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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1952
Page
3
A roundup of sensational 1952 divorces shows spouses faulted for cruelty in Syracuse Los Angeles and Detroit. Cases include blackjack debts antifreeze in bathwater forced overeating and frenzied jealousy. The column also notes persistent infidelity and odd cruelties in Birmingham and Milwaukee.
The annual VFW auxiliary sub campaign in Linn county opens Monday with no Cedar Rapids solicitation. Proceeds buy portable sickroom gear such as hospital beds and oxygen tents to lend free of charge to Cedar Rapids and surrounding communities. donations are not accepted.
Washington Pipe Spring national monument in Arizona bears a name honoring a famed rifle feat by Gunlock Bill Hamblin. He reportedly won a bet by shooting the bowl out of a pipe from fifty paces without striking the rim.
Two mummified cats about 4 000 years old were shown at a pets exhibit. The cats, said to come from a pharaohs tomb, are well preserved and were sent by Egyptian art dealer Gabriel G Hakim who valued them at 530 000.
Army Major Imes F. Porter of Point Marion Pennsylvania led a testing crew in 1940 at Camp Holabird Maryland in the fall. The rugged general purpose vehicle was nicknamed jeep after a Popeye cartoon character. The name spread with the production and usage of the vehicle worldwide.
Manila reports the Philippine lumber industry, once a steady dollar producer, now languishes as sales drop, with main buyers Japan and the United States. Renato Arevalo urges a commonsense government stance on tax and controls to revive the sector.
Herb Gilman showed carrots at the Phillipsburg Mont 4-H fair. His younger brother admired the bright vegetables and ate the exhibit before the show opened, leaving spectators amused by the practical prank.
Grade school pupils learn traffic rules through miniature car play at Roosevelt School New Rochelle. Student drivers observe signs and signals under a mock traffic court. the program improves behavior and respect for rules, with parents noting heightened awareness of stop signs and signals.
In Garden Island Bay near the Mississippi, workers building Freeport Sulphur’s large mining plant dine well for a dollar daily. Three meals plus dessert, beds, towels, and soap are included aboard three quarter boats. The story notes harsh winter fires rise, peaking in December and staying high into March.
The queen ordered that police blue lamps be deemed depressing for those arriving in carriages seeking beauty and art. Bow Street now stands as the only police station in the land that does not display the familiar moody blue lamps at its doors, instead using discreet white lamps.
Covent Garden's historic opera house, home to the Sadler's Wells Ballet, is being facelifted with Portland stone after 17 years. Work began last September as scaffolding frames entrances while the site preserves its Victorian era character amid nearby markets and theatres.
Suggestions from eight year old children on a happy home were read at a family life conference in New York. They urged love without yelling a clean place to live a baby sister and no fights. They also said give presents to each other and allow children to have pets.
In early Jamestown history settlers sent ships to England filled with a glittering yellow mineral they believed was gold. The National Geographic Society states the substance was actually sulfur, misleading the colony about its first profits.
In a Bell Telephone Company lab one month 37 patents were issued to staff for communications and related devices. Experts in electronics predict future gadgets may answer phones take messages clean houses cook food baby sit and read books aloud.
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