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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1948
Page
7
Mary Stevenson reports on Camp Good Health where 75 campers sing from dawn to reveille and after meals. The camp fills the day with grace before meals, rounds, and a tonic time chant for the camp physicians, though some complain about the liver tonic.
KCRG will air a 1 30 broadcast featuring 75 campers songs and interviews with camp manager A T Pleune. The piece highlights camp routines, meals, and the caring community as staff and visiting visitors note the old college spirit among the children.
Manager A. T Pleune invites friends of Camp Good Health for a 3 to 5 p.m visit, excluding parents. Pleune acts as arbiter and helper, fulfilling camper requests like a butterfly net. A shy boy gains a hobby indoors and then outdoors, aided by staff and a dietitian.
West Floridians say a boat is essential to a Tupelo honey operation along the lower Apalachicola River where tupelo trees span the swampy banks. Bees are ferried from wintering farms and placed on river edge platforms to dodge floods. During Tupelo season bees focus on tree blossoms and produce non crystallizing honey.
The British control commission misidentified a statue as Saint George defending a dragon. Found in a Hamburg scrap yard, the horseman figure was later confirmed German, though the dragon clearly matched Saint George slaying the beast. The error prompted a corrected attribution and press clarifications.
Arlen Pratt, 14, cornetist and son of Mr and Mrs David L Pratt, will be the guest soloist at the outdoor community sing at Bever Park tonight. A student of Stanley Vesely of Coe College, Pratt has earned top prizes in the All Iowa fair and won first among public school cornetists two years running. The program, directed by Danny Justad, is a Play ground and Recreation Commission project, the third in a four part series.
The Sunday 8 pm Bever Park concert opens with Part I including Bells of St Marys I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover Morgan Caisson Song The Marine Hymn Army Air Corps Song Whiffenpoof Song Youre a Grand Old Flag Then Part II features Arlen Pratt, cornettist.
A concert titled A Musical Journey was arranged by Song Leader Justa with Mrs. Arlene Gable as accompanist. The duo presented a program highlighting varied pieces tailored to showcase vocal and instrumental works.
Bever park on the east side of Cedar Rapids hosts a combined play day family picnic and concert to close the public schools summer musical program. Students from McKinley and Franklin high schools, supervised by Roland L. Moehlmann, perform in orchestras and ensembles with a bubble gum contest, softball games, races, and a sunset motion pictures finale under Patricia Hammond.
Brazilian lawmakers from the Amazon seek a government grant of 2 million dollars to fund research on potential oil deposits in the Amazon jungle along the river. The move aims to explore energy resources in the tropical region.
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