Retarded Children's Week Sees Wide Local Participation
Cedar Rapids groups including fire fighters Camp Fire Girls business women sororities and nurses plan activities November 11 to 22 for Retarded Children's Week. Eleven groups pledged help with the Parents March as hundreds of volunteers canvass homes to distribute materials and raise funds toward a 6500 goal for Linn County Association for Retarded Children.
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Business Women’s Sororities
Carley Pisel
Cedar Rapids
Linn County Association For
Pisel
International Association of Fire Fighters Local 11
Xi Delta
Sigma
Xi Chi
Beta Tota
Lambda
Gamma Theta
Beta Sigma Phi Business Wommen’s
Beta Lambda
Epsilon Sigma Alpha
Linn County Association of Medical Assistants
Ruth Griner
Wahanka
Nowetomuk
Evashevski Addresses Mental Retardation Week
Forest Evashevski Iowa head football coach and honorary chairman of the week speaks to state leaders about mental retardation. He notes it is the most common handicap in children and urges understanding, better training, programs, and research for all ages of the retarded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forest Evashevski
University of Iowa
Iowa
Cedar Rapids Junior Chamber General Membership Meeting
The Cedar Rapids Junior Chamber of Commerce schedules a discussion program at 6 15 p m on Wednesday in the Chamber of Commerce building after a social hour at 5 30 p m Reservations should be made by calling Empire 4 5135
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Cedar Rapids
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Empire
Watch the stars of tomorrow on Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour
Television listing promotes the Sunday 6 30 program on Channel 9 featuring young hopefuls in the Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour talent show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ted Mack
Channel 9
Nature's hibernation: animals enter long winter sleep
The National Geographic Society explains hibernation as a protective winter rest for many animals including woodchucks, ground squirrels, bats, and dormice. Some mammals in northern regions undergo dramatic changes while bears and birds largely do not, and studies show hibernators have irritable hearts and greatly reduced body temperatures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nature
National Geographic Society
Insects Batting Humans for Supremacy
Scientists at a southern regional nuclear energy conference in St. Petersburg Florida report insects are at their peak and weigh as much as humans. They warn that insects adapt, develop poison immunity, and spread via autos and planes, requiring ongoing research and a continual fight to control pests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Petersburg
Fla
Frank Soday
Decatur
Ala
Eric Rodgers
University of Alabama
Ralph W. Singleton
University of Virginia
Millstone Collector Aims World’s First Complete Set
Paul B. Flory of Martic Forge Pennsylvania has 116 millstones weighing up to 2000 pounds. He started by saving a discarded millstone from Lancaster and now seeks three missing types to complete the collection. His pieces include distillery hemp tannery and stone for pottery clay and dye production. He buys stones at token pay and sometimes as high as $100. The desired final additions are a cocoa bean crusher a linseed oil maker and lime stone used by American pioneers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martic Forge
Paul B. Flory
Flory
Lancaster
Will Gas Turbine Replace Piston Type Auto Engine
At a Detroit SAE meeting Carl F. Caris compares gas turbine power with piston engines noting size, weight, fuel economy, idle consumption, and reliability. He cites turbine temperature challenges, costs, and the need for equal or better performance to win over the established piston engine. The article observes engineers optimistic about widespread piston engine adoption in cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Society of Automotive Engineers
Carl F. Caris
Caris
INS
General Motors
Man jailed after encounter with police chief's secretary
A 34 year old Tucson man was jailed after he allegedly tried to persuade a woman on the street to ride with him. The woman was identified as Jean Wilkins, the personal secretary to the Tucson police chief.
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Tucson, Ariz
Tucson
Jean Wilkins
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Evashevski
Michigan
Roy Wise
Mediapolis
Helen Henderson
Waterloo
Iowa Association For
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British Museum
University of Wisconsin
Edmund C. Jaeger
Califfornia
Chuckwalla Mountains
Manes
Broulie Bros. Painters and Paperhangers
Second Street
Interior Decorators Empire
My Frank Snyder
Ely
Ona Martin
Martin
Public Utilities Commission
State House
John M. Ely
Frank L. Martin
Rome
Watch
Home Town Playhouse
Channel
Ted E
Kratchmer
Kroehler Group
Mina
Acousticon Ce
AK Rapids
Merchants Bank
Ar Kroehler
Spain
Kroehler
ALLIO
A Thet Furniture CO
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