More Cedar Rapids Housewives Sought as Red Cross Nurse Aides
The Cedar Rapids Linn county Red Cross seeks housewives to train as nurse's aides. Since 1941 Cedar Rapids trained 157 aides averaging 1000 hours monthly. Training covers 35 hours class work at St Luke's and Mercy, then 45 hours supervised practice.
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Red Cross
Cedar Rapids
Mercy
St. Luke’s Hospital
Linn County
The
Iowa
St. Luke’s
Marian Roberts
R.N
Mercy Hospital
Mary Lawrence
Cere Corps
Sandee Leeee
Alabama
Albert E. Seney
Nineteenth Street
Mary Schmitt
Spillville
C. G. Davis
Elmhurst Drive
Miss Schmitt
Sen
St. Luke's
Mercy Hospitals
Ervin Hazer
D Avenue NE
Mildred Holmes
Gazette
Dennis Abney
B. E. Abney
B Avenue
J. E. Norrgard
First Avenue
Dennis
Chayotes Are Easy to Grow for Yearround Food
Chayotes offer leafy greens in spring and hundreds of pale jade fruits in late summer and fall. The vines yield large tubers in California winters and can be trellised in small gardens. Introduced by Dr. David Fairchild, chayotes are now grown commercially in Los Angeles County Florida and Georgia. Chayotes, also called vegetable pears, are a single species in cucurbits with a firm marrow and edible seed. Two pears weigh about two pounds and sell for 15 cents in San Francisco. can be eaten raw or cooked and used in soups stews and pickles. The plant is tropical but can grow further north with a long enough growing season.
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California
Victory Gardens
David Fairchild
Department of Agricul
Los Angeles
Florida
Georgia
New York
San Francisco
Carol Chapman Engaged to Wed Pvt Gerald Berchenbriter
Announce engagement of Carol Chapman of 1516 Hinkley Ave NW to Pvt. Gerald D Berchenbriter of Kansas University Lawrence Kan son of Mr and Mrs H C Berchenbriter Route 2 The notice notes their families and the upcoming marriage plans. Also brief items on Alpha Gamma Delta tea patrons and Navy service member Lt Edward G Stepanek and Genevieve Van de Drink wedding details.
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Cleora Brown
Mearle Brown
Cedar Bluff
Charles F. Albaugh
Charles Albaugh
Mechanicsville
Tipton
Norman Dauber
K Avenue
Albaugh
Higerzent and Company
Y.M.C.A
G. H. Chapman
Hinkley Avenue
Carol
Gerald D. Berchenbriter
Kansas University
Lawrence
Kan
H. C. Berchenbriter
Route 2
Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority
F. V. Orr
Dell Hitchner
E. L. Hoorer
R. H. Pickford
R.E. Choate
Myron L. Koenig
Alice B. Salter
Alice E. Page
Coe College
Jord
Edward G. Stepanek
R. J. Stepanek
Twentieth Avenue SW
Genevieve B. van de Drink
Harry van de Drink
Galena
Ill
St. Anthony’s Church
Pacific Islands
St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital
Dubuque
Navy Nurse Corps
Pacific Theater
Stepanek
Navy Air Corps
University of Iowa
Naval Air Station
Pensacola
Fla
Solomons
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C. R. Housewives
Louise Lux
Collins Radio
Universal Engineering
Iowa Manufacturing
LaPlant-Choate
Century Engineering
Red Cross Personnel Committee
Charles S. Krause
J. T. Grayston
James French
Wyoming
S. E. Ball
Bever Avenue
J. L. Rhea
Ture
Guatemala
Orient
Egypt
West Indies
American Geographical Society
Washington, D. C
Alexander Graham Bell
Bell
Potomac Valley
King’s Daughters
International Order of the King’s Daughters and Sons
Gas Company
Linn County Organization
Milo Wenger
Geraldine Green Lamont
Carl Baumhoesener
Grace Walpole Circle
Harold Waite
Friendship Circle
Mary Louise Robinson
Coe
P. F. Keehn
Linn County Group
Mines
Gertrude Bain
Grant Miller
Lyle Finefield
J. A. Posin
Russia
Pacific
Carol Chapman
Alpha Gamma Deltas
Ta-Te-I-Wa
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Joan Johnston
Marilyn Morgan
Nancy Helms
Caro McLeod
Joanne Bender
Mary Joanson
Mrs. S
Bridges
Eighteenth Avenue SW
Sharon Lee
T. Wone
Hiltbrunner
First Street
Lydia Wehmeier Perkins
Ane
Star Jewelry CO
Dempsey’s
Oscar Workman
Dempsey
OPA
Baldridge
Baldridge Studio
3Rd St. SE
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