If an Atomic Bomb Fell on C R Municipal Island
John Reynolds details a Feder ation of Atomic Scientists scenario for Cedar Rapids if a Hiroshima type bomb hit Municipal Island. The piece outlines blast radii up to fifteen miles, urban and riverfront destruction, fires, radiation effects, and likely casualties, with emphasis on downtown brick structures and the city’s lack of emergency services.
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C.R. Municipal
Cedar Rapids
Federation of Atomic Scientists
Hiroshima
Municipal
Red Cross
Tokyo
Municipal Island
America
Atom
Memorial Coliseum
Sixth Street
Coe College
Oakhill Cemetery
Linwood Cemetery
Roosevelt High School
Mitsubishi Torpedo Works
Marion
Mt. Vernon
Norway
Shellsburg
Russia reports colored cotton growth in Uzbekistan
London Soviet News cites a Soviet embassy publication claiming Russia is cultivating colored cotton in Uzbekistan. It notes the fibers change from deep brown to pale yellow and pink as they mature.
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London
Soviet News
Russia
Usbekistan
IAN City Music Contest Set For March 15 And 21
The Cedar Rapids all city music contest will be held at Roosevelt high school on Friday March 15 at 1 pm for junior and senior instrumental solos and 7 30 pm for ensembles piano solos and Lions club scholarship contests. An elementary solo event is scheduled for March 21 at 1 pm. Judges include Hymie Voxman Lloyd Oakland William Gower Addison Alspach and Chester Williams. Lions scholarships award 50 to three high school instrumentalists in strings brass and woodwinds. The all city festival follows on March 22 with guest conductors Max T Krone and Charles B Righter.
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Roosevelt High School
John E. Hutchins
Cedar Rapids
Elenie
Lions Club
Hymie Voxman
School of Music
University of Iowa
Lloyd Oakland
Cornell College
Strings
William Gower
Iowa City
Brass
Addison Alspach
Chester W. Williams
Conservatory of Music
Cornell
Memorial Coliseum
Max T. Krone
University of Southern California
Charles B. Righter
Miller invites CR dog owners to license stalls
City Treasurer Walter Miller announces a fifth floor licensing event for CR dog owners to buy licenses with no long lines this week. He notes the March 31 deadline, 100 plus dogs licensed in 1946, and a $1 penalty after April 1. Male licenses are $2, spayed female $3.
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Walter Miller
Miller
Gazette Receives Photo Transmitter in Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids Gazette installed an Associated Press wirephoto transmitter and began sending pictures of Cedar Rapids and eastern Iowa to Des Moines and beyond. The first transmissions occurred Feb 20 21 22 during the Golden Gloves tournament, with images moving to Des Moines Iowa City Ottumwa and other cities, and potentially nationwide via AP wirephoto.
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Cedar Rapids
Associated Press
Iowa
Gazette
Arnold Opperman
Strawberry Point
Iowa City
Daily Iowan
Des Moines
Ottumwa
Muscatine
Dubuque
Waterloo
Mason City
Davenport
United States
Gazette Photo Gazette
Des Blumenshine
U. S
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