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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1946
Page
9
Air routes between the 50 largest U S cities average 962 miles by great circle, 1118 by airline, 1150 by highway and 1177 by rail. A Fairchild survey urges nationwide one carrier freight service on great circle routes to improve speed and cut costs.
By June 30 the regular army lists 847 220 men in the Make It a Million Men drive. 25 percent are original enlistments 62.5 percent are discharged veterans reenlistments 12.5 percent direct reenlistments. Army Air Forces leads re enlistments with 190 000 total. Pacific theater provides 85 350 reenlistments. European theater 50 300. Most in first three grades are veterans with 20 plus years service as pay and retirement plans shape retirements.
T B Hlubucek departs for Chicago to attend a two day executive council meeting of the Czechoslovak Society of America. About 40 boys bid farewell to the Sokol camp near Center Point after a week of camping led by Joseph Pazour and Frank Sykora. Regular meetings announced for Pomenka Viasti lodge 2 p m Aug 1 and Czech school board session Thursday and Prokop Velky lodge bazaar committee Friday at CSPS club rooms. Cedar Rapids Listy to publish a Centennial issue Aug 21. Federation of Czech Groups aided a concert by Lida Brodenova on Oct 28 marking Czechoslovak Independence Day. Brodenova is a New York artist.
A Soviet Czechoslovak communique announced an accord to equip the Czechoslovak army on credit terms. The agreement followed a weeklong visit by Czech Premier Klement Gottwald, a Communist leader.
Fifty years after Sam Gilson found a coallike mineral, a new mineral called Gilsonite bears his name. Bonanza Utah, home to American Gilsonite, processes about 300 tons daily for plastics and other uses. Reserves are estimated at 5 million tons with up to 30 million as possible, and a 5 October fire damaged the main mine and processing plant but caused no injuries.
Negotiations yielded a six cent per hour wage hike for all production and maintenance workers at the Quaker Oats plant. The raise, retroactive to April 19, brings cumulative increases to 18 percent since January. Back pay is due by August 16, with a living-cost clause to be studied under Bureau of Labor Statistics standards. Local 110 officers were elected for the coming year, led by Wesley Kopecky as president and Wallace Post as vice president.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance company reports Germany lost 3,000,000 people during World War II, while the United States net gained 7,500,000 and England added 700,000. Heavy military losses and civilian casualties plus a birthrate decline are blamed for Germany's decrease.
U S Treasury narcotics agents describe teen usage rising with Susie a 16 year old in a jive joint. Five narcotics types circulate from Mexico into the United States through New York and other eastern cities with well financed gangs moving the supply. Arrests in New York Rochester and Buffalo include 26 peddlers in Times Square Harlem area and 16 in Rochester and Buffalo. Indictments against 30 East coast vendors in the last month signal a return of the Luciano mob.
The United States, described as the world's richest nation, is identified as the primary sales target in a broad market strategy highlighting affluent buyers and high spending capacity. The remark frames the U S as pivotal for expanding consumer reach and long term growth.
The Army and Navy Register says Walter Reed will be remodeled to create an emergency suite for President Truman and his family. The plan includes a bedroom living room reception room four more bedrooms two sitting rooms a diet kitchen a guards room and a solarium with an estimated cost of 148000. Col. Wallace Graham says the aim is to provide privacy and the security the Secret Service requires for the chief executive.
President Truman rejected a plan by American Legion Commander John Stelle for a national conference on veterans rehabilitation. He urged existing government and local programs and cooperation among veterans posts and civil organizations to aid community services.
Richmond Indiana INS reports Orville McKinley 50 tells of a 2 am coffee plea that escalated when his wife struck him with a hammer and fired a .22 rifle. Mrs McKinley held for observation and investigation as the strange case unfolds.
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