Playground Schedule Announces Summer Openings and Leagues
The summer playground season opens Monday with twelve sites and two supervisors per site from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily for nine weeks. Keith B Tow leads athletic programs including junior intermediate and senior boys leagues and a girls league. Pierre A Tracy will supervise storytelling, with daily sessions and weekly story nights. Community nights and sound movies occur every third week. A daily handcraft program and sand boxes are planned, with wading pools at five parks. Eight grounds list site leaders and locations.
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Keith B. Tow
Tow
Lincoln Playground
Riverside
Reed Park Playground
Principal Thompson Starts Her Continuous Vacation
Laura Thompson retires after 31 years in Cedar Rapids schools, 6 at Taylor and 25 at Johnson. She calls retirement a continuous vacation and credits teachers, parents, and children for support, noting changes in education while cherishing early teaching days and planning to read at home.
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Bruce Fishwild
Laura Thompson
First Avenue SE
Thompson
Cedar Rapids
Taylor School
Johnson School
Miss Thompson
Madison School
Washington High School
Coe
University of Iowa
Chicago University
Harrison
Filmore
Taylor
Eagles to Convene in Cedar Rapids for Fraternal Order event
The annual Iowa convention of the Fraternal Order of Eagles will be held in Cedar Rapids Friday through Sunday. Nearly 2,000 delegates from 29 counties will attend events including sessions, a banquet with State Senator Frank Byers, a bowling tournament, a softball game, a parade and two dances. A major topic is a proposed Eagle amendment to the national health bill allowing physician selection with insurance reimbursement.
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Adams
N. Y
Montrose Hotel
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Order of Eagles
R. A. Fryrear
Eagles Club
Fryrear
F. K. Hahn
H. U. Mathews
Worthy
Roosevelt Hotel
Frank Byers
Eagles Hall
Eagles
WMT
Bowham
Ellis ‘Park
Cedar Rapids Eagles
John Deere
Waterloo
U S Inspectors Survey Japanese Assets in Mukden
Ambassador Edwin W. Fauley and his reparations inspectors visited Mukden to survey Japanese assets in Manchuria. Fauley said they were making excellent progress during Saturday inspections.
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Mukden
Manchuria
INS
Edwin W. Fauley
United States
Guatemala Ex-President Ubico Dies in New Orleans
Gen Jorge Ubico age 68 former president of Guatemala died in New Orleans on Saturday. He arrived in the city in 1944 amid a revolution threat and later sought asylum here.
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New Orleans
Jorge Ubico
Guatemala
French and Italian Dances Embrace Kissing History
A historical note describes kissing as a common element in most dances across France and Italy during the 17th and 18th centuries, reflecting social customs and courtship practices of the era.
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France
Italy
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Pierre A. Tracy
Wilson High School
Tracy
Reed Park
Riverside Park
Sinclair Park
Harrison School
Eleventh Street
L Avenue NW
Gene Hoffman
Lila Mae Buckwheat
Roosevelt School
Thirteenth Street
C Avenue NW
Donald Austin
Mary Beckman
Sixth Street
Seventh Avenue
Ronald Beam
Doreen Titsworth
Lincoln School
Ninth Street
Eighteenth Avenue
Barbara Jo Victor
Rachel Robinson
C Street
Thirteenth Avenue
Laurance Tanner
Patricia Wein
Fifteenth Avenue
DeLores Newman
Tom Everhart
McKinley School
Tenth Street
Louis Cullman
Ruth Potter
Bever Park
Bever Avenue
Memorial Drive
Patricia Hammond
Joan Lattner
Kenwood
Thirty-fifth Street
C Avenue
Rachel Hatch
Arda Mae Cox
Arthur School
Twenty-seventh Street
B Avenue
Jean Richardson
Paul Kellogg
Jack Calahan
Daniels Park
H Avenue
Maplewood Drive
George Gable
Patricia Keithley
Whitlam Park
Fifth Street
Ioma Baker
Charles Murray
Gazette
Pat Hammond
McKinley
Arthur
Don Austin
Gable
Austin
Roosevelt
ORS
Presto
C.R
Pauley
Simely Tips
Dad
Tom Termohlen
Robert
Jane
Grand Institution of Life Insurance
Life Insurance
Dows
Linn County
D. D. Offringa
Linn County Emergency Food Collection
Relief Committee
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