Custom Tailoring vanishing art in Cedar Rapids era
The article profiles Cedar Rapids tailors Cherng Tichy Priban and Joseph Mateju describing a dwindling craft as ready made clothing, low wages, and long apprenticeships deter new workers. It notes most suits are sent to Chicago firms and highlights the aging, few remaining practitioners.
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Ward
Cedar Rapids
Vienna
Chris Tiehy
Granby Building
Joseph Mateju
Mateju
Chrng Tichy
Tichy
Priban
Chicago
Ttn
Mateju Tailors
Second Ave. SE
Wanda Weve
Smulekoff
Cherstrand Carn
Tailor's lifelong craft spans decades in Cedar Rapids
The narrative outlines a tailor who moved to the city with help from Cedar Rapids financing, found work with multiple employers, then started his own shop in 1984. He works long hours, handles all tasks himself due to scarce help, and remains active semiretired to avoid idleness, planning to work for decades more before retirement.
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Cedar Rapids
Priban
Goodyear Man Describes Plastic Tire Progress
Goodyear executive F. Hutchinson demonstrated a plastic tire at an SAE meeting noting no fabric is used and only a wire bead remains. He said the tire could be molded in a single operation and may lead to no-ply designs, with tests lasting over 4,000 miles on the Ohio Turnpike.
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F. Hutchinson
Goodyear
Society For Automotive Engineers
Hutchinson
First Week Census Contact Effort Reaches 12500 Families
In Cedar Rapids and Marion the Council of Churches reports 12500 households contacted in week one of a telephone census. Volunteers averaged about 2300 completed calls daily with 11 to 15 percent not answering or needing callbacks. The survey aims to gauge community needs across Protestant Catholic Orthodox and Jewish churches.
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Pritchard
Marion
Dr. Pritchard
Francis Pritchard
de. Pritchard
Cedar Rapids-Marion
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
Council
National Council of Churches
East German Court Sentences Farm Worker to Death
An East German court sentenced a farm worker to death for a crime linked to a five barn blaze on a collective farm. The case involved alleged communication with a South Florida university and a smath pioneer on MEET THE. The ruling cites a professorial influence and a Communist regime context as key factors in the trial and punishment.
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Berlin
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Mateiu
United States
Anderson
America
Czechs
Oslovakia
iCzechs
Pri
Tunet Anderson Tailor Shop
Europe
Westinghouse
Council of Churches
Reds
Ssmulekoff
Sandran
Wanda
Springfield
Smulekgff
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