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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1942
Page
3
The Gazette notes Cub pack No. 24 in Shellsburg will meet at Garfield school Wednesday at 7 30 pm. The charter for the new year will be presented and movies shown. Den 1 handles entertainment. friends, parents and Cubs welcome.
Mrs Hyatt F Newell returns from Hawaii will be guest of honor at a dinner Tuesday hosted by Mr and Mrs Van Vechten Shaffer at 2001 Linden drive SE. Other gatherings include bridge luncheons and courtesy visits for out of town guests with Chi Omega seniors and a forthcoming wedding for Miss Jeanetta Hatfield to John W Mohrman Jr.
Mrs W R Armstrong of 1912 Fifth Avenue SE hosted a supper for the Cedar Rapids Woman's Club drama department cast in Iowa City after their play Dottie Mourns at the Iowa play production festival. The production was the only one of 10 in its community club division to earn a superior rating with guests including Dr and Mrs John T Hecker and other couples.
Miss Kathryn Claassen daughter of Mr and Mrs George C Claassen of 366 Woodland Drive SE graduates has been initiated into the Delta Delta Delta sorority at the University of Michigan where she is a sophomore.
Alfred Rothschild will address the American Association of University Women on Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the Cedar Rapids Woman's clubhouse. Members may bring guests.
Meeting Monday evening at Mrs. C. J. Lynch Jr. home 1841 Bever avenue SE entertained by Mrs. Burton Byers who spoke on Off the Beaten Path in Mexico. Various members named to committee posts include Program social education philanthropic visiting and flowers auditing notification budget council pianists and historian.
Mrs G M Wodtke gave a travelogue at the P E O Chapter II gathering hosted by Mrs S L Duncan at 2506 B Avenue NE. Following dessert luncheon, committees were named for Program social projects courtesy notification finance and auditing historian custodian organist chorister and press correspondent with several members listed for each group.
Mr and Mrs Charles Schoen 356 Forest Drive SE returned Monday after a three week vacation in Hot Springs Arkansas.
Mr and Mrs H L Spaight celebrate daughter Bernadine on her birth day with a supper hosted by relay of friends and relatives. Attendees include Mary Jane Ryan Kathleen Convey Gloria Rose Catherine Cahalan Faye McGilli cuddy Barbara Krumbholz Alice Smith Magdalyn Panek Shirley O Rourke Helen Shields Lorraine Wilson Bob Shanahan Tom Shanahan Chuck Quinn Joe Klassen Jimmy Curray Roger Newcomb Joe Kenny Thor Norland George Blake Jim McGowan Eddie Walter Joe Dolan Johnny Melichar Marvin York Rita Theresa Spaight and Dorothy Wood assisted.
Jo Fran Kouba was elected president of the Anakiksin Camp Fire Group at a Monday meeting in the First Congregational church. Officers include Donna Damge as vice president Natalie Jenkins secretary Joyce Libal treasurer and Celia Lynch scribe.
An aged speaker notes a food shortage and blames past actions and reckless farming. She says the community must pay in some way for the sin of plowing tinder for good crops and killing pigs, implying hardship to come.
Dr and Mrs E M Victorine of 2410 Grande avenue SE returned Monday after a weekend in Chicago and Elmhurst Illinois with their daughter Kathleen a student at Elmhurst College.
A Monday evening party hosted by Miss Marion Hepner and Miss Dorothy Bowles at 1435 Bever avenue SE honored Miss Viola Bohlen of Sac City as she prepares to wed Robert Daniel Quinn. Buffet supper followed, with guests including Ruth William, Robert F Miller, W Burl James, William Whipple, John Parlis, Kenneth Ottsen, Miss Mary Nelson, and Miss Betty Carrithers.
William Corbett of Chicago was installed as president of Tau Kappa Epsilon Zeta chapter at a Sunday ceremony in Greeneall chapter lounge. Also installed were Marvin Selden Cedar Rapids as vice president Robert Long Cedar Rapids secretary Paul Scheele Elgin treasurer Daniel Sweeney Cedar Rapids scholarship chairman Donald Niggemeyer Fort Madison pledge captain Richard Fuller Cedar Rapids historian William Scharnberg Davenport sergeant-at-arms and Robert Carmichael Hawkeye alumni past president serving as installing officer.
Eighteen members of chapter IF P. E. O. were entertained Monday at the home of Mrs. G H Mheischer 2005 Washington avenue SE. Mrs K J Campbell presented a paper on Prominent Women in Politics. Guests included Mrs Leonora Van Dellen of chapter BU Pella Miss Martha Smock and Mrs Bess Crone CW Keota with Mrs Crone hosting the tea.
A Saturday birthday gathering at Dolores Simkavitz home, hosted by the N Y N club, honors Phyllis Sindelar and Mary Virginia Little. Guests include Maureen Shea, Rose mary Lattner, Marie MHeaverlo, Tommy Muller, Billy Carney, Jimmy Dolan, and John Barnett.
Dr S. A. Helebrandt of 829 First Avenue SE arrived Monday evening after a two and a half week journey through Texas and Mexico. He accompanied a Des Moines party of three on the trip.
Post No 1 of the Town Volunteers will meet at the Montrose hotel at 8 p.m. Thursday March 26. Cedar Rapids Navy club meets at the Teoniroge hotel at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Mrs R W Comreid 816 D Avenue NW may receive visitors after surgery at St Luke's hospital. Maude Ruble 1552 Washington Ave SE in fair condition at St Luke's Hospital. Verne Upmier earns degree at Iowa State College and returns to run the Upmier riding academy. Two free Town theater tickets offered for Classification 6 in Want Ads. Lawrence Welk and his orchestra with Rhythm Revue coming Friday to the town. Stanley Coberly wins $800 Coe college scholarship March 7. son of Mr and Mrs Louis Coberly four miles north.
Charles R. Ayres assistant post master at Montezuma enlisted in the United States naval reserve Tuesday announced Chief Carl Pierce of the recruiting substation.
Dr Marcus Bochus of the University of Iowa spoke at Coe College chapel Tuesday on The Meaning of the Cross in Modern Life. He described the cross today as a symbol, an ideal and a reality.
LeRoy I Reynolds, long stationed in Cedar Rapids as district representative for Caterpillar Tractor, moved to Peoria to join government sales. Capt Gordon Hughes spoke on war traffic to 50 Roosevelt high school students, stressing future army convoys through Cedar Rapids and the city’s newly formed auxiliary police composed of American Legionaires and 26 local motorcyclists.
The United States civil service commission set March 31 as the application deadline for positions as special agents and regional agents in the trade and industrial education department. Regional agents will be paid $4,600 a year, and the special agents’ salary is noted but not completed in the fragment.
Salary for agent positions is $3,800 per year. Full position details available at window 6 of the post office.
Roosevelt junior high held Tuesday morning assembly featuring Our Country a fantasy by the 8A class directed by Miss Roberta Dinwiddie Sheets. The 8A3 cast included Dorothy Zobin Charles Wolfe Doris Rohrer Rose Savage Bill Tylee John Williams Robert Muir Ray Yeakley Robert Stein Ruth Zier Lavon Ramaker and Shirley Schermerhorn with Marjorie Ferguson and Mary Scherrebeck assisting. Betty Harris piano and Don Johanas violin provided musical interludes.
The Recreation Commission announced hundreds of medium flags will be given to needy families. Judd Dean said children at the Community House Grace Church center and First Presbyterian center will receive them with instruction in flag etiquette. The flags came from the playground commission for Herbert Hoover’s 1928 visit.
With permission of Allied and Axis nations the Swedish motorship Sicilia will sail from New York on Wednesday carrying flour medicine medical supplies and concentrated vitamins for the people of Greece the Greek War Relief association announced Monday.
The penny milk program from the Agricultural Marketing Administration begins in 12 Cedar Rapids schools with 4 215 students. Each child may buy a half pint of milk for one cent, while the federal government covers the rest. Readily supplied by regular distributors, the program aims to boost milk consumption and aid producers by reducing surplus milk that would otherwise go to manufacturing.
Hamilton M. Clarke of Cedar Rapids announced at a Blue Cross advisory council meeting that twenty new accounts had been enrolled during the last week. The update reflects growing participation in the hospital plan within the region.
E P Lichty reports 1,224 added members to Blue Cross rolls this week as 70 firms and their families gain coverage in Cedar Rapids. Enrollment continues with 50 more firms in process during Blue Cross Health Defense week.
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