Cedar Rapids Y M C A Hosts Open House for 12th Year
Nearly 800 people attended the Cedar Rapids Y M C A twelfth annual New Year open house as directors staff and their wives greeted the public. The event featured a 70 piece boys band, drum and bugle corps, gym demonstrations, boxing wrestling and volleyball exhibitions, swimming races and a boys hobby show with church groups taking top prizes at the lobby display.
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Cedar Rapids Y
Ariel Cross
Miniature elephants win prize at local exhibit
A 107 piece set of miniature elephants earned first prize for 12 year old George Henry son of Mr and Mrs L E Henry of 119 Nineteenth street SE. Other honors went to Robert Ratner and Ralph Lawrence with honorable mention. Activities included Y boys willowcraft demos and Camp Wapsie Y replicas by Bill Kelly, with staff coordinators Leslie Crabbs Elmer Nelson and Jim Manville. Lions club won two bowling matches while the Cedar Rapids Checkers club hosted a basement tournament and Hi Y clubs showcased exhibits. Mrs Charles Schrader celebrated her sixty eighth birthday with a family dinner at Mrs H H Engel’s home joined by relatives.
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Saron Lutheran
Second Christian
Y. Boys
George Henry
L. E. Henry
Nineteenth Street
George
First Congregational Church
Robert Ratner
Eighteenth Street
Ralph Lawrence
Fourth Street
Bill Kelly
Hobby den
Camp Wapsie-Y
Shady Oak
Mr. Kelly
Leslie Crabbs
Elmer Nelson
Jim Manville
Lions Club
Penick and Ford
Cedar Rapids Checkers Club
Triton Club
Russell Redmond 16 Engaged for Chicago Musical Comedy
Russell Redmond, 16, son of Mrs. Pearl Redmond of 424 Fifth Street NW, has been engaged by Chicago producer Will Harris for a role in a musical comedy. He will depart Thursday for Chicago for rehearsals starting Friday. Redmond, a St. Patrick's High School sophomore, gained early notice singing with local dance orchestras and at theaters after Sidney Page heard him at the Town Theater two years ago. Page also helped arrange the Harris engagement.
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Pearl Redmond
Fifth Street NW
Will Harris
Chicago
Redmond
Sam Harris
Broadway
St. Patrick’s High School
Sidney Page
Page
Harris
Those Resolutions and Diet Delights in Just Folks
Edgar A. Guest humorously laments wavering willpower on diets and resolutions. He contrasts brave vows to curb appetite with nightly indulgence and repeats the clash between knowledge and habit. The column ends with a sharp note on a German wind tunnel testing air speeds above 150 miles per hour.
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