This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 9 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1957
Page
4
The 1956 library report shows a 13 percent rise in total circulation to 666 211, the largest year on record. Book mobiles and the Kenwood branch drive gains while fiction reading declines, and staff answered 9 793 questions in the main unit with 1 600 at Kenwood.
An electronics program titled New Adventures in Electronics will be held at Coe College auditorium on Wednesday at 8 p.m. Cyril N. Hoyler of the David Sarnoff Research Center will present demonstrations on solid state physics, high speed photography, a miniaturized television camera, and synthesized music. The Cedar Valley AIEE, Institute of Radio Engineers, Collins Radio Technical Association, and Cedar Rapids Engineers Club sponsor the free event.
John Shea will be chairman of the Linn County Red Cross membership enrollment and fund drive with a goal of 741,134 scheduled March 1 17. The goal is down 3,000 from last year and funds support national and local Red Cross programs locally nationally and internationally.
The Sunday Gazette surveys Communist party line aims from official Red publications. It notes American Communists opposing H-bomb tests and criticizing the budget as a war budget, while urging hearings on the Eisenhower Mid East doctrine and demanding public debate and letters to Congress. The piece criticizes press emphasis on a New York bomber and highlights Montgomery church bombings as less covered.
The Luther College choir, directed by Weston H Noble, will give a concert in Cedar Rapids at 8 p.m. sponsored by Wilson high school choir in the auditorium. The 60 voice group, on its tenth extended tour, will perform classics to contemporary compositions across 12 Midwest concerts.
Dr. Eleanor Metheny of the University of Southern California warns that modern cars strain the body. She suggests using a board on foam cushions and alternating feet to prevent pelvic and spinal misalignment during driving.
Twenty-five Brooks Gap pupils travel daily to a converted housing facility for classes at Home on the Range in Wyoming. An emergency room conversion was used after families moved to Crooks Gap to work on the Lost Creek uranium processing mill project.
In Snowmass Colorado twenty Trappist monks begin the Our Lady of Snowmass Monastery a 300 by 75 foot structure in a mountain valley. It is the twelfth Trappist monastery in the United States founded to live a life of contemplation and labor. The community will house ten monks next summer and raise beef cattle on 3,800 acres to fund provisions for monastic life. Gordon Lamoy teaches cattle skills as the group becomes self sufficient. The Spencer Massachusetts monastery funds the initial setup and the venture moves from overcrowded conditions there to the Colorado site.
In MARDELA Maryland Mrs Francis Hopkins found her deaf cat missing during laundry. She pulled the plug on an automatic washer and discovered the soaking but undamaged cat, unharmed by the incident.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.