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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1955
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Detroit and market street neighborhoods with incomplete names and organizations, lacking coherent event or outcome details to summarize a specific news item. The readable parts offer no clear persons, dates, actions, or affiliations to frame a factual card.
The Iowa House discussed liquor by the drink with claims of wet and dry sentiment. It notes past statewide votes on prohibition from 1855 to 1933, showing margins and citizen totals, and urges basing decisions on historical facts rather than broad generalizations.
The United States plans to transport and operate a full-scale nuclear reactor at the United Nations Geneva conference August 8 to 20. The AEC will install the reactor for live demonstrations, aiming to prove peaceful uses of atomic energy and counter Soviet rhetoric with tangible achievement. Oak Ridge built the device, Swiss cooperation secured, and Swiss officials were kept informed in secrecy.
A 1955 King Features Syndicate column protests home made robotic kits and electric brains for children. The writer argues such do it yourself toys undermine family morals and learning, urging toy makers to stick to traditional playthings.
The Cedar Rapids city assessor’s census places the population over 40 000, up about 5 000 in five years. Paving work begins downtown with Ford Paving Co tear ing up for asphalt. A South Side firehouse on South Third Street is promised by Commissioner McDuff. The state law makes bootlegging a felony on third conviction and seizes vehicles used for liquor transport. The North Western railroad donates about 4500 in real estate for the dam and raceway. The first jitney bus arrives in Cedar Rapids as R R Walters starts competing with his old employer.
Loren Hickerson argues the education crisis is a single issue driven by shifting American values. He urges selling trained intelligence and expanding opportunity to nurture youth, warning against pricing out public and private education and calling for steadfast support for learning.
An editorial notes Iowa lawmakers show inaction on reapportionment, urging a split system with one house by population and the other by area. It cites Sen. Byers vote, discusses a 99 county house plan and 60 senator seats, and warns action may await a constitutional convention.
Norman Vincent Peale recounts Frank Bettger’s turn from a failed baseball career to Major League success and then to breaking life insurance sales records through boundless enthusiasm. He urges readers to treat their work as the greatest opportunity, living with vitality and belief in inner powers.
Excerpt shows U U U OD Jimmy Felthous and classmates discussing discipline. Students favor varied methods from time outs to spankings for different ages and offenses, with calls to explain reasons and tailor punishment to misdeeds.
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