Seven Receive Scout Medals At Hawkeye Area Dinner
Wayne Anderson of Cedar Rapids earned the Medal of Merit for saving his father from a gas tank fire. Six Marion Iowa City and Cedar Rapids volunteers received Silver Beaver awards: Blanche McDougall, Jack L. Lorence, Larry McConahay, Frank Pfaff, Frank L. Martin II and Robert L. Thomson. The event, at the University of Iowa's Iowa Memorial Union, recognized long service in the Hawkeye Area council.
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National Court of Honor
Upside Down Traffic Light Remains at Tipperary Hill
In Syracuse’s Irish district, the red light sits below the green after repeated vandalism of standard signals. Dinty Gilmartin sparked protests to a local boss in 1925, leading to the city finally installing and preserving the inverted light that endures today.
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