24 C R Youths Leaving Today For Boys State
A Cedar Rapids group of 24 high school boys departs at 7 am for Grinnell College to attend Hawkeye Boys State. They will form government bodies, elect officials, and participate in party primaries, with delegates selected by local schools. Sponsors include Elks club, Rotary, Chamber of Commerce, and veterans groups.
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Cedar Rapids
Grinnell
Iowa
American Legion
Grinnell College
Robert Fontana
Boys State
Camp Dodge
Iowa State Fairground
Hanford Post
Franklin
Charles Hopkins
Elks Club
Pat McPartland
Pickwick Club
James Cabalka
South Side
Bill Foushee
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Richard Dice
Linn County Republican Central Committee
Bob Gray
Woman's Club
McKinley
Benny Pinsky
B'nai Brith
Nick Gust Thomas
Waltonians
Charles Ray Scholl, Jr
Daughters of the American Revolution
Robert Tenny Lester
Gaylord Eugene de Waal
Wilson
Robert Horsky
Sixteenth Avenue Commercial Club
Dick Truesdell
Everett Lowry
Embassy Club
Bill Holmes
War rationing notices list coupon validities and deadlines
The Linn county war price and rationing board posts detailed dates for coffee sugar meat and fats shoes fuel oil gasoline and tires, with book numbers and expiration dates. It includes transfer rules for a shoe coupon and the board office location and hours.
Cedar Rapids Teachers Association Names Members at Local Clubs
The Cedar Rapids classroom teachers association lists members including Michael Thomas and Robert George Clem at Immaculate Conception and the Knights of Columbus, Daryl Smith at St. Patrick's and the Cedar View Country club, James Jilek at St. Wenceslaus and the Cadets of St. George.
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Cedar Rapids
Maxon Windfall Blamed on Muff By Ration Clerk
Detroit advertising agency Maxon Inc. received 7 810 ration points for food at its Onaway lodge due to a clerk error, far exceeding the 56 814 points it was entitled to. The hearing before War Price and Rationing Board 82 35 opened after a request from R J. Lou R. Maxon heads the agency and is a deputy administrator in the Office of Price Administration in Washington.
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Detroit
Maxon, Inc
Mich
Lodge
Lou R. Maxon
Office of Price Administration
Washington
R. J
UAW Chief Reports OPA Food Rations Sufficient
Thomas told OPA Administrator Pren tiss M. Brown that rations were enough to feed 80 people for two months, covering three meals daily. Dr G Flint Purdy noted the board learned the Maxon application lacked deduction of on hand foodstuffs due to a clerical error.
Victory speakers to be on call in Linn county summer
The Linn county civilian defense Victory speakers bureau announced that its 60 speakers will be available only on call during the summer months. Regular engagements pause until October when the bureau reopens. Organizations may contact M. W. O Rieley at 8212 or the civilian defense office at 3-2601 for special appointments.
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Linn County
Office of
Civilian Defense Victory Speakers
M. W. O'Rieley
Civilian Defense Office
Spanish Plan to Humanize Air Raids Proposed by Madrid
Spain unveiled a four point plan to humanize air bombing while denying foreign pressure it serves another nation. A note said Franco sent a message to the United States via Myron C Taylor in Madrid last year. The communique claimed Spain favors neither side and had proposals on bombing earlier rejected. Staraya Russa described as a strategic military center on the Russo German front, a resort town of 25 000 population.
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Madrid
Spain
Staraya Russa
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Hawkeye Boys
Grinnell Collage
Robert Tenny Laster
Daryl Smith
Michael Thomas
William Shuttleworth
David Birch
Gaylord Eugene DeVaul
Robert Cornish
Robert George Clem
William Fletcher
Richard Rust
James Jilek
C. R
W. T. Sands
Second Street
Roosevelt Hotel
Fuel Oil
Ration Board
Linn County War Price and Rationing Board
A. T. Pleune
American
First Avenue
B. F. Crenshaw
Guaranty Building
DIAL
Maxon
Cedar Rapides Gazette
John L. Miller
Harry Boyd
E. Cc. Hoyt
Associated Press
United Press International
U.S. Territories
Allen-Klapp Company
Michigan Avenue
Chicago
Fifth Avenue
New York
New Center
Tee En Sete Pret Oy
Media Records
A.N.P.A. Bureau of Advertising
Killian
Sahara
Secubies
Uncle Sam
ED Soboda
National Street
Prince Gardner
Bill
Patty
Charles of
the Ritz
Pala
Killan'e
The
United States
P.J. and
Cedar Rapids, Ja
Jean Joyce
Killian Company
Stair
China—Street
Food Mill
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