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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1943
Page
13
Local Gazette columns recount a city blackout with residents scrambling for basics. A warden order to switch off a chick brood light sparks debate while shoppers fumble purchases in dim stores. Various vignettes praise wartime effort and hint at transport and fuel constraints affecting daily life.
Miss Lois Ann Porteous and Cadet Donald E. Petersen of the army air forces cadet training detachment at Coe College were married Saturday at Westminster Presbyterian Church. The bride is Hibbing Minnesota and the groom is from Duluth Minnesota. The Rev James H Blackstone Jr. officiated. The couple will reside at Commonwealth apartments after a Roosevelt hotel reception. Cadet Petersen attended the University of Minnesota with Sigma Chi.
Three Coe college seniors will be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi at 4 30 p m Monday in Stewart Memorial library. Initiates are Margaret Massey Moss Eleanor Peters and Jack Logan with a social hour to follow under Miss Ethel Ryan.
The Tuesday evening session hosts Miss Pearl Colton with assistants Miss Flora Fleming and Miss Lenore Ellsworth. Mrs. Robert Rogers will present the review at the College Club gathering.
The evening current literature group meets Wednesday at 7 30 p m at 525 Knollwood Dr SE with Miss Norma Dietrich reviewing Pacific Charter by Hallett Abend. A separate creative writers group picnic is planned for 5 30 p m at Bever Park. Miss Irma Dovey leads, with arrangements by Miss Currens, Mrs Pickard and Miss Care.
The national defense committee announced figures for Red Cross and Civil Defense work. It tallies $94 raised by the chapter for the blood plasma fund, 7016 hours of Red Cross service and 678 hours for the Linn County Civilian Defense corps. Mrs. Earl D. Hardiwick also reported selling over $15,000 in bonds to members across the last two drives.
Dr and Mrs Wayne J Foster announce the engagement of their daughter Margaret Ann to Robert Patton Hinshaw of Pasadena California. The wedding is set for June 19. Margaret Ann is a McKinley High School graduate and Pomona College alumna. Hinshaw holds a BA from Occidental College and an MA from Princeton, where he teaches.
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