Cedar Rapids Scouts to Receive Eagle Rank Monday
Two Cedar Rapids teens Gary L. Gongwere and William Rinderknecht will be awarded Scouting's Eagle rank at 7 30 p m Monday at Cleveland school Explorer Post 33 presents the honors after ten years in Scouting Gongwere 15 son of Mr and Mrs Simon A Gongwere and Rinderknecht 15 son of Mr and Mrs Harold Rinderknecht have both spent summers at Scout camps and active in Troop 33 Rinderknecht joined in 1953 and Gongwere began in California before moving to Cedar Rapids both are sophomores at Roosevelt high school and will become the second and third members of Explorer troop 33 to earn Eagle honors
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Cedar Rapids
Gary L. Gongwer
Simon A. Gongwer
Johnson Avenue
William Rinderknecht
Harold Rinderknecht
Tenth Avenue
Explorer
Cleveland School
Camp
Waubeek
Gary
High Sierra Mountains
Big Horn
Los Angeles
California
Lorraine
Calif
Troop 33
Bill
Explorer Scout Troop
Black Crescent
Order of the Arrow
Young Rinderknecht
Trinity Lutheran Church
Roosevelt High School
Rinderknecht
Roosevelt
Gongwer
Explorer Troop 33
Bill Jurgensen
E. W. Jurgensen
Sixteenth Street
Vesper Concert and Art Exhibit Planned by Cedar Rapids Schools
Cedar Rapids public schools plan a 3 p.m. vesper concert and art exhibit next Sunday at the Memorial Coliseum. Roosevelt high school cornet trio and groups from McKinley high, Roosevelt eighth grade, Van Buren and Wright schools perform with Roosevelt and Wilson ensembles providing pieces. Roosevelt students also display artwork from Roosevelt, McKinley, Arthur, Buchanan, Fillmore, Polk, and Taylor schools. The program includes The Star Spangled Banner, Wilson band, choruses from Wright and Roosevelt, and a cornet trio arranged by Hass with pieces by Agostini and others.
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Cedar Rapids’ Public
Cedar Rapids Memorial Coliseum
Roosevelt High School
Burton Pattee
Jim Randolph
Charles Millard
McKinley High School
Roosevelt
van Buren and
Wright
Coliseum
McKinley Junior High
Arthur, Buchanan, Fillmore, Polk and
Taylor
Rosevelt
Roosevelt Band
S. M. Pattee
Highland Drive
Calvin Millard
Sixteenth Street
Harriet Randolph
Twentieth Street
John Hutchins
Wilson High School
Max Northrup
Frank Erickson
Clare E. Grundman
Wright Elementary School Chorus
Keith Moreland
L. V. Sweesy
Charles Connolly
K. K. Davis
Roosevelt Eighth Grade
Ramon Hass
Mabel Ormston
Robert W. Gibb
Praetorius
Roosevelt Cornet
Agostini
van Buren
Jeanne Stover
Madelein Kauffman
Strattner
Brahms
Cromwell
Dixie
Emmett
McKinley Senior Choir
Paul Anthony
Hoppin
Mary
Averre
Johnny
Wilson High School Band
America
Britain Shifts Course Under New Macmillan Plan
Europe today reports Britain’s new leadership moving to a drastic reform of government, economy, and foreign policy. Harold Macmillan aims to rally national pride with an “opportunity state,” appoints three wartime style czars to oversee defense, industry, and information, and shifts toward closer ties with Europe and the Commonwealth while reducing dependence on the United States.
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London
INS
Britain
Iron Curtain
Great Britain
John Bull
Macmillan
Harold Macmillan
Tower of Babel
Macmillan and Company
Anthony Eden
France
United States
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Europe
Commonwealth
Western Europe
Russia
Cedar Rapids 1956 Trade Recap Shows Broad Health Boost
Annual Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce report shows 15 of 20 metrics rising in 1956 with employment down slightly and railcar items mixed. Records set in air cargo, total air freight, building permits, clearing house activity, electric usage, gas and water use, post office receipts, and real estate transfers.
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Cedar Rapids
From Iron to College at Arizona State University
Merle C. Nutt left his Illinois iron works presidency to become an engineering professor at Arizona State University. After pursuing an MA at Iowa, he joined ASU at 56, arguing business insight helps teach and stressing practical training over book learning. He notes the iron foundry and the classroom both require hands-on guidance.
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Nutt
Arizona State
Phoenix
Grady Gammage
Gammage
Iron Works
Nazette to Lead Linn County Easter Seal Campaign
Richard F. Nazette Linn County attorney and first Easter Seal chairman will head the 1957 campaign. Announcement by Arthur Bezdek of the Linn County Society for Crippled Children and Adults notes the group supports all crippling conditions. The YMCA Easter Seal Rehabilitation Center serves over 50 people in 12 cases with a $19,482 goal. the drive mailings go out late next month before Easter. The society board meets Feb 12 to plan the annual program. Nazette is a former Society member and active in the state body.
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Richard F. Nazette
Linn County
Nazette
Arthur Bezdek
Linn County Society For
YMCA
Linn County Society
Alcoholics Anonymous to Hear Dr Mulford in Cedar Rapids
Dr Hal Mulford head of sociology at the University of Iowa will speak at the Cedar Rapids Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in the clubrooms 109 Second avenue SE Monday at 8 p.m. The open meeting will feature his study of alcoholism for the state legislature.
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Hal Mulford
University of Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Alcoholics Anonymous
Second Avenue SE
Mulford
Milwaukee credit manager named William Cash
William Cash is described as the credit manager of a Milwaukee automobile agency. The brief note identifies his role and city but provides no further details.
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Milwaukee
William Cash
Milwaukee Automobile Agency
Immigrant 100 Year Old Finds New Life in Greenville
Mrs. Demetra Christophills of Greece arrives at her son’s Greenville home to begin a new life in the United States. At age 100, she plans to adapt to American routines and celebrate a fresh chapter with family.
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Greenville, S.C
Demetra Christophills
Greece
America
AMC Withdraw From NAM Over Policy Conflicts
Detroit report says American Motors Corp president George Romney cited policy conflicts on labor relations and cost cutting as reasons for leaving the National Association of Manufacturers. AMC halted NAM dues in 1954 and resigned November 7, 1955, while noting disagreement over NAM's approach to labor issues.
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NAM
UAW
AMC
Romney
Milwaukee
Kenosha
Wis
Grand Rapids
Mich
Association
Detroit
George Romney
American Motors Corporation
National Association of Manufacturers
American Motors
Ford Motor Company
United Auto Workers
Girl 4 Demands Arrest of Grandma Over Nap Refusal
In Grand Rapids Michigan a four year old Lindy phoned Juvenile Officer Jack Fahlstedt demanding her grandma be jailed for making her nap. The officer said the office does not handle grandmothers and the complaint was withdrawn.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Jack Fahlstedt
Lindy
Fahlstedt
Hawkeye Aeroneers Name New Officers
Cedar Rapids model plane enthusiasts elect Bill Green as president Dave Novak as vice president Gary Feekes as secretary Clark Ross as treasurer Trustees chosen are Lawrence Conover Don Garnett and Dick Ferris Conover named director of the annual John Parlis Memorial model airplane meet set for Cedar Rapids on a summer date yet to be announced.
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Hawkeye Aeroneers
Cedar Rapids
Bill Green
Dave Novak
Gary Feekes
Clark Ross
Lawrence Conover
Don Garnett
Dick Ferris
Conover
John Parlis
Atomic science aids back breeding of extinct animals and plants
Washington reports British researchers using irradiation on tulips to revert traits and advance back-breeding. Hecks, Bell and others are cited as pioneers in reviving aurochs and tarpan through selective crossing, with living examples in Munich Hellabrunn zoo and Brookfield zoo.
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Washington
Heinz
Lutz Heck
Europe
Corsica
France
Iceland
Gotland
Heck
Chicago
Brookfield Zoo
Germany
Bella Pioneer
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C.R
Marjorie Walker
Wilson
Cornet
John H. Crider
Peter Thorneycroft
Egypt
C.R. Business Health
Bruce Fishwild
Gazette
Merle Nutt
Dr. Mulford
Merveaux Typewriter Exchange
Third Ave
Iowa
Gasette
Tom Merryman
Grant Wood
Don Morgan
PTA
Jaycees
onTen
Heinz Heck
Hellabrun
Munich
Alexander Graham Bell
National Geographic Society
Bezdek's Florists
Marion Bivd
Marion Ph
Dexter
St. SE
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