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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1940
Page
7
Pin boy Jack Burman describes dodging bowling balls as he sets pins, handling up to four 16 pound balls a minute and about 40 pins per pass. He calls double balls his biggest worry and compares the job to a caddy spotting skilled bowlers while watching for dangerous shots.
The Republican National Committee and Philadelphia hotel managers plan to curb noise during the June 24 convention. Delegates will be assigned to different hotels to prevent rival demonstrations. Groups are limited to 10 rooms and must keep noise outside the buildings.
London officials announced Britain moved to summer time at 2 a.m. Sunday to accelerate war production and ease blackout dangers. Clocks advance by one hour means later evening blackouts and longer morning blackout periods, aiding factory operations.
The plan would let workers reach home before darkness while forcing farmers to begin market deliveries an extra hour earlier each morning to meet demand.
Sergeant Clarence Day urges safety education after a survey found 27 of 100 drivers in the district fail to dim headlights on the highway. He categories offenders, cites Iowa law requiring dimming within 500 feet of oncoming traffic, warns of fines and imprisonment, and calls for courtesy to prevent injury and death.
Toronto report quotes Prof. George Catlin who envisions Canada as the buckle and center of a world bloc that would embrace most nations except Russia, China, Japan, Italy and Germany.
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