Cedar Rapids Sokol marks 100 years with events and history
Cedar Rapids Sokol celebrates a century of gymnastic and social activity with a spring show at Prairie High, an October 21 banquet featuring a 40 member Czech chorus, and a commemorative medallion. President Joseph Pazour notes records from 1873 reveal discipline and community-building through picnics dances and academics. The group emphasizes physical mental and ethical fitness and national spirit as it reflects on past triumphs including 1909 and 1910 national victories.
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Cedar Rapids Sokol
Prairie High
Sokol
Pazour
Cedar Rapids
New York
Joseph Pazour
Vaclava Jandu
Karla Kirchnera
Josef Haska
Adolfa Macha
Jana J. Hrbka
Josef Dada
Josef Urbana
Josef Wavrina
Aloise Zahorika
Women lead active unit as Cedar Rapids Sokol grows
Foreign Visitor units helped form the National Sokol in Chicago in 1878. Pazour notes women became established by 1900 in Cedar Rapids, organizing gym classes and fundraising. The current women’s unit exceeds 200 members led by Libbie Melsha while the men’s unit has about 160.
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Chicago
Cedar Rapids
Pazour
Libbie Melsha
Wisconsin Street
Betty Petrzalek
Trel
Mana Zlatohlavek
Mary Ann Pochobradsky
Renata Hruska
Libbie
Sokol
Fred Anthony
Donald Pulkrab
Dennis Hrabak
Charles Kriz
Federal anti smog plan in action at soil office
In Tustin California the soil conservation office reports half its two staff rode bicycles to work under the first stage of the federal shutdown plan as smog levels rise. A spokesman notes the office has two employees and a reporter asks for the exact count.
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Tustin
Calif
UPI
Soil Conservation Office
Department of Agriculture
Environmental Protection Agency
Last Concert Tonight by Cedar Rapids Band
Cedar Rapids municipal band presents its final 1973 concert at 8 PM with Jerry Owen first trombone and Frank Kluesner guest conductor. Selections include American Variations Shaft Mary Poppins and The Fairest of the Fair plus pieces from Totem Pole and American Overture. Season ends October 21 at Coe College auditorium.
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Jerry Owen
Boxwoodkins
Klaxon
Henry Jane
Cedar Rapids Mucepts
Owen Wrinicipal
James Christensen
Mark McDunn
Beverpark
Owen
Coe College
Cedar Rapids Symphony
C. Teike
Jerry Bilik
Shaft
Moffit
Glenn Osser
Robinson
Kostal
John Philip Sousa
Coe Auditorium
Penguin at Atlantic City gets name change to Patricia
At Ocean Underworld exhibit on a Atlantic City pier a three year old king penguin formerly known as Peter Penguin has been renamed Patricia. Officials say the bird is female and incubating an egg, possibly the first penguin hatch in New Jersey if it hatches.
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Atlantic City
N. J
UPI
Peter Penguin
Atlantic City Pier
Patricia
George Hamid, Jr
Atlantic Steel Pier
New Jersey
Hamid
Memorials and contributions listed for family and friends
A fragmented dedication page shows multiple in memory notices and gifts from relatives and organizations. Names include Caroline M Anderle Franklin Goodrow Edna L Marsh Gladys McArthur Robert McCleod Diane Wayne Flickinger William Schneekloth Leon ard Nemec Rose Coenen Georgia Mills and others with amounts totaling about 7,899.43 and 17,671.67 dollars and 9,772.24 dollars.
Wulfsberg Earns Eagle at Court of Honor
Wulfsberg, son of Mr and Mrs A H Wulfsberg of 2158 Lincolnshire drive SE Cedar Rapids, will receive the Eagle Scout award at a 7 p m ceremony Monday at First Lutheran church. He joined troop 7 in 1969 and has starred in multiple ranks while serving as assistant patrol leader and scribe.
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Rolf Wulfsberg
A.H. Wulfsberg
Lincolnshire Drive
First Lutheran Church
Wulfsberg
Troop 7
Wakonda
Order of the Arrow
Franklin Junior High Orchestra
Cedar Rapids Youth Symphony
First Lutheran
Plan Senior Citizen Tour to State Fair
The Office of Retirement Education and Other Opportunities will sponsor a bus tour to the Senior Citizen day program at the Iowa State fair on August 22. The bus departs from the Roosevelt hotel in Cedar Rapids at 7 a.m. and stops at the Holiday Inn in Iowa City at 7:30 for pickups. Return begins at 4 p.m. The trip costs $5 per person, with advance registration by calling 398-5535.
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Office of Retirement Education
Roosevelt Hotel
Cedar Rapids
Holiday Inn
Iowa City
Mass Desertion of East German Forces Flee to West Berlin
Twenty years ago a group of thirty seven East German soldiers and policemen escaped to West Berlin marking the second largest mass desertion of Red armed forces that year.
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West Berlin
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Pavel Maly
Jan Vosnek
Karel Bednar
Josef Svab
Karel Polansky
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Tom Merryman
Gene Hite
Twenty-ninth Street
Penick
Ford
Gene Goellner
West Indies
Dial
Osterling
Jen
Lowa Manufacturing
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Iowa Steel and Iron
Caroline M. Anderle
W. C. Suler
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Franklin Goodrow
Edna L. Marsh
Hugo
Catherine Struve
Gladys
E. McArthur
American Federation of Grain Milliers
Robert McCleod
Lodge 262
Western Fraternal Life Assn. PA
William Schneekloth
Les
Jo Zachers
Diane
Wayne Flickinger
Goodwater
Frank and
Mary Melichar
Joseph Bevill
Frank “Buster” Melichar, Jr
Leonard J. Nemec
Hilda Shramek
Rose Coenen
Marie
Johnson
Georgia Mills
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Eevee
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Longbranch
Total Service Banking
Guaranty Bank. & Trust CO
Ord ST
Led Ave
Jacolyn DR
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