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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1939
Page
28
The Sunday editor muses on spring signs beyond robins and crocuses. Cops ignore season, as two runaway children daily alert spring, while wiener roasts and family rows hint at warmer days. Spring notions grow with vacation dates, college moods, pavement buckling, and Cupid’s ideas as weather turns.
Nearly 31 tons of federal surplus commodities were distributed in March to Linn county relief clients. Beans, butter, cornmeal, white flour, oranges, and grapefruit totaled thousands of pounds with 80 63 pound tubs of butter and two carloads of fruit processed through the county as a distribution point.
Theodore B. Hlubucek was reelected chairman of the Czech Alliance with Joseph L. Drahos as vice chairman and Rose Bartunek as recording secretary. The organization elected a full board of trustees and executive council, with meetings slated for April 25 at the C.S.P.S. hall. An Easter party for about 200 CSA youths will take place this afternoon at 2 pm, with community members invited and no charge.
The Czech lodge marks its fifty fourth anniversary with refreshments. The Czech school board meets Thursday at 7 30 in the Bohemian school. The Catholic Schols hold a regular monthly meeting Monday at 8 pm in St Wenceslaus lodge room. The Sokol society meets tomorrow at 8 pm in the Sokol hall. Ceska Lipa rehearses the play Za Tou Nasi Stodolickou.
The dramatic club of the St. Wenceslaus parish has postponed its event to Sunday, April 23. The Bohemian Cemetery association will meet at the C. S. P. S. hall on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
Saron and First Lutheran churches will join at Saron Lutheran on Good Friday from noon to 3 p.m. for a service of hymns and lessons, interspersed with seven brief meditations on Jesus seven words from the cross. Pastors Carlson and Scherer will be helped by Krueger, McCrory, Motzkus, Stauffacher, and Valin from several area churches. Worshippers may come or go during the three hours.
The eight consecutive annual simultaneous meeting of Masonic lodges will be held in the Masonic hall Tuesday evening April 4. Local Crescent Mt. Hermon and Mizpah lodges sponsor the event starting at 7 45 p m. The climax comes at 9 30 when Realff Ottesen grand master of Masons in Iowa from Davenport will broadcast an address over Station WHO to the public. Refreshments and a social hour follow.
The Easter pageant The Dawning a Resurrection drama by Lyman R. Bayard directed by Miss Marjorie Emerson will be staged at St Pauls Methodist church auditorium tonight at 7 30 with a large cast. The performance features an organ prelude The Palms The Holy City and O Sacred Head Now Wounded. The cast includes Longinus William Strait Junius Tom Pratt Roman soldiers Darwin Jack Bob Dootitle Eugene Pugh The Other Mary Rosamond Kearney Salome Ruth Rich Joanna Mrs Howard Heathman Mary Magdalene Mrs Paul Grant John Howard Heathman Peter George Dennis Philip John Severson Andrew A C Burnell James William Ray Jr Bartholomew L H Iverson Chaddeus Paul Clendenine The Other Traveler Paul Mueller Thomas S E Garber Cleopas R T Isaacson James The Less Bob Warren Simon Zelotes Roy Parker Joseph of Arimathea J H Shipton Nicodemus Don Wescott Women of Jerusalem Mrs John Kofron Mrs Dale Morgan Miss Cora Hampton Jerusalem boys and girls Jack Griner Charles Brammer James Brammer Richard Albright John Nash Muriel Burnell Betty Like Marjorie Youns Betty Sand ness Jacqueline Glaser. The choir under Miss Andrea Johannsen will provide the music.
Clark J. Kettering known as Red from 1129 Ellis Blvd NW began chasing midget racing after years as a mechanic and driver. He builds his third miniature racer in his basement using a four cylinder 60 horsepower outboard motor, with peak revs up to 8 000, aiming for 100 mph. Midget cars weigh around 650 pounds and race on a five mile track with a 60 mph average, featuring low ground clearance and dramatic antics. Red also drives for Hutchinson Ice Cream when not racing, illustrating how drivers balance jobs with the sport.
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