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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1941
Page
5
Mrs. Frank John braids a rug integrating 30 garments into a one inch rope sewn into a work of art. The piece, shown at 48 Sixteenth avenue SW, features suits wool dresses a coat and a tuxedo with a 10 yard outer circumference and a 33 inch center strand.
Charles F. Martin outlines conservation education and cooperative soil programs at a Linn County Rural Teachers meeting held in the First Christian church basement. Clinton County’s Fred C. Bowersox spoke on adapting teaching to community and building citizen relations.
At Wilson school third annual youth conference final session featured Dr. Otto Schacht of Superior Wisconsin as the speaker. He cited effort aim skill accomplishment friendliness and cooperation as desirable but named sincerity and patience as supreme virtues. He performed songs including The Road to Mandalay Water Boy and The Americans Come and invited the audience to sing America God Bless America and The Lord's Prayer.
Mrs. Earl Miller age 38 suffered a head bump and bruises. Nell Hinshaw age 24 sustained a head bump in a collision at the intersection of Sixteenth avenue and L street SW about 5 45 P M Saturday. Miss Hinshaw rode in a car driven by Leslie Gouak 20 of Ellis boulevard SW when it collided with a car driven by William Reilly 38 of Vernier’s lodge Ellis boulevard NW. Gouak said he saw Reilly’s car enter the intersection but brakes failed after driving through puddles of water.
The High Twelve International holds its seventeenth convention June 18 to 21 at the Roosevelt hotel drawing about 500 members from the U S and delegates from Canada. The four day program includes welcomes, a social hour, golf, banquets, panels, tours and a farewell luncheon chaired by J H Ramsey with E E Hruska as general chairman and dozens of committee heads coordinating housing publicity and arrangements.
Lieut Gov Hickenlooper will award Senior Explorer Scouts in the Trail of Honor ceremony at the annual senior spring Boy Scout formal dance Saturday at 8 30 p m in Coe College recreation room. Jackson Von Yeast will present Sea Scouts in the Bridge of Honor. Eleven Scouts to be honored with orchestra, games and entertainment. officials from out of town units invited.
May Robson, veteran actress, celebrated her seventy seventh birthday Saturday in Hollywood. The screen icon, known for decades of film work, marked another milestone in the city.
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