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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1944
Page
3
Iowa will seek 202 million dollars in war bonds from June 12 to July 8 as the fifth war loan drive opens. Exe cutive manager W L Clark says the goal is the state’s largest, with a national target of 16.6 billion and individual, corporate, and insurance quotas set across counties and regions.
AMES AP Scholarships prizes certificates and medals were awarded to 57 Iowa State college students at the nineteenth annual spring honors day convocation. Dr Earl E Harper of Iowa University spoke. Certificates of high scholarship went to 30 seniors including John M Stevens Anamosa Robert W Bell Coggan William W Chilcote Washington and Robert E Weber Wapello. Other high scholarship honorees by division included George K Serovy Cedar Rapids engineering Mildred E Krogh Cedar Rapids home economics and Donna J Laker Cedar Rapids science. V-12 honorees included Frederick C Blythe Williamsburg and William Shaver Sigourney.
Des Moines reports local service boards urged to reclassify 1-A (L) registrants to 2-A or 2-B so they may be placed in essential industry jobs. Lt Col Robert Fulton says boards should advise registrants to seek employment and inform employers they would be placed in 2-A or 2-B if other factors are equal.
Lt. Gov. Robert D. Blue campaigned in Cedar Rapids Marion Waterloo and met with Lions and Republican women. He framed the national struggle as military economic and political and urged better postwar resources and equipment for the Iowa state guard at the armory.
Lt. Bernetta Durr, army nurse in the Southwest Pacific, writes to her McGregor parents about a transfer to New Guinea. She describes khaki uniforms, safari jackets, and army gear, and notes social life with clubs, movies, and quiet evenings despite ongoing war.
Mrs. Francis Platt 25 died at St Francis hospital after being critically burned in a Monday trailer house fire that claimed the life of her 3 year old daughter Joan. Darlene Dunn and Robert Henderson wed at the Presbyterian church in Coggon Sunday morning.
Marion high school seniors showcased a night program in the Lincoln auditorium with masters of ceremonies Robert Mathewson and Robert Mullaley. Student acts included solos by Richard Schrimper and Bonnie Fowler, a class history and will, performances by the Dramatic club, and a class song with Lois Parks as lyricist and Kathryn Kassler as accompanist.
Miss Muriel Gordon says a limited number of tickets for the Marion high school alumni banquet will go on sale Thursday at 6 30 p.m. at the Legion hall. Other committee members include Mrs Alfred Bensch Alice Hyde Leola Gonsales Mrs Jack Oxley Ruth Keenan.
Community briefs report on a women’s organization meeting dates and eligibility, a Bremerton birth, a fireman on 30 day leave after Aleutians service, a Saturday school picnic rescheduled to May 23, and Methodist W S C S sewing project. Also notes recent visitors to the Stubers, a seaman promotion after training in Norman Oklahoma, and a circulating car for newspapers with pickup points in Cedar Rapids and Marion.
Twenty one women trained at the University of Iowa over the last thirteen weeks will begin work May 22 as junior draftsmen in an aircraft radio laboratory. Professor F. G. Higbee announced the program, noting Iowa is the only Midwest university offering the course.
Prof. Higbee heads the department of engineering drawing announcing openings for women aged 18 to 33 who will report at Wright Field in Dayton Ohio. Positions pay 1620 dollars a year.
Mrs W N Bragg 65 of Davenport Iowa was killed and her husband 67 was badly injured in an automobile accident in Custer State Park Tuesday.
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