Hawkeye Boys State Week Set For June 6 13 at Grinnell
Cedar Rapids delegates to Hawkeye Boys State will be chosen June 6 to 13 at Grinnell college. Delegates from Franklin Roosevelt McKinley Wilson St Patricks Immaculate Conception and St Wenceslaus schools allocated by vote. The event aims to teach Iowa youths government basics with two fictional parties and a state government week.
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Cedar Rapids
Hawkeye Boys
Dwight Krumholtz
Americanism Committee
Hanford American Legion
Grinnell College
Krumholtz
Franklin High School
Roosevelt
McKinley
Wilson
St. Patrick's
Immaculate Conception
St. Wenceslaus
Hawkeye
Iowa
State Department of the American Legion
Grinnell
Lenten Speaker and Hawkeye Boys State Delegates
A Lenten talk is set for Tuesday at the Y with county and city officials to attend. Cedar Rapids boy Bob Fontana, last summer's Hawkeye Boys State governor, remains in office until a new governor is elected though ineligible to return as a delegate this year. Elections to select delegates from public and parochial schools will be held May 4 at school buildings after campaigns. Any high school student may vote for as many candidates as eligible. Nominations require petitions signed by 25 students in larger schools or 10 in smaller ones, due April 21. withdrawals are not allowed after April 28. Delegates are those with the highest votes, with alternates next in line.
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Cedar Rapids
Bob Fontana
Hawkeye Boys State
Buldings
U S Soldier Describes Arabs Eating Customs
Richard M. Savaresy formerly of Laramie and now an army intelligence officer describes an Arabian meal in North Africa. Guests sit on pillows around a foot high table with water poured over the right hand to cleanse it. He notes the right hand only tears chicken apart and then the grease is wiped from the hand on bread before eating the bread.
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Laramie, Wyo
Wyoming
North
Africa
Richard M. Savaresy
Laramie
Savaresy
Weatherwoman outlines meteorology training at Cedar Rapids
Miss Lois Coots of the U S weather bureau will interview interested men and women in Cedar Rapids on April 22 about meteorology training for Civil Aeronautics Administration service. Advanced courses start June 21 at Chicago and New York universities lasting nine months. Junior meteorologists earn 1800 to 2000 dollars annually and forecast weather for military and commercial flights. Age 20 to 30 with calculus and physics background. women may join as junior observers ages 17 plus with math and science coursework.
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Lois Coots
U. S. Weather Bureau
Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce
Civil Aeronautics Administration
University of Chicago
New York University
Weather Bureau
Wickard Praises Cedar Rapids Gazette Coverage
Secretary Claude Wickard writes farm editor Ray F. Anderson praising March 27 letter and Davis appointment story as fair accurate and insightful. He commends understanding of Washington farm issues and extends personal regards from the secretary.
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Chester Davis
Ray Anderson
Gazette
Davis
Wickard
Nuestion
Abel
Ray F. Anderson
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Ray
Chester
Washington
Claude R. Wickard
Federal Court Opens Tuesday in Cedar Rapids
The April term of federal court in Cedar Rapids will convene at 10 am in the federal courtroom on the third floor of the post office building. The grand jury panel is to report at 2 pm Tuesday. Examiner Stephen A. Durisch will precede the opening as the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Chicago examines about 40 naturalization petitioners on Monday. Petit jurors are summoned to report April 2.
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Federal Court
Cedar Rapids
Federal
Post Office
Grand Jury
Tuesay
Stephen A. Durisch
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Chicago
Petit Jurors
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