Fine Arts Festivals to Shape Cedar Rapids Summer
Cedar Rapids and Iowa City host a busy summer for the arts, led by Iowa University's eighteenth annual fine arts festival featuring 160 pieces of African sculpture and a June to July display. In Memoriam paintings, theater productions, and a Samson and Delilah concert cap the season, while Cedar Rapids houses permanent collections and a summer concert series in Ellis Park. Bryan Burford wins regional oil prize with Sunrise in the New Forest at the Walker Art Center, marking his second win.
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University of Iowa
Iowa City
Secret Society
Memorial Union
Cedar Rapids Art Association
Mauricio Lasansky
Grant Wood
Carl Hofer
Hawthorne
Cook
Iowa
Chamber of Commerce
Bryan Burford
Upper Midwest
Walker Art Center
Minneapolis
New Forest
Burford
Burford Wins First in Walker Show Division
Burford, a longtime SUI art faculty member since 1947, earned first place in a Walker show division. He has painted murals for regional buildings and recently completed a mural for St. Luke's hospital. Robert G. Davis, Cedar Rapids native, was named to the music faculty at Iowa Wesleyan College Mt. Pleasant.
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Burford
SUI Art
St. Luke’s Hospital
Robert G. Davis
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Wesleyan College
Mt. Pleasant
Davis
Cornell College
Cornell Chorus
University of Iowa
Millions of Children Go Without Education Across the Nation
Dr. Harold C. Hunt reports in National Parent-Teacher that about 3 percent of school-age children have physical mental or social handicaps and receive insufficient help. He cites hospital education, visiting teachers for homebound pupils, and other programs as needed. He notes farm and migrant children also face schooling gaps and warns that migrant kids may become illiterate.
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Chicago
Harold C. Hunt
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Department of Agriculture
United States
Dr. Hunt
Solicitations Review Unit to Meet Wednesday
The Cedar Rapids Solicitations Review committee will meet Wednesday to review campaigns for Mercy hospital and Regis high school building funds. Also on the agenda is a tag day request from Veterans of Foreign Wars post 788 with a noon luncheon in the Roosevelt hotel.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercy Hospital
Regis High School
New Central Catholic High School
East Side
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 788
Roosevelt Hotel
Piper Comanche Faces Beechcraft Bonanza Rivalry
Piper Aircraft previews the Comanche a new four place all metal low wing business plane from Lock Haven Pa with tricycle gear and single tail It aims to undercut Bonanza prices by about 7 000 to 6 000 ranging 14 000 to 15 000 and may cruise near 160 mph The story also notes a fatal icing crash of a Lockheed Lodestar near Londonderry Ohio and raises questions about pilot decisions and air traffic control in instrument weather conditions.
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Breuer
Londonderry
Ohio
CAB
ATC
Frontline air war notes contradict claims of no bombing
In 1917 Major Billy Mitchell observed with French forces and, after a bombing raid on a German town, wrote that it cannot be claimed there is nothing bombing from the air. The anecdote, while possibly apocryphal, illustrates early air power critique.
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Billy Mitchell
Washington
Uncle It Is at Little Red Schoolhouse Graduation
In Nogales Arizona State Rep. Robert Hathaway spoke at the Patagonia road Little Red schoolhouse graduation. The sole graduate was Glenn Hathaway, the speaker’s nephew, who received his diploma as the class said uncle.
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Nogales, Ariz
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Lock Haven
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Tulsa
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Artcarved
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Third Avenue
General Electric
American Society of Refrigeration Engineers
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Modern Appliance CO
DIAL
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