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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1939
Page
42
A profile of Cedar Rapids school board members detailing unpaid service, time commitments, and diverse backgrounds from lawyer to typesetter. It describes their role in directing a $1.5 million operation where human lives matter more than money and notes their pride, challenges, and long tenure on the board.
Biographical sketches profile three candidates for the school board. Dr J R K Von Lackum champions parental board membership, four junior high schools, comprehensive health and physical education, and athletic field development. A longtime member with legal service to the district focuses on finances, playgrounds, Latin language emphasis, and teachers pension oversight. The third candidate, with deep teaching roots, emphasizes school site selection, athletic facilities, and active school visits.
J Claire Blodgett a Cedar Rapids labor figure and printer who chairs the building and grounds committee and has long served on the board. He backs teacher pay reform and expanded arts and shop programs while pressing cost studies and budget oversight. He helped acquire land for athletic fields and has donated substantial legal services to the district.
Rome reports widespread guidance issued Saturday on air raid drill conduct in Italy. Reserve officers are being recalled, and in Rome one fifth of street lights are painted blue to aid visibility during imminent blackouts.
Premier Musso lini is set to address Italy’s natural aspirations in a fascist March 26 anniversary speech marking the start of the campaign against France for colonies. A King Victor Emmanuel speech March 23 from the throne may touch on the same theme as the new fascist chamber opens. Air raid drills will be the first thorough drills in two years as newspapers report the developments.
A homing pigeon shipped from England to James Wright of Nebraska began a return flight three years after release and was recovered in Boston Massachusetts. Fascists express strong disapproval of Prime Minister Chamberlain's speech as drill instructions and bureaus spread nationwide to explain precautionary measures.
The post office philatelic truck carrying $1,000,000 in stamps may tour America as early as April 1 after Senate restored funding for operators. A $3,000 allocation funds four delegates to a London world philatelic congress marking the 100th anniversary of the Penny Post. A bill to issue a Will Rogers commemorative stamp was introduced by Rep. Disney.
Sequoyah county jail warms up after bills are paid. Sheriff Hutchens invites 14 former inmates to return and finish misdemeanor sentences. Judge Vernor had ordered release last week due to utility cuts. county commissioners settled payments Friday.
Dr. Philip Greeley Clapp professor and director of music at the University of Iowa will be guest artist at Coe College chapel services on Wednesday March 22 at 9 30 a m He is a pianist and noted composer with nine symphonies and works performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra He also conducted for the American orchestral society in 1929 and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in 1913.
In Reading Pennsylvania 73 year old Alva Schaeffer kept a half century old pact with saloon owner Tom Hannahee. At midnight on St Patrick's Day he played Lass O Galway and Nearer My God To Thee at Hannahee's grave for 42nd year. Neversink mountain echoed with trumpet notes before 5000 silent listeners.
In a solemn moment Schaeffer saluted the grave and spoke goodnight to Tom. The oath from Hannahoe's saloon bound Schaeffer to play Irish tunes over the grave each St Patrick's Day if Hannahoe died first, while Hannahoe would keep his grave forever green if Schaeffer died first.
Czechoslovak Minister Vladimir Hurban said on radio that Undersecretary Sumner Welles and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain delivered splendid statements in favor of international righteousness and decency. He added Welles condemnation of Germany’s actions would inspire desperate people worldwide like water in a desert.
It may take eleven years of breeding work and about 60 600 seedlings of known parentage to produce a strawberry variety of commercial value.
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