Camp Good Health program aids five children health drive
A mother and district nurse discuss arranging doctors and dentists for five children then preparing several for Camp Good Health. The family’s history shows illness and weight changes last winter with plans for vaccinations tonsil removal and dental work to strengthen health and teeth through the Public Health Nursing association program.
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Jeft
Kathryn Knoche
Public Health Nursing Association
Good Health
Red Cross notes Cedar Rapids volunteers and leadership changes
Cedar Rapids residents save wool clips for Red Cross, netting 7,954 pounds in Chicago for 2,000 soldier uniforms. Home nursing classes under Mrs. Knowles and Miss Shekelton conclude with gifts, while Polk School group hosts exams and social. New surgical dressings rooms open at the Y M C A with a 75,000 quota, and Fred A. Winfrey named to head Midwestern Red Cross. Hollywood films then to be shown free to overseas convalescents via portable Red Cross equipment. First aid cards await completion notices for several classes.
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Cedar Rapids
Red Cross
Chicago
Alice Shekelton
Polk School
Polk P. T. A
Miss Shekelton
Hollywood
Overseas Motion Picture Service
the Red Cross
Teaching Airmen to Bomb Becomes Hemminger’s Next Step
E T Hemminger, after returning from Canada, transitions from Royal Canadian Air Force to U S Marines as a first lieutenant. A Cedar Rapids native and former Cedar Rapids Airways instructor, he taught pilots from multiple nations to bomb and gun, including a record-holding bombing mentor at Mossbank Saskatchewan. He expects a tough war ahead and hopes for combat, keeping a wary view of fuel, planes, and enemy strength. He resides with John and Helen Yuza in Cedar Rapids during the interim.
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Fter
E. T. Hemminger
Cedar Rapids
Royal Canadian Air Force
U. S Marines
Hemminger
Canada
Mossbank Field
Saskatchewan
Themminger
Cedar Rapids Airways
U. S
Joss
France
England
Hitler
Marines
John C. Yuza
Sixteenth Street
Helen Jane Yuza
Germans Rescind Retaliation Measures Against British Prisoners
Berlin reports that Germany canceled retaliation measures against British prisoners in Africa. The high command had alleged that the British ordered Axis prisoners denied food drink and rests until questioned. Earlier broadcasts said no such order was authorized.
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Berlin
Germany
Africa
High Command
Backers of CCC Plan Fight for It in Senate
Washington leaders argue abolition of the Civilian Conservation Corps would be false economy and not save money. They seek support in the Senate for a $75,818,000 CCC appropriation after the House voted 158 to 121 to cut the sum.
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Washington
Civilian Conservation Corps
Roosevelt
Congress
National Forest Service
Senate
House
CCC
Appropriations Committee
Negroes Eligible for Phi Delta Kappa Membership
Negroes today were eligible for membership in Phi Delta Kappa, a national professional educational fraternity, as announced in New York.
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New York
Phi Delta Kappa
Ten Drum Bugle Corps Members Receive Citations
Ten members of two Cedar Rapids drum and bugle corps received All-American Junior Drum and Bugle Corps and Band association citations. Five YMCA Drum and Bugle corps youths earned certificates at Coe Field, while five Moose Cavaliers girls will receive theirs at rehearsal Monday. Awards honor outstanding ability leadership and faithful performance, with semi annual awards limited to ten percent of members. Civic parade service by Miss Nadine McManes earned special national junior drum major duties for 1942.
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Cedar Rapids
Band
Y. M.C A
Coe Field
Moose Cavaliers
Robert Smythe, Jr
Iown
R. Ariel Cross
Tama
Iowa
Ymca Corps
Bill Boston
Lee Boston
A Avenue NW
James Westcot
George Westcot
Higley Avenue
Cyrus McCalles
W. EL. McCalley
First Avenue
Robert Fiala
Sixth Street
Nadine McManes
Roy McManes
Harold B. Skinner
All-American Association
Association
Miss McManes
Moose Corps
Rejected Draftees Spurn Education Classes Abandoned
In Raleigh North Carolina J E Miller head of the state adult education program said illiterate draftees rejected for service have avoided classes. He noted 23 school units offered literacy courses but the men refused to enroll and the programs were abandoned.
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Raleigh
N.C
J. E. Miller
State Adult Education Department
North Carolina
LaGuardia Calls for U S Transportation Ration
New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia urged nationwide transportation rationing to ease the East oil and gas crunch. Speaking at City Hall before about 30 mayors from Maine to Florida, he argued rationing or allocation should be done in fairness and in keeping with American tradition.
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New York
INS
F. H. LaGuardia
Maine
Florida
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Red
Marsden M. Knowles
Carl K. Ling
Twenty-third Street Drive
Arthur School
Knowles
Linge
H. D. McTavish
Joe Jun
William M. Baxter
The
Fred A. Winfrey
Washington, D. C
West Side Community
Marshall Hall
Cleveland P. T. A
E. Colette Scott
Mt. Mercy ,Junior College
W. T. ¥. Sands
F. C. Parrish
Iowa Manufacturing Co
C. H. Landis
Camp Fire
Mary Bowne
Buchanan School
van Vechten Shaffer
Trene Jass
C. R. Airways
R.A.F
U. S. Pursuits
Troy Laundry
First Street
Dial
Drum, Bugle Corps
LaGuardia
May’s Drug Store
Colgate
Colkate
PLEX
Ruth Mudd
Dorothy Perkins
Lone
DRUC
Dr. Lyon
Lydia Pinkham
Bavary
Rocky Road
Marrow
Eastman Films
Eastman Film
Johnson Soap
Hind
Gerber
Maxwell House
Paris
Lowell
Antacids
Dewitt
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