Cedar Rapids Population Guesses Stir Informal Census
Caldwell wins informal Cedar Rapids census quiz with a guess near 72 000 as officials collected about 20 projections before the official 1950 figures. The column notes historic forecasts and a spread of estimates, plus reflections on changing family size and local curiosity about Ben Butler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OB Caldwell
Chamber of Commerce
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Caldwell
Darrell Russell
The
Soil Testing Laboratory
the Gazette
Roy Swanson
Chamber
Shirley F. Bechtel
Community Chest
Cedar Rapids official bags pheasant on highway 30
Cedar Rapids public safety commissioner Prochaska shot a pheasant from his car on highway 30 about 38 miles west of Cedar Rapids. The windshield shattered injuring Mrs Prochaska slightly while San Junie was unharmed. The bird caused the crash risk, but speed remained around 48 mph.
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Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Commissioner Prochaska
Prochaska
Prochaskas
KCRG
Mrs Bezanson Elected President of Cedar Rapids College Club
Officers were chosen at the annual luncheon in the Roosevelt hotel with 81 members in attendance. New president Mrs. P. F. Bezanson and officers include Mrs. Lloyd Goettel vice president Miss Katherine Stone recording secretary Miss Betty Mae Chapman corresponding secretary and Miss Anne Popchuck treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids College Club
Anne Popchuck
Katherine Stone
P. F. Bezanson
Lloyd Goettel
Betty Mae Chapman
Roosevelt
Roosevelt Hotel
O. J. Elsenbast
Richard H. Buresh
Club
Lillian Beck
Jessie Chambers
Hazel Evans
Martha Tschirgi
Royal Holbrook
William Rinderknecht
R. D. Taylor
Marie Schmermund
Marjorie Walters
S. W. Wilder
Birthday Scavenger Hunt For Fourteenth Celebration
Miss Sharon Gaston and Miss Merrily Watters co hosted a scavenger hunt Friday evening in honor of their fourteenth birthdays. Guests gathered at 214 Twenty Fourth Street Drive SE for the hunt and then returned to the Gaston home for games dancing and refreshments. Attendees included Bonie Busby Judy Zuhn Nancy Redhouse Susan Schneider and many others along with several young men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sharon Gaston
Merrily Watters
Miss Gaston
John F. Gaston, Jr
Twenty-fourth Street Drive
Miss Watters
R. K. Watters
Gaston Home
Bonnie Busby
Judy Zuhn
Nancy Redhouse
Susan _ Schneider
Gloria Secor
Suzanne Hahn
Barbara Nagel
Anne Hess
Sally Mavis
Karen McLeland
Ione Poole
Prudence Peterson
Janet Butterfield
Tom Campbell
Tom Benner
Bill Lentz
Bill Meffert
Dick Sandercock
Ronnie Baty
John Johnson
Bob Ervin
Ted Ramsay
Fred Burrell
Wayne Ellingson
Gary Robertson
Scott Ellwood
Don Petersen
Jerry Emerson
Miss Montgomery and Mr. Hunter To Be Feted
Two parties today honor Miss Ellen Montgomery and John C. Hunter of Des Moines. A garden wedding Saturday afternoon will be celebrated with a family dinner at Dr. Wayne J. Foster’s home. Cock tail party hosts include Mr. and Mrs. Howard Green and daughter Miss Polly Green.
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Ellen Montgomery
John C. Hunter
Des Moines
Wayne J. Foster
Hillcrest Drive
Howard Green
Polly Green
Forest Drive
Dorothy DeGroot Weds Donald Lindsay in Iowa City Church
Dorothy Jean DeGroot became Mrs Donald Bryce Lindsay in a Saturday 8 PM ceremony at St Pauls Methodist church Belle Plaine with Rev Paul H Heath officiating. The couple, from 2916 C avenue NE and Fairfield, plan a Chicago wedding trip and residence in Fairfield after June 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Jean DeGroot
Donald Bryce Lindsay
Paul H. Heath
Belle Plaine
St. Paul’s Methodist Church
Marvin Rober
George J. DeGroot
C Avenue
Lindsay
R. G. Lindsay
Fairfield
Marshall Hickman
H. A. Boughton
Sara Johnson
Carole Boughton
Targe M. Lindsay
Charles C. Cook, Jr
Ames
Ronald Ball
Iowa City
DeGroot
Mrs. Lindsay
Chi Omega
Parsons College
Alpha Kappa Chi
Iowa State College
Roosevelt Hotel
Cotton Ball Set For June 17 At Cedar Rapids Country Club
Invitations mailed for the twelfth annual Cotton Ball to be held June 17 from 9 to 1 at Cedar Rapids Country Club. Junior League of Cedar Rapids members host with Mrs. William A. Bloomhall as chairman. Proceeds fund Children’s Theater Puppetry in school listening radio programs and doll repair work. Invitation questions call Mrs. David Pickford at 3-1639.
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Cedar Rapids Country Club
Junior League of
Cedar Rapids
William A. Bloomhall
David Pickford
Michners Visit Cedar Rapids Friends
Mr and Mrs Ed Michner of Rancocos New Jersey arrive in Cedar Rapids to visit Cedar Rapids friends. They stay with Mr and Mrs Horace G Hedges Eastland Acres. Arthur A Collins hosts picnic for 18 guests. Ruth Bryan hosts tea for Mrs Michner with sister Mrs Luman R Wing of Evanston Illinois also present. Wing plans a week long stay while Mr Wing leaves after Memorial Day.
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Cedar Rapids
Ed Michner
Rancocos
N. J
Michner
Josephine Peddie
Horace G. Hedges
Eastland Acres
Arthur A. Collins
Cottage Grove Avenue SE
Michners
Ruth Bryan
Second Avenue SE
Luman R. Wing
Evanston
Miss Bryan
Wings
Wing
Milton G. Bryan
Three Visitors Honored in Cedar Rapids Coffee
Mrs Perry Rude and Mrs Kent C Ferman hosted a Friday morning coffee for three visitors in Cedar Rapids. Guests met at the Rude home 535 Vernon Drive SE. Honorees were Mrs Frank Walters a houseguest of Mrs W L Phipps Mrs Lucile Mahaffey of Los Angeles guest of Miss Nelle Erwin and Mrs F H Harwood of Detroit house guest of Mrs Merton F Seely. Mrs Seely 1903 Second Avenue SE hosted a picnic supper Saturday evening for friends honoring Mrs Harwood.
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Perry Rude
Kent C. Ferman
Cedar Rapids
Rude
Vernon Drive
Frank Walters
W. L. Phipps
Lucile Mahaffey
Los Angeles
Nelle Erwin
F H. Harwood
Detroit
Merton F. Seely
Seely
Second Avenue SE
Harwood
Character Study This and No More
E. N. H. reviews this Bene dict and Nancy Freedman novel about Lucien Sadler a sensitive youth who endures repeated misfortune. Rheumatic fever at twelve sparks a life of struggle from poverty to love and loss ending with a fragile meaning found in Carol's child and a shared past.
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Lucien Sadler
Lucien
Carol
Fredda
Mike
Unheard Music by Eleanor Cameron reviewed
Helen Goddard praises Eleanor Cameron's Unheard Music for its deep psychology and tight character angles. Jane Fielding, a librarian, and her colleagues navigate patron demands, ambition, and the musician Matthew Hinden as the plot explores effort, failure, and choices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eleanor Cameron
Little, Brown
Holmes
Autocrat
Jane
Mac
Jane Fielding
Byzantine Empire
Matthew Hinden
Helen Goddard
Seager Books Two Novels In Book Review
Allan Seager’s The Old Man of the Mountain is praised for seventeen short stories showing masterful writing and variety in realism humor and pathos. Saw Ge Mah reviews the life of a physician in Michigan’s Blufftown detailing medical service in a small community and the origin of the name Saw Ge Mah.
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Man of the
Louis J
Allan Seager
Simon and Gariepy
Northland Press
Schuster
Rye
Vanity Fair
Mr. Seager
Elizabeth North Hoyt
Michigan
Gordon Adams
Blufftown
Hal Adams
Helen Goddard
Youve Seen the Place Happy Holiday travel book review
A critical look at Happy Holiday by Ewing Krainan and Horace Sutton issued by Simon and Schuster. The travel guide is praised for global photography yet mocked for clichéd captions that rely on publicity boilerplate rather than vivid description.
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Ewing Krainan
Horace Sutton
Simon and Schuster
Vacation satire and travel notes spark review page fun
A humorous book critique mocks gullible vacationers with scenes of guides, central dining rooms, stables, and burro waits, while a scathing tone questions travel writing. In St Louis Miss Marifran Tidy visits John J Jacobs III in his Sixteenth Street SE home for a weekend.
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John J. Jacobs III
Sixteenth Street SE
Marifran Tidy
St. Louis
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Rodney Birkichnt
University of Iowa
Bartholomew and Associates of
City Limits
Jim Scolaro
Scolaro
St. Petersburg
Ben Butler
Welch-Cook-Bears
Gazette
St. Pete
Butler
Florida
Mr. Butler
Time Magazine
Time
Boston
Dallas
Cinderella
Eddie Dochterman
Darryl Dochterman
Shaver Park
Eddie
Robert Dochterman
Sixteenth Avenue
Darryl
William Dochterman
Sixteenth Avenue SW
Bezanson
College Club
Miss Montgomery
Mr. Hunter
Dorothy DeGroot
Donald Lindsay
C.R
Benedict
Nancy Freedman
Harper
Seager’s Best
Iowa Floor Covering CO
First Avenue
Iowa Floor Covering Company
Dial
SY. Louis
John J. Jacobs
Joseph Fort Newton
Norman Peale
Fulton Oursler
E. Stanley Jones
Henry Drummond
Betty Betz
Elbert Hubbard
A.L. Alexander
the Little Music Library
Wurinzer
Philadelphia
Tommie
Judy
America
Story & Clark
Hason-Hamlin
Chickering
First Street
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