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The Courier from Waterloo, Iowa • 6

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The Courieri
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Waterloo, Iowa
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6
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in MONDAY, OICtMII 1M WATERLOO DAILY COURIER, WATERLOO, IOWA Awakened by Smoke, Flee 1 Young Couple Escapes Fire At New Mobile Court Home Blacks Won't Bo Scapegoats: Porter Charge of No Cooperation On Vice Problem Repeated J' a large, fairly C3 the trailer was new unit. 1-t "The black citizens and added, "we will tending the meeting that an action committee be established so that Waterloo would be able Union Gives Donation to Sells Fund f- Waterloo will not accept the come, not as stooges, however, blame for the polic chief notibu.t respected black i i. was the general consensus doing his job and becomeo nd scapegoats for inrffirirnpv.w to operate as a total com munity. Ti. tTn-d With Ski Mask A young couple escaped from their nearly new mobile home early Sunday morning after the wife awoke to find the rooms full of smoke.

The couple's infant child fortunately was staying overnight with Its grandmother. City firemen were called Sunday at 9:37 a.m. to the William Berthoff mobile home at Droste Tr-iler Court, 1560 Independence Ave. The Berthoffs told firemen they were sleeping when Mrs. Berthoff awoke smelling smoke.

Their way out the main'entrance was' blocked by fire and smoke so they escaped through a back entrance. Loss to the inside of the home was severe. community at a special meeting Sunday at the City Hall with Slugged Clark's Watchman In Intensive Care Ward the Human Rights Commission, Gene Enderlcin, Us chairman, Mayor Lloyd Turner and Police i A young night watchman through his belt loop with a Chief Robert S. Wright. The meeting was asked by a group of black citizens so that they could respond lo a found bound with a ski mask ski mask taken from off a counter pulled over his face.

pulled over his face at Clark's Department Store, 3420 Falls Police said he had been struck Local 1278 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers of North ica, the Rath Packing Co. offic workers' union, has given a donation of $127 to the Connie Sue Sells it was announced Monday. The fund is for 2-year-old Connie, who has terminal cancer. The child's father, an employe of Construction Machinery has not been working since the beginning of a strike began at the Construction Machinery Co. some time ago.

Local 1278 also, donated $20 for the Salvation Army'i Christmas fund. The Daily Courier back! Ave. was reported in fairly good on the forehead. The emergency inhalator from the fire depart 'AssisUit fire chief Wilbur Grove said the room where the statement made by Chief Wright on Dec. 5 that there Is a double standard of law enforcement In the black community in Waterloo and that condition in the Intensive care ward of Schoitz Memorial ment was called to assist and Traffic Moves on New Highway 63 Segment infant's bed had been was gut Hospital Monday morning.

transfer him to the hospital, Police Identified the man as more cooperation was needed Police said they believe apparently hid in the Paul Presnall, 23. of irom uiai conunuimy, rwef. For the present time northbound traffic is being routed across the river on the Park avenue bridge' and southbound on the Mullan avenue bridge. When traffic lights are installed on the new First street bridge approach, northbound traffic will be shifted across it. Traffic began moving across the newly-relocated mcnt of Highway 63 on the west side of Waterloo Monday as the stretch was formally opened by the Iowa Highway commission.

The four-lane divided highway is shown here looking south from Us temporary junction with Highway 218. Trailer Court, 15 60 ted by fire completely and doors in the kitchen of the home were charred completely through from the heat. City Fire Marshal Eugene Fortune is investigating the store and a noise at the west end of the store alerted When asked explain the independence Ave double standard of law en Police said Presnall was in Presnall. His glasses and some vestigating a noise in the store forcement, Wright said that was the or lack boxes were found in the area about 1:17 a.m. Sunday when STOP DREAMING ABOUT ITI 511 your business with on action-getting Classified wnere ne apparently was cause the fire.

Firemen said Northeast Iowa. of acceptance of law en he was clouted over the head Ad. Dial 334-3UI now I struck. forccment in any area in the and remembers nothing more He was found some 30 feet from a front door behind the of the Incident. PROOF SCHEHLEV 0ISTIUERS CO, M.T.C He was found with his hands community." Repeals Charge He continued, Law en store carts by patrolmen who Reports at Meeting Here Catholic School Evaluation Study tied behind his back, run answered an alarm call, ap Five Nabbed With Beer After Chase Dunkerton Man Facing Two Charges parently tripped when the forcemcnt can not be better assailant went out.

a door which was removed by unscrewing than the community demands and accepts." and continued with an explanation that the part of it. Police said it was the only oolice department was not get Reports from Catholic school door the person could have left communities staffing the educa tion programs of the Arch ting the cooperation ffom the black community as it was Five persons were taken into from as the others were all evaluation teams from six areas of the archdiocese of Dubuque double-locked. diocesan System, together with Gun License Law Is Now In Effect Required by New Federal Control Acf Starting Monday applications from other sections of the city custody about 12:55 a.m. Sunday following a high speed chase at up to 100 miles an were received during a meeting Police said nothing had been the sixteen member Archdiocesan Board, comprise the Porter pointed out that, "the found missing, although there at Holiday Inn, concluded Saturday. black community was con roster of the Educational Plan were indications that the hour by a deputy sheriff that finally ended four miles north fChompion ning Commission: The reports were made to the store's office had been entered and contents disturbed.

cerned with the charge that prostitution and bootlegging were prime vices of the com of Dunkerton. i in Leonard Keefe, Cedar Falls; educational planning commis Bourbon 1 GT Deputy sheriff Roger Rieks Investigation Is continuing. sion of the archdiocese. Thomas Auge, Dubuque; Biays si mm I in a report said he had chased the driver George Louis Reports on Area Level munity, and that these were certainly not the only problems with which blacks were con Bowerman, Dubuque; Margaret Bowman, Marshalltown; Sister Schares, 23, of Route 1 Both academic and religious Margaret Francis Brockamp, for federal licenses to sell firearms and ammunition must meet the requirements set forth in the Gun Control Act of 19G8, the Internal Revenue Service said. cerned but rather the problem of total lack of law Burglars Hungry; Rob O.S.F., Dubuque; James.

Cahill, Dunkerton, after he had purchased beer at a Dunkerton educational programs have been studied by the area teams, and Preston; Joseph Creen, Cedar tavern. With him, Rieks said, have been evaluated according Rapids: Sister Edward Dolan, to criteria formulated and ap P.B.V.M., Dubuque; The Rev Holders of current firearm were four minors who also were charged with possession of proved by the Archdiocesan Three Homes Joseph Griffin, Ames; the Rev. licenses will not be affected by Wrieht said that It was impossible to get a black man to help in undercover work, provide information or help fenses. Board. Reports presented were Lawrence Guter, Dubuque; the Rev.

Paul Maguire, Mason the new licensing requirements until the license comes up for on the area level rather than inree city residences were Schares was charged with making beer available -to ft in (SGdGD00ODDl the pinpointing of individual City; Sister Teresa Frances renewal but they must observe develop cases. Says Informers Scorned struck by burglars apparently more hungry than anything educational programs, except minors and speeding. McDade, B.V.M., Dubuque; the new controls on the sale and transfer of firearms and am Kevin McGuire, Cresco; Bar With him were Fred John else, over the weekend. It was stated by Mrs. Joy in situations where specific serious problems are in need of immediate solution.

Seggelkov, 18, of Route 1, munition. Police said Francis bara Meysenburg, Cedar Falls; Brother Michael Palmer, F.S. Fairbank, Kenneth John Jones, Dostart of 1213 Lafayette St. The present evaluation pro Lowe, a representative of the black community, "when Information has been provided In the past, the police depart License Fee Raised The IRS said the annua! li 17, Rt. 1, Oelwein; and Joan reported someone broke into gram is a follow-up to the Com Dyersville; Leo Schmall, Rockwell; the Rev.

William Blessington, Marion; the Rev. George Karnik, Ryan; the Rev. her apartment Saturday even and Jean Leuenberger, 14-year-old twins, of Fairbank. munity Speaks School Reorgani cense fee to sell firearms and ammunition has been raised ing by prying open a window. zation Program of the 1967-1968 ment has often tried to discredit the informer and not look at The four minors were charged Missing was $10 worth of meat Francis Lana, Protivin; the with possession of beer.

Seg from a freezer. school year, and is also one step in an overall ten-year cal Rev. Robert Spahn, New Hamp gelkov and Schares posted bond from $1 to $10. Pawnbrokers dealing in firearms must obtain a $25 license under the new law. I Lillian Waterman of 121 ton; Mother Helen Marie the '-'nrmation." Mayor Asks Support Mayor Lloyd Turner asserted endar of evaluation and adjustment projected by the Archdiocesan Board of Education 9th said eight eggs, some bacon, milk and butter were Feeney, P.B.V.M., Dubuque; Mother Eleanor Cashman, R.

Dealers in shotgun and .22 and parents of the other three were Seggelkov and Schares are scheduled to appear in justice of the peace court Saturday at 1:30 p.m. Four taken from her unlocked house that he. "would like to assume S.M., Cedar Rapids; Sister Ma as a means of Improving the caliber ammunition, previously not required to obtain a federal Saturday too. that everyone in the room was quality of education offered by And just down the street interested in good law eiv All other Bourbons, are contenders. the system it governs.

license, must be licensed under Lawrence Molstead at 107 E. six packs of beer were taken as evidence from the car. tilda Adams, O.S.F., Dubuque; Sister Mary Roberta Kuhn, B. V.M., Dubuque. MRS.

ELMIHRST DIES the new law. However, by filing forcement' and that "I would like to assume that the Roster of Commission Members of the Priests' Sen a license application on time, a 9th St. said a downstairs apartment was broken into by prying police department has the sup dealer not previously required Republic magazine and various off a padlock. Missing was ate of the Dubuque Archdiocese TOTNES, England (AP) to have a license may continue some milk, a $22 clock radio and representatives of the Ma Dorothy Whitney Straight Elm- educational projects, died Saturday at Partington Hall in to sell ammunition pending ac and a cigarette roller. jor Superiors of the religious hirst, 81, a founder of The New Eight year oldStraight Bourbon Whisky tion on his application.

The fee' Devon. is $10 and permits a dealer to sell both firearms and ammunition. Limitations on Sellers To qualify for a license under the new law, a person must be 21 years of age, have a place of business in the U.S. and not be Buys at Morris Paint How About You? 1 convicted felon. Details on Youna or old.

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Blacks would like to feel that when consideration Is asked, they can do it in a respectable manner and receive a respectable response. "Communication will not be established as long as blacks are continually blamed for situations existing in their community. In order to have a working relationship, we must have the respect of the police department. "We do not expect our people to be brutalized or harrassed." he continued, "and we will not give you a blanket for open season." Concern Over Future Enderlein stated that, "the The new federal gun law was SHELVING Tho do-it-yownoll gift that addi beauty and ipace to any room. Beautitul walnut-grained finish, REE beautiful color brochure available, showing many shelving ideal.

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