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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 13, 1955

Page

8

Muscular Dystrophy Poster Boy Raymond Waller

Raymond Waller, 18, weighs under 35 pounds and is bedridden, a poster boy for muscular dystrophy and its impact. The article traces his decline since age four, his foster care, and the lack of a cure while noting the National Muscular Dystrophy Research Foundation and the 1950 founding of related associations.

Max B. Skelton Port Arthur, Texas Raymond Waller Raymond National R. P. Collins Mrs. Waller Waller AP News Port Arthur Texas Sallie Nadine Woods Nadine Liberty Muscular Dystrophy Research Foundation Foundation

Kremlin power grab shows dictators struggle for successor

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. INS reports that Bulganin and Khrushchev's Kremlin power shift tests whether a dictator can name a heir. Stalin and Hitler histories loom as Molotov and Zhukov loom as rivals, with liquidation risk and possible march toward one man rule. Raymond and the poster story contrast with a disabled child cared for by Liberty Texas sisters.

United Nations N. Y INS Kremlin Nikolai Bulganin Nikita S. Khrushchev Adolf Hitler Josef Stalin Georgi Malenkov Lenin Bulgarin Stalin Khrushchev Russia Central Committee Communist Party Soviet Union V. M. Molotov Bulganin Molotov Hitler U. N Germany Nazi Party Brownshirt Front Moscow

Free trees offered for San Jose sidewalks

In San Jose California residents can obtain free trees to plant along sidewalks as part of a civic beautification effort. The city provides 14 varieties and will deliver the trees to residents at no charge.

Franklin School American Association of St. Laws Beinette Newbold Joan Jacobsen Judy Cleeremans Stephen Anderson Ann Kosek Jean Harman Linda Cameron Marjorie Foster St. Louis Cedar Rapids Quincy Ill Gazette Laurie van Dyke Carol Donnelly John Ducknall Franklin Group Franklin Orchestra Franklin High School Gisela Sielaff Mary Lou Loufek Shirley Sadilek Janet Fraser Abbott Auditorium G. Louis Statler San Jose Calif Better Home & Gardens Magazine Smulekoff

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