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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1940
Page
30
Frank Smrchek a Cedar Rapids taxi driver known for safe driving has logged about 500000 miles with only one accident caused by another car skidding into him. A former motorman and Bohemian immigrant, he built a long local career, values courtesy, obeys traffic rules, and plans a new car next spring.
Sixty seven names were drawn for service on the grand and petit juries for the September term. Forty petit jurors and 27 grand jurors were selected by deputy clerk Bessie Engle and Jury Commissioner Fred J. Payneer of Cedar Rapids. Grand jurors report Sept 24 at 10 a.m. and petit jurors at 2 p.m. Read aloud are lists of jurors from multiple towns including Garwin Martelle Grundy Center Clarence Tama North English Conrad Eldora and more.
Major John D Eason, currently with the Third Infantry at Fort Snelling Minnesota, will relieve Major St James September 1 as instructor of National Guard units in the Cedar Rapids area. St James is reassigned to the mechanized division at Fort Knox Kentucky. Eason trained at infantry school twenty years ago with Major C S Myers, now commanding the Cedar Rapids military district, and has served as battalion commander and tank company leader at Fort Snelling.
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