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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1942
Page
13
Dr Mary MacFadyen urges readers to enjoy outdoor sun exposure during March for health and complexion benefits. She notes UV rays from sunlight and vitamin D from cod liver oil and foods, advising midday walks and sunlight over windows. For a free Skin and Hair Care leaflet, send a stamped self addressed envelope to The Cedar Rapids Gazette.
OB and Jane Manners reveal a secret marriage between OB and Jane months ago. Families remain unaware as both work away from home. The couple faces potential friction when the union becomes public and relatives urge changes. The adviser notes announcing earlier might have avoided complications.
A reader asks whether to fight to win a boy who is dating another girl. The guidance urges trusting judgment not friends, avoid hard chasing, and seek companionship with others. If the boy’s interest has strayed he may return, but happiness lies in moving on and widening social circles.
Mrs. Evelyn Duvall of Chicago, executive director of the Association for Family Living, spoke at Coe College on wartime concerns for students. She listed five main issues: active war participation or staying out, schooling versus war industry work, marriage and courtship, extracurriculars aiding the war effort, and personal order.
Roy William Long, 34, of Tipton, held in Linn County jail facing federal charge of violating the selective service act. He was brought to Cedar Rapids from Davenport and accused of failing to keep his draft board informed of his whereabouts.
The Bureau of Reclamation plans the Anderson Ranch dam in Idaho. It will be the highest earth-filled dam in the world, rising 330 feet and shaping regional water management plans.
A little girl friendly gift pattern 224 offers a quilt with easy patches and self assembly. It includes diagrams of blocks yardage and directions with a mailing address in New York for purchase and pattern number details.
Three Cedar Rapids blue lodges plan a joint meeting Monday at 7 30 p m at Masonic hall called by Grand Master Earl Peters of Clarinda for every Mason in lodge at the same hour in Iowa on March 23. The eleventh annual simultaneous Iowa Masons convocation will include a flag ceremony and refreshments. Local arrangements are by the Cedar Rapids Blue Lodge Interrelations committee with George H Cockburn presiding. The call goes to 67 000 Masons in 545 lodges statewide.
A 1941 survey by the National Conference of Greenskeeping Superintendents shows total golf course maintenance costs at 40 million dollars, with average 18-hole courses spending about 1 thousand dollars per hole. It details water use, fuel, fertilizer, seed, sand, hoses, and thousands of labor hours and equipment hours required.
Dr. Samuel Bechtold Miller an osteopathic physician in Cedar Rapids for 40 years died at his home after a long illness. He was born in 1868 in Martinsville Alabama and had a lengthy career in education religion and medicine. Burial is in Oak Hill cemetery. George Elmer Black longtime Cedar Rapids resident died in Tucson Arizona leaving a brother sister and two daughters. Funeral services at Turner chapel. William Fred Jensen Cedar Rapids resident died at home after a long illness born 1880 in Burlington survived by wife two daughters a son and five siblings. burial in Cedar Memorial Park. Funeral services at Turner chapel with Dr Charles J. Bready officiating.
Mrs. Kathryn Reed died at her Omaha home Tuesday after a brief illness. She leaves three sons in Omaha, a brother John Troy of Marion, and a sister Mrs. Guy Cartano of Anamosa. A brother Thomas Troy of Cedar Rapids is dead. The body arrives in Cedar Rapids Saturday at 2 10 a.m. and goes to Monahan funeral home. Services at Mt Calvary cemetery Saturday at 10 30 a.m. by Rev J D Kearn. Friends may call at
James Ray Kotek infant son of Mr and Mrs Frank J Kotek of 1605 Fifth Street NW died in a local hospital at 4 am Wednesday. He is survived by his parents grandfather Fred Kotek of Swisher grandparents Mr and Mrs Peter F Hansen Cedar Rapids and a half brother Glenn Medhus Private services will be held at the Bohemian National Cemetery at 10 am Friday.
First signs of spring appeared when the city council authorized the season's first carload of street oil. Council members also gave final passage to the 1942 use district and height area district maps for Cedar Rapids and renewed the Class C beer permit for T J LeRoux at 1516 Mount Vernon Avenue SE.
An advertisement claims Marmola helps slim facial features and figures without dieting or heavy exercise. It notes the product has sold for over thirty years with twenty million boxes distributed, targets adults with hypothyroid fat but urges medical consultation and states Marmola is not a cure-all.
The Iowa civil air patrol will conduct its first official mission on Sunday by taking state guard officers on an aerial inspection of vital public utilities in the Ottumwa district. Col. Dan Hunter said bridges dams and power plants will be viewed from the air marking the patrols new role in the state guard.
The air patrol will conduct operations against enemy attack from the air rather than ground. This marks the start of ongoing patrol work. The session runs with a guard officers school at Ottumwa on Sunday under Newell Roth, commander of the Ottumwa CAP squadron. Attendees include officers from Oskaloosa Ottumwa Centerville Newton and Des Moines.
The article notes that the belief in vampires, traceable to the Eleventh century, remains widespread among Slavic communities today, highlighting enduring folklore and cultural persistence.
Stockholm reports all belligerents have guaranteed safe conduct for the Swedish liner Drottningholm. The ship is due to depart Gothenburg shortly to exchange diplomats between Axis and American nations, it was announced Thursday.
A homemaker buys a whole ham and has it cut into thick center slices for broiling. She bakes the butt-end and saves the shank. She says Wilson's Certified Smoked Ham yields tender mild meat suitable for frying or baking and notes it suits her New England kitchen style.
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