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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1943
Page
17
A Cedar Rapids survey urges replacing scattered school stop signs with a citywide school safety patrol to teach children safe street use. The plan calls for one officer to organize and supervise patrols, plus postwar modernization of traffic signals and lighting to improve flow and safety.
Supt. Arthur Deamer said Wednesday that traffic safety patrols could be acceptable if only older pupils were involved. He noted that elementary students aged 11 and 12 are not suited for patrol duties and cited years of safe school street crossing education with no incidents at school intersections.
A traffic survey by Elroy L. Ericksen for the National Safety Council, with Paul Hill and Ralph E. Boyle, released by Al Keyes, urges continuation of daily signal schedules, modernization of the business district system after the war, and the discontinuance of some signals in favor of stop signs.
Don W. Dornon, a Coe College graduate and former Gazette carrier from Cedar Rapids, has been promoted to manager of the Indianapolis office of Dun and Bradstreet Inc. He is nephew of Ralph and Mrs. Gray of Cedar Rapids and previously worked with Killian Company and later Dun and Bradstreet in Chicago, St. Louis, and Toledo.
Calne England AP reports Sarah Grand veteran novelist and suffrage pioneer who served six terms as Bath mayor died Wednesday at age 88. She helped lead the votes for women movement in Britain and left a lasting literary and civic legacy.
Establishment and staff credits listed for The Gazette Company Cedar Rapids edition. Publisher John L Miller and Editor Harry Boyd noted with managing editor E Hoyt. Full wire service and AP UPI affiliations described with subscription rates by carrier and mail.
Coe college prepares a May 25 sports day on the women's athletic field. Miss Ethel Ryan director of women's physical education says the program will feature demonstrations by women students and will crown a Queen of Coe as the headline.
New York City poultry dealers struck over price controls closing 250 shops and prompting New Jersey fishermen to dump thousands of pounds of whiting back into the sea. Operators allegedly demanded five cents above OPA ceilings, while鱼 fishermen dumped whiting as the New York dealers would not handle fish at four cents per pound.
The Rev Walter Appelgren of Macomb Illinois has been commissioned a first lieutenant and is attending a special chaplain's school at Harvard University. A 1922 Coe college graduate and former pastor of the First Presbyterian church in Macomb for 16 years he serves on the Synod of Iowa council and presbytery council.
AP Chungking dispatches report danger to Changsha in Hunan province widens as Japanese invasion columns gain foothold, signaling a rising threat to China's rice bowl amid wartime moves.
On the southern shore of Lake Tungting Chinese forces report a Japanese beachhead after earlier attempts were smashed. In Burma, British HQ cites patrol activity as Japanese consolidate positions on the Buthedaung Maungdaw road north of Akyab.
Charles L. Borie Jr., a nationally known architect and Smithsonian art commission chairman, died Tuesday in Philadelphia at age 72. He held prominent roles in Washington and contributed to national art and architectural circles.
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