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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1938
Page
5
In winter offices suffer colds from poor light and ventilation. An electric heater with a parabolic reflector concentrates infrared heat strongly on one spot. The writer notes red and infrared rays comfort, not burning ultraviolet light, and claims the device relieves colds while weather and skies stay gray.
Noted meteorologist Selby Maxwell predicts a warm, mostly unsettled pattern across eastern Iowa and western Indiana with windy conditions in Indiana and Iowa while Wisconsin and Missouri stay calm.
The report notes cool unsettled conditions in a broad stretch from Iowa to central Illinois and southern Wisconsin, with calmer, fair skies in eastern Missouri and southern Illinois. Northwestern areas remain cool and unsettled, while portions of western Indiana experience calm, cool weather.
A dense weather digest reports mixed conditions across regions including Iowa Illinois Wisconsin Missouri and Indiana with unsettled and warm to cold spells. It includes reader questions on moisture frost and dust storms with brief weather wisdom and seasonal outlooks.
A chorus of opinions fuels debate among close peers over what Groundhog Day portends. Some insist on forecasts, others mock such talk, while weather savants and laymen clash over interpretations.
A public library features 1937 publications reviewed by Bruno Lasker of the American Council Institute of Pacific Relations. The list includes When China Unites by Harry Gaines, Four Hundred Million Customers by Carl Crow, The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang, General Chiang Kai-shek by Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Japan-Civilizer or Vandal?, Japan Over Asia by William Henry Chamberlain, Aliens in the East by Harry Emerson Wildes, Japan's Feet of Clay by Freda Utley, Living in Tokyo by Katherine Sansom, and On America's Position Forty Years of American Japanese Relations by Foster Rhea Dulles.
The 1908 first primary for Cedar Rapids under the new city commission plan drew 57 candidates for mayor and council seats. William H. Winsor, longtime labor secretary, ran as one of 48 council hopefuls. Mayor George Lightner failed. Carmody won, then died in 1909 with Miles succeeding as mayor. The vote featured long, pencil ballots and at large council seats assigned within the council.
Mrs. W. F. Donald of Amarillo credits her son-in-law Gene Howe publisher of the Amarillo News Globe with starting the annual Mother-in-Law Day to be held next March 4 in Amarillo possibly delayed by Mrs. Roosevelt. Howe’s humor in The Tactless Texan inspired the celebration and Mrs. Donald, 70, praises him while noting she teaches a Sunday school class and values youth and her grandchildren.
Washington AP economists from the agriculture department forecast that by 2038 most Americans will be descendants of today’s rural population. They project higher birth rates among rural families yield 1,000 farm people three to seven times as many descendants as 1,000 urban residents, reshaping future demographics.
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