Cedar Rapids Honors 30 Year Teachers at Dinner
Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce will honor 73 teachers with 30 or more years in public and parochial schools. About 60 are expected to attend the 6:15 p.m. dinner at the Chamber building with school officials and board members present. Each teacher will receive a certificate. Sister Mary Carmel is noted as the sole parochial honoree. The program features Muriel Anderson presenting Music Moods You, a talk on music’s power to enhance life. Reservations: EM 4-5135.
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Cedar Rapids
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Education Committee
Civic Bureau
Board of Education
Everett Pratt
E. W. Lundquist
Clyde Parker
Hale Reid
Richard Barnhart
Lawrence College
Appleton
Wis
Lions Director Claude DeVorss Speaks at 9A Conference
Claude M DeVorss a Lions International director from Wichita Kans will headline the Lions district 9A conference today at the Sheraton Montrose hotel Delegates and wives from 57 northeast Iowa communities will attend the one day meeting Cedar Rapids Noon and Evening Lions clubs co host for the event which opens with round table discussions and closes with a banquet and DeVorss address Sunday evening DeVorss was elected at the San Francisco convention his term runs through July 3 1959 He is a Master Key member and former president of the Wichita Lions club also serving as United States representative on the Board of International Relations last year He helped organize the Lionaires Quartet Kansas Lions official quartet.
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Claude M. DeVorss
Lions International
Sheraton-Montrose
Lion
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Lions
DeVorss
Claude M.devorss
Wichita
Kan
San Francisco
Wichita Lions Club
International Association
United States
Board of International Relations
Lionaires
Kansas Lions Quartet
RAM Observance Sees Past High Priest Night Nov. 19
Master Masons and their ladies join Royal Arch Masons for the Past High Priest night observance on November 19 at 6 15 PM in the Masonic hall. The banquet speaker is Harold Reader former Grand Master of Missouri and current grand secretary of the Missouri jurisdiction. Dinner reservations via P J McCracken at EM 20062.
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Royal Arch Masons
Masonic Hall
Harold Reader
Missouri
P. J. McCracken
Auburn Mississippi State showdown on Channel 9 telecast
Sports announcer Chick Hearn previews the Auburn versus Mississippi State football clash on FOOTBALL GAME OF THE WEEK to air Sunday at 9 00 p m Channel 9.
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Chick Hearn
Channel 9
Teacher Education Day Planned at Mt. Mercy College
About 250 students will attend a Teacher Education Day at Mt. Mercy College on Wednesday. The theme Our Challenge A Life of Service will be the keynote by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Maurice S Sheehy. Registration starts 9 15 a m in McAuley hall with talks from Marilyn Maihofer Sister Mary Slde phonse Mr Mercy president and Mayor Jim Meaghan. Demonstrations and talks on teaching will span morning and afternoon sessions.
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Mt. Mercy College
Maurice S. Sheehy
McAuley Hall
Marilyn Maihofer
McAuley
Iowa State Education Association
Mary Sldephonse
Mercy
Jim Meaghan
World Laughter World Laughter
A collage of quirky items from INS: Bo'sun Bob Foster fined for disobeying his captain after a late sail due to a dispute with his wife over a goodbye kiss. A Tokyo trucker admits drunkenness with a rice wine odor excuse. Denver judge eases jury blackout to TV football but bans Sunday comics. London escalators to match passenger flow. Hastings man injured by a parcel blast. Denver man stuck with a one ton rubber tire gift. Sputnik myth of cows in space fuels global chatter.
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International News Service
Hartlepool
Eng
INS
Bo’sun
Bob Foster
Fairy Cove
Foster
Denver
Robert H. McWilliams, Jr
Classroom Demonstrations Mark Education Week in Cedar Rapids
Public schools in Cedar Rapids hold a week of classroom demonstrations from Tuesday to Saturday in the windows of the Iowa Electric Light and Power Co. Archie Bauman directs with W L Paxson and Aldrich Drakos guiding teachers and students across grades. The schedule lists multiple schools with detailed times for social studies reading writing art science and music activities. William DuVall represents the light company in this observance that debuted last year with strong support.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Archie Bauman
W. L. Paxson
Jefferson High School
Aldrich Drakos
Wright
William DuVall
Light Company
Error by Clerk Sparks Mistrial in Murder Case
In Clayton a murder case ended in a mistrial after a court clerk handed jurors the judge's notes instead of formal instructions. Herschel O. Courtney, 51, was on trial for second degree murder in his wife’s two years prior shooting incident.
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ST. Louis
Clayton
Franklin Ferriss
Herschel O. Courtney
Maverick Brother Bart Leads Action On Channel 9
Bart Maverick stars in action and adventure with his brother in a TV chase program airing Sunday at 6 30 on Channel 9.
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Bart Maverick
Maverick
Channel 9
Second School Vesper Concert Set for Next Sunday
The Cedar Rapids public schools present their season's second vesper concert and art exhibit at 3 p.m. Sunday Nov. 17 in Memorial Coliseum. Washington high senior Patricia Wathan will sing soprano with groups from Roosevelt and Franklin junior highs, Washington high, and nearby elementary schools. Art displays feature works from Jefferson, McKinley, Arthur, Buchanan, Fillmore, Polk, and Taylor elementary schools. the program cover is by Wilson eighth grader Janet Burlingham. Wathan, daughter of Mr and Mrs Edwin L Wathan, studies voice at Cornell College and has won top honors in recent state contests. The program includes pieces by Haydn, Schmidt, Anderson, and others, plus solo and choral performances from multiple Cedar Rapids schools.
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Memorial Coliseum
Patricia K. Wathan
Washington High School
Roosevelt and
Franklin
Washington Senior High
van Buren and
Harrison
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Jefferson , Senior High
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Buchanan
Fillmore
Polk
Taylor
Janet Burlingham
Wilson
Miss Wathan
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E Avenue
Nef
Ruth Pinkerton
Cornell College
Washington ‘High Annual
John E. Hutchins
Samson Et Delila
van Buren
Jean Stover
Leezie Lindsay
Joseph Roff
Washington Concert Choir
Richard duBois
Lotti
Horton
Gershwin
Washington
duBois
Roosevelt Junior High School
America
Cindy the giraffe May Mother Half of U S Giraffes
In Chicago at Brookfield Zoo the expectant Cindy may give birth next year. Only one or two giraffes are born in the United States annually, so this birth could account for roughly half of the nation's giraffes.
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Chicago
Cindy
Brookfield Zoo
America
U.S
Father and Son Team to Entertain High Twelve Friday
Bob and Robbie Thomas from Strawberry Point will entertain High Twelve at Friday noon meeting in the Roosevelt hotel. The father and son guitar duo have appeared on national telecasts including the National Barn Dance Program and the WSM Nashville Barn Dance program. Bobbie, age 11, is billed as the youngest hot guitar player in the country.
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Bob
Robbie Thomas
Strawberry Point
High Twelve Club
Roosevelt Hotel
WSM
Nashville
Bobbie
Boy and girl held in department store robbery
In Pittsfield Massachusetts a 9 year old boy and 13 year old girl were arrested in a $319 department store robbery. Police said the pair entered through a high window and recovered all but 100 dollars. The boy had prior rescues from buildings he had climbed.
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Pittsfield
Mass
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