Curtains Fall on Cedar Rapids Nurseries Over Funding Gap
Cedar Rapids faces possible closure of two nurseries serving children of working mothers as federal Lanham Act funds run out. St Paul Regional Office reports no funds available despite approved Iowa applications, with decision resting with the Cedar Rapids Public Welfare Bureau board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Micawber
Dickens
Cedar Rapids
Jane Boyd Communi
Sunshine Mission
Cedar Rapids Public Welfare Bureau
Community Chest
Public Welfare Bureau
St. Paul
Iowa
Waterloo
Air WAC Recruiting Visit in Cedar Rapids This Week
An Air WAC recruiting team will be in Cedar Rapids Tuesday through Friday to interview and classify women for specialized air force jobs. Board members will set up at the WAC recruiting station in the post office building. Enlistment is open to healthy women aged 20 to 49 with no dependents.
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Army Air Forces
Cedar Rapids
WAC
Air Forces
Army Service Forces
Air-Wac
Service Command
Iowa
Colorado
Missouri
Minnesota
Nebraska
Kansas
North
South Dakota
Wyoming
Free Y Memberships For 71 Cedar Rapids High School Grads
Y M C A Membership Chairman Joe Lattner issued 71 free memberships to Cedar Rapids high school midyear graduates. The offer covers gym pool handball squash and boxing facilities plus weights. A pre army conditioning class will be organized for these members and others every Thursday at 7 30 PM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Y.M.C.A
Joe Lattner
Cedar Rapids High School
Nash's Air and Sea War Tales From Salerno to Pearl Harbor
Nash recalls perilous amphibious landings at Sicily and Salerno, where barges faced bombs and beaches stacked with the fallen. He ferried troops and materiel, witnessed ships go down, and survived close calls including shrapnel in his cockpit and constant bombardment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nash
Pearl Harbor
Sicily
Salerno
Bristol
Marvin O. Whitters
Cedar Rapids
Whitters
Navy Gunner Reflects on War Fronts and Fateful Deaths
A Navy sailor recalls three years of service from the Pacific to the Atlantic after August 1942. He jokes about tattoos on his feet and says he survives by "getting the stuff to the beach and getting myself back." He recalls Sicily’s shelling and the beaches of Salerno, noting he had never seen a dead man before joining the Navy.
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Navy
Pearl Harbor
Atlantic Theater
Nash
Malta
Vesuvius
Naples
Pompeii
Rock
Gibraltar
Oran
Roosevelt
Isle of Capri
Fiji Islands
Samoa
New Caledonia
Lexington
San Fransicisco
Pacific
Atlantic
Sicily
Salerno
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Cedar Rapids Nurseries
Congress
Allied
U. S
Deach
North Africa
PMI NC Discovery
Aido-Tentans
Kenwood Fuel CO
F. McLaughlin
Dial
OPA
Leoten Brower
DODD
LA Salles
Teohers Sien
Odt
Montgomery
Second Street
Newman’s
Newman's
Mary Miles
Stttee
Cook Books
Better Homes and Garden Magazine
Newman’s Street
Newman
Stevens Pure Linen Crash
Women’s. Defense
Gabardine
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