Travel Boom On Docket for This Weekend
Travel demand soars as Americans plan holidays on land sea and air. Airlines report bookings far ahead while rails face a weak Pullman scene. AAA predicts 21 million of 25 million motor vehicles will crowd highways over the four day weekend and NSC warns of 500 potential holiday deaths despite a safety campaignBe alive on the fifth aims to marshal public support for a safe celebration.
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New York
Bert E. White
American Express Company
American Automobile Association
AAA
National Safety Council
Coe Music Festival Schedule Announced for July 4 Event
Stanley Vesely and Prof. Paul S. Ray announce the Coe College music festival on July 4 at Hawkeye Downs. Contestants from multiple Iowa towns compete in trombone, cornet, piano, baton twirling, vocal, and bands with judges from University of Iowa and Tama. Winners perform at Hawkeye Downs, then may enter the Chicagoland Music Festival in Chicago on August 17. Gates open 4 p.m. Admission 75 cents adults 25 cents under 12.
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Hawkeye
Coe College
Stanley Vesely
Paul S. Ray
Coe Music Department
Hawkeye Downs
Chicagoland Musicival
Chicago
Marshall Hall
Neh Pene
Marshall Eaton
Addison Alspach
University of Iowa Music Department
R. Ariel Cross
Tama
Howard Stube
Capt. Stube
Burlington
Des Moines
Newton
Anamosa
West Liberty
Sigourney
Donnellson
Fairfield
West Branch
Tipton
Marion
Dubuque
Center Point
Cedar Rapids
the Downs
Hanford Post No. 5
American Legion
Gates To the Downs
Speculators Bet on Inflation in Porter Remarks
Washington AP Porter warns that rising stock and commodity prices after removal of controls signal speculative bets on inflation. He says the public should beware of apparent abundance of scarce goods and cautions that a rush to market may come from those delaying sales.
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Washington
OPA
Paul Porter
ABC
Porter
Order of Ahepa Plans District Convention Trip
The Order of Ahepa chapter 194 will meet Wednesday at 8 p.m. in St. John's Hellenic Orthodox church to plan for the district convention in Cedar Rapids on Saturday. Refreshments will be served after the meeting.
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Order of Ahepa
St. John’s
Cedar Rapids
Interior Fund Bill Signed by Truman
President Truman signed the 247.167 million interior department appropriation for the 1947 fiscal year. The action clears funds for a 113.61 million reclamation program aimed at providing farm homes for returning veterans.
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Interior
Truman
Washington
Interior Department
Department
Congress Eyes Money to Complete Projects Next Year
Officials propose funding to finish ongoing programs within twelve months and unlock them for settlement, aiming to accelerate development and expand available housing and infrastructure options nationwide.
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Congress
Eciteat
City Council Grants Permits and Plans Sewer Work
The council referred a sanitary sewer petition for Dalewood avenue and Meadowbrook drive to the city engineer. Permits were issued for pavement at rear alleys for Silborn Paper and Prebs Dairy Foods. Multiple cigaret and beer permits were granted or surrendered. An ordinance to curb heavy traffic on Second Street SW between Eleventh and Sixteenth avenues was ordered prepared by City Attorney Don Hines. Traffic Captain J. H. Clift recommended the measure.
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Dalewood Avenue
Thirty-second
Twenty-ninth Streets
Thirtieth Street
Meadowbrook Drive
Meadowbrook
Silborn Paper Company
Prebs Dairy Foods, Inc
Twenty-ninth Street
First Avenue E
Jacob W. Kubovec
Sixteenth Avenue
Tom
Albert F. Briles
Third Street
W. H. DeWald
Second Avenue
Garnet McLean
Frank Preston
First Avenue
Elmer L. Ries
Fifth Avenue
Hazel I. Ely
Ellis Boulevard
Don Hines
Second Street
Eleventh
Sixteenth Avenues
J. H. Clift
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Coe
Iowa
OKEN
Service Optical
Ahepa
Onn
POLO
Yager
Joseph Ballard
Leonard Danda
Hawkeye Dewts
Exon
Bart
Richard Hudnut
DuBarry
DuBarry Foundation
May's Drug Store
The
Merchants National Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
NEW Freedom
Freedom Gas
Dias Sahdanianie
Bridge
OWA
Illinois Gas
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