Interservice Club Olympics Set To Open In Cedar Rapids
The 1950 Interservice Club Olympics begins Tuesday at 5 15 p m at the YMCA with 21 events from canasta to handball Lions defend the team trophy the little brown jug last year edging Exchange Rotary Canopus Optimists and Kiwanis. Ed Zeller and Lee Winterberg helped conceive Cedar Rapids version. Master of ceremonies Tait Cummins will host dinner and the l ia rs contest.
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Canasta
Cedar Rapids
Lions
Suns
Ed Zeller
Lee Winterberg
The
Dubuque
Zeller
Winterberg
Exchange Club
Rotary
Canopus
Optimists
Kiwanis
Paul Maney
John Snider
Barber Shop
Maney
Odin Brendengen
Joe Wood
Bill Rolfing
Keith Benner
Harold Allen
Tait Cummins
Cedar Rapids Czech Groups elect leaders. Masaryk centennial planned
T B Hlubucek was elected head of the Cedar Rapids Federation of Czech Groups with Andrew Polehna as vice-chairman and several women elected secretaries and treasurer. A Masaryk centennial program honoring the first Czechoslovak republic will be presented March 19 at the C.S.P.S. auditorium led by Prof. Felix Vondracek. Additional civic posts were filled, and meetings for the Z.C.B.J. park committee the Czech school board and Bohemian Reading club were scheduled.
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T. B. Hlubucek
Cedar Rapids Federation of
Andrew Polehna
John Dryml
Frank Maly
Zora Klinsky
Wendl Drahozal
J. J. Hervert
Stanley Dusek
Thomas Garigue Masaryk
Republc
Czechoslovakia
Felix Vondracek
University of North Dakota
Vondracek
Masaryk
Framingham 90-Year-Old Works at Denison Factory
Marty A. Chandler, age 90, remains employed at Denni son Manufacturing Company in Framingham Mass. He began work in February 1874 and appears to keep a steady job at the factory.
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Framingham
Mass
Marty A. Chandler
Chandler
Dennison Manufacturing Company
Jury clears claim on teaching to try oysters
An Elmira jury ruled that teaching someone to try oysters was not work. Ruth Granger testified she was instructing a novice cook when inspectors visited Grand Coulee Dam in Oregon. The case involving Paul Battisti, linked to the world’s largest hydroelectric project, ended with Battisti acquitted.
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Elmira
N. Y
Ruth Granger
Grand Coulee Dam
Oregon
Paul Battisti
Battisti
Snownetting and road safety in postwar 1950s notes
A Canadian firm markets St Thomas snownetting a cotton net draped on fence posts to retain snow and prevent drifts. Sixteen states regulate in-car television while Kentucky reduces puncture scrap metal accidents. Mexico revival race Alaska to Guatemala stock car route set for May. Reflective plates roll out in North Carolina Scotchlite 1950 license design.
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St. Thomas
Iowa
New Jersey
Kentucky
Highway Department
United States
Mexico
Alaska
Guatemala
Ciudad Juarez
Paso
el Ocotal
Lexington
Sonny
Connecticut
North Carolina
Maine
James E. Lebensohn
Northwestern Medical School
American Automobile Association
Far West
New England
Grasse Rose and Orange Blossom Harvest Totals Revealed
France’s perfume capital Grasse annually collects about 3 million pounds of roses and over 4 million pounds of orange blossoms for essences amid its thriving fragrance industry.
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France
Grasse
British Kids Lose Interest in Cowboy Movies
London AP: H G Hutchinson, overseeing 400 Saturday morning clubs with 400000 child members, says British children tire of cowboy pictures. They dislike violent gunplay and bloodthirsty scenes and prefer comedies, adventurous plots with costumes, and nature films.
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London
H. G. Hutchinson
Knoxville bans Halloween mask wearing
In Knoxville Tennessee a new city ordinance bans wearing masks on Halloween. The measure targets hooded disguises to curb masked attire during the holiday celebrations.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Hallowe
Masked Marvels Face Indoor Masks Debate
A note on masked wrestlers suggests that wearing Ku Klux Klan style coverings indoors does not affect the masked Marvels who keep their faces hidden during certain events. The item frames the controversy as a fashion or security question within the sport.
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Interservice Club
Olympics
C.A
South Side News
Hlubucek
Frank Libal
Z.C.B.J
Anna Shulista
Frank J. Havlicek
Joseph Peterzelka
William Faltis
Karle Masaryk
C.S.A
C.s-P.s. Hall
Bohemian Reading Club
Telex Hearing Center
Louis H. Sila
Mar
Tejst
Iria
Killian's
Killian Company
Indie
Loyal Meek
Britain
Killian
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Princess Peggy
Peggy
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Killian’s
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