Model boat hobby proves calmer than flying models
Robert J. Tosh Jr. converts his radio controlled model hobby from planes to a 244 foot air boat built in three months. He notes boats stall and drift to shore without sinking while planes crash, so boats reduce anxiety and weather sensitivity. Tosh, from Crestview Drive SE, says top speed is about 30 mph and plans a radio controlled power glider while the pond stays unfrozen.
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Robert J. Tosh Jr
Crestview Drive
Tosh
Ellis Park
Star Lights Winter Turns Armchair Stargazer
J Clayton Troeger of Ames public schools offers a Christmas gift guide of astronomy books and magazines plus a moonwatch calendar. The piece provides a list of winter sky events from November through the month’s end, naming Orion Auriga Taurus Canis Major Aldebaran Hyades Mars Regulus Jupiter Saturn and the Leonid Taurid meteor showers.
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Iowa
Wrnter
J. Clayton Traeger
16Th St
Ames
Perigee
North America
Aldebaran
Hyades
Taurus
Mars
Regulus
Jupiter
Earth
Saturn
Leo
Diary collector preserves lives in 8500 square foot home
In Stillwater James Cummings fills 7 500 diaries in 11 years and 35 000 volume library. He prizes Emersons idea the unrecorded life is not worth examining. He spends mostly small sums for diaries, except a War of 1812 spy diary bought for four figures.
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Stillwater
Cummings
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Robert Tosh
Winter
J. Clayton Troeger
Saturday Gazette
By J. Clayton Traeger
Aquarius
Donald K. Gardner
Cedar Rapids
United Cerebral Palsy Center
Ellis Y.M.C.A
Metropolitan Y
Masonic Order
Shrine
Gardner
Jeanne Wiltsey
Arthur M. Miner, Jr
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