Saturday Opening for C R Parks Despite Cool Weather
Cedar Rapids parks will open earlier than usual with 58 parks totaling 2909 acres preparing for the weekend. Parks officials say facilities including water, restrooms, and firewood will be ready, with softball diamonds and Bever park zoo opening by Saturday. Monkeys will be placed in cages soon, with no new animals this year.
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Cedar Rapids
Donald Gardner
Gardner
Cedar River
Elmer Delaney
Delaney
Bever Park
Bever
Bever Zoo
Acting Director Named After Berger Resignation
Malits will assume acting director duties following John Berger's early year resignation. His wife and two daughters plan to relocate in early June. The Theater Society notes Malits previously spoke at teachers training colleges in London and taught Stanislavsky method in Washington, D.C.
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John Berger
Malits
William C Wilson Appeals To Court For Freedom
A 17 year old inmate at Anamosa men’s reformatory claims illegal juvenile confinement in a felon facility and pursues the case to the U S Eighth Circuit. The order upholding transfer from Eldora’s Boys Training School was later appealed to Iowa Supreme Court, with proceedings continuing as of this month.
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Men’s Reformatory
Anamosa
U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
William C. Wilson
Dee Maines
Wilson
McManes
Edward J. McManus
Cedar Rapids
Eldora
Reformatory
McManus
Peformatory
Charles Margulis Trumpeter Dies in Minnesota Visit
Charles Margulis 64, renowned trumpet player, died while visiting relatives in Little Falls Minnesota. He held first trumpet roles with major bands including Tommy Dorsey Jimmy Dorsey Benny Goodman Artie Shaw and Vincent Lopez. Margulis appeared with Paul Whiteman in the film King of Jazz and recorded the trumpet solo for Eddie Fisher Oh Mine Papa. A Minneapolis native he studied at the University of Minnesota. Errol Flynn Maureen O Hara star in THE 4 O CLOCK MOVIE Against All Flags on KCRG TV.
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Little Falls
Errol Flynn
Maureen O'Hara
Kcrg-Tv
Edmund Malits Named Director of Family Service
Edmund Malits will become executive director of the Family Service Agency, starting May 22. He previously led the County Interagency Cooperative Aftercare Project in Overland Park Kansas and earned a master’s in social work from the University of Buffalo. The Linn County agency offers marriage and family case work, group counseling, and homemaker services funded by the United Good Neighbor Campaign and client fees.
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Edmund Malits
Family Service Agency
Malits
County Interagency
Overland Park
Kan
University of Buffalo
Calif
Buffalo
Linn County
United Good Neighbor Campaign
Max Stern
J. C. Crawley
Vera Vlasova To Lecture Friday At Coe College
Vera Vlasova, linked with Stanislavsky and Massa litinos, will lecture on Coe and Cornell campuses this week. Open talk at 3 p.m. Friday in Daehler-Kitchin Auditorium at Coe, and she will address the Associated Colleges of the Midwest theater conference Saturday at 11 a.m. in the Cornell chapel.
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Vera Vlasova
Stanislavsky
Moscow Art Theater
Massalitinos
Coe
Cornell
Vlasova
Daehler-Kitchin Audi
Associated Colleges of the Midwest
Prague-Moscow Art Group
United States
Europe
England
Oxford
Cambridge
Bristol
Manchester
Questors
Passports Revoked for Defying Travel Orders
Five crew members of the yacht Phoenix and Dr Earle Reynolds have had their passports revoked for defying U S travel rules and sailing to Haiphong with a medicines cargo. George F Knoop 32 pleaded guilty in Los Angeles to aiding false claims and mail fraud in a related drowning scheme case. Mrs Janice Knoop McNelly 25 pled guilty in Cedar Rapids federal court to conspiring in the fake drowning plot.
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Cedar Falls
George F. Knoop
Los Angeles
Janice Knoop McNelly
Knoop
Cedar Rapids
Social Eet
McNelly
Washington
United States
Lake Mead
Nev
Phoenix
U.S
Haiphong
State Department
Tokyo
Earle Reynolds
The
Yellow Springs
Ohio
Hiroshima
Japan
Appointment to Merchant Marine Academy draws praise
Francis Gilbert, son of Wellington and Mrs Gilbert of 1500 C Street SW, earned an appointment to the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, NY, after competing with candidates and completing testing. Congress member John C. Culver praised his achievement and potential.
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Francis Gilbert
Wellington R. Gilbert
C Street
United States Merchant Marine Academy
Kings Point
John C. Culver
Culver
Jefferson High
Gilbert
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Eng
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Coe College
Mason
Olds
Oldsmobile
Transportation Center
Allen Motor CO
First Avenue
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Surance
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