City playground office survey catalogs vast game bulletins
Tom Knight and Verna Hanold report extensive resources in the city playground office survey. Public bulletins include 31 pencil and paper games, 101 day specific games, 21 banquet games, 23 outdoor games, 29 school age children games, and 155 miscellaneous games. Dramatic material includes 100 one act plays and numerous skits and stunts. New bulletins and recreation leader suggestions are planned for rural schools and the Parent Teacher recreation institute.
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Dramatic Service
Department of Recreation
City Hall
Tom Knight
Verna Hanold
Coe College
National Recreation Association
Playground Commission
Institute For Rural School
County Superintendent of Schools
Parent-Teacher Council
Recreation ‘Institute
WPA Recreation Project to Start in Cedar Rapids Tuesday
The Cedar Rapids WPA recreation project set to begin Tuesday with a Saturday requisition arrival for workers. A $45,000 plan will hire about 27 men and 32 women, though women availability may limit numbers. Men will handle skating and coasting maintenance while women start handcraft, sewing, and related tasks at sites including the Community House and YWCA. Superintendent Mrs. Clare Nichols said the exact plan hinges on worker availability.
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WPA
Cedar Rapids
Clare Nichols
Rotarians From Nineteen Towns To Be Guests Monday Night
Rotarians from nineteen towns will be entertained Monday at the Hotel Roosevelt in Cedar Rapids for a 6 15 p m banquet hosted by the Cedar Rapids Rotary club. J C Newman of the U S Bureau of Investigation in St Louis Mo will speak. About two hundred Rotarians are expected from Iowa City Waterloo Belle Plaine Dubuque Davenport Mount Vernon Lisbon Manchester Marengo Marshalltown Muscatine West Liberty Clinton Oelwein Washington Anamosa Monticello Cedar Falls and Independence.
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Hotel Roosevelt
Cedar Rapids
Lisbon
Manchester
Marengo
Marshalltown
Muscatine
West Liberty
Clinton
Oclwein
Washington
Anamosa
Monticello
Cedar Falls
Independence
Muskrat Fine On Menu is Called Marsh Rabbit
Washington AP reports a U S biological survey official who will explain how to make muskrat a family dish yet his wife reacts coolly He returned from a Delaware inspection trip where muskrat was introduced to his home under the name marsh rabbit The official says results were fine but worries marsh rabbit by any other name may not be welcome at home
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Washington
U. S Biological Survey
Delaware
Taxation questions split by Cedar Rapids Chamber
The Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce split over federal and state tax policy questions. They favored flat corporate income taxes, allow consolidated returns, recognize capital gains and losses equitably, and supported carrying net losses forward to offset future profits, while urging harmonization of federal and state levies and opposing confiscatory rates.
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Board of Tax Appeals
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Group
Chamber of Commerce
Courthouse Parade by Red Co Henson in Linn County
A bygone Majestic theater era tale recalls vaudeville stars and four Marx Brothers challenging theater staff to a morning baseball at Ellis Park. It notes Linn County Sheriff fingerprint records, bailiffs, and jail life anecdotes, plus travelers like Henry Wright, former Orange County deputy.
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Majestic Theater
Ellis Park
Bob Vesely
Linn County
Bill Vesely
Roosevelt High School
Four Marx Brothers
Larry Condon
Henry Wright
Mount Vernon
Orange County
Santa Ana
Calif
Aimee Semple McPherson
Marian Parker
Henry
Weather Wits and Rough Edges from Foothill Tales
In the California foothills a young local remarks that only fools and strangers prophesy the weather. A few days later a top engineer asks Bill for his weather idea, and he echoes the line revealing the boss as a hobbyist with weather predictions. A county exam joke warns that chloroforming a person and placing a sign on their back door would prevent the flu.
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California Foothills
Bill
Pennsylvania Academy Accepts Marvin Cone Painting
Marvin Cone professor of art at Coe college has a painting titled River Bend No 3 accepted by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. The academy holds its 131st annual exhibit. The item notes a separate statistic about polished glass in the U S vehicle industry.
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Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Marvin Cone
River Bend No
Coe College
Philadelphia
Cone
Academy
Birthday Ball Aids Local Infantile Paralysis Victim
A Cedar Rapids 15-year-old girl affected by infantile paralysis sparks support for the Presidents Birthday Ball at Pla Mor on January 30. Tickets fund 70 percent locally for rehab and hospital costs while 30 percent supports national research and clinics guided by Warm Springs Foundation and Dr LeRoy Hubbard. The event marks Roosevelt’s 54th birthday as part of a nationwide effort with funds distributed to Stanford Harvard University of Pennsylvania and other institutions. Local committee heads Dr. Morgan Foster Dr W J Neuzil Charles D Huston and others seek families needing help and plan to aid additional afflicted children in the community.
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Cedar Rapids
Pla-Mor
Morgan Foster
W. J. Neuzil
Charles D. Huston
Frank Baldwin
R. H. Pickford
W. E. Lamey
National Fund
Stanford University
Harvard
University of Pennsylvania
Long Island College of Medicine
University of California
Yale University
University of Chicago
City Hospital of
Cleveland
New York University
Warm Springs Foundation
LeRoy Hubbard
Franklin D. Roosevelt
United States
Cedar
List of event chairs and participants in a society gathering
A long roster of names appears including Mrs W E Lamey general chairs man Mrs Paul Huston John A Limback Walter R Hutchinson A J Murray Marley Clark Frank Healy Mrs Guy McKibben Mrs Henry Achter Ben Tait Mrs Frank Baldwin George Gorman Harold Soper Paul Huston Thomas Brady Miss Ann Malone Miss Pauline Murray Thomas Woods Paul Jones Mrs E E Reynolds Joseph Mekota Wayne Boland Wells Peck and Dr B G Broghammer.
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W. E. Lamey
Man
Paul Huston
John A. Limback
Walter R. Hutchinson
A. J. Murray
Marley Clark
Frank Healy
Guy McKibben
Henry Achter
Ben Tait
Frank Baldwin
George Gorman
Harold Soper
Thomas Brady
Ann Malone
Pauline Murray
Thomas Woods
Paul Jones
E. E. Reynolds
Joseph Mekota
Wayne Boland
Wells Peck
B. G. Broghammer
Sam Clark Plans Mayor Run In March Primary
Sam Clark of 1312 J street SW announced Saturday his candidacy for mayor in the municipal primary on March 17. Clark, long active in unemployed circles and head of the Unemployed Relief association, filed nomination papers with the city clerk. he previously ran for the same office in 1934 but did not advance past the primary.
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Sam Clark
J Street
Unemployed Relief Association
Clark
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DIAL
RED Co. Henson
Larry
Jim Smith
Bill Behrens
San Francisco
Warm Springs
DE. Geo. J. Ronan Optometrist
Higley Building
Mascara
Naii
Mary Miles
Newman's
Second Fleet
Percales
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Phillips Creams
Newman
Lace
Burson Hose
Coats
Kwickway Electric
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