Queen Candidates for Band Festival Named for Cedar Rapids Event
Bonnie Gau and Martha Ann Bigger join Tipton and Lisbon as eastern Iowa queen hopefuls for the June 7 Cedar Rapids band festival. Tipton will send a 41 piece band directed by H. Dale Findley. Lisbon's 28 piece band accompanies 17 year old Martha Ann Bigger. The day includes massed concert, nine specialty numbers, parades, a radio broadcast, and crowning on the viewing stand.
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Bonnie Gau
Martha Ann Bigger
Cedar Rapids
Bonnie
Tipton High School
Tipton
H. Dale Findley
Lisbon
Hill Park
Catholic Workman Association to Convene in Cedar Rapids
The thirty third general convention of the Catholic Workman Fraternal Insurance Association will meet in Cedar Rapids from May 27 to 29. About eighty delegates from across the United States are expected. The event opens with a Solemn Pontifical High Mass at St. Ludmila's church led by Bishop L. B. Kucera with Archbishop Henry P. Rohiman presiding. A banquet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday will be held in the Crystal ballroom of the Montrose hotel, featuring J. R. Fialka as principal speaker and performances by branch No. 137 children. Local planning is led by Edward Kuba with Joseph Loesel, Bernard Erger, and Joseph Mateju.
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Catholic Workman Fraternal Insurance Association
Cedar Rapids
Edward R. Kuba
United States
Kuba
L. B. Kucera
Lincoln
Neb
St. Ludmila’s Church
Henry P. Rohiman
Dubuque
Frank R. Hruby
St. Ludmila’s
Crystal Ballroom
Montrose Hotel
Montrose
J. R. Fia
Firefighters’ ladder truck trapped after inward doors
Newbury Point Massachusetts firemen faced a problem with a new $17,000 aerial ladder truck that would not exit Central fire station because the doors opened inward. They removed the doors to free the vehicle.
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Newbury Point
Mass
Central Fire Station
Coe Seniors To Present Recital At Chapel
Coe college announces the annual senior music recital in the chapel at 8 15 p m Monday. Audrey Hubner and Jack Parrish arranged the program with accompanists Eleanor Taylor Everette Frese Velma MacMillan Robert Colston and Charles Houser. The program features Everette Frese on piano with Sonata and works by Battilee Giovanni and Mozart and includes Jeanne Dare Tequarowski Neuman Crew and a soprano performance Thou Art the Rock by Charles Houser on organ.
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Coe College
Audrey Hubner
Jack Parrish
Eleanor Taylor
Everette Frese
Velma MacMillan
Robert Colston
Charles Houser
Battilee
Giovanni
Mozarto
Jeanne Dare
Tequarowski
Neumand Crew
Open House Today For Naval Armory
Cedar Rapids hosts a noon to 5 p.m. open house at its naval armory to conclude Operation Naval Reserve, a V-6 recruiting drive begun last week. Uniformed reserve personnel will display radio and electronics gear on two levels of the Memorial building as 200 man unit with three vacancies, Lt. Comdr. R. S. Glessner notes. Enlistees in the V-8 active branch may transfer when slots open.
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Cedar Rapids’ Naval Armory
Operation Naval Reserve
Organized Reserve
Memorial Building
Omiy
R. S. Glessner
V-8
Vecancier Occu
Memorial Day observance planned by C R organizations
The Women’s Relief Corps will pay floral tribute at 9:15 a.m. to honor dead soldiers from all wars, followed by a Navy Mothers club service at 9:30 a.m. A procession and ceremonies at the cemetery will feature rabbi Herman Schaalman, Rev. J. D. Kearn, Rev. D. A. Loferski, and a firing squad of Legion, VFW, and COE ROTC under Elmer Ferriter.
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Women’s Relief Corps
America
Navy
Navy Mothers Club
Anthony W. Chihak
St. Wenceslaus Church
Herman E. Schaalman
Temple Juda
J. D. Kearn
St. Matthew's Church
D. A. Loferski
Grace Episcopal Church
American Legion
VFW
Coe Rotc
Elmer Ferriter
al Marek
Legion
Sam Cohen
Rabbi Schaalman
Cohen
Edward A. Kopp
John B. Turner II
Gordon Hughes
Gets His Fish Worms By Shocking Them Out
POWELL RIVER British Columbia fishing tricks draw attention as a man uses electrical shocks to make fish surface, described as innovative but controversial. The brief report notes the unusual method and its rising curiosity among locals and visitors.
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Eastern Iowa
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Eastern Tow
Moose
Queen Court of Honor
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Hugh
Fort Madison Kitties
Vinton
West Union
Anamosa
Monticello
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Stanley Vesely
Young Men's Bureau
Retail Merchants Bureau
Ed Mund
Hal Shirk
Catholic Workman Association
C.R
Bonnie Gaul
POLIO
Sbuehler Super Meat Market
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Mies
Ita
Daughters of Union Veterans
Ladies of G.A.R
U. S. Army
Legion Auxiliary
Powell River
B. C
Thorpe
AAVEN
DIAL
Ae Anita Loa Farm Dairies
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Amaymiye Visma
Eee Farm Dairies
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