Rumor, unrest in Cedar Rapids tested by weekend calm
Observers debate whether a planned riot in Cedar Rapids occurred as rumors swirled about racial tension outsiders and agitators. Authorities prepared with industrial defense measures while citizens paused in fear, yet nothing happened as talks turn to deeper social inequities and possible youth work programs.
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Cely
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Kansas City
Greene Square
Detroit
Birth Control by Compulsion Some Day
Lewis C. Frank Jr argues that runaway population growth threatens freedom and quality of life. He cites UN FAO starvation figures, NAS warnings, and rising costs for birth control programs while noting U.S. defense spending and the need for expanded fertility services to curb growth.
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
India
China
Latin America
United States
National Academy of Sciences
Public meeting planned to fight elm disease in Cedar Rapids
A February meeting was planned to organize against Dutch elm disease with an Iowa State College expert possible for consultation. Cedar Rapids officials noted tax values and the 1948 levy while 51 people won a national Colgate contest prize and local amateur enterers prepared for Kids' Day at the All Iowa Fair.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa State College
Don Gardner
George Williamson
Colgate-Palmolive
The
Gas Industry
Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company
Freedom Gas
Arlen Pratt
Nancy Newman
Cedar Rapids appoints new justice of the peace
W R Watsabaugh Cedar Rapids attorney was appointed by Linn county supervisors to fill a vacancy in Cedar Rapids township justice of the peace office after the death of Justice Almon Reed. The job would likely be completed by January 1 1938.
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W. R. Watsabaugh
Cedar Rapids
Linn County Supervisors
Cedar Rapids Township
Justice of the Peace
Almon Reed
Birth control politics and population fears debated
The piece contrasts federal funding for birth control with defense costs, arguing for and against compulsory measures. It cites Ashley Montagu and Lincoln Day on voluntary versus forced control, warns of population explosions, and notes the liberty implications for families with more than three children.
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U.S
Agency For International Development
Ashley Montagu
Montagu
Lincoln Day
Yale
Carl Sandburg Remembered as Poet Biographer and Editor
A commemorative note recalls Carl Sandburg, celebrated American poet and biographer, along with his broader output as a journalist and editor. It notes his keen editorial instinct and enduring impact, while acknowledging diminishing memories of his lesser known newspaper editorials.
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Carl Sandburg
America
Chicago
Milwaukee
Radios To Tempt Cong Defectors From The U SIA
Washington It isn’t announced that Leonard Marks of the U S Information Agency has developed a transistor radio to be parachuted behind the lines in Vietnam. The radio costs about three dollars and tunes only to The Voice of Freedom in South Vietnam. The plan aims to reach Viet Cong defectors by broadcasting safely to their villages after surrender.
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Ashington
Leonard Marks
U.S. Information Agency
Vietnam
Voice of Freedom
South Vietnam
USIA
Marks
China’s Nuclear Drive Surges With Help From Two Powers
The piece notes U S and Soviet aid to China’s nuclear program, including trained scientists deported to or invited by China. It details Tsien’s American career and exile, Moscow Beijing cooperation, and Khrushchev’s 1959 break, leading to China’s first atomic test in 1964.
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America
Soviet Union
China
Russia
United States
U.S
Joseph R. McCarthy
Moscow
Red China
Peking
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Mao
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Fourth Street
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Information Center On
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Newspaper Enterprise Association
Civil Defense
Houston
Prague
Saigon
Population Reference Bureau
Robert Cook
Paul Revere
Population Problems
Social Security Administration
Frederick S. Jaffe
Planned Parenthood World Population
Ay Caecil
George Clark
Sandburg
North Vietnam
Drew Pearson
Jack Anderson
By William L. Ryan and
Alton L. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Chao Chungyao
California Institute of Technology
Tsien Hsue-shen
Caltech
Tsien
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
U.S. National Defense Scientific Advisory Board
Henry H. “Hap” Arnold
Air Corps
Germany
Goddard
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena
Communist Party
Sanetare
Meer
Europe
Hsue-Shen
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