Acorn Beauties Select Sharon Voels As 1955 Beauty
Acorn yearbook announces Sharon Voels of Chicago Illinois as the 1955 Acorn beauty from six candidates. Hudson’s next choices were Arlene Lesear of Berwyn Illinois and Malaivel Mojdara of Bangkok, Thailand. Voels, a junior nominated by Delta Delta Delta, heads a list of attendants including Gwen Severn Mary An Woessner and Colette Lichter with sorority representation Alpha Xi Delta Kappa Delta and Chi Omega.
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Ovie Star Rock Hudson
Sharon Voels
Chicago
Ill
Acorn
Hudson
Arlene Lesear
Berwyn
Malaivel Mojdara
Bangkok
Thailand
Miss Voels
Coe
Delta Delta Delta Sorority
Jear
Alpha Xi Delta Sorority
Mojdara
Independents
Gwen Severn
Cedar Rapids
Alpha Gamma Delta
Mary An Woessner
Shannon
Kappa Delta
Colette Lichter
Wilmette
Chi Omega
Anna Heyberger Memorial Scholarship at Coe College Honors Czech Educator
The Ko mensky Society funds a 450 annual scholarship for a first year Coe student of Czech ancestry who shows strong academic promise and financial need. If no freshman fits, a qualified upperclassman may receive it. Dr. Anna Heyberger, long time Coe languages professor, supported Czech education and history.
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Coe
Anna Heyberger
Coe College
Komensky Society
Heyberger
Leo Sediacek
Cedar Rapids
Charles University
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Westminster College
New Wilmington
Sorbonne
Paris
Jean A. Comenius
Institute de France
Masaryk
Red Cross
Kamensky Society
Rectal and Colon Diseases: Free Book Offer
An advertisement for a free copy of RECTAL AND COLON DISEASES from America’s leading pile and general rectal clinic. The offer promises practical guidance on relief and explains why remedies may fail, inviting readers to write for the booklet from Thove Minor Hospital, City.
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America
Thove Minor
Uite Ie
Nwood
Anras City 9
Elon Rubber Tires Might Clear Traffic
Evanston Illinois reports Henry K. Norton of the New York City Transit Authority outlines a robot aerial transit system. The plan uses rubber wheeled trains on an overhead concrete road with speeds up to 70 mph and one mile between stations averaging 90 seconds.
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Evanston, Ill
Henry K. Norton
New York City Transit Authority
Northwestern University
Norton
King and Queen Meet by Chance at Chelsea Show
Queen Elizabeth II attended the Chelsea flower show in London last week when King Gustaf of Sweden, on a private visit, also happened to be there. The queen and Gustaf shook hands and chatted for a few minutes among the tulips.
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London
Elizabeth II
Chelsea
Gustaf
Sweden
Britain
Restaurant Quotes Its Prices in Fractions
The Hotel Edisons Green Room in New York unveils a Wall Street themed menu with sections named rights dividends blue chips foreign market over the counter and odd lots. Prices are quoted in fractions.
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New York
Edison
Wall Street
Coe Seniors Total 107 for June Commencement
Coe college lists 107 senior candidates for degrees for next Sunday's commencement in the Coe auditorium at 2 30 p m. Dr Waldemar Westergaard will deliver the address and receive the doctor of letters degree. Dr Irving West will give the baccalaureate address and receive the doctor of sacred theology degree. Other honorees include J C Penney and Allen Tate with doctorates.
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Coe College
Coe
Waldemar C. Westergaard
Knight of
Danneborg
Westergaard
Irving A. West
House of Hope Presbyterian Church
St. Paul
West
Richard B. Hudson
Tait
Max Schoen
Dr. Munro
Clarence Jung
Mr. Penney
Willis E. Lamb
Joseph Nemer
L. David Rosenberg
Abigail Oleson Newburger
Shirley Ann Niemeyer
Donald L. Pardubsky
Rosalie Busby Risse
Jazt
Donald R. Witherell
Cedar Rapids
Val B. DeCarlo
Wilmette
Henry T. ‘Mathews, Jr
Evanston
Betty van Waters
Carroll
Thomas G. Birr
Evelyn Blaha
Carol ‘Elle Borts
Mardelle Ruff Bryant
Paul T. Kemmerling
Gladys M. Mentzer
William B. Pohorsky
Margaret DeMoss Sperring
Bruce T. Caldwell
Carolyn Jean Champar
Mark and
Max Daehler
Carol Jeanette DePress‘les
Palmer Dyal
Carolyn Sue Eaton
Austin O. Fernow
Fifi Thomas
Gerald R. Gibbs
F. William Picking
John W. Stocks
Robert G. Woodward
Ronald W. Hinrichs
Mary Carlsten Krakora
Charles Irene Meyers
E. Wayne Scott
Robert Louis Tweedie
Janet Irene Strang
Sarah Jane Whitcomb
Anamosa
Sherwood D
Stockton
Coe College Summer Session to Begin Monday
Coe College’s 56th summer session opens Monday with the first course meeting at 7 45 AM and registration. The program uses a one subject at a time plan with seven terms including six two week, 21 three week and four four week courses. Thirty seniors in ROTC will receive commissions as second lieutenants in the air force during commencement.
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Coe College
Coe
Keith Broman
Marshall Hall
A. Stuart Daley
Albert J. Schmidt
Harold Babb
James B. Hodgson
John X. Jatarich
Ruth Zika
Stanley Heywood
Richard Spencer
Eleanor Taylor
Willard Arnett
Edith L. Barber
Robert V. Drexler
Zora Pauk DuVall
Nadine Fillmore
Karl E. Goellner
Dr. Heywood
Cedar Rapids
Harry A. Amesbury, Jr
Clinton
Roy E. Cant
Sclon
Doris Ileen Cosgriff
Britt
James
Ray Gruber
Edward Kenneth Huff
Casimer Passalino
All of
Clarence
Ruth Elaine Nickerson
Clear Lake
Jerold Kenneth McCoy
Tipton
William John Patterson
Chicago Heights
John Thomas Peters
Arlington Heights
Ill
Florence Larson Reed
Springville
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Air Force
Thomas G. Birr
Sherwood D. Bryan
Palmer Dyal
Thomas Hopkins
Ramon Johannsen
Paul Kemmerling
Elwood Kuske
Robert Lagerstrom
Keith Lowrey
Charles Metcalf
Russell Monson
F. William Picking
William Privett
William Raitt
E. Wayne Scott
Gerald L. Shott
Gerald W. Stoltz
Robert L. Tweedie
Robert G. Woodward
James D. Bruton
College Student Becomes Man on Flying Trapeze
Jon Friday, a Michigan State sophomore from Hartford, Michigan, pursued flying trapeze as a path to fund his college. He started earning $55 weekly with a circus, now makes up to $250, sometimes $400 at Atlantic City, and has appeared on TV. He plans to produce circus acts in the future.
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East Lansing
Mich
Jon Friday
Jon
Michigan State College
Atlantic City
Hartford
John W. McQuiston
Unusual Disease Kills Two Sisters in Louisville
In Louisville Kentucky two young sisters Susan Hoeck 23 months and Mary Ann 3 died from pancreatic cystic fibrosis an incurable disease that impairs digestion and nutrition. Dr Carroll Witten notes the disease is rare in two siblings and followed a prior death in the family from a related ailment.
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Louisville, Ky
Susan Hoeck
Susan
Mary Ann
Carroll Witten
Marijuana Farm Found in Florida
Federal and state agents removed marijuana plants from the yard of Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Jones and charged them with narcotics law violations. The overgrown yard described as a marijuana farm is cited in the charges.
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Miami, Fla
Herschel Jones
Knapp to be Coe Alumni Chapel Speaker
Coe College will host Alumni Chapel with Russell F. Knapp, a 1930 graduate and Cedar Rapids broker, speaking at 10:30 a.m. The Alumni Dinner at 6:30 p.m. features J. C. Penney as guest speaker and honorary degree recipient.
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Knapp
Coe
Coe College
Russell F. Knapp
Cedar Rapids
J. C. Penney
J. C. Penney Company
Voorhees Hall
Penney
national Coe|Alumni_ Association
Doe
Alumni Association
John Bickel
Lew Dunlap
Esther Olmstead
Mary Paul
Florence Mae Wolfe
C. C. Ball
San Antonio
Texas
George E. Booth
Winnetka
H. W. Chase
North Port
L. I
George O. Ross
British Columbia
Thomas VanMeter
Moline
Arthur O. Knapp
Chicago
Ill
George C.knott
Independence
Ore
Henry G. Raps
Ventnor
N. J
Herbert H. Smith
Ardmore
Mary M. Smith
Cedar Falls
H. W. Johnston
Traer
David D. Todd
la Jolla
Calif
J. C. Frazee
Hawthorne
Earl B. Young
Iron Lake City
Utah
Walter Olney
Des Moines
H. T. ‘Miller
Cleveland
Ohio
Herbert P. Giger
Toledo
David J.macdonald
New York City
John F. Merkle
Omaha
Neb
Cedar Rapids Symphony seeks 8783 fund for 1955 56 season
Cedar Rapids Symphony Association launches an $8 783 fundraising drive to support the 1955 56 season after a record setting year. Robert H Taylor will chair the campaign starting June 6 with 13 section chiefs named. The goal is about one third of the orchestra budget and ticket sales covered most costs in the past.
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Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Association
Stevan B. Smith
Taylor
Howard Cherry, Jr
Richard E. Crane
Bryce M. Fisher
Ted Healy
Horace Hedges, Jr
Frank Hidinger
John Hoover
R. L. Moehlmann
C. James Noell
Eleanor Taylor
Jack Vorhies
Jack Ware
John Whalen
Ted Welch
Coe Auditorium
Cedar Rapids
Overtakers Be ware of Undertakers sign noted in Hastings
In Hastings Nebraska an unusual highway sign warns drivers with the phrase Overtakers Be ware of Undertakers. The odd wording prompts local interest and speculation about the message origin. No further details were provided on who placed the sign or its purpose.
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Hastings, Neb
Illinois Town Plans Centennial Town Meeting Series
Bement Illinois celebrates its one hundredth anniversary with ten town meetings on world peace and understanding. The series opens June 5 with Sen Alexander Wiley and includes speakers from the United States and abroad. Charles B Schuman president of the American Farm Bureau Federation is set as a principal speaker for the kickoff.
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Bement
Ill
Arnold J. Toynbee
Toynbee
United States
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
Lincoln
Douglas
Illinois
Bryant House
Carleton Smith
Alexander Wiley
R-Wis
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Charles B. Schuman
American Farm Bureau Federation
Wife and husband clash in Milwaukee courtroom
Ernest Trudell, 33, testified his wife broke his arm with a baseball bat during an argument. District Court Judge Robert Hansen noted the exchange as Mrs. Trudell, 38, replied that he had thrown a rolling pin at her before, drawing a sharp remark in court.
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Milwaukee
Ernest Trudell
Robert Hansen
Blind man robbed after crossing street in Jackson
Eddie Howard assisted blind James Brooks across the street then robbed him of his billfold. He was captured a block away with the billfold. Brooks was found standing in an alley with his hands in the air by police.
German Sentenced For Biting Women
In Darmstadt, Wilhelm Jurt Kotterba, 33, was sentenced to three years in prison for biting a 19 year old girl on the nose. He had earlier served six months for attempting the same act on several other girls and called the bites misdirected kisses.
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Darmstadt
Germany
Whilhelm Jurt Kotterba
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Elon
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Miss Woessner
Miss Sovern
Robert W. Davis
Des Plaines
Mary Adell Dewey
Deerfield
Roger K. Donnelly
Parent City
Jacqueline Joan Fisher
Summit
Pauline Elaine Frank
James F. Gillespie
Cambridge
Minn
Jean A. Gordon
Oaklawn
Edward Earl Grunder
Mechanicsville
Jay Burton
Sycamore
Franklin Penne
Waterloo
Dale Delano Kooyman
Bondurant
Robert John Lagersthom
Elgin
Keith Wayne Lowrey
McHenry
Patricia LouieMullen
John Bryan Mahon
St. Louis
David Lloyd Marner
Wellman
Malaival Mojdara
Russell W. Monson
Crawpeeceville
William Frank Privett
Bowling Green
William W. Raitt
St. Edward
Forbes R. Purkis
Oak Park
Carlolyn Kay Rohrdanz
Sully
Kenneth J. Schussler
Corona del Mar
Mary Ann Woessner
Stanley Y. Zukeran
Honolulu
Hawaii
James David Bruton
Marjorie Frances Lala
Marion
Helen Paula Cavros
Clair B. Coy
Richard Hekl
Coe's
Florida
Gerald Shott
Elgin, Ill
Russell Knapp
Symphony
Smith
Coffin Warning
NEW Life
COVA
Lester Trunecek
1641 Memorial Drive
Toynbees
Mochnick Typewriter CO
2Nd Ave
Dial
WMT
Paramount Pharmacies
Paramount Theater
First Ave
Merchants Bank
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