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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1942
Page
8
Cedar Rapids citizens organize a cigarette drive for servicemen heading to the front. Post commander R. C. Jones notes the U.S.O. does not supply cigarettes and says gifts are limited to items that have contributed to the effort.
A new Red Cross nutrition class will begin March 30 with Mrs. Carl Helming as instructor. Meetings and times will be announced. Applicants on file receive priority when interviewed at the YMCA office, Monday and Wednesday afternoons. Further information on Mrs. E. M. Pinney is available.
In Newark the Prudential Insurance Company allowed about 8 000 female workers to discard knee length stockings or wear stockings below the knee for the first time in years. The change follows a wartime clothing emergency aimed at reducing distraction to male employees.
Three soldiers and a woman were killed in an automobile crash in Glendale Arizona. Three other people were seriously injured. The accident involved multiple vehicles and prompted an active investigation by local authorities.
Dean White of the University Dubuque presbyterian church will conduct five Holy Week services at First Presbyterian Church beginning March 30 with Cedar Rapids Ministerial Association and religious education committee sponsoring. Topics include Thus Saith the Lord and Why Seek Ye the Living Among the Dead. Dr. Marion H. Williams of the Cedar Rapids Ministerial Association will lead each service from 12 10 to 1 PM.
The navy announced three new naval reserve aviation bases at Memphis Tennessee Norman Oklahoma and Peru Indiana to support the navy training program for student aviators. Completion raises total bases in the United States to eighteen.
The 350th birth anniversary of Jan Amos Komensky Comenius will be observed Sunday with a 4 p.m. service at Coe chapel and a 7 30 p.m. service at Hus Memorial church. A commemorative volume Science and Free Peoples with essays and a bibliography of Comenius works will be published soon.
Washington reports a $300 million war public works program will drop nonessential features to save critical materials and labor for war production. The move aims to provide community facilities like schools and waterworks in war boom areas, with economies including plastering and damp proofing removals.
The Fashion academy announced the 13 best-dressed women in the nation. Winners include Paulette Reese Tennyson in screen, Mrs Wendell L Willkie in public life, Carol Marcus as debutante, and Mrs Jock Whitney in society.
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