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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1946
Page
8
The piece argues for Governor Blue over challenger Olmsted in the Republican primary. It lauds Blue’s steady management, especially after the boys training school scandal, and urges a second term to continue progress. It notes Cedar Rapids representative George E. Farmer seeks reelection and supports urban rural balance in the state house.
A newspaper column decries parents who park across from schools on rainy days and honk for their children to cross, causing youngsters to jaywalk. It urges parents to park on the same side as the school and follow traffic safety rules to protect children.
Here in Linn County three men seek the Republican nod for state representative with one to be eliminated at tomorrow’s polls. Two newcomers show mature judgment and the capacity to be good legislators, honest and conscientious in understanding district interests while balancing state needs. Ernest Kosek, active in Cedar Rapids education and business, is widely known and approachable. Charles J. Knickerbocker, former Linn county draft board chairman and state fair board member since 1925, brings capital-area experience and independence, noted as living outside Cedar Rapids.
Editorials warn against mixed signals from the nation and call for a united front to protect the republic and homes. They urge labor, industry, and political groups to rally around shared defense goals, while advocating diplomacy to ease European tensions and expand free communication at home and abroad.
In a colorful opinion, Bug Baer jokes that the Chinese fight a weekly matinee to aid Generalissimo Kai-shek and General Marshall. He mocks Changchun's climates and recalls repeated recaptures, urging withdrawal as an army presence echoes lending a stranger your pup for a dogfight unseen.
Frank Chramosta Jr a 20 year old gunner's mate third class served in the navy Seabees from Oct 1943 to Apr 1946 overseas Oct 1944 to Apr 1946. In Cedar Rapids he discusses Truman's railroad strike addresses and conscription of strikers, his Japan service on Kyushu as a crane operator, views on Japanese people and democracy, G I Bill benefits for night school and a machinist apprenticeship, and hopes for local Cedar Rapids improvements including more amusement venues.
William L. Shirer argues that Western leaders and diplomats once ignored undemocratic Balkan regimes and their brutal secret police. He notes Poland Romania Yugoslavia Bulgaria lacked honest elections for generations, cites U S ambassadorships. He contends the state department’s current protests reveal naivete about the pace of democratization.
The U N subcommission on the status of women backs equal human status for women a shift some may deem demotion. The piece then surveys famine through history noting recurring hunger across Egypt India China and Russia with causes both natural and man made, and warns of large grain deficits and potential wars.
The Alamo Cedar Rapids new amusement park on the far west side opens Monday evening with Schmidt's orchestra at 7, a ceremony at 8 with Mayor Connor and Vice-president Crosby, followed by vaudeville and dancing. Also notes census duty for Iowa schools, Cedar Rapids semicentennial chorus, Coe College commencement, Fourth of July firecracker rules, and Hotel Allison dining room opening.
Drew Pearson reports a shift in postwar policy with U S army aid favoring Germany in the occupied zone. He details 8000 trucks handed to German civilians, gasoline flows to Germany, and rejections of aid to France Belgium and Czechoslovakia. The piece questions motives and potential future wars spurred by rebuilding the ex enemy.
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