Dusky-eyed Sandy Brague Charms Vets With Dance
Eleven year old Sandra Brague tours Iowa veterans facilities to sing and dance for patients. Daughter of Arthur E Brague, she has World War I and II veteran family members and volunteers for VA centers in Clinton Des Moines and Knoxville. Her mother designs costumes and Irene Ilten teaches her ballet toe and tap.
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Veterans Hospitals of
Iowa
Sandra Brague
Arthur E. Brague
First Avenue SE
Sandra
Sandy
Veterans Administration
Clinton
Veterans
Des Moines
Knoxville
Richard
Soldiers Home
Marshalltown
Veterans Hospital
Cooties
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Clinton Center
St. Matthew’s School
Irene Ilten
NLRB Discharges Woman Attorney Over Marital Controversy
Ruth Weyand a longtime NLRB trial lawyer was discharged for the good of the service by general counsel Robert Denham. She left the board April 1 and seeks civil service appeal. Weyand faced a $50,000 suit from Olive Perry wife of NAACP official Leslie Perry alleging gifts and affair. Perry countered they married after divorce. The board cited publicity as reducing Weyand’s value. she had 12 years on staff and led major Supreme Court cases.
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Washington
LLP
Ruth Weyand
National Labor Relations Board
Labor Board
NLRB
Miss Weyand
Robert N. Denham
Civil Service Commission
Olive Perry
Leslie Perry
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Perry
Denham
Supreme Court
Cedar Rapids Officials Attend Midwest Recreation Conference
Three Cedar Rapids Playground and Recreation Commission staff members traveled to Springfield Illinois for a three day Midwest Recreation Executives conference. Nevin Nichols superintendent Irwin Nelson assistant superintendent and Marian Wilson office secretary attend the event Nichols will co chair the Board Relations section Friday and the conference closes Saturday.
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Cedar Rapids Playground and Recreation Commission
Springfield
Midwest Recreation Executives
Nevin Nichols
Irwin Nelson
Marian Wilson
Nichols
Rat Catcher Catches Rat With Fish Hook
In Tennille Georgia Stanley Brantley baited a hook with chicken gizzard after a rat scurried under the floor. He drilled a hole and lowered the line catching the rat, the Brantley family confirms the tale.
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Tennille
Stanley Brantley
Brantley
Paine Portrait Found in East State College
Penn State fine arts professor Dr. Harold E. Dickson believes he has found the only known painting of Thomas Paine. The 1805 portrait by John Wesley Jarvis surfaced after years of searching and was confirmed as authentic by certificate and documentation.
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State College
Harold E. Dickson
Penn State
Thomas Paine
John Wesley Jarvis
Paine
Jarvis
Dickson
Athens
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