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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1947
Page
8
Cedar Rapids launches a citywide summer recreation program for youth and parents. Directors Nevin Nichols and assistants supervise diverse activities across 13 playgrounds from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily, with circle dodge ball as sport of the year and weekly community night events.
Rosette Hargrove reports a Paris suburb scene where a plainclothes inventor demonstrates a secret device to a control commission. A guinea pig is used to test the gadget, which resembles a combination of a photograhic flash gun and a spray device, as a crowd watches.
McKinley Houts and Charlotte Stelcik noted as A.1. students. Bever Rosalee Huebner, 1944 Coe graduate and girl’s physical education instructor at Manchester. Doris Craven and James Blask, Marquette graduate and West Allis high school instructor. Lola Hueschen teaches in New London. Arthur Louis Cullman, playground director and high school instructor. Lois Breakenridge, Coe PE graduate. Larry Tanner and Glatha White, Coe students. Tanner directed Riverside playground last year.
A councilor of the House of Representatives stationed at Camp Dodge is mentioned in the committee report detailing personnel assignments and duties among wartime headquarters. The document outlines their role and location within the facility.
The photographer notes the weapon is impractical for mass use as a replacement piece after every five or six shots requires about an hour. The inventor remains unidentified while army circles deny any study or control commission on the device, dismissing the death ray as a rumor.
The citizenship camp for boys begins tomorrow at Camp Dodge in Des Moines. About 35 Cedar Rapids youths participate, with one representative each from Troy Mills Walker and Oelwein and from Franklin High School included several students led by Tom Crabbe Junior Dorman John Ferguson John Jenny and Jim Welch-Thomas from St Nantes.
Embalmers and course directors meet at the Montrose hotel at 2 p.m. Monday. Dr Otto S Margolis dean of the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science will conduct the theoretical portion of the program in the funeral home. E C Volz professor of floriculture at Iowa State will discuss flower arrangement.
Fourteen members from the Cedar Rapids sect of the National Association of Cost Accountants will attend the 28th International Cost Conference in Chicago from June 15 to 18. President A. D. Dennis announced the list includes Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. McCarthy and others.
Clark and wife were driving when a flying horse leaped from a passing truck and landed on the car hood. His wife escaped unharmed while Clark suffered cuts to his face and hands. the incident was witnessed by friends of Ian Anderson.
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