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a 0 Deaths Bernice Conant Dies at Age 75 City Press-Citizen -Fri, March 9, 1962 Planning Agency Bars Reporter From Meeting The Iowa City planning and commission Thursday zoning, turned down a request to permit a Press-Citizen reporter to listen to the commission's consideration of Interstate Highway 80 interchange plans on North Dubuque street. Whether the interchange. plans were discussed is not known. At its last meeting, the city council referred to the planning and zoning commission a Name Lawyer As Guardian Iowa City Atty. William L.

Meardon has, been appointed guardian ad litem to appear in a district court trial here for convicted embezzler Marlin D. Brenneman. Brenneman, now serving a sentence in Anamosa men's reformatory, is being sued for $13,906 by Earl Snyder, owner Domby's Boot Shop, 128 East Washington street. Snyder claims the amount is owed for the of money Brenneman admitted embezzling from the store. The former store bookkeeper was sentenced to prison last May application by Mr.

Snyder's attorneys in Johnson county district court for a guardian for Brenneman was granted by Judge James P. Gaffney. It stated that Mr. Snyder wants, the matter to proceed even though Brenneman won't be released from prison for perhaps "several Attorneys for Mr. Snyder are Hart, Shulman, Phelan, Tucker Ivie.

7 Drivers Fined In Police Court On Traffic Counts Seven drivers have been fined in police court on traffic charges. Terry Huntzinger of Coralville was fined $20 for speeding; Edmund S. DeChasca of 627 Bradley street, $15 for speeding. Fined in traffic accidents were James L. Stuedeman- of Iowa City, $10 for driving on the left side of the street February Stanley Goodwin of Wellman, $10 for failing to yield to an approaching vehicle Wednesday about miles southwest of here on Highway 1: and Kenneth W.

Edwards. 27, of 442 West Benton street, $10 for improper backing accident Thursday at the rear of the old law building. Police identified the other driver in the latter accident as Sharon L. Anthony, 19, of Dubuque. Others fined were Kenton L.

Allen, 530 North Clinton street, and John H. Gilmore. 724 North Dubuque street, $5 each for running red lights. Costs of $4 were assessed on each charge. Fined $5 for Letting Dog Run Loose Here C.

D. Cuttler, 1691 Ridge road, has been fined $5 in police court after pleading guilty of letting a dog run loose and upset garbage February 25 at uni-1692 Ridge road. $843 Suit Filed Here Against Eldon Miller Marshall P. Young has filed a $843 suit in Johnson county district court against Eldon Miller, for collection of wages for services. His petition states two checks written by the company have been returned because of insufficient funds.

Bartley, Bartley and Diehl represent Mr. Young. (Head-on Crash Hurts 2 Here A mother and her daughter suffered minor injuries and a driver was charged in two separate accidents here Thursday. Mrs. Pauline Lovetinsky, 29, and her daughter, Jill, 5, were treated at Mercy hospital, the mother for facial and head cuts and bruises and the daughter for a cheek cut.

They were passengers in a car driven by Ervin E. Lovetinsky, 35, when it collided head-on about 5:40 p.m. Thursday with a car driven by Kenneth W. Rouse, 19, of 724. North Dubuque street.

The accident occurred in front of 816 North Dubuque street. The Lovetinskys live in Coralville. Police said damage to both cars was extensive. In an accident earlier Thursday, Edmond L. Harney, 22, of Route 2, was charged with failing to yield half the road at Church and Gilbert streets.

Police identified the other driver as Orville S. Nelson, 31, of Forest View trailer court. Set Curfew In Dominican Republic SANTO DOMINGO, DominiRepublic (P) capitate in can the Dominican were cleared Thursday dusk to dawn curfew after went on a rampage bemobs, cause the government let exPresident Joaquin Balaguer and Gen. Pedro Rodriguez Echavarria leave the country. Some of the mob fury directed at the United States with charges that the state dewas behind the lenipartment ency.

But a Dominican government source said their presence here represented a threat to the tranquility of the nation. Balaguer, 55, and Rodriguez Echavarria, 37, who served under him as armed forces chief, were secretly flown to Puerto Rico. Angry formed when their getaway became known. The demonstrators shouted that the two men linked with the old Trujillo dictatorship should have been brought to trial. GANGS ROAMED the streets, setting fire to automobiles and wrecking other property.

They in front two of the U.S. consulate, burned consulate cars and damaged two others. Armed police patrols rushed out to check the demonstrations and most business places closed. Schoolchildren were sent home early. Balaguer and Rodriguez Echavarria slipped out of the country Wednesday night.

Lester Benz To Speak To Prep Journalists Lester G. Benz. assistant professor of journalism at the University of Iowa and executive director of Quill and Scroll society, will be a featured speaker at the annual conference of the Columbia Scholastic Press association, Columbia university, 15. Benz will address a banquet session for some 5,000 high school journalists. His topic will be Newsman Behind the Iron Curtain," an account of his experiences during a trip through Russia in late 1960.

He also will participate in sevsmaller group sessions for high school publications advisers. Six East Germans Slip to Freedom BERLIN (P) -Six East Germans slipped past guards and over the wall into West Berlin early today, West Berlin police They declined to give details re reported. of escape other than say the six made their dash to freedom in two groups of three persons each. You Are Cordially Invited To The LENTEN SCHOOL OF RELIGION Sunday Evenings, March 11. through April 8 TIME: 5:30 P.M.

buffet supper, March 11 only 6:30 P.M. worship 7 to 8 P.M. Classes FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 500 N. Clinton Street Classes and Teachers COURSE I COURSE IV "Mateo of Study of Latin American Missions "Christianity and Voices in the Modern World" COURSE II Prof. Gerhard Krapf, Mr.

Bruce A. Sweet, "God in the Physical World" Mr. Darrel Baergen, Mr. Wendell Mathews, Mr. Fred Minifie, instructor and Dr.

Alexandre Aspel discussion leader. COURSE III COURSE "The "The Dynamics of Family Life" Prophets" The Rev. Dr. P. Hewison Pollock Dr.

Theron Alexander, Ph. The Rev. The Rev. George A. Graham Thomas Harlan, Mr.

Munro Shintani, The Rev. Roy Wingate The Honorable Judge Gaffney, The Rev. Dr. James Spalding Dr. Erick Haroothunian, M.

D. No Registration Fee or Offering Register By Calling the Church Office 7-3814 Merger of New York, 12. Boys Pennsylvania Railroad Lines In Stolen PHILADELPHIA (P) The Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads asked the interstate commerce commission to approve merger of the two railroads. The application, announced here, said "three competitively balanced rail systems" are being developed in the East. It said the Chesapeake and Ohio and the Norfolk and the Western railways are creating two such systems, the PRR and NYC the third.

The PRR-NYC application Khrushchev: No Crisis in Agriculture MOSCOW (P) Soviet Premier Khrushchev said today that contrary to contentions in certain sections of the Wsetern press, there is no crisis in Soviet agriculture. Winding up a five-day closed session of the Communist party central committee to discuss agriculture, he stressed that the outlook was good. His speech was reported briefly by Tass, the Soviet news agency. Khrushchev, in opening the party meeting Monday, declared the Soviet Union needed more food for its 200 million people, especially more meat. his windup speech, Khrushchev said the Soviet people had everything needed to accomplishing the tasks confronting ture.

The party meeting was called to take up the question of agriculture, he said, not because little has been done in this sphere but because more can and must be done. List 29 Yanks Still in Hands Of Communists WASHINGTON Twenty-nine U.S. army men are listed by the Pentagon as being in the hands of the Communists. They are among 227 seized by the Communists since 1954, a senate subcommittee was advised Thursday. The figures were in a letter signed by Cyrus R.

Vance, defense department counsel. There was no explanation of when, how or where the military men were captured. Carlisle P. Runge, assistant secretary of defense, who was testifying in an investigation of anti Communist indoctrination of troops, said he didn't know anything about the details. The letter said 207 army personnell had fallen into Communist hands.

Twenty-nine are listed as missing, presumed under Sino-Soviet control; and seven have been reported dead. although their bodies have not been returned. The other 171 were returned to the army. Twenty air force men were captured but all have been released, Vance reported. No navy men were listed as having been seized by the Communists.

Member Coralville COMPANY Bank 5 Minutes West On Highway 6 Parking for every banking need just a step from the door. Safe Deposit Boxes Available Now! Phone 8-5446 Weather, almanac FORECAST FOR IOWA CITY AND SOUTHEAST IOWA Friday, March 9, 1962 Mostly cloudy tonight, colder, in mid-20s. in the Partly cloudy 30s. 'gat' urday, Northeast highs Iowa upper Mostly tonight. colder.

lows in the cloudy Partly cloudy Saturday, highs in the low 30. Central Iowa Mostly cloudy tonight, colder, lows in the mid-20s. Partly, mid-30s. cloudy Saturday, highs in the Northwest Iowa Mostly cloudy tonight, lows in the mid-20s. Partly cloudy Saturday with occasional rain or snow beginning western part late in the day, highs in the mid-308.

Southwest Iowa Mostly cloudy tonight. lows in the upper 20s. Partly cloudy Saturday with rain or snow beginning western part late in the day, highs in the upper 30s. Five-Day Forecast Temperatures will average five to degrees below normal. Normal highs are in the low 40s, normal lows in the lower 208.

It will turn main colder Sunday and the Monday rest and recold throughout period. Precipitation will average .10 to .25 of an inch in occasional rain and snow. Iowa City Temperatures The high Thursday was 35 degrees. The low early today was 30 degrees. At noon today, the temperature was 36.

Snow Thursday and early today totaled six inches. OBSERVATIONS SUNRISE today 6:29 a.m.: Saturday 6:28 a.m. SUNSET today 6:07 p.m.; Saturday 6:08 p.m. The moon will set at 10:09 p.m. and will set at 11:18 p.m.

Saturday, IOWA RIVER DATA (Corps of Iowa engineers noon readings) Stage at City, 1.46 feet: Lone Tree, 7:37 feet: Coralville dam tailwaters, 651.24 feet above sea level: reservoir level dam, 670.09 feet above sea level: discharge rate, 1,300 cubic feet per second. Dr. E. Cooley Will Preach At North Liberty NORTH Edward Cooley, superintendent of the Newton district, will deliver the sermon at the Methodist church Sunday at 11 a.m. Doctor Cooley and wife will be guests at a potluck dinner following the church service.

All members and friends are cordially invited. At 1:45 p.m. Doctor Cooley will preside over the quarterly conference. Cuba Presses For U. N.

Action On Denunciation UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (P) Cuba pressed again today for an urgent meeting of the U.N. security council to denounce the penalties imposed against Cuba by the recent inter- American conference at Punta del Este, Uruguay. The council 11 days ago: refused to put a similar Cuban quest on its agenda. Only the Soviet Union, Romania, Ghana and the United Arab' Republic supported the Cuban demand then.

The Cuban delegation chief, Mario Garcia-Inchaustegui, delivered a letter dated Thursday to the council president for Carlos Sosa-Rodriguez Venezuela, charging that under the U.N. the interAmerican conference could not take the steps it did without authorization of the U.N. security council. The- Punta del Este conference adopted measures for dealing with the threat of communism posed to the western hemisphere by Prime Minister Fidel Castro's regime. $350 Stereo Set Reported Stolen A $350 Eicho stereophonic record player and speakers were stolen from a residence here between 9:15 and 10:15 a.m.

Wednesday, police were told Thursday. David L. Johansen of 503 Bowery street reported the theft. Tabbed for Success Snap Tab Collar HALF. SLEEVE DRESS SHIRTS shed he Enro He who will achieve success, must dress the part.

Fashion dictates tab collar with tapered body box pleat to center the back. Half sleeve styles in white, colors and stripes. and priced from impeccably fashioned $5 Seized Car Miss Bernice Conant, 75, of Route 1, died at University hospital Thursday night following a long illness. Che was a resident of Johnson county the past 70 years. Miss Conant was born at Hampton, February 24, 1887, daughter of William Anthe Sophia Black Conant.

She came to Iowa City with her family when she was five years old, and lived the remainder of her life in the Iowa City area. She was a member of the First Congregational church. Survivors are one sister, Mrs. Carl W. Helm of Iowa City; and two brothers, Walter of Iowa City and Theodore A.

of St. Paul, Minn. She was preceded in death by one brother, Francis. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the Donohue mortuary, the Rev.

John Craig, pastor of the First Congregational church in charge. Burial will be in Okland cemetery, Friends may call at the mortuary after Saturday noon. Former Resident Dies in Italy James G. Hodgson, about 70, director emeritus of Colorado State university libraries at Ft. Collins, died Monday at Florence, Italy, friends here have been informed.

A former resident of Iowa City, he received his bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa and held a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Since his retirement about two years ago, he and his wife, the former Magdalene Freyder, have been traveling in Europe. Survivors in addition to Mrs. Hodgson are a son, Marshall of Chicago, and three grandchildren.

Cremation was planned in Italy. lowa Citian's Brother Dies in California John Carney, a brother of Mrs. Ed Buhman of 729 East Jefferson street, has died in Fullerton, Calif. He was a former resident of Cedar Rapids. Funeral services and burial were to be in Los Angeles.

County Rural Declamatory Meet Saturday The Johnson county rural declamatory workshop for seventh and eighth graders will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Henry Sabin school all-purpose room. Number of participants will not be restricted. Judges will select the top three participants and three alternates to advance to the workshop to be held at 7:30 wide declamatory p.m. Thursday in Iver Opstad auditorium, at Iowa City high school.

Study Proposal To End R.O.T.C. At lowa State DES MOINES (P) The Iowa board of regents had under consideration today a proposal to end compulsory military training at Iowa State versity. The board's educational policy committee made the proposal to the board at a meeting Thursday. Originally, the change compulsory to elective reserve officer training corps. courses was asked by Iowa State President James H.

Hilton. Also at Thursday's board meeting, Iowa State officials asked the regents for authority to train elementary teachers for Iowa schools. Three additional courses and expansion of two existing courses are needed to permit I.S.U. graduates to qualify for Iowa elementary teaching certificates. Graduates of the I.S.U.

child development department qualify for elementary teacher certificates in some states, but not in Iowa. Six out of 10 such graduates take teaching jobs in other states, I.S.U. officials said. TRAVELERS Between 50 and 60 million railroad passengers pass through New York's Grand Central terminal annually. IOWA CITY PRESS-CITIZEN Established 1841 Fire Years Older Than the State of Lows Published evenings except Sundays by the Press Citizen Company, at 819 East Washington street.

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By mail in towns where carrier delivery service is available, $15 a year. All other mail subscriptions $18 a year. resolution authorizing the Iowa highway commission to proceed with plans to construct an interchange on Highway 80 at North Dubuque street. The highway commission can not proceed until the city council gives its authorization, since part of the work would be within the city limits. The proposed Dubuque street interchange has been a source of controversy for some time.

ATTY. CHARLES A. Barker, commission chairman, noted that the group is empowered by law to decide whether its meetings are open or closed. He said it had been a long-standing custom to close meetings while the commission decided what recommendation it would make to the city council. The chairman then asked commission members present if they would like to change this custom.

Not one member said he favored a change. In a brief discussion, commission members pointed out that the body is an advisory group for the city council, it can only recommend. Mem-1 berg felt that the city council should know of its recommendation before the public did. They felt city councilmen should decide whether and when to release the zoning commission's recommendations. Newspapers believe strongly that the right of the public to know what its official bodies are doing and why means simply.

that any citizen, including a reporter, has the right to listen to discussions of public matters by the groups representing the public. After Chairman Barker heard no one favor changing the closed meeting custom, the commission went into secret session and the reporter left. What was discussed is not known. Other planning and zoning commission T. members Feddersen, are J.

Prof. W. Allen C. Tester, Mrs. Laura DeGowin, Prof.

Allan D. Vestal and G. A. Schlaegel. Mr.

Schlaegel did" not attend Thursday night's meeting. Dr. Gerald Howe Elected To Head Airport Board Dr. Gerald W. Howe today was elected chairman of the Iowa City airport commission.

He succeeds E. J. Liechty. Ed E. Breese was elected secretary.

Other members of the commission are Keith M. Tudor and Henry W. Louis. $16,000 Grant Awarded S.U.I. In Engineering A $16,000 grant to provide for the development of civil engineering courses in stream sanitation has been awarded the University of Iowa by the U.S.

public health service. A staff member will develop a research program for water and waste water treatment on a biological basis. February gifts and grants to S.U.I: -a record provide for other research as well. In the zoology department a grant of $38,171 will be I used physiology for study of of comparative gonadotrophina. Another grant of $10,603 is for research in electron microscopy.

These are from the U.S. public health service. Continuing studies in the college of engineering include crystal pressure coefficient project and a study of life support systems. The awards were for $7,300 and $3,600. respectively, from the Bendix Corp.

of Davenport. said the merger would mean taxes of annual $75 million, improved services to the public, and a better position transportation. with other THE APPLICATION said some benefits would accrue merger and promptly upon other savings would be accomplished gradually. The application said national defense not be served weak railroads and the public interproperly with financially est demands they be made strong and healthy. The two railroads announced 12 agreement had January been reached on a merger.

They said then application would be made to the ICC for approval as soon AS details could be worked out. The merger May 8 to agreement PRR and a will be presented A COMPLETE copy of the merger agreement was included the application to the Icc. The railroads in their joint application asked the ICC to determine provisions for protection of employes affected by the merger. They said "appropriate terms and conditions for protection of employes will be acceptable to the applicants." The railroads said the imeffect on employes mediate. the long run, be outweighed by increased opportunities for employment resultfrom a sounder railroad system." Railroad unions are on record as opposed to the merger of the two giant carriers.

The transport workers union, headed by Michael Quill, threatened a strike over the merger, but was enjoined by the courts. Rock Island Girl Killed in Crash MACOMB, Ill. (P) -A Rock Island girl, 11, was killed Thursday night when a containing eight persons jumped a curve on U.S. 67 about 12 miles southeast of Macomb. The other seven occupants were injured.

Janice Kitchen was killed. Her father, James E. Kitchen, 42, 'and her mother, Dorothy Mae Kitchen, 36, were injured critically. Kitchen told police that the car's accelerator pedal stuck. The vehicle catapulted over one embankment and smashed into a second.

Two 14-year-old Des Moines boys were seized in a stolen car about 5 p.m. Thursday four miles west of Tiffin on Highway 6, authorities said. A patrolman and Conservation Officer Wendell Simonson made the arrest. They. had been alerted by radio: by the Iowa county sheriff's office dat Marengo, which said the boys failed to pay for a tank of gas at a Ladora service station.

The car had been stolen about 1 p.m. in Des Moines, authorities said. quoted the boys as saying they were "just driving" until they picked go to They were on up a hitchhiker, who wanted to their way to Michigan when picked up. The boys were held in the Iowa City jail overnight. Des Moines authorities returned them there early this afternoon.

Ask Facts On Anti-Red Seminars WASHINGTON (P) -Investigating senators said today want all the facts on why military officers or departments refused to participate in seminars aimed at alerting the public to the menace of international communism. Sen. John Stennis (D. chairman of a special subcommittee, raised this issue as Maj. Gen.

Charles G. Dodge, army information chief, outlined a detailed program for indoctrinattroops on communism and loyalty. Stennis also demanded a speed-up in defense department decision on whether it will permit continued distribution by the government's "Stars and Stripes" newspaper or "Overseas Weekly," a privately owned publication, under a profitsharing contract. SEN. STROM Thurmond (D- who forced the senate inquiry with charges that antiCommunist activities of military leaders had been muzzled or softened, has been pressing both matters.

Thurmond contended that "Overseas Weekly" is a salacious and improper publication which should not be distributed through military agencies. He also has complained that proper participation by military officers in public seminars posing communism has been prohibited or discouraged. AT Jefferson JUST ONE OF 16 STYLES IN NEW JARMAN SHOES TO CHOOSE FROM One Of The Many Styles In Jarman Loafers 10.95 To 14.95 SHOES FOR SHOES FOR MEN MEN.