Charles J Duster Jr Sets Sail for Rome Pilgrimage
Charles J Duster Jr a 14 year old Cedar Rapids Star Scout will join 36 Catholic Scouts on a 1950 Holy Pilgrimage to Rome sailing from New York on July 13. The trip includes stops in London Brussels Venice Florence Paris Lourdes and Ireland with a Vatican audience and guidance by Rev George M Dowd and A A Kirk. He will return in September after a year of travel and altar boy duties.
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Immaculate Conception Church
Public Library Offers 32 Fiction Titles for Circulation
Cedar Rapids library announces 32 fiction works available Friday for circulation including Sunrise to Sunset Adams Thirsty Oak Becker Until the Day Break A Novel of the Time of Christ Bell Let Go of Yesterday Breslin Beyond Time and Space Derleth The Hangman of Sleepy Valley Dresser A Little Fire Dunlop Stone Cold Dead Ellington Hunt the Tortoise Ferrars Kim Dawson Fox Tasker Martin Gaines Law of the Gun Gooden Breast of the Dove Gorman Maverick Queen Grey Dr Katherine Bell Harter That's the Spirit Heberden Badmen of Halladay Creek Hendryx Anywoman Hurst Snowslide Jonas Still the Heart Sings Kirkbride Through a Glass Darkly McCloy Unknown Path Malleson Piney Masters Gift of Glory Munro The Legacy Norway Life Begins Tomorrow Parkman The Unveiling Payne Francis Stern Francis Goes to Washington Stern A Woman of Means Taylor Broken Rainbow Ranch Ward The Hepburn Westcott.
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Fox
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Gooden
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Harter
Heberden
Halladay Creek
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Westcott
AFL Head Raps GOP Alliance With Dixiecrats
William Green president of the AFL denounces the Taft Republicans and Byrd Dixiecrats as a sordid alliance. Speaking at New York Liberal party dinner he says labor must push to break their coalition to pass social justice laws and cites public disloyalty to Truman's program. He predicts a surprising congressional outcome if resentment toward Congress persists.
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Ohio
Harry Byrd
Virginia
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Truman
Television Cuts Take in Jukeboxes and Pinball
Geneva readers see a shift as Hobart and William Smith sociology students report TV in Geneva taprooms reduces income from pinball and juke boxes. The survey highlights changing entertainment habits and local business impact.
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William Smith Colleges
Freshman Girls Show Strong Reading Habits in College Survey
The survey of 100 students notes freshman women favor business pages and magazines, Protestant students read more widely than others, and freshmen exhibit notable anti-television attitudes amid broader campus curiosities.
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Ween
Sowed sow Bessie drowns after birth in pond tragedy
In Hayes England AP reports Bessie the sow abandoned her ten newborn piglets in her third litter and disappeared into a pond where she drowned. Farmers quote a grim reflection on the sow's choice of death.
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