Cedar Rapids to Spend Over 9 Million on 1963 Building Drive
A 1963 Cedar Rapids building push totals more than 9.0 million dollars, with 5.2 million in public capital improvements and 5.0 million in school construction. The largest project is a new federal post office at about 2.0 million, plus airport, armory, and court remodeling work. City projects include major street paving, bridge, parks, and two new junior high schools in Noelridge park and Cedar Hills.
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Axpayers
Cedar Rapids
John Q
Cedar Rapids Post Office
Coggan
Mt. Vernon Road
Bertram
Cedar River Bridge
Greene Square
First Avenue
Johnson Avenue
Eighteenth Street
Memorial Drive
Forty-second Street
Jacelyn Park
Ellis Park
Noelridge Park
Cedar Hills
Jefferson High School
Wilson Junior High
LaSalle High School
College Community Junior High School
St. Pius X Catholic
Fires Wipe Out 2 Iowa Lumber Firms
In Iowa, fires destroyed two lumber companies a milling plant and a farm barn. Damages exceed half a million dollars with Otis Lumber Co in Boone taking the worst hit over 250000. Keokuk and Emmetsburg also suffered substantial losses amid arson probes and continued blazes.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Keokuk
Lumber Company
Beatification rites honor Mother Seton in Vatican
In St Peter's Basilica Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton is beatified becoming the first native-born American honored by the church. Anne Therese O'Neil of Baltimore, a leukemia survivor, netted the moment by filming the rite and kissing the Pope's ring as he presided. The Pope praised the United States and a Lady Chapel honoring Seton was announced for Our Lady of the Rosary Church in New York.
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Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton
St. Peter’s Basilica
Anne Therese O'Neil
Baltimore
Maryland
John XXIII
Mother Seton
Elizabeth Seton
United States of America
St. Peter
Francis Cardinal Spellman
New York
Joseph Elmer
Cardinal Ritter
St. Louis
Spellman
New York City
Battery Park
Church of Our Lady of the Rosary
Msgr
Emilio Ruffini
Mother Seaton
Balitimore
Sisters of Charity
St. Peter’s
Cedar Rapids Gazette Established In 1883
The Cedar Rapids Gazette established in 1883 by The Gazette Co. is published daily and Sunday at 500 Third Ave SE Cedar Rapids Iowa. Second class postage paid at Cedar Rapids Iowa. Subscription rates include by carrier 45 cents per week by mail night edition six issues one dollar fifty nine a month thirteen a year afternoon editions and Sunday seven issues one dollar thirty five about fourteen a year. Other states and U S territories twenty three dollars and forty cents a year. No mail subscriptions accepted in towns with Gazette carrier service. The Associated Press has exclusive rights to local news and AP dispatches for republication.
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the Gazette Co
Third Ave. SE
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Owa
U.S
Gaz
Briton 54 Runs 72 Miles Daily Between Home and Work
Freddy Lee, 54, runs 72 miles daily between his Hornchurch home and Ford foundry in London. He started 15 months ago after fare cuts ended cheap transit, citing fitness and savings as motives. He averages 1.5 hours commuting each way and plans to retire at 65.
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London (Ap
Freddy Lee
Britain
Freddy
London Transport
Fred
Underground
Subway
Freddie
Hornchurch
Lee
International Automobile Factory
Ford
Honolulu Mother and Daughter Born Aboard Plane
Mrs Yuen Wong For Ping and her daughter were reported doing fine at Queen’s Hospital in Honolulu after being born Saturday in an airliner two hundred miles west of the city.
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Honolulu
Yuen Wong
Ping
Queen’s Hospital
Cause of Headaches Usually Not in Head
Dr. Ostfeld states about 95 percent of headaches originate outside the head as a warning of mental and physical problems. Chiropractors report high recovery rates in non migraine and migraine headaches under care, with a featured case of a 44 year old woman whose headaches, blood pressure, and tension improved after spinal realignment and nerve discharge relief.
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Today’s Health
The
AMA
Adrian M. Ostfeld
University of Illinois College of Medicine
Swartz Research Report
National Chiropractic Association
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By Bruce Fishwild
Riverside Recreation Center
Associated Press
Otis Lumber Co
Boone
William Otis
North Western Railroad
North Western
Lola Johnson
Emmetsburg
Kirber Milling Co
Highland Park Presbyterian Church
Tom Hoelscher
Iowa Falls
Bradford
Harold Carr
By Bennet M. Bolton
Vatican City
Anne O'Neill
Donna Reed
Jane Wyman
Gordon’s Gin
London
Alexander Gordon
Gordon
England
America
World
U.S.A
Gordon's Dry Gin CO. Ltd
Linden, N. J
By Jo Fischer
By Eddy Gilmore
Don Spaight
Spaight
Third Street
Murphy
Martin
Murphy Martin
Network TV
ABC
Kcrg-Tv
G. F. Clark
DR. Clark
29Th St. NE
Pontiac
McGrath Pontiac, Inc
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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