Deadline Set for Yale Windows Christmas Contest 1949
The City Recreation Department announces the Christmas Home Window Contest with a 5 p.m. next Friday entry deadline. Open to private homes within city limits, displays must face the street for judging. Prizes total over 50 dollars, with five main awards and five honorable mentions.
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City Hall
The
Recreation Commission
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Recreation Department
Why Any Handy Man Can Put Up a Christmas Tree
Homes must be in place and lighted between Dec. 24 and Jan. 1 with a single classification. Judges use individual score sheets evaluating general artistic effect originality conformity to the Christmas spirit and ingenuity in using surroundings. Local judges decide finals. Many window decorating ideas are available at the recreation office.
Famed Portrait Painter Visits Cedar Rapids Roommate
Two former University of Pennsylvania students, A. L. Smulekoff of Cedar Rapids and Bernard Godwin of New York City, meet in Oklahoma City after 27 years. Godwin, famed portraitist who painted Sir Alexander Fleming and figures like Marshall, Arnold, and Eleanor Roosevelt, visits Smulekoff and plans to return to Oklahoma City to work on a portrait for the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.
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Cedar Rapids
Oklahoma City
A. L. Smulekoff
Second Avenue SE
Bernard Godwin
New York City
University of Pennsylvania
Godwin
Smulekoff
Alexander Fleming
England
George Marshall
Henry Arnold
William Leahy
Ernest King
Variety
Eleanor Roosevelt
Albert Einstein
Colin Kelly
Harry Warner
Hollywood
The
New Yorker
Tom Connally
Texas
Picasso
Esther
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
When Christmas Was Unmerry Through American History
A brisk AP overview traces Christmas wartime and crisis moments from 1620 through 1944, noting Plymouths first Christmas aboard the Mayflower, 1776 Delaware crossing, 1851 Capitol fire, 1860 South Carolina secession, 1887 Reading strike, and Bastogne relief in World War II. It closes with a note on radio interference described as man-made static.
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Plymouth
Washington
Delaware
Trenton
New England
Shay
Zachary Taylor
Florida
Lake Okechobee
Col
Deniphan
Brazito
Library of Congress
Capitol
South Carolina
Reading Railroad
Pearl Harbor
Bastogne
Candlelit Lane Christmas Display Lights Six Blocks
More than 1,000 candles will illuminate a six block lane in Cedar Rapids on Christmas night as a northeast neighborhood plans the display. Mrs. Ivan Mason coordinates the effort with residents lighting sacks weighted with sand at intervals of ten feet along First avenue to Twenty-second street NE then along B avenue to 27th street. A large electric star at the lane end faces down B avenue from the 27th street end, with all house lights out and only festive decorations glowing. Cars will enter from First avenue and dim lights to preserve the effect.
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Cedar Rapids
Ivan Mason
B Avenue
First Avenue
Twenty-second Street
27Th Street
Westfield collie runs again after leg amputation
Lady a 20 month old collie from Westfield Massachusetts had her right foreleg amputated after an accident several months ago and has since learned to run about easily. She remains a constant playmate to neighborhood children.
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Westfield
Mass
Your Christmas Tree This Year May Be Cheaper
Ed Murphy notes that prices for five to six foot Christmas trees are similar to last year or slightly lower due to ample supply from Montana and British Columbia. Local nurseries offer premium trees around five dollars, while cheaper options exist for scrubbier specimens. Advice covers selecting a healthy tree, keeping it outdoors until display, and maintaining water to prevent drying and fire hazards, including a borax boric acid spray.
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Ed Murphy
Cedar Rapids
Kootenai
Montana
British Columbia
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Yale
Robert Davis
Twenty-ninth Street Drive
Robin
Davis
Hammer
Champ
Gazette
Joan Liffring
Mr. Davis
Debby
Mrs. Davis
Debby Davis
Bernard
Sonotone of
Associated Press
MTL
Yetta
Sands
Second Street
WE Dial
Schaefer
G. Mschaefer & Son
Santtary Ones
Sherwin-Williams CO
Third Avenue
Secedar Rapids’ Toy Center
Hardendorf
Viewmasters
Roy Rogers
KODAK
Kodet Lens
Belil-Howell
Polaroid
General Electric
Radiant and
Oalito
State Theater
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