City Facility Directory Entries for Public Services
A list of local institutions with addresses includes motor company on Second Avenue SE, fire stations on various streets, schools such as Benjamin Franklin and Arthur, libraries, voting houses, parks garages, and police stations. The entries cover city services across SE and NW quadrants with precise street addresses for each site.
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First — Hearn-Stevenson Motor Company
Second Avenue
Second—Fire
B Avenue
Third—India Garage
H Avenue
Fourth
Benjamin Franklin
Twentieth Street
Fifth—Arthur
Sixth
First Avenue
Seventh—Jackson School
Fourth Avenue
Eighth—Voting House
Eighteenth Street
Second
Third Avenues
Seventeenth—Taylor School
Sixth Street
Eighteenth—City Barn
Seventh Avenue
H Street
Nineteenth
Third Street
Twentieth
Harrison School
Eleventh Street
Roosevelt
Thirteenth Street
Cleveland School
G O P Cooperation Declared Strong Against Surrender
In Youngstown Ohio the GOP executive director Clarence Budington Kelland told the Young Republican League that national unity will be upheld but political unity during the war will not be yielded to. He asserted Republicans will support victory measures while demanding five objectives including efficient production, fair labor settlements, and no profiteering during the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Youngstown, O
Republican Party
Clarence Budington Kelland
G.O.P
Young Republican League
Buicks Bomber Engine Output Sprints Ahead Of Schedule
Flint Michigan Buick division reports bomber engines for the armed forces are being produced nine months ahead of schedule. Trainload shipments go to plane manufacturers as Harlow H Curtice cites first quarter results showing 1942 output packed into six months and July will surpass planned 1943 totals. Output in April should exceed April next year as production accelerates.
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Flint
Mich
Harlow H. Curtice
General Motors Corporation
Buick General Manager
General Motors
Roosevelt
Curtice
Plant Output Schedules Discussed Amid Growth
A company official outlined annual production plans notingDecember output will approach five times the initial forecast. The plan targets full plant and equipment utilization, monthly output increases, and time savings from in line automotive manufacturing methods as a large and expanding workforce operates at peak.
U S Troops Train on Mt Rainier for Mountain Operations
A specially selected group of winter-trained soldiers has conducted extensive mountain training on Mt. Rainier in Washington. The volunteer force, drawn from top skiers and mountaineers, camps at Paradise Lodge and trains daily in 6,000-foot snow fields as part of a new combat unit.
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MT. Rainier National Park
Wash
Mt. Rainier
Forest Rangers
Paradise Lodge
Mountain Troops to Shift Roles as Snow Melts
The unit will not only fight in snow as mountain troops but also abandon skis when snow recedes to focus on mountain climbing and moving pack artillery through rugged terrain.
Richard Sampson studies airport managing in Peru
Richard Sampson son of Garfield Sampson formerly of Cedar Rapids now in Columbus Ohio is in Lima Peru for a three month course for airport managers. He will be transferred to a Pan American Grace airline airport after the course.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Sampson
Garfield Sampson
Cedar Rapids
Columbus
Lima
Peru
Pan American- Grace
Edwin Lundquist
Co Avenue NW
Sampson
Chicago
Miami
Cali
Colombia
Lundquist
United States
U.S
Seek to Avert Clash Between Farm Bloc
Washington leaders worked to avert a head on clash between the senate economy and farm blocs over the 1943 agricultural supply bill. Economy leaders seek cuts in normal expenditures and elimination of farm security and tenant loans while agriculture chiefs warn of a budget balancing plan at farmers expense. A compromise aims to restore part of the 48.5 million trimmed from the bill with further farm program curtailment only if industrial profits and wages are checked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
Harry F. Byrd
Dva
Special Joint Congressional Economy Committee
FSA
Elmer Thomas
Dokla
Senate Agriculture Committee
Marines Leave Iceland as Army Replaces Detachment
Brig. Gen. John Marston said army personnel have replaced virtually all U S Marines sent to Iceland last July. He noted about 5,000 marines were there at one time and Iceland is prepared to resist an invasion, though he does not expect one tomorrow.
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Washington
John Marston
United States Marine Corps
Army
Iceland
Marston
United States
Marine
Anzacs Return Home Ready to Face Nippon
Australian and New Zealand troops land in Melbourne after long campaigns in Libya Greece Tobruk Malaya Java and the Middle East. Veterans vow to avenge fallen comrades and claim the Japanese will be easy opponents. News notes no casualties in the voyage home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melbourne
Australia
Libya
Greece
Middle East
New Zealand
Tobruk
Malaya
Java
Ceylon
Petain Laval Talks Rumored Amid Vichy Cabinet Return
In Bern AP reports mass rumor that Pierre Laval, former Vichy official, would reconcile with Marshal Petain, rejoin the Vichy cabinet, and travel to Berlin next week for talks with Joachim von Ribbentrop and Hermann Goering. From Vichy, officials offered no confirmation.
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Bern
Switzerland
Middle Europe
Pierre Laval
France
Marshal Petain
Vichy
Berlin
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Hermann Goering
Army Dog Ace Returns as Official MP Detachment Mascot
Ace the German shepherd, famed for hitching rides on Jeeps, is now an official member of Lieut. Phil A. Adams’s military police detachment at CAMP WHEELER Georgia. After a chance sighting by Sgt Homer D. Smith the dog identified as Ace or Wolf bounded to Adams and was welcomed back with a sense of duty.
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Camp Wheeler
Ace
Carolina
Phil A. Adams
Homer D. Smith
Adams
Wolf
Louisiana
M. P
A.W.O.L
WPB Announces New Financial Bureau To Aid War Orders
The War Production Board creates a WPB Unit Forms Financial Bureau within the division of industry operations. It takes over the financial section of the contract distribution branch to assist contractors and sub contractors with war order finances. Bradley Nash, head since June 1941, becomes chief of the new bureau.
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Washington
INS
Bureau of Finance
War Production Board
WPB
Bradley Nash
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Ninth
Seventeenth Street
Tenth
Bever Park
Twenty-seventh Street
Bever Avenue
Buchanan
Mount Vernon Road
Twelfth
McKinley
Tenth Street
Thirteenth
Harper and Mc
Intire
Sixth Avenue
Fourteenth
Fifteenth—Hayes
D Street
Sixteenth
van Buren
Fourteenth Avenue
Param
Kelland
Oxfords
Linn County Boys
American Legion -Hanford
Post Cedar Rafids
Iowa
HG Big Ry
Deal
Buick Co
Mt. Ranier
U. S
Harold Ammons
Fifth Avenue SW
Illinois
Messinger "& Sons
DIAL
Y.M.C.A
Boys Department
Boys
H. H. Bennett
Boys’ Council
Bob Fiala
Jim Wescott
Bruce White
Vance Shephard
Ray Yeakle
Wally Emmons
Hi-Y
Ministerial Association
M.C.A
Royal Order of “Y" Bears
Marcell Chavez
Volunteer Service Club
Fred Uhlenhopp
John Kohl
Louis Cullman
Stamp and Coin Club
Air Hawks
Y.M.C.A. Drum and Bugle Corps
Olivet Friendly Indians
Lee Winterberg
Russell Knapp
Art Snider
Robert Waples
Jack Willard
Stanley Finn
Wayne Wasta
Leonard Harris
James Pfiffner
Laval
Germany
Jean Darlan
Petain
Ford
Army Dog
Financial Bureau
Erthy
Star Jewelry CO. Dm
America
Peter. Ballantine
Ballantine
P. Ballantine & Sons
Newark, N. J
Lagomarcino -Grupe CO
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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