes. The Soviet satellite's egg-shaped orbit carries it to a maximum height of approximately 20.600 miles above the earth and a minimum height of only 300 miles over the Southern hemisphere.

Early Bird's orbit period is 23 hours, 57 minutes, which will require corrections About once a month to keep it "stationary." Its maximum and minimum heights have been given as 22.242.6 and 22.237 miles, virtually a circular orbit. EARLY BIRD, owned by the Communications Satellite is the first commercial communications satellite. Joseph V. Charyk, the corporation's president, said last Jan. uary the Soviet Union had refused to join the system.

Charyk said the Russians described the project as "too experimental, premature and operated in an undemocratic manner." Residents Take Apartment Fight to Adjustment Board University Heights residents who oppose construction of an apartment house just west of the town limits have taken their fight to the Johnson county board of adjustment. A hearing on their appeal, asking the board to nullify building permit issued for the apartment house, will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the courthouse. R. H.

Justen, county zoning administrator, issued a building permit for the 72-unit apartment building last fall after first delaying action on the request. The Muscatine Development Co. took the matter to Johnson county district court, which ordered Justen to act on the permit request. Justen held up on the request Rabbit Show Set at Kalona KALONA The 1965 national English Rabbit club show will be held Saturday in Kalona. Judging will begin at 9:30 a.m.

at the Kalona sale barn. The event has, in the past, attracted exhibitors from AS far away as New York and Florida. It was last held in Kalona four years ago. Entrants will be competing for the Sanderson cup a traveling award sponsored by the secretary of the English Rabbit club of Great Britain. Smaller trophies will be awarded to winners representing the best opposit sex, the best black, blue, lilac, tortoise and gray.

The English spotted rabbit originated in Great Britain and is considered one of the most beautiful among show rabbits. A trophy, presentation banquet held in Kalona Saturday night. Witt Nominated For Commerce Commission Post DES MOINES (P) Gov. Harold Hughes Thursday nominated Dick A. Witt.

35, Des Moines lawyer, to replace Waldo F. Wheeler on the Iowa commerce commission. The appointment requires senate approval. Witt was named to serve the remainder of Wheeler's term, which ends June 30. 1967.

Wheeler has been appointed a Polk county district court judge and leaves the commerce commission today. Witt, a University of Iowa graduate, was born in What Cheer and has been an attorney for the commerce commission since last December. TOASTMASTERS INTERNATIONAL offers men 18 and over, the opportunity to improve their skills in speaking and listening. If interested, call 338-8057 or 338-7019 or plan to be a guest of Johnson County Toastmasters, MONDAY April 26th 8 p.m. at the Farm Bureau Building, 413 10th Coralville Weather, almanac FORECAST FOR IOWA CITY AND SOUTHEAST A IOWA Friday, April 23.

1965 (Also Central Iowa). Variable cloudiness with showers or thunderstorms tonight. Lows in mid-50s. Mostly cloudy Saturday with occasional rain and highs in low 705. Northeast lowa Considerable cloudness with showers and thunderstorms over 30 to 50 per the area tonight, lows in low 505.

Considerable cloudiness with occasional rain Saturday and highs in upper 0s. Northwest Iowa Variable cloudiness with showers or thunderstorms tonight and cooler northwest part of zone. Lows 43 northwest to 54 southeast. Saturday mostly cloudy with occasional rain and highs 65 to 70. Iowa Five-Day Forecast Temperatures will average 5 to 10 degrees above normal.

Normal highs are 61 10 67 degrees and normal lows from 38 to 46. It will be cooler Saturday and Sunday, warming again Wednesday. Rainfall will be moderate to heavy, averaging .75 to 1.50 inches in showers and thunderstorms mostly Saturday and Sunday, lowa City Temperatures The high Thursday was 75 degrees. The low early today was 55 degrees. At noon today, the temperature was 67.

Rainfall during the night measured .01 of on Inch. Lone Tree Housing Plan Is Approved LONE TREE The public housing administration has approved plans for a 20-unit lowrent housing project in Lone Tree. Ferrel Moody, chairman of the Lone Tree housing commission, said the federal agency also recommended that 14 of the 20 units be for single occupancy. "The approval means we can go ahead in selecting a site and decide what kind of buildings we're going to want," Moody said. A site may be selected by next week.

Lone Tree residents are seeking low-cost housing for elderly persons in the hope this move will open housing for families moving in from Iowa City and Muscatine. One Man Held, Two Are Fined On Charges Here Larry R. Burk, 22, of 624 South Clinton street, was being held today in the Johnson county jail in lieu of $500 bond on charges of contributing to the delinquency of minors and driving while his license was suspended. Police said two companions, Ronald E. Coy, 23 and Jerry E.

Arnold. 22, both of Ames were fined $100 each ($50 suspended) this morning in police court, also on charges of contributing to the delinquency of minors. Iowa City detectives and sheriffs officers arrested the three Thursday night in Coralville on Highway 1 west, after stopping the car in which they were riding with two teen-age girls. Johnson County Sheriff MayE. Schneider said the delinquency charge involved beer found in the car.

The two girls were not charged. Muscatine To Observe New Fast Time Law MUSCATINE (P) The city council has decided to observe daylight saving time this year in the manner prescribed by the new Iowa law, from 29 to Labor day. In former years Muscatine has conformed with Illinois, which observes the national period, starting next Sunday this year. Strong Evangelistic Drive Urged for Presbyterians MONTREAT, N. C.

(P) The general assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. issued today a call for its 000 members to join in a strong evangelistic drive to combat declining rates in its growth. "It is a widespread feeling among us that we are falling in this important short, the statement adopted by the more than 400 assembly representatives of the southern denomination. A marked decline in the Oratorical Competition Finals Today Eight junior high school boys will compete in the final round of the annual Optimist club oratorical contest at 7:30 p.m. today at Old Capitol.

They were selected for the final round in competition Thursday night in which five others were eliminated. The eight finalists are: Steve Christensen and Rinde Eckert, both of South East junior high school; Dave Kennedy, Dana Bovjerg, David Lundquist, John Parizek and Beau Salisbury, Central junior high; and Joel Haefner, University junior high. The first-place winner will enter the Optimist zone contest in Cedar Rapids May 6. First-place winner in the Iowa City contest gets $15, second place, $10, and third place, $5. The national contest will be held June 20-24 at New Orleans, and the winner will get a $1,000 college scholarship.

Sheaffer Pen Chief Named FT. MADISON (AP) John A. Keenan, former corporate executive with a Wisconsin background, has assumed duties as new president of the W.A. Sheaffer Pen His election to that office was announced Thursday by Walter A. Sheaffer II, who relinquished position to become chairman of the board.

Sheaffer had been president since 1953. The position of board chairman had been vacant since the death of his father, Craig R. Sheaffer, in 1961. Keenan becomes a director of the pen company. He was born at Beloit, in 1908 and holds a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin.

$2,283 Is Asked in 3 Suits Filed Here Three suits seeking Judgments totaling $2.283 have been filed in Johnson county district court. Eckrich and Son seeks $1,997 and establishment of a mechanic's lien against real estate in an action against Continental Mortgage Investment Co. and Carl Dean Helm. The suit alleges payment has not been made for bulldozing work done in A real estate improvement projecteco. Inc.

of Indianapolis, asks $116 for a promissory note in suit against Albert Kent Gravett. Mrs. Minnie Ross of Riverside has sued Mrs. Winifred Lyvers for $170, in a dispute over babysitting fees. Trott and Jansen represent Eckrich and Son.

Bartley, Bartley and Diehl are attorneys for Ingreco. Will J. Hayek is Mrs. Ross' attorney. When your employees go into the hospital, will they thank you for your health care or blame you? after the county planning and zoning commission adopted a policy of not considering zoning applications and related matters on property involved in the annexation to Iowa City.

The Muscatine Development Co. property, located across the I.W.V. road south of the University Athletic club, is in the area to be annexed to Iowa City, UNIVERSITY Heights residents petitioned the county planning and zoning commission and the board of supervisors to change the zoning of the apartment property back to a classification which would not permit apartments. The board of supervisors has tabled the request. Developments of the property have said construction is planned to begin soon.

Members of the board of adjustment are: S. Lysle Duncan Route 1, chairman; Charles Meyers of Solon; R. H. Davis of West Lucas township; Leland Stock of Route 4, and Filbert Vondracek of Swisher. Solon Economist Reverts to Its Former Owner SOLON The Solon Economist, weekly newspaper, re verted to its former publisher, H.

R. Amidon, effective with this week's issue. Mary Ann Smith has published the paper for the past four years. In an announcement in today's Economist. Amidon said the Coralville News has been discontinued.

Miss Smith had published it in conjunction with the Solon paper. Amidon referred to the current edition of Economist as an "interim issue." He has resided in Iowa City in recent years. It comes down to this: Is yours a limited dollar benefit program that requires employees to come up with the cash to fill the gap between the benefits and the hospital bill? Or is it the Blue Cross paid-in-full hospital care idea? If rates were a reason for choosing less than Blue Cross, consider these facts: The most sive program you can have is one that costs you employee goodwill when they use it. Further, costs of administering your program within your company must be added to the rate You save office salaries with Blue Cross and Blue Shield because all transactions involving claims are handled directly by Blue Cross and Blue Shield with hospitals, doctors and employees. Blue Cross and Blue Shield have more experience than anyone else in providing truly low cost group programs with meaningful benefits.

That's why more lowa firms by far (nearly 5,200) have Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Good reason for you to have them, too. Ask your hospital and doctor-then write for group membership information. BLUE SHIELD BLUE CROSS Nothing else cares for you the way SERVO Blue Cross and Blue Shield do LIBERTY BUILDING, DES MOINES For Service And Box 725. Call or Dial 331-2440 Enrollment, PAUL FRAZIER Iowa City, Iowa Legislature At a Glance By the Associated Press SENATE Passed, 44-7, a bill to change primary election date from the first Monday in June to the after Labor The bill goes back to the house for action on senate amendments.

Passed, 44-0, and sent to the governor a bill to repeal the law authorizing issuance of permits to administer live hog cholera virus. The use of the live virus has been prohibited. Passed, 43-0, and sent to the governor a bill to adjust pensions of policemen and firemen who retired before March 2, 1934, to salary increases subsequently granted to active members of their departments. HOUSE Passed 14 bills on the noncontroversial calendar, including measures to: Declare the Iowa mental health authority the state agency to receive and administer funds available under the Federal Mental Health act of 1946 and create a committee on mental hygiene to review and co-ordinate mental health programs. Authorized the state board of regents to lease property and facilities.

Increase the fee for issuing duplicate driver's license from 25 cents to $2 and for a duplicate chauffeur's license from 50 cents to $2. Remove from the non-controversial calendar a bill to permit cities and towns to take a census between federal decennial censuses and use the result in making claims for the cities' share of state road use tax funds and liquor profits. Dean Hardin Named To Bank Board Here Dr. Robert C. Hardin, dean of the University of Iowa college of medicine, has been named to the board of directors of the First National bank.

Injunction Case Argued In High Court Mrs. Mae Elizabeth Hobbs, 75, of rural West Branch died this morning in all Iowa City nursing home after a brief illness. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Barker funeral home in West Branch, with the Rev. Charles Haigh officiating.

Burial will be in the West Branch cemetery. Contributions may be made to the cancer fund. Mrs. Hobbs was born April 3. 1890, south of West Branch, daughter of Robert and Mary Rummells Stepp.

She was married to John Hobbs December 21, 1921, at Iowa City, and they farmed southwest of West Branch. Survivors include her husband: one brother, Josiah of Riceville; two nephews, including Robert Stepp of Coralville, and a niece. Survey Men Rescued As Boat Upsets DES MOINES (P) Two government geological survey men were rescued from the Des Moines river Thursday after their boat capsized. City officials said David Appel, 25. and Don Riddle, 36, from the geological survey office at Iowa City, were measuring the river's, rate of flow when their boat upset.

The city engineer's office said valuable current meter was lost in the accident near the Sixth avenue bridge, which collapsed last week. River Patrolman Hasbrouck was in the area at the timely and the operator of a boat livery rescued the men. The survey men were working on studies to find out whether recent floods were responsible for the bridge collapse last Saturday. If flood water undermined the span federal aid may be available to rebuild it. Radiation Theory Given By Van Allen James A.

Van Allen, University of Iowa scientist, advanced theory Thursday that radiation belts surrounding the earth are maintained by a kind of automatic "choke and throttle," mechanism similar to that of car. Van Allen, discoverer of the radiation belts named after him, presented his views at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical union in Washington, D.C. He suggested that the radiation belts maintain a more or less stable intensity despite per1odic variations in activity of the sun the ultimate source of the radiation rings. His choke-and-throttle analogy suggested that geomagnetic forces automatically cause a speed-up in the input of solar particles into the belts at times when the sun is supplying fewer than the usual number of such particles. Bottle Thrown Through Window Of School Bus Four teen-agers.

riding in a light blue compact car traveling at high speed, Thursday afternoon tossed an empty soft drink bottle through a closed school bus window, narrowly missing a grade school student's head, Lewis Negus told the Johnson county sheriff today. Negus, owner of the school bus, said the incident occurred at Newport road and Highway 1 about 4:30 p.m. The child was not injured by the flying glass or bottle. IOWA CITY PRESS-CITIZEN Established 1841 Five Years a Older Than the State of lowa Published evenings except Sundays by the Press-Citizen Company, at 319 East Washington street, lowa City, lowa. Second class postage paid at lowa City, lowa.

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By mail in towns where carrier delivery service is available, $18 a year. All other mail subscriptions $20 a year. Telephone 337-3181 usual indices of a church's spiritual help profession of faith, baptisms, candidates for the ministry, new churches has Presbyterians in all parts of our assembly deeply concerned," the assembly said. The statement was submitted by the board of church extension. IN IT, THE Presbyterians called for repentance of selfishness that allows many to enjoy unparalleled living standards "while millions of our fellow human beings live in bitter poverty." They asked: "Do you want to evangelize the Negro people and other minority groups badly enough to repent of the prejudice that will not welcome those who believe into our fellowship?" The denomination's representatives, facing proposals later to put them on record in favor of civil rights demonstrations, hit hard at complacency, class pride, immorality, materialism and fault-finding within the Church.

Scheduled for consideration were a committee report endorsing a civil rights project in Mississippi; the use of street demonstrations, sit-ins and boycotts; and an invitation to the Rev. Martin Luther King, for an August speech before a Presbyterian agency. Schmidhauser To Speak on Asian Problems U.S. Rep. John R.

Schmidhauser, Iowa City Democrat, will discuss Viet Nam and southeast -Asia problems with local residents Monday at 2 p.m. in the auditorium of the public library. The meeting was arranged at request of the Iowa City Consensus on International Affairs. It is open to the public. A Johnson county district court injunction restraining the majority stockholder in Protein Blenders, from voting his stock was argued before the state supreme court in Des Moines Thursday, The supreme court is expected to rule within the next few days on the validity of the injunction order against Charles Igram of 2008 Rochester enue.

The high court ordered a stay of proceedings in the case while it examined the injunction. The stay order delayed the annual meeting of the Protein Blenders stockholders which had been scheduled Tuesday. DISTRIST court order Saturday enjoined Igram from voting his stock in the annual meeting, because, the order stated, evidence in a hearing showed he had converted company funds to his personal use, and could do so again if allowed to vote his majority stock in the election and to continue control of the corporation. Presumably the annual stockholders meeting and election will be held after the supreme court rules on the injunction. Igram's attorneys, Max Putnam of Des Moines and Scott Swisher of Iowa City, contend that there is no evidence substantiating the injunction.

William L. Meardon appeared for Protein Blenders before the high court. Service Station Is Broken Into Iowa City police were investigating today a breakin at the Wareco service station, 828 South Dubuque street, during the night. Police said entry to the building was palmed, through a north window. undetermined amount of money was taken.

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