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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 24, 1965

Page

6

Route To 56 Homes In Yale Lighting Contest

A Cedar Rapids Christmas home lighting tour showcases 56 entries in the annual contest co sponsored by the city recreation commission and the Iowa Electric Light & Power Co. The route covers downtown departures and extensive residential displays along streets such as Third Avenue SE Linden Drive Crescent Drive Blake Boulevard Forest Grande Woodland Bever Mound Dalewood Fortieth Vine Memorial Parkwood Twenty Fifth MeCarthy Rompot Addition Otis Road Blakely Boulevard and neighborhoods on Oak land Road Cedar Avenue and West side streets with a side trip to a Rompot Addition display featuring a model Union Railroad station and steam locomotives.

Cedar Rapids City Recreation Commission Iowa Electric Light & Power Co Third Avenue Nineteenth Street Linden Drive Crescent Drive Blake Boulevard Forest Drive Grande Avenue Woodland Drive Bever Avenue Thirty-second Street Mound Avenue Mound Knoll Street Dalewood Avenue Dalewood Fortieth Street Thirteenth Avenue Thirtieth Street Thirtieth Seely Avenue Seely Memorial Drive Parkwood Drive Parkwood Twenty-fifth Street Twenty Fifth Street MeCarthy Road Me Carthy Rompot Otis Road Blakely Boulevard Twenty-third Avenue Thompson Road Twenty Fourth Avenue Twenty-fourth Avenue Memorial Woodland Court NW Union Railroad Westwood Drive Highway 74 Westwood Woodland Court E Avenue

Route Tour Through Cedar Hills Displays Ends With Praise

A guided walk traces 56 display locations across Cedar Hills from Lewellen Drive to First Street. The narrator notes each display along streets including 424 Lewellen Drive 311 Cherry Hill Road 4820 Gordon Avenue and 2433 Wisconsin Street as participants tour the neighborhood finishing back in the business district.

Lewellen Drive Cedar Hills Lewellen Midway Drive Jacolyn Drive Ford Avenue Jacelyn Drive Boice Road Gordon Avenue Kesler Road Kesler West Post Road D Avenue Mayberry Drive Mayberry Ivy Lane Cherry Hill Road Plainview Drive Holly Avenue Holly Harbet Avenue Harbet Richmar Lane Richmar le Roy Drive Johnson Avenue Fifteenth Street

Soviet Venus Probes Reach One Third Of Way To Planet

The Soviet Union said two unmanned Venus spacecraft launched last month have covered nearly a third of the distance to Venus.

Moscow Soviet Union

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