Cedar Rapids graduate earns Presidential Certificate of Merit
Jerome M. B. Kellogg formerly of Cedar Rapids and Des Moines, a PhD physicist and graduate of Iowa State University, is honored with the Presidential Certificate of Merit for his work at Los Alamos. Presentation by Rear Admiral Bernard Bieri. Kellogg leads the physics division at Los Alamos since 1946.
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Cedar Rapids
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
New Mexico
Jerome M. B. Kellogg
F. C. Kellogg
Second Avenue SE
Des Moines
Kellogg
The
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Columbia Radiation Laboratory
New York
Los Alamos Laboratory
University of California
Bernard Bieri
Eleventh Naval District
San Diego
United States
Amps Phato Lab
Resident Moves to Santa Fe After Cedar Rapids Tenure
She plans to establish residence in Santa Fe New Mexico soon after thirty years as a Cedar Rapids resident.
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Santa Fe, N. M
Cedar Rapids
How Barber Poll Sees the Outcome
Washington based barber Harry Rich conducted a nationwide informal poll of 1000 shops. He projects popular vote 47.8 for Truman and 48.7 for Dewey while assigning 337 electoral votes to Dewey and 129 to Truman with Wallace and Thurmond absent or near ties.
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Harry Rich
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Truman
Dewey
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Thurmond
Virginia
West Virginia
Minnesota
Reserve Officer Peace Award to Vandenberg
Sena tor Vandenberg will receive the 1948 Reserve Officers Association peace award at the group's annual military ball in Philadelphia on Armistice Day. He will be given a gold medal and a scroll as the citizen who in 1948 did the most toward establishing permanent peace. The 1947 award went to Secretary of State Marshall.
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Philadelphia
Vandenberg
Reserve Officers’ Association
Senate
United States
Marshall
Mary Nolan dies at 42 once Ziegfeld star and screen idol
Hollywood report notes Mary Nolan once known as Imogene Bubbles Wilson rose from orphaned poverty to Broadway fame and silent films. She later faced scandal, marriage troubles, injuries, and addiction before dying in a modest bungalow at age 42. An autopsy was ordered after her death on Sunday.
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Mary Nolan
Florenz Ziegfeld
Broadway
Imogene
Bubbles” Wilson
Mabel Randall
Leo Gelfand
Gelfand
Miss Nolan
New York
Frank Tinney
Ziegfeld
Bubbles
Mary Robertson
Gas fumes kill five of family in New Jersey home
Five members of the Silvers family died and three children were hospitalized after escaping coal gas fumes from a defective furnace in Freehold New Jersey. The dead include Scudder Silvers 32 and his wife Annette 33 and Scudder's mother Mrs Race Silvers and two daughters Patricia 12 and Joan 7. Three other children Audrey 13 Bruce 10 and Guy 6 were hospitalized. a dog was found dead. Dr Daniel Sagotsky, who found the bodies, was summoned to watch a television program.
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Freehold
N. J
J. Victor Carton
Scudder Silvers
Annette
Race Silvers
Patricia
Joan
Audrey
Bruce
Guy
Daniel Sagotsky
Nebraskan's Trip Saves Ruhr Plant
Claude Canaday a Bloomfield Nebraska farmer flew to Germany after a letter from Gustav urged aid. He left his crops and cattle to rescue a Ruhr factory from dismantling and waited to hear if his intervention succeeded.
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Frankfurt
Claude Canaday
Bloomfield
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Gustav
Protest Petition Helps Spare Local Plant in Kamen
Bloomfield resident Canaday toured Washington and Frankfurt to press for preserving Herman Klein and Sons oiling device plant. The plant employing 90 townspeople was halted from dismantling in Kamen after his visit and will be spared.
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Herman Klein and Sons
Bloomfield
Canaday
Washington
Frankfurt
Klein
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