Flower Not Pollyanna Inspires Gladiola Titles in Cedar Rapids
Two Cedar Rapids cousins developed new gladiola varieties and named them for young women. Nancy Joan Orahovzal, 16 months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Drahovral, won with a magenta gladiolus named for her. Helen Louise Libal, 15, received a rose pink mammoth gladiolus named in her honor by her father Joseph R. Libal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Nancy Joan Orahovzal
Jerry Drahovral
Helen Louise
Joseph R. Libal
Iowa Avenue
Helen Louise Libal
Evangelical Young People’s League Hosts Club Night
Clarence Mrs August Ruther hosted the 500 club meeting on Wednesday with prizes going to Laura Kettleson Marie Martzahn and Wanda Hartwig. Rev L Gunneman of Tipton spoke on The Use and Misuse of the Bible with Irma Hulse in charge of devotions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
August Ruther
Laura Kettleson
Marie Martzahn
Wanda Hartwig
L. Gunneman
Tipton
Evangelical Young People's League
Irma Hulse
Mrs. W. C. DeShaw Hosts Shower For Katherine DeShaw
Mrs. W. C. DeShaw entertained at a shower for Miss Katherine DeShaw last Friday. Miss DeShaw will become the bride of Dewain Thompson this month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C. DeShaw
Katherine DeShaw
Miss DeShaw
Dewain Thompson
Nearly Half Iowa WPA Money Used On Roads Streets
Iowa WPA Administrator George J. Keller said nearly half of WPA funds in the year ended July 1 went to highway and street work. Total expenditures were 29,040,383 with 14,429,768 for traffic projects, including 1902 miles of secondary resurfacing and 686 miles of grading, plus 9796 bridges and culverts and 2064 unit reconstructions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DES Moines
WPA
Iowa
George J. Keller
Keller
Works Progress Administration
Police Trap For Fire Chasers At Algona Fairgrounds
Police and fire department officials staged a burning rubbish scene at the fairgrounds to teach a mass lesson on traffic laws. A fire truck with sirens drew around two hundred motorists who followed and were given tags reminding them they violated city and state rules by tailing a fire vehicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algona
INS
Fire Department
Fairground
Stock Buyer Makes Ornaments From Cattle Horns
Charles Moncrief a 67 year old cattle buyer from Scotch Grove township fashions flower vases and other ornaments from cattle horns. He boils horns for three and a half hours then cores and sands them before shellac coating. Moncrief also carves canes lamp bases and stands from woods and lives with three brothers on a farm once part of the family homestead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotch Grove
Charles Moncrief
Scotch Grove Township
Moncrief
Jones County
Minneapolis Girl Killed In Eagle Grove Accident
Miss Marilee Anderson aged 16 of Minneapolis died when the auto she rode in overturned at the east edge of Eagle Grove. Passenger Miss Lucille Kist, also of Minneapolis, was lightly injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Eagle Grove
Marilee Anderson
Lucille Kist
Berlin baby triggers press stop and name change
Gail Arlene Richardson born in Berlin Missouri barely one day old. A power outage stalled Berlin municipal light plant work and the newspaper press stopped mid run to rename the newborn Gail Arlene. After the correction the paper resumed and the baby slept.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Gail Richardson
Cail
Arevive
Slayer Whaley
A. P. Christopher
E. Peter Richardson
Delmarva News
Selbyville
Del
Arlene
Richardson
Gail
Gail-Arlene
Sudden Death of Elgin Teacher Reported in Journal
An Iowa medical journal article details the sudden death of Miss Jeanette Lindaman, a public school teacher from Elgin. She died December 7 after waking unconscious. post mortem found a cavernous hemangioma in the right frontal brain, a first reported case in that location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin
H. H. Wolf
F. P. McNamara
Dubuque
Iowa State Medical Society
Jeanette Lindaman
Lindaman
Wolf
Decorah
Percival Bailey
University of Chicago
Boy runs from Chicago youth fears return to Germany
A 16 year old boy Lawrence Lorenz fled his Chicago home to avoid being sent back to Germany. He said he arrived in America in 1934 after living with his grandmother in Germany and that his father and mother had earlier moved to the United States. Authorities sought his parents in Chicago without success and held him at the Scott County juvenile home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
INS
Chicago
Germany
Scott County
Lawrence Lorenz
Lawrence
America
New Land
Lake Geneva
Wis
Tax Commission Drops About 20 In Reorganization
Iowa tax commission officials announced that about 20 employees, including at least 11 fieldmen, were released effective Aug. 31 as part of a broad reorganization and political replacement plan. The field force will drop from 85 to about 65 and total employees from 300 to about 40.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa Tax Commission
Commission
Rath Packing Employee Group Disbanded by Labor Board
The labor relations board ordered Rath Packing of Waterloo Indiana to disestablish the plant employes representative council. It dismissed claims the company discriminated against three workers for union activity. The council’s constitution was found to deny employees self-organization and to have closed avenues for collective bargaining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Labor Relations Board
Rath Packing Company
Waterloo
Center Point Neighbor Family Reunion Highlights
A Friday evening gathering at the Center Point Christian church brought together members of the Morris Neighbor family. Special guests included Olive McLaughlin from Black Hills South Dakota and Eva Herring from Los Angeles, with other relatives Ida Oliphant of Waterloo and Willard Neighbor of Center Point in attendance.
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Center Point
Christian Church
Morris Neighbor
Olive McLaughlin
Black Hills
S. D
Eva Herring
Los Angeles
Ida Oliphant
Waterloo
Willard Neighbor
Elliott Roosevelt Differences Over Thanksgiving Date
Elliott Roosevelt says he prefers to celebrate Thanksgiving on the traditional last Thursday in November. He disagrees with his father the President who moved the holiday up a week. He notes concerns about football schedules and anticipates reader letters criticizing him.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Witlett Roosevelt
Ihansgiving
Local permits issued for residences and small structures
A week of permits lists numerous home projects including reroofs, remodels, and new garages. Names and addresses such as Emil Trachta 1228 Second SE and Joseph Stodola 1830 Second SW appear with project types and dollar values ranging from 15 to 4,000.
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Emil Trachta
Second Street
Robert Sadilek
D Avenue
W. T. Shipe
Eighth Street
Joseph P. Cacek
K Street
Mildred Krebs
H Avenue
V. C. North
Seventeenth Street
Ford
Second Avenue
G. W. Fisher
A Avenue
Anna Dostal
Third Street
Dale Piersoll
Fifteenth Street
W. A. Wicke
Third Avenue
Dora Tvrdik
Sixteenth Avenue
Mrs. Beck
First Avenue
Dora ‘Tvrdik
Joe Hradek
Joseph Stodola
Roy Jackman
H. Pratt
Nineteenth Street
Otto Hanzlik
Fourth Street
E. P. Turner
B Avenue
Modern Laundry Co
Comercial
Earl H. Travis
Ellis Boulevard
K. C. Kohl
E Avenue
J. A. Peterson
Fifth Avenue
Lorain Collip
W. T. Hambright
Joe Vondracek
Fourteenth Avenue
Magnus
New
Passmore
First Street
M. Conrad
Linn Boulevard
Mrs. Benesh
John Mikulecky
E. W. LaPlante
Thirty- Sion Street
Wm. Fetter
Avenue
Henry Like
Fourth Avenue
J. M. Reynolds
Hubbard Avenue
James Vaughn
J. E. Franks
Twenty-second Avenue
Wm. H. Moes
Robert Palmer
Knoll- Sage
Orville Knudson
George 1 Baldwin
Walter Peterson
Leonard Walsh
Tenth Street
Emma L. Boelter
Sevenue Street
Bernard Long
The
van Meter Co
Bellow
James Cowden
Forest Drive
Wencil Skalicky Crafts and Crafts in Home Garden
The Cedar Rapids street sweeper Wencil Skalicky, living at 1911 E street SW, carves wooden garden figures by night and tends flowers by day. Mrs Skalicky, while he works in the basement on parrots and weather vanes, embroideries linens and makes quilts, teaching daughter Helen crochet for a family crafts output.
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Wencil Skalicky
Cedar Rapids
Skalicky
First Avenue E
Chamber of Commerce
Mr. Skalicky
Prague
Mrs. Skalicky
Czechoslovakia
Pendergast Faces Strict Probation After Release
Kansas City dispatch notes Tom Pendergast, former political boss, will face tight federal probation terms after Leavenworth imprisonment for income tax evasion. He may not visit his former office or engage in politics, must stay within the city without permission, report monthly, and avoid horse betting for five years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Tom Pendergast
Merrill E. Otis
Pendergast
Leavenworth
Otis
Local Man Named President of 21st Railroad Engineers
Victor R. Moncriefe of Chicago was named president of the Twenty first Railroad Engineers American Expeditionary Forces at the eleventh annual convention in Oakland. Minneapolis was picked for the 1940 convention. Floyd E. Love of Cedar Rapids was chosen secretary treasurer.
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Oakland
Calif
Victor R. Moncriefe
Chicago
American Expeditionary Forces
Minneapolis
Floyd E. Love
Cedar Rapids
Weather Man Plans Clearer Message For Public
New York AP reports night meteorologist James Osman and colleagues admit forecasts mislead the public. After six months studying the gap between technical terms and lay understanding, they propose plain language and define an optimum day as warm with high humidity and light wind for a cheerful mood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
James Osman
Eayly
Weather Man
John Citizen
Osman
Denver
Withholds Names Of Subpoenaed Witnesses In Skidmore Inquiry
In Chicago the federal grand jury investigation of William R. Skidmore kept the identities of more than fifty subpoenaed witnesses secret. U S Attorney William J Campbell cited fears of shootings to silence witnesses and said protection is the only hope for their safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
INS
Federal Grand Jury
William R. Skidmore
U. S
William J. Campbell
Miami Alienist to Examine Kidnap Murder Suspect
Dr. Ralph Greene a famed Miami alienist will examine Herbert Goddard, who confessed to kidnapping and murdering Frances Ruth Dunn, to render an opinion on his sanity, the announcement stated Saturday in West Palm Beach.
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West Palm Beach, Fla
INS
Ralph Greene
Famus Miami
Herbert Goddard
Frances Ruth Dunn
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Altang
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Hopkinton
Boy
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Dad
Thompson
21St
R. R. Engineers
Thorpes
Tasyr
Skidmore
Kren
Roosevelt
Continental Buffet
Newman’s
Cadow
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