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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1950
Page
10
Wilbur Peeble plans an apartment freezin a reverse housewarming where friends divide unwanted items. The event spirals as guests eat little and drink heavily, a missing TV sparks blame, and the mess leads to a $50 cleaning bill. Neighbors wonder about the odd party.
Winter on the Great Lakes has left 502 large vessels berthed from Kingston Ontario to Duluth Minnesota. In Cleveland 25 ships are tied up until thaw and skeleton crews keep operations, with the fire department charting berths for emergencies.
In 1949 more than 11,000 U.S. citizens undertook automobile travel across European countries, reflecting postwar mobility and growing cross continental tourism among Americans.
Danny Schoner a three year old boy with hearing loss is fitted with a hearing aid at University of Iowa Hospitals. He is coached at home by his foster mother and a Cedar Rapids speech therapist and receives guidance from a university clinic to prepare for kindergarten at Polk school next fall.
In Cedar Rapids a district program helps hearing impaired students like Danny. An audio meter was donated by the Quota club and a hearing aid loaned from the Quota group supports Danny’s lip reading and speech training. Nationwide hearing conservation is promoted by Quota clubs.
Archduke Otto of Austria will address the Executive Club at the Montrose Hotel at 6 45 p m on Monday on Christian Democracy or Communism He has lived in the United States since 1940 and worked with central European leaders for the UN He aided Austria's liberation from Nazi rule in 1944 He and his family are linked to the Habsburg legacy with Empress Zita as his mother and Francis Joseph as grandfather.
The American Bakers Association reports bakers in the United States would lay end to end the bread they produce daily to span about 7000 miles. The figure highlights the vast scale of domestic baking activity across the nation.
The Communicable Disease Center of the U. S. Public Health Service is located in Atlanta, Georgia.
Civil Aeronautics Administration figures place Story county ahead after Linn county slips past Woodbury for second, Polk county leading with 209 pilots and 1412 aircraft registered in the state. Separate mock alert by Florida National Guard tests rapid response as pilots scramble to rendezvous. Despite Mt Etna activity, residents remain as volcanic dust enriches surrounding soil.
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