Service Members Listed in Military Leaves and Assignments
A compilation of service members from area families on leave or new assignments. Highlights include Thomas C. Barker stationed at Yokosuka with temporary duty at Subic Bay aboard USS Edah. James A. Dorland training at Fort Monmouth as electronics instructor and drum major. and multiple air force personnel at bases such as Keesler, Scott, Nellis, and Andrews, with ongoing training in radar, electronics, and communications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas C. Barker
Carl E. Barker
Fourteenth Street
Naval Reserve
Yokosuka Naval Base
Subic Bay
Philippines
Edah
Immaculate Conception
University of Iowa
James A. Dorland
O. S. Dorland
Ninth Street
Fort Monmouth
N. J
Wilson High School
Shirley
Long Branch
Cee College
Afrotc
Wee
Jim Rochlitz
Statistical Services
Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Dave Rosenberg
Webb Afb
Texas
Joe Nemer
Ellington Afb
al Peremsky
Goodfellow Afb
Bill Fisher
Greenville Afb
Miss
Tom Sutton
Webb
Richard Burgert
Ellington
Ray Johannsen
Lackland Afb
Duane Thenhaus
Parks Afb
Bob Woodard
Castle Afb
Dick Dye
Pope Afb
N. C
Don Pardubsky
Warren Afb
Wyo
Cedar Rapids
Two Cedar Rapids Men to Graduate from Navy Recruit Training
Basic trainees Ralph M. Plummer and William J. Pityer, both from Cedar Rapids, are reported scheduled to graduate from recruit training at Great Lakes naval training station on January 14. Plummer is the son of Mrs. Georgia Plummer of 222 Second Avenue SW, Cedar Rapids, and Pityer is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Pityer of 78 Thirty-sixth Avenue SW.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles F. Hollan
Frank E. Hollan
Fort Bragg
N. C
Fort Polk
Army
Harold L. Schulze
Irma Hadrava
Naval Air Station
Glenview
Ill
St. Wenceslaus School
Navy
John A. Wolfe
George Dean
Harrison Court
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Wilson High School
Japan
Russell L. Merrifield
R. O. Merrifield
Sixth Street
Keesier Air Force Base
Biloxi
Miss
Roosevelt High School
Ronald A. Kokesh
A. Kokesh
Williams Boulevard
Janice Kokesh
Franklin High School
Iowa State College
Air Force
Ned E. DeMarce
R. F. DeMarce
Twenty-sixth Street
Chanute Air Force Base
Coe College
Victor L. Griswold
L. V
Louis J. Roman
Frank Roman
Seventeenth Avenue SE
Naval Training Center
Great Lakes
Cedar Rapids
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Ralph M. Plummer
Georgia Plummer
Second Avenue
William J. Pityer
J. S. Pityer
Thirty-sixth Avenue
Sfc Wayne A Campbell Graduates From Army Academy
Sfc Wayne A Campbell son of Mr and Mrs Clifford E Campbell of 1620 Fourth Avenue SE recently graduated from the Fifth Army non commissioned officer academy at Fort Riley Kaw He is an aircraft repair supervisor in a service unit and entered the army in 1944 His wife Joann lives with him at Fort Riley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sfc
Wayne A. Campbell
Clifford E. Campbell
Fourth Avenue SE
Fifth Army
Fort Riley
Kaw
Campbell
Army
Joann
Diaper Service Diapers Stolen From Canton Doorstep
In Canton Ohio a thief took 40 diapers left on a doorstep by a diaper service driver. No suspects named and no injuries reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton, Ohio
Quality Control Talks At Coe College Tuesday
Two experts in industrial quality control will lecture Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Hickok hall on the Coe college campus. Dr. Lloyd A. Knowler of the University of Iowa and Merrill W. Beam of Ottumwa will discuss Statistical Quality Control Concepts Essential to Management. The talk is sponsored by Coe evening college and the University of Iowa quality control section. The program is open to the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hickok Hall
Coe College
Lloyd A. Knowler
University of Iowa
Merrill W. Beam
John Morrell Company
Ottumwa
The
Coe Evening College
American Society For Quality Control
Knowler
Beam
Morrell
Aggressive safety push urged after Iowa traffic toll
Pat McPartland notes 17 600 deaths and injuries in 1955 across 99 Iowa counties, warning without a tougher safety program another 17 000 victims could occur in 1956. He contrasts evolving highway risk with horse travel and cites Automobile Facts on declining car costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Cedar
Delaware
Butler
Sac
Russell I. Brown
Keokuk
Brown
U.S
January Safety Poster Wins A A A Contest
A drawing by Indianapolis schoolboy David Fugazzotto won first prize in the American Automobile Association safety poster contest for 1955 56 school safety posters. It notes a factory worker now earns a new car in 29.6 weeks or 1171 hours as compared with 33.4 weeks or 1475 hours in 1929.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Automobile Association
Indianapolis
David Fugazzotto
Safety Belt Debate and Floor Anchors Distinguished
A Monticello company letters The Cedar Rapids Gazette disputing a safety belt article. The writer argues floor anchored belts distribute strain better, resist ripping, and are safer than frame anchored designs. They note most belts anchor to the floor and cite a 1918 firm and two belt lines they distribute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat McPartland
The
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
the Gazette
Monticello Standard Parts Company
J.J. Reding
Smart Taxi Driver Beats Two Robbers in Tokyo
Tokyo AP reports taxi driver Tomizo Ishida faced two armed robbers. He signaled for help by blinking his lights and sending SOS signals. Policeman Tadahiko Azuma halted the vehicle and arrested the two suspects without further incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Tomizo Ishida
Ishida
Tadahiko Azuma
Cedar Rapids Arts Groups Enjoy Banner 1955 Year
Cedar Rapids art, theater, and music groups report a peak year in 1955 with major exhibits by Grant Wood and James Lechay, a Strand theater move, a full season for the Symphony and Civic Chorus, strong municipal band activity, and growing Children’s Theater programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ART Association
Grant Wood
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
James Lechay
William DuVall
John Kacere
Feathers Recycled into Chicken Feed Boom in Salisbury
In Maryland's broiler belt workers turn feathers, viscera, blood and rejected birds into feed. A local firm makes feather meal at about 100 tons monthly, processing poultry plumes that are roughly 70 percent water into 86 percent protein meal mixed with other rations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salisbury
First road to be built by the U S government named national pike
A fragment notes that the first road project undertaken by the U S government was the old national Pike. The sentence points to an early federal effort to create a major transport route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
National Pike
Spence to Address Cedar Rapids Life Underwriters
Eber M. Spence vice president of American United Life Insurance Company of Indianapolis will speak at the Cedar Rapids Life Underwriters Association meeting Thursday noon at the Montrose hotel. Spence, 35 years in life insurance, helped found Purdue University Life Insurance Institute and has served on its board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Symphony Orchestra
Cedar Rapids
Symphony Association
Eber M. Spence
American United Life Insurance Company of
Indianapolis
Cedar Rapids Life Underwriters Association
Montrose Hotel
Spence
Purdue University
Life Insurance Institute
Beals Thought to Be Oldest Deer Trophy Hunter in Michigan 1955
Manton Michigan AP reports Harvey Beals aged 94 believed to be the state's oldest sportsman to take a deer this season. Beals shot a four point buck weighing 150 pounds in Kalkaska County during 1955 season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manton
Mich
Harvey Beals
Michigan
Beals
Kalkaska County
Also Mentioned on This Page
Seaman K. P. Plank
Paul Speraw
Seventeenth Street
Helena
Sanford T. Hill
Tom J. Hill
Third Street
Francis E. Warren Air Force Base
Wye
Sixth Avenue
Nellis Air Force Base
Nev
Arlen Pratt
David Pratt
Twentieth Avenue
Mt. Puntzi
Canada
Vancouver
Gary J. Robertson
K. F. Robertson
Washington Avenue SE
Lowry Air Force Base
Denver
James E. Norrgard
J. E. Norrgard
Westover Air Force Base
Mass
Eighth Air Force
Coe
Larry D. Lane
Bernice Lane
A Avenue NW
Kelly Air Force Base
Karl T. Humble
Harry . Humble
Center Point Road
Far East
U. S. Air Force
Washington, D.C
Cedar County
Credit Corporation
Automobile Facts
Paul V. McNutt
Cardinal Innitzer
Dale Carnegie
Bernarr Macfadden
James Dean
William Woodward
Carmen Miranda
Gen. Brehon B. Somervell
Owen J. Albert Einstein
Thomas Mann Roberts
Glenn L, Martin
John W. Davis
Pirs
Dwight Frank A. Morrow
Seiberling
Cordell Hall
Dan Tobin
Theda Bara
Suzan Ball
Walter Hampden
John Hodiak
Liles Rapids
Donald Key
Georges Braque
F. H. Healey
Dramatic Organization
Footlighters
Community Players
Strand
Community Theater
Horace Hedges, Jr
Children’s Theater
Musicians’ Union
Henry Denecke
Stefan Smith
First Avenue Building
Sam Taylor
Civic Chorus
Terrence Carlson
Roland Moehlmann
Morris Katzoff
Memorial Coliseum
Boston Pops Orchestra
Robert Casadesus
William Warfield
Paul Anthony
Fred Glanville
Music Headquarters
Krakauer
Martin
King, Reynolds
Olds and Bach
Taylor Music Co
King Band Instruments
First Avenue
C.R. Life Underwriters
EB. M. Spence
Old Hunter
Kehrer-Wheatland, Inc
WMT
Paramount Pharmacies
Paramount Theater Bldg
First Ave
Security Laboratory
Merchants Bank
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