Swing Music Wins Over Gridiron Hostilities
A joint party at Danceland between Coe and Cornell students mixed sports rivals with dance and music. The scene featured Coe and Cornell seniors and sophomores in football, basketball, and track, chaperons socializing, and crowned handshakers John Nicoll and June Hardy presiding over the event.
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Coe-Cornell
Coe
Cornell
Danceland
LeRoy McLeod
Central City
Dave Peterson
Freeport
Ill
Chris Bates
Elgin
Don Pease
Burlington
John Nicoll
Sibley
June Hardy
Cedar Rapids
Bob Norris
Miss Hardy
Mr. Nicoll
Cedar Rapids Chamber Names New Committees
Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce president Van Vechten Shaffer announces multiple new committees with list of members across Legislative Public safety National affairs Aviation House Military Highways and others including prominent figures such as John Grimm Arthur Huntington Mayor Hahn and George Laird.
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van Vechten Shaffer
Cedar Rapids
George Laird
Frank K. Hahn
John C. Reid
Robert Armstrong
W. H. Stepanek
L. D. Burgus
Don Hines
Col. O. W. Mull
B. D. Silliman
F. C. Waples
Robert I. Safely
Public Safety Committee
American Legion
Clare Marshall
Perry Rude
William Culver
Chester B. Myers
Verne Marshall
William B. Quarton
H. R. Trewin
Frank C. Welch
Karl P. Blaise
W. T. Saxon
Joe McCormick
Emil Pardera
James F. Keevers
EF. E. Hahn
Reuben Smith
Arthur C. Gertsen
Henry Haegg
John F. Currell
Harry Concannon
Highways Committee
G. O. Fletcher
S. P. Moore
William H. Behrens
Morris Sanford
A. L. Killian
H. F. Sundberg
H. R. Green
Frank B. Young
T. R. Warriner
Frank Hahn
Phil Shive
Paul Huston
James Plumb
R. R. Epler
Frank Dvorak
Frank Kanak
K C Meeting Tuesday To Honor New Members
The Knights of Columbus hold their regular semi monthly meeting Tuesday at 8 p.m. to introduce new members initiated last Sunday. The February program under the Irish committee will be announced. New members include Champar Hadish Halpin Davin Bollinger Reed Goerdt Cleary Colgan Chyle Carnes Pusateri Fahey Scolaro Mulherin Dolan Elwood Shanahan Kelly Locher Shaw Nemec. An Irish lunch will follow.
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Knights of Columbus
Charles Champar
Joseph Hadish
Lawrence J. Halpin
Clifford Davin
Byron Bollinger
Pearson Reed
Frank T. Goerdt
Thomas H. Cleary
Thomas F. Colgan
William W. Chyle
Rollo E. Carnes
Augustus J. Pusateri
William L. Fahey
Fred J. Scolaro
John E. Mulherin
Mort H. Lundgren
Robert E. Dolan
Robert J. Elwood
William J. Shanahan
Harold F. Kelly
John J. Locher, Jr
Frank E. Shaw
Joseph J. Nemec
Injured WPA Worker Dies in Grinnell
Louis Mitchell aged 50 died in Grinnell after injuries from walking into a truck. The WPA worker suffered the mishap Thursday and died Saturday. He leaves a widow and two sons.
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Grinnell
Louis Mitchell
Mitchell
WPA
Firemen to appear at council Monday over wage dispute
Firemen announce they will formally lay the history of wage negotiations before the city council on Monday in an open meeting. The move follows a council decision to collect data secretly while the dispute over pay rages, with Benesh and Burgu_s at the center of the controversy. The issue pits 24 hour fire shifts against police 8 hour shifts as the March fight looms.
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W. C. Benesh
L. D. Burgus
Benesh
Du Pont Earnings Slip Despite Expansion Plan
Du Pont announced 1937 net earnings of 88,031,943 with common stock at 7.29 a share, 27 cents below 1936. The company said it will spend 35,000,000 on expansion and plant improvements this year after spending 48,000,000 on improvements in 1937.
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Wilmington, del
INS
E. T. du Pont.de Nemours and Company
Lammot du Pont
Highway Safety Meeting Aims Lin County Council
Frank Stepanek chairman of the Hanford post safety committee says invitations for a preliminary Linn County Safety Council meeting next Wednesday at 7 30 p m were almost universally accepted. The event is co sponsored by Hanford post and the Iowa state safety council with a local speaker lineup to assess forming a permanent body.
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Frank Stepanek
Hanford Post
American Legion
Linn County Safety Council
Iowa State Safety Council
Stepanek
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Hayes School 6A Pupils Entertain Their Parents
The Hayes School 6A class presented a Friday program in the school auditorium with Frederick Brush as announcer. The program featured an orchestra, solos, poems, class history, and a penmanship certificates presentation by Miss Lois Cowan, followed by a lunch served by mothers. Several class members are set to enter Woodrow Wilson junior high on Monday.
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Hayes School
Frederick Brush
DeLamater
Loos
Valasta Chytry
Wanda Johnson
Tommy Rebec
Chester “Amastil
Dorothy Topinka
Marguerite Womacka
George Cooper
Dorothy Sorenson
John Mokress
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Doris Burton
Dorothy Sopousek
Betty Ann Stourne
Clay Smith
Gabriel Setoun
Esther Sprynel
Jean Klepach
Helen Travnicek
Lois Cowan
Fuller
Spencer
Woodrow Wilson Junior High School
Chester Zamastil
Paul Engle Sues Over Auto Crash Damages
Iowa City poet Paul Engle and University of Iowa faculty member files a $295.57 damage suit against Don Jones and Lonzo Jones for injuries from a December 18 automobile accident. Engle is represented by Ries and Dutcher law firm.
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Iowa City
Paul Engle
Iowa
University of Iowa School of Letters
Don Jones
Lonzo Jones
Engle
Cedar Rapids
Statehiets Ries and
Dutcher Law Rm
Medical Editor Laments Weird Health Beliefs
Seattle based piece notes Dr. W. W. Bauer of the American Medical Association criticizing common health superstitions. He cites beliefs about cosmetics removing freckles hair growth from creams aluminum utensils causing disease and fish as brain food. He warns thousands more such myths persist and cites the claim that a woman must lose a tooth per child as harmful ignorance.
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Seattle
W. W. Bauer
Bureau of Health and Education
American Medical Association
Dr. Bauer
Foreign visitors spent over 125 million dollars in England in 1935
The year 1935 saw foreign visitors in England spend more than 125 million dollars, reflecting strong tourist and business travel amid the period.
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England
Sixteenth Avenue Commercial club reelects officers
William Vavra is reelected president at the annual meeting. Officers Dr. J. A. Smrha, Ernest Sykora, and Charles Kriz are reelected to vice president secretary and treasurer roles. Ernest Kosek is added to membership. Two resolutions pass unanimously urging river pollution enforcement and support for flood protection.
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William Vavra
Sixteenth Avenue Commercial Club
J. A. Smrha
Ernest Sykora
Charles Kriz
Ernest Kosek
Hlubucek Elected CSA Central Committee Chairman
At the CSA central committee annual meeting representing all CSA lodges in the state T B Hlubucek was elected chairman with Frank Klepach as vice chairman Jerry Chalupnik recording secretary and Louis Pochobradsky Jr treasurer. Several lodge reps including Prokop Velky Ed Van Cura V Tampir Charles Novak Joseph Hruby and others named. A committee of Mary Klepach George Svec and Mary Chalupnik was appointed to plan the annual Easter party for about 250 juveniles.
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T. B
Reading Society to Install Officers This Afternoon
The Bohemian Reading Society meets at 2 this afternoon to install officers and initiate new members. Reports will be given. Charles Cacek will give a talk titled Something of the West.
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Bohemian Reading Society
Charles Cacek
Membership Meeting Invitation and Social Time
Freshments will be served and there will be a social time. It is desired that all who have signed membership applications be present. Friends are invited to attend.
Czech civic groups schedule meetings and elections in local halls
Anton Nemec elected president of the Z C B J board with Vaclav Krob as vice president and Joseph Trestnar recording secretary. New board members include A Nemec and others. Czech and Bohemian organizations plan regular sessions and events at C S P S hall and Bohemian school building, including a March 12 benefit dance and bowling tournament discussions.
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Anton Nemec
Z. C. B. J. Board of
Vaclav Krob
Joseph Trestnar
S. V. Shonka
Charles H. Vyskocil
A. Nemec
Joseph Brejcha
John Karasek
Joseph Neumeister
Jerry Jerman
Czech School Board
Ustredni Matice Skolska
C. S. P. S. Hall
Evangelist Erma Faber Dies From Tabernacle Fire
Davenport AP reports Mrs. Erma Faber evangelist at the Full Gospel tabernacle died Saturday after burns from a stove fire. Her clothing caught while she adjusted the damper Thursday.
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Davenport
Erma Faber
Full Gospel Tabernacle
Tabernacle
C B Condon Cement Co Manager Dies at 51
Word comes of the death of C Benjamin Condon general manager and secretary of the Hawkeye Portland Cement company Des Moines He died Wednesday after a brief illness Funeral services were held Saturday in Des Moines
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C. Benjamin Condon
Hawkeye Portland Cement Company
Des Moines
Condon
Cuba backs FDR for Nobel Peace Prize nomination
The Cuban minister told the Nobel prize committee on Saturday that Cuba plans to nominate President Roosevelt for the peace prize.
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Cuba
F.D.R
Oslo
Norway
Roosevelt
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