New Method Saves Many Injured Vets
In New York a technology dubbed physical medicine saves thousands of disabled veterans. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur cites 3,000 American men saved from paralysis via cold heat light water electricity massage and muscular education. Bernard Baruch funds support education of personnel for rehabilitation across major medical centers.
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New York
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Stanford University
Wilbur
Baruch Committee
Bernard Baruch
Wilburnon
Frank H. Krusen
Mayo Clinic
Army
Navy
Baruch
Herb
Hoover Praises Right Wing Freedoms At Princeton Dinner
President Hoover jokingly defends “the terrible reactionaries” at Princeton bicentennial dinner. He notes right wing freedoms have built farms, power plants, cities, schools, colleges, and a large educated workforce while urging continuation of their so called evils.
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Princeton
N. J
Herbert Hoover
Princeton University
Hoover
Smallest Quad Dies After Birth Weight One and a Half
Donna Mae Randash, the smallest of the Randash quadruplets, died Monday night sixty-five hours after birth in Miles City Montana. The other three siblings, two girls and a boy, were reported in good health. the mother is recovering. The baby weighed one and a half pounds at birth, with survival chances always slim. The surviving siblings weigh two pounds 15 ounces for Dorothy and Dolores, and three and a half pounds for Dean.
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Miles City
Mont
Donna Mae Randash
Randash
Dorothy
Dolores
Dean
Homestead Tax Credit Deadline Set for July
City Assessor Jim Scolaro urges eligible homeowners to file homestead tax credit claims by July 1. More than 12,000 claims have been filed in Cedar Rapids. Iowa law provides a 25 mill credit on up to 2,500 in assessed value. Owners must occupy the property six months of the year and first claimants must present contracts at City Hall.
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Jim Scolaro
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Names Deleted From Niagara Falls Carillon Bell
Ottawa reports the Canadian cabinet objected to including William L. Mackenzie King’s name on an English bell for the Niagara Falls international boundary carillon. The commission erased Roosevelt and Churchill names to avoid altering the bell’s tone. The bell is to be dedicated in August.
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Ottawa
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
International Bridge
Niagara Falls
Bridge Commission
William L. Mackenzie King
King
Lionel Chevrier
Canada
Slight Cut Seen In Retail Prices
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a slight drop in essential cost of living items between mid April and mid May. The May 15 consumer price index is estimated just below the April 15 level, about 156, showing prices 18 percent higher than a year ago and 58 percent above the August 1939 level.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Enahlehees Shinde
Mitermen
Notice to Contractors in Cedar Rapids area 1947
Notice invites contractors to bid by 12:06 noon Tuesday June 15 1947 at Benjamin Franklin School Cedar Rapids Iowa for county project bids. Includes location at 620 10th Street SE and streets B Ave and McKinnon. Lundquist serves as secretary.
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Godied
Pibe
Independ
Cedar Rapids
Beyamin
Franklin School
B Ave
McKinnon
10Th Street
Edgar A Guest Poem About Forest Fire Peril
The poem contrasts nature's beauty with the danger of forest fires. It warns that careless acts like discarded cigarettes can ignite flames that devastate ecosystems and desolate the land. The verses urge greater care for forests and their creatures.
Great Dane Bites Deep Into Police Food Budget
In Albany Park Chicago a stray great dane found by Officer Pete Snyder was fed at the police station. The dog eats heavily with a pound of hamburger per meal, straining the station’s budget as authorities seek the owner to claim the dog.
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Chicago
Albany Park
Pete Snyder
Erre
Professor Says Female Alcoholics Decreasing
Yale physiologist E. M. Jellinek argues women with chronic alcoholism were more common in 1910 than 1945. He notes total drinking rose but per capita use stayed largely similar, with female rates dropping from 384 to 242 per 100 000 between 1910 and 1945 and much smaller increases than men in later years.
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New Haven
E. M. Jellinek
Yale
Boy Questioned in Langford Plane Shooting
In Santa Monica a 14 year old rabbit hunter was questioned after a stray bullet damaged the private plane of singer Frances Langford and her husband Jon Hall, narrowly missing Hall. The youth denied the shooting claiming his rifle could not reach the aircraft and that he was shooting at rabbits. The couple run a movie colony flying school.
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Santa Monica
Frances Langford
Jon Hall
Bill Horner
Hall
Ronald A. Husner
USO
Regular Navy Enlists Four Eastern Iowans
Regular Navy enlists four Eastern Iowans and reserves from Iowa City. New enlistees include Kenneth Hines Postville Richard Ratachie Walker William Spidie Cedar Rapids Harold Ford Olin Lloyd Beiber Anamosa Robert Weldon Parnell Loren Boots Hopkinton John Henop Gear Raper Zavodsky Marengo and John Rinella Ward Thomas from Iowa City.
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Marvin Horak
Navy
Kenneth Hines
Postville
Richard Ratachie
Walker
William
Spidie
Cedar Rapids
Harold C. Ford
Olin
Lloyd L. Beiber
Anamosa
Robert W. Weldon
Parnell
Loren E. Boots
Hopkinton
John B. Henop
Zavodsky
Marengo
Iowa City
John L. Rinella
Ward Thomas
Robins Rally as Cat Minnie Uses Air Cover
In Gorham Maine Minnie the cat clashed with a baby robin as four robins swooped in to aid the grounded prey. Eva Hague, Minnie's owner, noted the birds' bold response and air support.
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Gorham
Maine
Minnie
Eva Hague
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the People the
Poet of
Elm
Fury Stark
Langford
Ken Wood
American Meat Institute
U. S
Regular
Robins
Philco Portable
Newman
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Philco
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