New Cedar Rapids streets plan laid near First and Cottage Grove
Diagram shows two new streets dedicated by nearby property owners and two potential east side high school sites. The north south street will connect Forest Drive and Second Avenue to ease First Avenue traffic, about half a mile long. An east west street will link First Avenue to the new north south road providing access to a school site. widths 60 feet and 80 feet respectively. Citizens who deeded land include Malcolm M Thompson Sutherland Dows the late Isaac B Smith and Mrs Smith and the late F S Mitvalsky and Mrs Mitvalsky. School board ownership of a 20 acre tract north of Cottage Grove and a 10 acre option from Arthur Barlow shape site choices. Public Improvements Commissioner Williams says streets likely graded this fall and oil-surfaced for spring use.
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WO Civic
First Avenue
Cottage Grove Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Forest Drive
Ond
Board of Education
New Street
Malcolm M. Thompson
Sutherland Dows
Isaac B. Smith
Smith
F. S. Mitvalsky
Mitvalsky
Tion
Arthur Barlow
Dows
Cottage Grove
David L. Williams
Summer YMCA Camp Sees Big Registration Near Central City
The Y M C A summer camp for boys opens June 17 at Camp Wapsie near Central City for six weeks with a 90 boys weekly capacity. Camp director Harley Van Akkeren expects higher registrations, offering canoe trips for older boys and a program including nature study swimming fishing crafts and archery. Fees start at 15 50 for the first week and 14 50 for each additional week with a 18 canoe trip.
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Y.M.C.A
Camp Wapsie
Central City
Harley van Akkeren
Maury Brown
Harvard Eyes
Elso
van Akkeren
Julian Huxley to Speak at Coe College Series
British biologist and philosopher Dr. Julian Huxley will close the 1951 Coe college lecture series in Cedar Rapids on June 4. Open to the public free at 8:15 p.m., the talk titled Evolution and Human Destiny will cover science, humanism and world progress.
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Cedar Rapids
Coe College
Julian Huxley
United States
Unesco
Huxley
St. Paul’s Methodist Church
T. H. Huxley
Aldous Huxley
Julian
Eton
Balliol College
Oxford
Rice Institute
Houston
England
New College
Oxford University
Colorful Boston and Maine roster in New Hampshire division
The New Hampshire division is the most colorful on the Boston and Maine Railroad with a roster including train director Gilbert Blue and assistant agent E P White along with B E Gray land C A Brown as agents.
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Concord
N. H
New Hampshire
Boston and Maine Railroad
Gilbert Blue
E. P. White
B. E. Grayland
C . A. Brown
Coe Musicians To Give Annual Spring Concert
Coe college music department presents its annual spring concert next Sunday May 27 at 8 p.m. in St Paul’s Methodist church featuring the college choirs orchestra and soloists under Prof Joseph Kitchin. A Dvorak Te Deum soloists Frances Ford and Don Gunn mix with a Mozart Exultemus Jubilate and Vaughan Williams In Windsor Forest with Bonnie Popham leading sopranos. Outstanding Eastern Iowa musicians join the program.
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Anton Dvorak
Coe College Music Department
Joseph Kitchin
Vaughan Williams
Iowa
Dvorak
Frances Ford
Coe
Don Gunn
Lenore Stark Topinka
Genevieve Auld
Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
John Still
Ravenscroft
Lyly
Campion and Rosetter
Boston Endured Nineteen Straight Weather Weekends
Boston faced nineteen consecutive weekends spoiled by foul weather including rain sleet or snow during the last winter season making travel and outdoor plans difficult and challenging for residents.
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Boston
Automatic Flight Control Topic for IRE Meeting
Cedar Rapids IRE section will host a talk on automatic flight control of aircraft. Guest speaker David L. Markusen of Minneapolis Honeywell Regulator Company will discuss autopilot development and radio beacon based guidance at 7:45 p.m. in the Chamber of Commerce building.
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Cedar Rapids
Institute of Radio Engineers
David L. Markusen
Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company
Chamber of Commerce
Markusen
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis-Honeywell
Aeronautical Research Division
Time for Investigation of Senators Spittoons
A humorous AP summary notes Senate hearings on General MacArthur’s firing feature 22 green crockery numbers and 26 senators on the committee, none of whom are known to chew tobacco.
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Washington
Senate
Douglas MacArthur
Hen lays flat sided egg with yolk and white inside
Circleville Ohio report says Mrs A J Faунaugh of Stoutsville owns a hen that laid a flat sided egg containing both yolk and white.
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Circleville
Ohio
A. J. Fausnaugh
Stoutsville
One Muscovite in Ten Makes Grade As a Communist
Thomas P. Whitney reports from Moscow that one in ten Muscovites is a Communist party member or candidate. The Moscow party organization counts 378,000 members with 62 percent admitted during and after the war. Of members, 25 percent are women, 44 percent workers, and about 45 percent have secondary or higher education. In 1950, 12,580 became candidates and 22,870 were admitted as full members in 1949-50.
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Moscow
Communist Party
I. I. Rumyantsev
Communist Party Organizaon
Rumyantsev
The
Komsomols
Young Communist League
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James McNitt
Viola
Phil Prichard
Cornell College
Jim Hepner
Bill Seliger
Don Peterson
Tom Hagen
Eau Claire
Kray
Paul Baumer
West Bend
Dave Roberts
Ottumwa
George Pauk
John Pearson
Mike Sullivan
Ronald Radeke
John Mars
Fort Dodge
Tom Hepner
A. T. Pleune
King’s College
London
Royal Institution
Arnold Bennett
D. H. Lawrence
H. G. Wells
Lysenko
Gaumont British Pictures
Zoological Society of London
London Zoo
U.N
Complete Optical Service
Merle E. Garmoe
Yager
Hub
Glen Rogers
Kentucky
Pat Stoker
Kenwood Fuel Company
Roy M. Rice
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Maico
Maico Hearing Service
R. G. Touro
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Illinois Gas
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