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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1947
Page
3
The Cedar Rapids slogan contest opens to all public and parochial school students from third grade up with six prizes. High school winners receive a bicycle and other items. grade school winners receive a table radio and other prizes. Entries due by May 3 at midnight.
Cedar Rapids veterans who served with the Second Marine Division are urged to contact the history board in Washington D C for a prospective history of Guadalcanal Tarawa and Saipan campaigns. The board will distribute free copies to all veterans who served between January 4 1942 and September 2 1945. Information requested includes name rank serial number present address dates of service unit and notable incidents or actions. GOOD REASON FOR QUITTING is noted. A Boston AP item reports a red haired department store stockroom worker quit after perfumes made his clothing smell strong enough to fool pals into thinking he was a sissy.
A brief entry mentions additional slogans written on another attached sheet. The signer’s name and grade in school are noted, with no further context about the event or purpose.
Elsa Moegle, noted harpist who has performed at the White House, will give a musical program in the Wilson high school auditorium Wednesday at 12 45 pm. Admission is 15 cents with an activity ticket. She has partnered with Michael Strange in recitals and recently finished a U S recital tour. She has played under Stokowski and Mahler and with the New York Women's Symphony.
Katharine Duster and Joan Dulin along with Ruth Ann Mackey and Jean Stepanek appear among readers or participants in a regional item. The fragment suggests a community or social roster with several women’s names listed.
Carol Jean Fiden Patricia Scha ao Seat Hamel and Jerry Tickets may be purchased at the Knights of Columbus club rooms or Enzlers.
Bernice Bonesteel a Coe College music major from Cedar Rapids will perform a piano recital at 8 15 p m Sunday in the Coe chapel Velma MacMillan a pupil of Eleanor Taylor will accompany with organ orchestral parts.
Two new families, the Heller and Howell households, have moved into the Alfred university veterans housing project. Neither family has any children.
The 412-voice all city high school choir, after Friday’s music festival, will perform at Ellis Park vesper service on May 4 under Miss Lovell Wright. The event is sponsored by Cedar Rapids Christian Youth Council and Marion Council of Churches. Dr. L L Dunnington will speak on The Challenge of a Christian Home.
Laundry owners from 15 eastern Iowa cities and key workers will attend a first of its kind clinic sponsored by the Iowa Institute of Laundering. About 100 arrive to see new equipment demonstrated at the Troy laundry from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Experts from the American Institute of Laundering and laundry equipment manufacturers will be present.
Lou Bradley of University Laundry Iowa City chairs the planning committee Invitations have been sent to laundry owners in Decorah Dubuque Clinton Davenport Muscatine Oskaloosa Keokuk Ft Madison Burlington Ottumwa Iowa City Marshalltown Waterloo Oelwein and Cedar Rapids for a statewide gathering.
Enrollment in the children's home and playground garden project reached 1,633 last week, according to garden director Mrs. L. J. Smith. The project is sponsored by the playground and recreation commission. This week enrollment will continue with a schedule at Lincoln school and Buchanan locations.
Readable fragments list times and places including Tyler Trinity Lutheran St Ludmila Johnson and Van Buren with morning afternoon and evening slots across Tuesday to Thursday for recurring meetings and services.
The Knights of Columbus Cedar Rapids No. 909 present the first annual KC Minstrels at Im maculate Conception auditorium Tuesday at 8 00 pm produced by Robert Lowe directed by Otto Thoen nes. Highlights include a Robert Taylor and Robert Lowe comedy singing act with End Men and a Carroll school of dancing Rockettes number featuring members of the troupe.
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