Around the Town reflects wartime Cedar Rapids mood
The column notes a sober response as the nation enters its major military action. It describes radio coverage, church attendance, and public discourse, with local anecdotes on civilians, workers, and families, plus political anecdotes, OPA translations, and a civic bets on D-Day timing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Gazette
Cedar Rapids
The
Gazette
Air Corps
Roosevelt
NBC
Fibber McGee
Molly
Billy Mills
Fibber
Bob Hope
Hope
Mike Zervas
Third Avenue SE
Herbert Hoover
Bill Shirer
Walter Lippmann
Gerald L. K. Smith
Col. McCormick
Miss Siebels and Pvt Whippie Wed in Candlelight Ceremony
In a candlelit service on June 4 at Wayne Zion church, Miss Eleanor Siet of Anamosa married Pvt. Kenneth R. Whippie of Camp Gruber Oklahoma. The bride, a Anamosa High School graduate, will reside with her parents. the groom is son of Mrs. Frank Streif.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Siebels
Pvt. K. R. Whippie
Eleanor Siet
H. Siebels
Anamosa
Kenneth R. Whippie
Frank Streif
Sixteenth Street SE
Wayne Zion Church
Pauline Siebels
Emmet Reever
Shirley Siebels
Arlene Mank
Lyda Lou Folkers
Denia
Snatoff
Shirley Sisang
Herman Helgen
Anamosa High School
Cedar Rapids
Birkinley Nick
Uater School
Camp Gruber
Okla
Dora Jane Hamblin
The
Gazette
Knotty Fine
Newsroom
Kenneth Bogaard
Donald D. Sullivan
Wanda Montz
Oeth A Wift
Hamblin
Washington, D. C
Red Cross
Washington
Welch Anniversary Buffet at Cedar Rapids Country Club
Mr and Mrs Frank C Welch host a silver wedding anniversary buffet at the Cedar Rapids Country Club with 18 arranged seats. Guests include Chicago pair Clarence Beutel and John Anton and Mrs Welch's sisters from Richmond Illinois and Milwaukee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank C. Welch
First Avenue NW
Cedar Rapids Country Club
Welchs
Welch Home
Clarence Beutel
John Anton
Chicago
Welch
W. B. Gordon
Richmond, IL
J. ©. Brown
Milwaukee
Woman's Club to Sew for Red Cross All Day Thursday
Woman's Club members meet all day Thursday at the club house to sew for the Red Cross. Coffee is provided at noon. Members with address changes for the new club year should call Mrs. Lon Johnson at 23-0194 immediately.
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Red Cross
Lon Johnson
Navy Mothers Host Servicemen at USO Center Today
USO notes say Navy Mothers will entertain servicemen at the USO center today with free meals. Mrs. E. J. Barker chairs the hostesses. Women on duty from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. include Mrs. Fred LeClerc, Mrs. A. W. McNabb, Mrs. John C. Yuza, Mrs. P. F. Hasen, Mrs. C. H. Sawer and Mrs. Burrier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
USO Center
E. J. Barker
Fred LeClerc
A. W. McNabb
John C. Yuza
P. F. Hasen
C. H. Sawer
Burrier
Miss Martin to Wed Ensign Demorest at Home Ceremony
Miss Virginia Lee Martin will marry Ensign James A. Demorest in a 4 pm ceremony at her parents’ home in Marion. The Rev C V R DeJong will perform the double ring ceremony with garden flower decor. Guests include Betty Wilson and Marjorie Lyon. They will reside at Grosse Ile Michigan after. Ensign Demorest is stationed at the naval air station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph F. Martin
Eighteenth Street
Virginia Lee Martin
Ensign James A. Demorest
Carmel Demorest
Westerville
Ohio
C. V. R. DeJong
Presbyterian Church
Marion
Betty Wilson
Marjorie Lyon
Glen Demorest
Miss Wilson
Miss Lyon
Martin Home
Jean Marsh and Lt Thayer Married in Des Moines
Jean Evelyn Marsh daughter of Mr and Mrs S A Marsh of Des Moines and Lt Francis Newton Thayer Jr of the Army Air Forces were married June 1 at Grace Methodist church Des Moines. The ceremony featured a white celanese gown and orange blossom crown with attendants in pale gowns. Afterward the couple were honored at a church reception and will reside at 811 North Liberal Kansas where Thayer is stationed at a B 24 bomber school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Evelyn Marsh
S. A. Marsh
Des Moines
Francis Newton Thayer, Jr
Army Air Forces
F. N. Thayer
Seventh Avenue SE
Grace Methodist Church
Gerald Brown
Laney Garvwick
Erma Middleton
Mildred Fisher
John Gray
Cedar Rapids
Donald Krnz
Rapids
Marvin R. Selden, Jr
Marsh
George W. Foulks
Chicago
Dorothea Moser to Be Married to Cadet Mervin Huebner
Mr and Mrs C E Moser announce the marriage of daughter Dorothea to Aviation Cadet Mervin A Huebner son of Mr and Mrs H E Huebner of Strawberry Point. Miss Moser earned a BA from Coe College affiliated with Alpha Xi Delta Crescent and Who's Who. Cadet Huebner attended Morningside College, enlisted in the Army Air Corps November 1942, and is stationed at Stockton Field California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. E. Moser
First Avenue
Dorothea
Mervin A. Huebner
H. E. Huebner
Strawberry Point
Rosemary Royce Plans to Wed
Wedding plans announced for Miss Rosemary Royce of Grand Forks North Dakota and Mr Bingham of Detroit Michigan to be married June 24 at 4 30 pm in the Leathersiee ta r and sister, Mr and Mrs V Craven Shuttleworth. Guests will include numerous Brando n area and Cedar Rapids attendees. Lt jg Stephens serves in the European theater. Mr and Mrs Boynton to welcome visitors from Wis and Washington to their Blake boulevard SE home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosemary Royce
Grand Forks
N. D
Bingham
Detroit
Edward H. Bingham
Grande Avenue
Miss Royce
Leathersiee-tawr
V. Craven Shuttleworth
Linden Terrace SE
Norman Stephens
Sixteenth Street SE
Stephens
J. E. Weart
Brandon
Frank Brooks
Fern Mitchel
Walter Senft
Wearts
Wendell
H. S. Manson
Cedar Rapids
J.g.) Stephens
Mrs. Boynton
Richard J. Preston
Martha
Ma Wis
John H. Heiney
Washington, D. C
E. P. Boynton
Blake Boulevard
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Cordell Hull
OPA
Vienna
Mexico
Tarawa
Italy
A. L. Taylor
Chamber of Commerce
Rome
Klinger
2Nd Ave. SE
Wyoming
Paul Schroeder
Carole Lou
Douglas
Wyo
Frank Welch
Sheryl Nichols
Ames
Iowa State College
Earl G
Meadowbrook Drive
Gamma Phi Beta Sorority
W. Paul Engel
Linden Drive
Woman’s Club
Red Cross Sewing
USO
Food Committee
Miss Martin
Franklin High School
Collins Radio Com
Robert Martin
Roger
Jon
Mt. Morris, III
Harry Martin
Franklin Grove
Ill
H. B. Snyder
Evelyn
Wanda Bernicka
Will Joostin
John Taggarts
John Taggart
First Avenue SE
Grant Room
Roosevelt Hotel
Jean Marsh
Thayer
Paul V. Maney
Twenty-seventh Street Drive
Blair Sheame
Mt. Vernon Avenue
Russell Hess
H. E. Olerich
Thomas
Hayfer
McCready Health Foods
2Nd Ave
Avoirdupo
Mary Meakins
Dorothea Moser
Dean Myron
Wes Panek
Denner
Lasswell
Lasswell Studio Ee Ie
Ginghams
Higbee’s
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