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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1940
Page
14
County plans open bids Thursday July 11 at 10 am for surfacing and resurfacing on 16 secondary and trunk roads. Eight projects were rejected June 13 as bids exceeded estimates, with about 50 miles of work and 67 693 cubic yards of material including crushed stone and gravel.
Appointment of township and town weed commissioners for the coming year was approved Tuesday by the county board of supervisors. Commissioners, most reappointed, include Bertram J H Frisch Clinton H C Gerhold College John Hruska Fairfax Joe H Barta Franklin Emil Biderman Linn G M Goudy Marion D F Hindman Monroe Louis Buresh Putnam James Mackey Boulder George Gearhart Brown Oren Armstrong Buffalo John Benton Fayette Louis Eye Grant Bert Hudson Jackson yet to be appointed Otter Creek W E Stick Spring Grove Carl Koken.
Washington and numerous towns including Clyde Price Maine E R Balderston Rapids Forest Taschmer Towns Ely Markey Fairfax Barta Lisbon Biderman Marion George Burns Mount Vernon Biderman Robins Buresh Alburnet Stick Center Point Price Pale Eye Prairieburg Gearhart Springville Armstrong Walker Hudson Central City yet to be chosen
Mary Manners advises a mother how lack of training makes a girl argumentative and edgey. The column suggests giving small daily tasks to build routine and ease requests. In letters, Miss Manners counsels a long-distance romance, advising the girlfriend let the guy write, not push for contact.
Eleanor Roosevelt describes departure of the President’s party, visits to Mrs Wise’s refugee homes, Alaska Day events at the World's Fair, and reflections on war and peace. She notes German terms on conquest, the bitterness of the past, and hopes for friendly relations as protection against future war.
Fortune magazine reports over 70 percent of Americans fear a German victory would let Berlin extend influence in South America. The six month survey blames Allied reliance on a "poor man's war" for disasters in France and urges learning from missteps.
A Fortune survey shows 93.6 percent support spending whatever is necessary to build up the U S army navy and air force with 77.7 percent expecting Germany to push influence in South America if victorious in Europe. Only 3.1 percent oppose rapid armament.
Scientists say the earth's size fluctuated, being much smaller in an ancient era and much larger in a different period, far from its present dimensions.
Jess Adkins 55 of Rochester Ind founder and part owner of the Cole Brothers circus died of heart disease Tuesday after the circus opened in Gardner Mass. He was general superintendent of the American Circus Corporation which oversees winter quarters for circuses at Peru Ind. With Zack Terrell he formed the Cole Brothers in 1935 and had toured the nation annually since.
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