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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Apr 20, 1947

Page

7

Air Inaugural Draws Large Cedar Rapids Crowd

Large turnout expected for the Cedar Rapids air inaugural with 200 planes on Sunday and 150 to 200 light planes Saturday and Sunday. Four military flights will land at noon Sunday while parking and traffic controls guide crowds to designated lots and special trains run from 8 a.m. A public address system and elevated speakers stand accompany ceremonies at 1 30 p.m. with a Mainliner Cedar Rapids arrival and a sister plane dedication.

Cedar Rapids Francis Hidinger Army Navy Marine Iowa City

Nine Coe Students Plan Advanced Degree Work

Nine Coe seniors enroll for graduate study in science per Dr. Warren N. Kirk and Dr. Ben H. Peterson. Teaching assistantships at Northwestern go to Clifford Jensen and McGuire of Cedar Rapids. Other acceptances include William Armstrong Cedar Rapids in chemical engineering at Iowa, D Morgan Cedar Rapids and Dorothy Beintema Davenport to SUI medical college, Fred Andrews Cedar Rapids in biochemistry, Everett Hendricks Rockwell City to Northwestern College of Medicine, Frances Jones Dixon Illinois and Helen Rosain Chicago Illinois to Northwestern medical technology school.

Coe Warren N. Kirk Ben H. Peterson Northwestern University Clifford Jensen McGuire Cedar Rapids William Armstrong University of Iowa D. Morgan Rothy Beintema Davenport SUI Medical College Fred Andrews Everett Hendricks Rockwell City College of Medicine Northwestern School of Medical Technology Frances Jones Dixon, Ill Helen Rosain Chicago, Ill

Dr. Jackson To Speak On Rheumatic Fever

Dr. Robert L. Jackson, consul tant director of aid to crippled children and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Town, will speak on rheumatic fever at 2 p.m. Monday in the Little Theater of the YMCA. The event is sponsored by the health division of the Council of Social Planning. He studied at the University of Michigan and recently reviewed child heart disease treatment at Johns Hopkins and Harvard.

Robert L. Jackson University of Town Y.M.C.A Health Division The Council of Social Planning Jackson University of Michigan Johns Hopkins Harvard

Cancer Campaign Workers Named in Cedar Rapids

In the Cedar Rapids and Linn County division of the American Cancer Society national campaign, workers were announced Saturday with Mrs. Lee O. Whitcomb named as chair.

Cedar Rapids and Linn County American Cancer Society Lee O. Whitcomb

Second National Guard Unit To Be Instituted

A second Iowa National Guard unit will be activated in Cedar Rapids next week. Col. Carlton K. Smith announced that the canon company of the 133rd Infantry, 34th Division, will be activated Wednesday night, April 23, with 76 men and four officers at full strength. First Lt. Don T. Prochaska will command the unit, to be armed with 105mm self propelled guns eventually, and receive light tanks at first. The activation makes Cedar Rapids home to the state’s second Iowa National Guard unit since the war. a Company C infantry unit will follow later. Allen N. Hamer, formerly in headquarters company, has been commissioned a second lieutenant and serves as communications officer for the unit.

Iowa National Guard Canon Company Cedar Rapids Carlton K. Smith 133Rd Infantry Regiment Canon Col. Smith Don T. Prochaska Sixteenth Avenue SW Prochaska 634Th Belgium France Germany 133Rd Hamer Ray Murdock

United Air Lines Inaugurates Cedar Rapids Service

United Air Lines will haul mail passengers express and freight from Cedar Rapids starting Sunday with the Mainliner first, carrying mail and commemorative covers. A Cargoliner will follow to pick up a special Cedar Rapids consignments, with shipments from LaPlant Chaste Iowa Manufacturing Link Belt Sreeder Universal Engineering Cherry Burrell Fruehaus Trailer. Ray Spielman of the YMB leads the first flight cargo operation assembled at Kenwood Transfer. Space remains for more local firms. if needed a second cargo flight may stop at 5 p.m. Sunday.

United Air Lines Cedar Rapids United Cene P Lastries Shipaeers LaPlant-Chaste Iowa Link-Belt Sreeder Universal Engineering Cherry- Burrell and Fruehaus Ray Spielman YMB Kenwood Spielman

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