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YWCA War Time Classes Teach Power of Reuse and Repair
Wartime programs at the YWCA train girls to stretch dollars amid high prices and limited materials. They refashion last year’s clothes into 1945 fashions and craft jewelry from lucite, while a unique class makes clothes from feed sacks. Barbara Bowser, a Roosevelt senior, works as a junior hospital aide in Cedar Rapids hospitals.
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Y.W. C.A
Y.W.C. A
Yw.ca
Marjorie Lauer
First Avenue
Betty Cordes
Eighth Street
Marjorie
Betty
Quaker Oats Company
Barbara Bowser
Avenne NW
Barbara
Cedar Rapids
Roosevelt High School
Y.W.C.A
Frances McFall
C Avenue NW