Cedar Rapids schools reveal per pupil costs by subject
Superintendent Arthur Deamer calculates per capita costs for each subject by teaching time and grade level. Data from Franklin school shows social sciences $5.85 to $10.41 per pupil by grade, art $2.71 to $12.23, science $3.15 to $11.37, music $3.60 to $7.89, industrial arts $14.38 to $15.80, home economics $12.01 to $15.54, with total district expenditures and averages across all subjects and grades.
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Arthur Deamer
Deamer
Franklin School
Cedar Rapids
Edith Griner
George R. Griner
First Avenue E
J. C. Benson
Jacqueline Wright
Marvin Wright
Linden Drive
Telfth
Barbara Huff
W. L. Huff
Twentyfirst Street
Margaret Higdon
Franklin
Harry Robson
Robert Geesaman
Leo Geesaman
Center Point Road
Betty Houts
Joe Houts
Thirty-fourth Street
Eleanor Schump
Eva Jessye Sings at Cornell Tuesday in Chapel
Eva Jessye director of the Eva Jessye choir appears Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the Cornell college chapel. She has Broadway radio concert and film credits and is noted as a versatile artist with a storied training background. Her program features "Summertime" "It Ain't Necessarily So" and "I Got Plenty O' Nothin'."
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Mount Vernon
Eva Jessye
Cornell College
Coffeyville
Kan
Indian Territory
Jessye
Western University
Kansas
Langston University
Oklahoma
Interstate Literary Society of
West
Cornell
George Gershwin
Porgy and
Bess
Southeast European peace pledge reported by six nations
In Bucharest six southeastern European states Romania Yugoslavia Bulgaria Hungary Greece and Turkey reportedly agreed to no hostile moves and to refrain from pressing territorial claims for the duration of the European war. Italy backs the move and supports diplomatic and commercial efforts in the Balkans.
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Bucharest
Europe
Rumania
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Hungary
Greece
Turkey
Italy
Balkans
Wallace Urges Racial Understanding in Armistice Day Speech
In Tuskegee, Secretary Wallace condemned totalitarianism and urged improved race relations before more than 5,000 southeastern Black educators and farmers. He linked democracy to soil-building farm tenure, warned against dictatorship, and called for removing discrimination to prevent national unrest.
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Tuskegee
Ala
Wallace
Europe
Governor Urges Mothers to Cut Smoking and Aid Charity
Gov. Loren D. Dickinson asked mothers who smoke to cut consumption by half for two weeks after Thanksgiving and donate savings to charity. He urged families to follow, then extended the appeal to include a five percent transfer from all indulging in intoxicants to fund indigent aid.
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Dickinson
Aid
Lansing
Mich
Loren D. Dickinson
Grace Evangelical and Reformed and Methodist youths host party
Young people from Grace Evangelical and Reformed and Methodist churches held a Thursday night party at the Methodist church. A chili supper was served. Mrs. Thomas Gipple entertained at a card party. Prizes went to Mrs. Forest Maxwell and Mrs. Clair Hesseltine.
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Grace Evangelical and Reformed
Methodist Churches
Methodist Church
Thomas Gipple
Forest Maxwell
Clair Hesseltine
Buckingham Shower Honors Miss Rose Peters Before Wedding
Miss Rose Peters was honored at a Wednesday shower hosted by Mrs. Searl Hayward in Buckingham. About 25 women attended and prizes went to Mrs. Claude Mask and Miss Florence McKenna. Peters will wed Ernest Mask at a Geneseo church on Tuesday November 14.
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Rose Peters
Searl Hayward
Claude Mask
Florence McKenna
Miss Peters
Ernest Mask
Buckingham
Geneseo
Church group schedules grace through various meetings
Church groups list a busy schedule with circles and circles No 1 through 10 meeting at homes and churches across Waterloo district. Events include luncheons picnics dessert coffees paid meals birthday honors scavenger hunts and a church choir rehearsal ف
Community groups plan meetings across churches and clubs
Alice Korteling guild friends meet Monday at 7 30 pm at 1506 Avenue NE for a playlet The Party Dress by Vi Gaines and Mrs George Hanry De votions led by Mrs Clyde Peremsky Hostesses include Mrs Donald McCormac and Mir iam Seigler The Mary Martha society St Johns and St Johns guild also have Thursday and Friday gatherings with luncheons receptions and various circle meetings at multiple addresses in the area
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Aid Society
H. K. Focht
Eighteenth Street
C. P. Spencer
Byron Shean
S. Willson
A R&r
Marchall
Avenue NE
Carl Shields
C A. Saunders
R. M. Threlkeld
Grande Avenue SE
G. O. Greenlee
G. F. Stanley
T. M. Jakways
W. L. Harrison
William Spivey
Don McCormac
E. L. Barber
Julia Carberry
The
Light Company
George Wichman
E Avenue NW
Austin Wagner
H. Lubben
Gas Company
Caroline Tufts
Charles T. Hickok
Fifth Avenue SE
W. L. Howe
M. E. Carter
Clara Ristine
Ralph D. Gray
Third Avenue SE
John Russell
S. G. Platt
Olive Tower
Harry Peterson
C. L. Housel
C. A. Bearle
C.J. Lynch, Jr
Annette Palmer Circle
A. N. Hamiston
Nineteenth Street
Lee Beardsley
George D. Clapp
C. Ward Macy
Alice Korteling
Odd Fellows initiate degree in Maine lodge meeting
The initiatory degree will be conferred by the Maine lodge of the Odd Fellows at its Tuesday evening meeting in Maine lodge hall 838 First Avenue SE. Mrs Mae Kelly of 222 Fifteenth Street NE visits Chicago for the weekend to see her daughter Miss Marie Kelly a Wayne University librarian in Detroit. Firefighters answered a single engine alarm at 12 53 p m Saturday to a grass fire in Van Vechten park the blaze burning 38 minutes.
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Gamma Delta Sigma
Ruby Scheneberger
Alice Gustafsson
Fifteenth Street NW
George Stauffacher
Walter Scherrebeck
Ralph Andrews
C Avenue NW
H. N. Steele
Itunita Camp Fire Group
The
Guardian
Thirteenth Street
Relief Circle
Otto Erbe
Highland Drive
J. W. Covayne
Russell Cole
Cornell College
Oda Wakichi
the Guardian
Fred Bokerneys
Johnson Avenue
Maine Lodge of the Odd Fellows
Maine Lodge
First Avenue
Mae Kelly
Fifteenth Street
Chicago
Miss Marie Kelly
Wayne University
Detroit
van Vechten Park
West Union Couple to Observe Golden Wedding Anniversary
Mr and Mrs August Brause mark their fiftieth wedding anniversary with a noon dinner for two sons a daughter in law and two grandchildren. Open house from 2 pm to 4 pm on the West Union Elgin ridge road. members of Masonic bodies and church groups attend. Mrs Brause collects buttons with 1800 plus pieces including 1848 items. wedding gifts from November 14 1889 displayed.
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West Union
August Brause
Clifford Brause
Denver
Lawrence Brause
Clifford, Jr
Erma
Brause
West Union-Elgin Ridge Road
Masonic Order
Knights Templar
Woodmen
Order of the Eastern Star
The
Star
East Community Study Club
West Union Methodist Church
Henderson
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Carl Dueser
Hastings
O. J. Deeds
Mary Palmer
J. Frank Palmer
Center Point Read
Gazette
Schoen
Pott
G. J. Ronan
Optometrist
Higley
Dale A. Myers
U. S
Conesville
Bethany Congregational
Ladies Aid
Richard Preston
Sixth Street NW
St. James
Dorcas
Ocle Trimble
J Avenue NW
Gordon Oswald
Kenwood Presbyterian
the Missionary Society
G. B. Hale
D Avenue NE
First Evangelical
Central Park
Kenwood Methodist
Delbert White
Charles Berger
Grande Avenue
Ways and Means Society
A. D. Leacox
E Avenue NE
Glenn Holm
St. Paul's
A. Harrington
Missionary Societies
J. L. Farmer
Blake Boulevard
District No. 1
Emma Auten
Fourth Avenue SE
W. E. Breidert
A. C. Loepp
Earl Hardwick
Charles McIntosh
F. A. Keefer
T. A. Engle
H. V. Little
J. E. Greenway
Mary Skarshaug
Walter Miller
Eighth Avenue SE
Harry Yaw
A. L. Alcorn
J. E. Boisen
A. W. Carlton
H. S. Perdue
F. H. Gephart
A. O. Bailey
L. L. Lovan
Howard Wright
E. J. Wasta
B Avenue NE
J. E. Patterson
Eugene Wasta
Reuben Smith
H. E. Duxbury
T. J. Cameron
O. A. Conwell
William E. Stoltenberg
R. K. Smith
R. K. Smith, Mrs. .C. W. Walser
J. D. Wardle
Second Avenue SE
Mattie Tschirgi
E. Lillick
Cochairmen
Charles Nelson
Lee Eckert
J. W. Houser
Park Avenue SE
L. J. Smith
Letta Rosenberger
Minnie .McMillan
R. E. Heal
C. W. Stookey
Cora Babbitt
Grace Drew
Kensington
Harriet Henrich
Ray Frame
J. S. Bolenbaugh
Church Gymnasium
Fred Carstens
Police Department
Wesleyan Service Guild
Ruth Smith
First Avenue W
Bertha Pownall
Katherine Bender
Gertrude Nixon
First Congregational
First Presbyterian
Woman's Missionary Society
Stephen H. Bush
United Brethren
John Press
Harold Bender
Frank Gates
J. M. Geist
F. A. Eaton
O. G
Central Park Presbyterian
Mary Martha Society
St. John's
L. T. Jackson
O. S. Johnson
William Fiebig
First Christian
Women's Forum
E. W. Pariante
Women’s Missionary Society
Home Service Committee
May Frick
Don Dennis
Twenty-third Street
Don Harris
St. Matthews
St. Joan's Circle
W. F. Grady
St. Matthew's
St. Gertrude’s Circle
J. ¥. Ryan
Twenty-third Street Drive
William F. Johnes
St. John's Guild
Westminster
Ladies and Society
W.A. Montgomery
Trinity Methodist
M. F. Harmon
V. A. E. Circle
Isaac Brown
Twenty
Ninth Street
Immaculate Conception
J. M. Neary
Guy McKibben
St. Martha’s Circle
Weir
Lasswell Studio
Paramount Theater Bldg
Ann
Cdty
Laundry CO
City Briefs
Martin's
Bis
Tussy
Stella Smythe
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