Aluminum Drive Aims to Send Seven Planes From Cedar Rapids
A city wide aluminum collection campaign launches Monday in Cedar Rapids to raise 50 000 pounds for defense. Mayors of 15 Linn County towns join in a loop parade through the loop district to the plaza, Mayor Hahn to start the pile, with civic leaders present and collection bins in stores offices and factories. The drive runs five days with coordinated efforts by Camp Fire Girls Boy Scouts and various unions and organizations to mobilize residents and businesses.
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Cedar Rapids
Loop District
Frank Hahn
Linn County
Edward Lowe
City Defense Council
Camp Fire Girls
Boy Scouts
Drum and Bugle Corps
Hahn
Frank C. Byers
Teamsters’ Union
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Young Men’s Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
John Beck
Ralph Redus
Glen Higbee, Jr
Byron K. Anderson
Ken Hastie
Sign Painters Union
Ministerial Association
American Legion
Woman's Club
CIO
AFL
The
Vaclav Jacoubek
Third Street
Gazette
M. R. Warren
Fifth Avenue SE
Paul Jones, Jr
Paul Jones
Forest Drive
Army of Boy Scouts
Jean Quinn
L. A. Quinn
Twenty-fourth Street
Aluminum Campaign Aids Col lection Drive in Cedar Rapids
Citizens urged to gather all waste aluminum and deliver it to a central depository or local bins across LOOP AREA and EAST zones. If transport is impossible, set scrap at the front door Thursday morning for Boy Scout collection. bins are listed at gas, utility, store, and school sites.
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Cedar Rapids
McAllen heads county wide tax collection effort
Led by court house custodian Tom McAllen, fifteen towns participate including Alibur nnett Bertram Center Point Central City Coggon Ely Fairfax Lisbon Marion Mount Vernon Palo Prairieburg Robins Springville and Walker. McAllen will contact Toddville next week as the county plans a general collection Friday. Metal will be taken to Linn county shops at 751 Center Point road NE.
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Tom McAllen
Aliburnett
Bertram
Center Point
Central City
Coggon
Ely
Fairfax
Lisbon
Marion
Mount Vernon
Palo
Prairieburg
Robins
Springville
Walker
McAllen
Toddville
Linn County
Center iPoint Road
Four year old aims for Navy after day out
Burlingame California reports four year old Allen van Bergen charged a haircut ice cream and boarded the Del Monte limited before the conductor halted him. He told the conductor he was traveling alone and planned to join the navy later, prompting his mother to intervene.
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Burlingame
Calif
Allen van Bergen
Navy
del Monte Limited
Allen
Kenneth van Bergen
Burlingame Draft Board
New York
Noted Photographer And Writer Wallace Nutting Dies
Framingham Mass Dr Wallace Nutting 79 a former clergyman turned photographer and writer died Saturday His health led him from the ministry to photography creating his State Beautiful books and Wallace Nutting platinum prints He once employed 140 artists in his Framingham studios later he studied antiques and reproduced colonial furniture He authored many works.
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Framingham
Mass
Wallace Nutting
County Birth Records Index Halted By Funds Shortage
County funds to complete the birth record index are depleted this year officials say. Clerk Edwin W Lundquist noted the 1921 law change moved birth and death records to district clerks offices and required new indexing. Patricia Gilchrist completed births 1880 to 1919 but was let go as funds ran out.
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Edwin W. Lundquist
General Assembly
Lundquist
Board of Supervisors
Patricia Gilchrist
Highland Drive
District Court Clerk
Food Dealers To Hold Annual Picnic In Linn County
The Linn County Retail Food Dealers association will hold its annual picnic at Thornwood next Sunday July 27. An unusually large crowd is anticipated after last year’s cancellation for state convention preparations. Contact your grocer now to secure reservations.
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Linn County Retail Food Dealers Association
Thornwood
Three Royal Air Force Flyers Held After Crossing U S Border
Three invalided Royal Air Force airmen were held by immigration officers in Maine after crossing from Canada near Amity. Robert Brooks 20 Windham Paul 22 and Reginald Everest 23 said they left Derby Nova Scotia Tuesday night and planned to reach Boston to sail for England. They wanted to return to fighting.
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Bangor
Royal Air Force
Canada
Maine
Amity
Robert Brooks
Windham Paul
Reginald Everest
Derby
N. S
Boston
England
Flying pioneer Arturo Ferrarin dies testing new aircraft
Arturo Ferrarin aged 46 died in a test flight of a new airplane. The Italian aviator known for early long distance flights from Rome to Tokio in 1920 and Rome to Brazil in 1928 perished Friday during a test in Rome.
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Rome
Arturo Ferrarin
Tokio
Brazil
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Defense
Linn County Drive
C. L. Beeson
Cedar Rapids Gas Company
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Telephone Company
City Waterworks
Killian’s
Newman's
Armstrong Clothing Company
Martin Dery Goods Company
Craemer's
Sears Roebuck and Company
Montgomery Was and Company
van Buren School
Fourteenth Avenue
Twelfth Avenue
C Street
Third Avenue
Tenth Street Nw
E Avenue
Fifth Street NW
Buchanan
Mount Vernon Drive
Twentieth Street
Tenth Street
Daniels Park
M Avenue
Maple Wood Drive
Aigewalk
Twenty-ninth Street
Cee Avenue
Polk
B Avenue
Fifteenth Street
Turner
John B. Turner & Son
Second Avenue
U.S. Navy
R.A. F
U. S
Carter
FES
Gillette
Rocky Road
Ovaitine
Hershey
Elizabeth Arden
Cutrite
May
Vitalis
Bantam Kodalinear
Barbara Gould
Eastman Kodaks
Gerbera
Sye
Eastman Films
SWIFT
Elmo
Margo
Bickmore Gall
Peterman Bea
Degresf
Dewitt Douche
Unguentine
Burns
Gerber’s
Oder
May's Motor Oil
D« Scholl
Ecru
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