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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1957
Page
3
The Playground and Recreation Commission faces term ambiguities as resignations and nonrenewals clash with reappointment procedures. Mayor Jim Meaghan supports expanding women’s presence, while council debates courtroom relocation for meetings and pending remodeling.
Franklin school science teacher Miss Iola Tillapaugh will address the Cedar Rapids Education Association February gathering at 7 30 p m at Wright school on Teacher Evaluation and Merit Rating as Attached to Salary Schedule She recently returned from the National Education Association Washington conference where she was Iowa representative Music by McKinley high school groups will be featured Reports on salary welfare legislative and nominating committees will be presented.
Detroit based UP report notes at a winter meeting of the American Association of Zoos and Aquariums zoo officials from across the nation cited prices for a plump young hippopotamus about 10 dollars a pound, an African elephant around 3700 dollars, and lions about 250 dollars.
Vaughn M. Bryant director of international relations for the Port of Houston will address the Foreign Trade bureau of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce at a Tuesday 6 30 p m dinner meeting in the Montrose hotel He will discuss a four month Latin America trip and the region as a Midwest market and industrial supplier. Reservations are via the chamber Traffic bureau EM 3 3577.
Evanston reports a 37 year old motorist George Bates was hit by a 16 foot canoe that broke through his windshield during strong winds. The craft became detached from a car driven by 17 year old Douglas Swihart, tying the canoe when wind tore it loose.
A special meeting of the Public Welfare bureau of the Chamber of Commerce is set for Tuesday noon at the Roosevelt hotel. Agenda includes Community Chest agency budgets and discussions on a United Fund campaign and development of a Rompot area recreational facility.
Harry Dudkowsky of South Bend says the thief who stole a handful of coins from his home will have a surprise. The amateur magician notes some stolen coins are trick coins used in sleight of hand stunts.
Miami report says mail carriers were bitten 53 times by dogs last year and now face a new threat a dog or mouse bite from a rodent nesting inside a mailbox back of a rural post.
Gov. Herschel Loveless will headline the eleventh annual District Three constitutional convention of the United Packinghouse Workers in Cedar Rapids March 28 to 30. Harold J. Smith says a banquet address is set for March 29 with about 125 delegates from AFL-CIO locals in Iowa Nebraska and Colorado attending at the Sheraton Montrose hotel.
Ray D. Cole of Westinghouse Electric, a systems specialist, will speak at the Cedar Valley sub section meeting of the AIEE. The 8 p.m. talk in Collins Radio Company cafeteria covers Westinghouse CYPAK control systems. Cole is a Michigan State University graduate working in automatic control systems.
A historic note traces hot dogs to a Frankfurt shop in 1559 and records sales to New York Coney Island vacationers in 1871. The account links German origins with early American distribution.
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