Wapsie Y Camp Marks 50th Anniversary With Weekly Birthday Parties
The YMCA camp at Camp Wapsie Y celebrates its 50th anniversary with weekly birthday parties this summer at the Cedar Rapids site. Directors include Joseph C. Watson, Harry Whaley, Charles Filipi, Arnold Salisbury, and Jim Springer who has led since 1962. The camp began in 1919 at Central City with 22 boys and grew to a 172 acre site after 1950.
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Camp Wapsie-Y
YMCA
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Charles Filipi
Northwestern Life Insurance Co
Arnold Salisbury
Jim Springer
Wapsie Fairgrounds
Central City
Wapsipinicon
Camp Wapsie Y
Joseph C. Watson
Oklahoma Ymca
Harry Whaley
YMCA Leaders Through the Years at Chester and Area Camps
The Chester YMCA in Pennsylvania names its current executive director who served as camp director from 1936 to 1941. Fred Shoemaker, now in Albert Lea Minnesota, directed the camp in 1942. Harley Van Akkeren led the camp from 1950 to 1957 and is now associate director for the YMCA North Central Area council. Clyde Bailey, owner of a family resort and fishing camp near Boulder Junction Wisconsin, directed the camp from 1958 to 1961.
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Chester, Pa
YMCA
Fred Shoemaker
Albert Lea
Minn
Harley van Akkeren
Ymca North Central Area Council
Clyde Bailey
Boulder Junction
Wis
Paid Yard Parking Helps Family in California City
Juan Becerra, a 59 year old former laborer in Chula Vista, runs a yard across from a large plant where 9,200 employees park free at the plant. For 3 dollars a week or 10 dollars a month, 60 workers pay to park nearer the main gate, helping fund his children’s college and his retirement.
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Chula Vista
Calif
Juan Becerra
Becerra
Wallace Electors Win Alabama Demo Primary
Alabama Democrats backed George Wallace in the Democratic primary and nominated a 10 electors slate to support Wallace at the November ballot. Wallace, campaigning nationwide as a third party candidate, faces a Republican slate and two splinter Democrat groups. James Allen led in the U S Senate race with a runoff set for June 4. congressional races saw incumbents renominated or advancing to runoffs, including Manley, Flowers, and Quinton Bowers. Negro candidates vied for nine convention delegation posts with one leading white opponents in the delegation race.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
George Wallace
Wallace
Chicago
National Party
James Allen
Gadsden
U.S. Senate
Lister Hill
Armistead Selden
Greenboro
Allen
John Crommelin
James Folsom
Huntsville
Bob Smith
Frank Stewart
George Andrews
Bob Whaley
Quinton Bowers
Selden
Manley
Tuscaloosa
Walter Flowers
House
Eugene “Bull” Conner
State Public Service Commission
Jack Owen
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Camp Wapsie
Camp Wapsier
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Cookie) Bachtell
Eft
Mr. Bachtell
Cook
Filipi
Leslie Crabbe
Wapsipinicon River
By Joe Fischer
Tony
Harry Hegarty Stanwood, Low A
Satin
Glended
RED Satin Distilers CO
Aladdolpa
2Nd St
Town & Country
Thurs
G.O.P. Challenge
Bull
Conner
Orient
Lwiorte
Bermuda
Cardigans
Our Or. Jon
Ered
Woolworth
Avril
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