Honors Awarded To Three Cubs In Kite Contest
Six kites compete in the Cub Scout Kite Contest at the headquar ters with Judge N Harold West and The Junior Gazette. Albert Truesdell Leo Peiffer and Bobby Dresher won first places while Rollo Pickford Peter Pickford Dick Bukacek Donald Johanos Jim Hamilton and Donald Austin earned honorable mention for colorful varied designs including Dopey and Cubs emblems.
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Boy Scout
Scout
N. Harold West
Junior Gazette
Albert Truesdell
Sixteenth Avenue
Leo C. Peiffer
Leo P Peiffer
Upland Drive
Bobby Dresher
Pack
Ralph Dresher
F Avenue NW
Meralia
Rollo Pickford
Rollo
Pickford
Peter Pickford
Jompson
Scout Headquarters
Robbie Dresher
Two Cedar Rapids Pupils Win Honors
Quentin Dudley 12B Wilson high school won a prize of two tickets to the Iowa Centennial State Fair for his orange brown green violet and yellow poster featuring an oblong Iowa outline and crop images. Ruth Pearson 9A Roosevelt junior high received an honorable mention. her India ink home made poster shows the State Capitol flags and a farmer with products.
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Cedar Rapids
Quentin Dudley
Wilson
Ruth Pearson
Roosevelt Junior High
Quentin
State of
Iowa
Ruth
India
Des Moines
Los Angeles youth never driven a car despite flying since sixteen
A 19 year old pilot from Los Angeles California who has been flying since age sixteen has never learned to drive a car in his life.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Leftover seeds fuel busy Alburnett farm girl’s garden
Georgia Lillie 11 and her brother plant a garden from left overs along a large family plot. She helps prepare meals hauls fuel ferries eggs feeds cattle and pigs and cares for her dog Trixie. She aims to attend college and become a teacher while studying piano and playing baritone horn.
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Georgia Lillie
Alburnett
Georgia
Trixie
Alburnett School
Dan Lillie
Stamps 1938 Program To Feature All Presidents
Postmaster General Farley announced a full revision of the regular series with 31 stamps in new denominations including 43 cent 18 cent 35 cent and 40 cent values. Portraits of every deceased U S President plus Benjamin Franklin and Martha Washington will appear. Franklin will head the 14 cent issue and Martha Washington the 13 cent stamp. Jefferson will replace Washington on the 3 cent stamp. twelve presidents are newly honored. Details on designs dates and first day sales will follow.
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ONG
U.S
James A. Farley
United States
Benjamin Franklin
Martha Washington
Franklin
American Postal System
White House
Washington
Coolidge
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
van Buren
William H Harrison
Tyler
Polk
Fillmore
Pierce
Buchanan
Johnson
Arthur
Thomas Jefferson
Insects Fascinate Marion Girl Entomology Aspirations
Eileen Schenken a 14 year old from Marion collects sixty butterflies in a primed hedge and gathers beetles moths dragonflies and locusts from light sources and habitats. She experiments with silkworms samples nests and cocoons and mounts specimens for study. She keeps scrapbooks reads science and plans to become an entomologist. She is a Camp Fire torch bearer and attends Marion junior high with interest in general science.
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Eileen Schenken
Marion
Eileen
Cedar Rapids
Waubeek
Illinois
Marion Junior High School
A. A. Schenken
Tenth Avenue
Eighteenth _ street
Quiz Nowe 1 Delouse Derby and a Gloriose
Five multiple choice questions test vocabulary and logic with quirky options. Each correct answer earns 20 points, totaling 100 for perfect, 80 for excellent, 60 for good, 40 for fair, and 20 for poor, with answers at the bottom of the page.
Service Man Nonsense Rhyme For April 1
A playful entry notes Naomi Williams, 13, of Blakesburg Jay School, as the subject of a rhyme about a man who runs to fetch a fan. The item resembles a school or community note with a humorous verse.
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Naomi Williams
Blakesburg
Jay School
Tinker the Toddville dog loves rides and tricks
Toddville’s Tinker, a 2 year old springer spaniel owned by the Clair Ellis family, is a versatile watchdog hunter retriever and playmate. He enjoys doll buggy rides with Virginia Ellis and even tricycles at Don’s request weighing 65 pounds and 21 inches tall.
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Inker
Toddville
Clair Ellis
Virginia Ellis
Tinker
Don
Gazette
Street Spaghetti in Naples Sells for Five Cents
In Naples street vendors offer steaming spaghetti at a nominal five cent price. Each plate is served on the spot and eaten by the customer.
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Naples
Italy
Sandwich Recipe Idea Prompts Contest Entries
Reader shares a warm Sunday night cheese sandwich method and invites submissions for The Cook Book Contest. Notes a buttered toasted crust, gooey cheese, and a pairing of apple salad with hot chocolate. Contest ends March 31 with two dollar prizes and honorable mentions for town and country entrants.
Zoos struggle to afford rhinoceros captures
The high cost of capturing rhinoceroses runs into thousands of dollars, limiting which zoos can acquire the animals and threatening their availability for conservation and display.
Shine the Apple Practice Draws Criticism in Hollywood
Hollywood studios use fruit polishers to shine natural fruit with glycerine and wax for photographs. In Russia silk stockings fetch about 45 dollars a pair.
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Hollywood Studios
Russia
Lost Covers stamp novel excites young readers
Mildred Lookabaugh reviews Lost Covers by Edna Turpin a Random House title about two youths in Richmond Virginia solving the mystery of two missing Civil War era stamp covers. The tale follows Robinson Allen who uses stamp collecting to uncover clues while facing unemployment and illness in the Allen family.
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Aurora
Edna Turpin
Random House
Richmond
Allen
Allens
Rocky Ridge
Robinson Allen
United States
Dietz
Mildred Lookabaugh
Aurora Senior High School
No Time Wasted In Life Of Marion Youth
Leland Burns, 13, three miles northeast of Marion, works on the farm by disking fields, plowing with a tractor, and helping harvest corn with a mechanical picker. He milks five cows daily, assists in garden work, digs potatoes, and helps build a hog house. He passes county exams in 8th grade and will enter Marion high school next September. His dog Pooch helps herd cows and guard hogs. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Burns.
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Leland Burns
Marion
Leland
Pooch
Prairie Chapel Rural School
Highway 13
Marion High School
Clifford Burns
College Swing film stars Gracie Allen with Burns and cast
movieland notes announce the college musical comedy College Swing starring Gracie Allen and George Burns with Martha Raye Edward Everett Horton Ben Blue Betty Grable and Jackie Coogan in a looney picture. the plot follows a 200 year old family curse and a bright Gracie who becomes dean of men while wooing Hubert Cash.
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Gracie Allen
George Burns
Martha Raye
Edward Everett Horton
Ben Blue
Betty Grable
Jackie Coogan
Gracie
Hubert Cash
Colleen
George
Young West Branch Boy Keeps 23 Scrapbooks of Comics
Keith Endsley a sick seventh grade pupil from West Branch has compiled 23 scrapbooks since 1935. He saves daily comic strips 20 volumes, a news events book, a movie stars book, a mixed book and stamp collections to study geography and literature. He plans to continue after recovery.
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Keith Endsley
Louis Endsley
West Branch
Keith
High School Tap Teacher Stars in Vaudeville Circuit
Robert Herrald a McKinley high senior in Cedar Rapids taught tap to 50 60 pupils while pursuing stage work. He trained in Eldora Waterloo and Des Moines and toured Iowa in vaudeville last summer dancing and playing piano in the "piano tap" routine. He is son of Dr and Mrs Fletcher Herrald of Eldora.
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Robert Herrald
Third Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
McKinley High School
Eldora
Waterloo
Des Moines
Bob
Fletcher
Coe College
McKinley Senior High School
Marion
Iowa
Minnesota
United Commercial Travelers
Knights of the Pythias
Daughters of the American Revolution
Tune Kings
Robert
Fletcher Herrald
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Schoool
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