Holiday music lights Eastern Iowa scenes this season
Eastern Iowa venues host Handel Messiah performances by Coe Promenade orchestra and Coe College choir with notable soloists. Cornell College and Luther College present Messiah. University of Iowa features Hansel and Gretel selections and a Christmas Cantata. Cedar Rapids Civic Chorus offers carols at First Christian Church. Cedar Rapids Symphony presents Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 with soloist Herbert Melnick among others.
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Cedar's Rapids
Coe
Donald Key
Coe College
Eugene Conley
Mary Edmunds
Lee Hobson
Robert Davis
University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Memorial Union
Herald Stark
Handel
Humperdinck
Arthur Honegger
Honegger
Iowa City
Cedar Rapids
Bach
Dockside Library Books Circulate Around Globe
San Pedro Calif AP sailors receive a traveling library from the American Merchant Marine Library Association aboard merchant vessels in the Los Angeles harbor. Librarian Alice Halladay and assistant Jarard Jones oversee a 40 book package in 13 ports with detective stories as favorites. Halladay notes sailors read widely during leisure and hopes to tour South America on a future voyage. The Lone Ranger episode The Twisted Track airs Sunday on Channel 9 at 5 30 PM.
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San Pedro
Calif
Los Angeles
American Merchant Marine Library Association
Alice Halladay
Jarard “Pop” Jones
Navy
Mrs. Halladay
American Merchant Marine Library
New York
U.S
Boston
Norfolk
Seattle
Channel 9
Communist party lines echo in weekly Kremlin propaganda roundup
The Sunday Cedar Rapids Gazette summarizes Communist publications and directives from the Soviet leadership. It reports calls to boost radio and television production while slowing U S missile progress and advocates unconditional nuclear test bans. The piece notes the aim to spread complacency about Russian gains and urges stronger American countermeasures.
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Communist Party
Kremlin
Cedar Rapids
Soviet Union
America
Russia
Red
Nikita Khrushchev
William Randolph Hearst, Jr
White House
Congress
U.S
Washington
Steps to Survival by Laurie Van Dyke
Community civil defense push invites homes and groups to run home preparedness workshops using FCDA kit. Workshops cover evacuation, shelter, sanitation, fire safety, first aid, and care of the sick at home with certificates. Linn County CD plans meetings and a December luncheon with mayors invited.
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Fred Carstens
Civil Defense
Memorial Coliseum
van Dyke
Federal Civil Defense Administration
FCDA
CD Office
Linn County
Sheraton-Montrose
Carstens
Revenue chief bakes cake for 100 percent bond signers
C. W. Glotzbach, internal revenue director in Richmond, promised a cake for all section chiefs who signed their sections 100 percent. He reportedly baked 24 cakes with help from Mrs. Glotzbach.
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Richmond, Va
C. W. Glotzbach
Internal Revenue
U.S
Officers Elected by Junior Toastmasters
Junior Toastmasters of the Optimist club elected officers by age group. Twelve and thirteen year olds chose John Maishek as president and others as officers including Bob Smythe Gary Wilson Dennis Wright as sergeant at arms. Fourteen year olds elected Ron Boland as president Tom McClain as vice president Bob Block as secretary treasurer Dave Moore as sergeant at arms Jensien De Goveveka Coe e Gary Kimm as vice president Bob Robertson as secretary treasurer Robert Hamos as sergeant at arms.
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The
Optimist Club
John Maishek
Bob Smythe
Gary Wilson
Dennis Wright
Ron Boland
Tom McClain
Bob Block
Dave Moore
Jensien de Goveveka Coee
Gary Kimm
Bob Robertson
Robert Hamos
Hilarious Fun on The Paul Winchell Show
A Sunday segment on Channel 9 teases a light hearted hour of comedy with Paul Winchell. The show promises family friendly humor and upbeat sketches.
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Paul Winchell
Channel 9
Nogales Electrician Bets On Truck Sign
In Nogales Arizona an electrician boosts business with a bold rear pickup sign reading Voits wagon. The sign draws attention to his services and is described as a novel marketing move in local chatter.
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Nogales, Ariz
Nogales
Scouters To Be Honored Tuesday Dinner Tribute
A recognition dinner saluting men and women active in the Boy Scout movement will be held at 6 15 p m Tuesday in the Chamber of Commerce banquet hall under sponsorship of the Hawk Eye Area Council See Are district. District Chairman A C Topinka announced the all adult event will include a talk on The Worlds Greatest Gift by someone garbed as Santa Claus. Committeemen in charge include B O Nemmers Don Smith Dick Pickering Gordon Simonds Ralph Moore Harry Hawkins Doyle Rhinehart and Topinka Tait Cummins will serve as master of ceremonies with Rev Domine Loferski offering benediction.
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Boy Scout Movement
Chamber of Commerce
Hawkeye Area
Genesee Depot Faces Name Change After Depot Closure
Genesee Depot Wisconsin once a busy rail shipping hub for farm products may change its name as the Milwaukee Road closes the depot and lists the building for sale. Local residents and business leaders weigh the impact on the community's identity and future rail heritage.
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Genesee Depot
Wis
Milwaukee Railroad
Driver Unharmed In Worst Wreck In Newburyport
Kenneth D. Allard, 22, escaped serious injury after a country road crash that tore the rear of the car away and hurled the rear seat from the vehicle. City Marshal James E. Sullivan called it the worst automobile wreck he had seen. Allard said she fell asleep at the wheel and walked away with minor cuts and bruises.
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James FE. Sullivan
Kenneth D. Allard
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Jim Meaghan
American Municipal Association
San Francisco
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Meaghan
Cedar Rapids Symphony
Roberta
Cornell Orchestra and Oratorio Society
Paul Beckhelm
Myleen Merrill
Patricia Sage
Thomas Fitzpatrick
Kay Graves
Normal Rigel
James Lewis
Lutherall College
C. K. Preus
Decorah
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Dockside Library
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Jack Lotto
International News Service
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Linn County Civil Defense Council
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