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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1955
Page
3
The Ga zette highlights a statewide slogan contest on page 4 section 1. Readers abroad and in Iowa react to ideas and letters about plates, beards, and centennial celebrations, with humorous proposals and local notices interspersed throughout.
Labor officials from national state and local levels will join a panel discussion titled Our Economy as a Partnership A Joint Enterprise of Business Labor and Agriculture at Cornell College Wednesday. The program begins at 9 30 a m in King Memorial chapel with nominees Nat Goldfinger Edris Owens and Donley Jackson from Cedar Rapids and Des Moines and John Cosgrove Martin Pardekooper Jr Ethan M Akin from Cedar Rapids. Cosgrove and Goldfinger will also lead an 8 45 a m class in Armstrong Hall Little theater on Contemporary Economic Problems open to the public. The panel will be followed by college class discussions and a noon luncheon with the panelists. The program marks the final installment of Cornell s labor series following earlier panels on business and agriculture.
The legislature considers extending the June 30 1953 one cent gasoline tax past its June 30 1955 expiration and possibly adding another cent. A liquor by the drink bill in the senate proposes countywide local option on liquor only, contrasting with a house bill that covers beer and liquor. Both bills forecast about 13 million dollars annually in state revenue plus 2 million in license fees.
Rev. Traf ford P. Maher of St. Louis University will chair a speaker panel at the Guidance Institute in Xavier hall Dyersville. About 350 high school teachers Sisters and priests are expected for the 10 am to 4 pm conference with talks on Cultural Character and The Role of the Counselor.
Weathered Lindenmayer Place in Marengo stands for a century at Main and Western, admired as a landmark. The home hosts the last surviving Lindenmayer, built after 1865, with a weathered charm and strong architectural lines. Artists like Ed Whiting and Joyce Samuels painted it, highlighting its character and horizontal contrast between old summer kitchen and main house.
The 1864 Grant era saw Frank Page and others clash with editors over expenses and fame. Page mocked romantic war prose, noting officers and soldiers despised sugarcoated phrases about combat and preferred plain reporting. Starr recounts the staff’s hostile dynamic with publishers.
The review praises the author Charles Anderson Page for a quiet offhand style that guides readers through army life. It notes Page’s Cornell background and postwar roles as U S consul in Zurich and later a Swiss evaporated milk businessman.
About 100000 TV servicemen will be honored during National Television Servicemen's Week March 7 to 12. Sponsored by the Radio Corporation of America, the event marks the first national observance for TV technicians. Since 1945 they installed and repaired tens of millions of receivers and kept many radio sets in order as electronics service grew from 145 million dollars in 1946 to about 1.5 billion in 1954.
La Vern Koranda son of Mr and Mrs Henry Koranda won first place for the Edward O Tabor medal in the Oxford Junction high school public speaking contest. 14 finalists were chosen from 25 pupils with topics including Politics Is What You Make It Man's Happiness Is In His Hands and Capital Punishment.
Iowa City officials announced Prof. Henry Steele Commager of Columbia University will address the thirty third annual conference of history and social studies teachers March 25 26. He will discuss what history should be taught in high schools as part of a panel with Prof. Joseph Wall Grinnell Prof. Samuel P. Hays and Richard Brown.
Iowa figures in Washington as Rear Admiral Daniel W. Ryan receives a West Coast posting and Centurions like Rep. Henry O. Talle attend a Bethesda reception. Senator Thomas E. Martin rediscovers his speech when radio replay catches his Richmond address, a rare record for a U.S. senator. The Cedar Rapids admiral, born in Manchester, is naval dental inspector for the West Coast. Martin, Iowa City, Californias trip and radio stunt unfold amid a Capitol-area office renovation.
West Union Billie Davis to speak at Fayette County Schoolmasters meeting in the high school gym. Quasqueton Bill Scovell returns from University Hospitals Iowa City after surgery. Oxford Junction volunteers elect leadership at annual fire department meeting. Earlville Jearlee Mathey wins American Legion oratory contest and advances to state in Des Moines March 10. Columbus Junction teenage drivers club forms at high school with Willard Howell as president. Wellman police fund totals 559 dollars. Red Cross drive under way led by Mrs. Barber. Manchester Junior Chamber promotes flag display with house to house sale. Sigourney Red Cross drive in Keokuk county chaired by James Madigan. quota 4,825 dollars.
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