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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1954
Page
13
Cedar Rapids Public Library hosts an all day open house Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. to showcase about 225000 dollars in improvements including a mezzanine browsing room expanded children's department and new administration and research spaces.
An Associated Press survey of U S soldiers in Europe and the Far East finds GIs favor cash, clothing and radios over food parcels. In Europe money enables travel through Austria, France, Switzerland and Holland, while in the Far East gift merchandise exceeds sixty million dollars for post exchanges in Korea, Japan, Okinawa and the Philippines.
The Y Camera Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Keen Teen room of the YMCA. A color slide show for the Photographic Society of America competition will be shown and each member may submit five slides for selection. Six club slides advance to the PSA contest. An open discussion of slide merits follows.
G W Hunt president of the State Board of Public Instruction will address Linn County Schoolmen’s club Wednesday at 6 15 p m in Marion rural independent school He will discuss the relation between the state department and the local school district Special guests include Linn County Board of Education members and school district presidents of Linn county
A $19,990,700 block of new common stock registered by Funeral Directors Manufacturing and Supply Company of Louisville Kentucky went on sale to a select group. Stockholders in the firm who will make plastic and aluminum caskets and grave vaults are restricted to funeral directors and embalmers.
Ansonia Connecticut Stephen Zuran explains he is not a registered Republican and backed the Democrats' mayoral candidate, prompting his refusal of the alderman nomination.
Michael Hamilton reported a strange chain of prank deliveries including a woman seeking her lost dog a hearse to collect a body and a repairman for his septic tank. While he spoke with police a truck arrived claiming the driver had come for the dead horse.
One of two escapees from the women's reformatory was recaptured after fearing a field of cows. Pearl Blen 19 was seized by state police after climbing a fence and fleeing with Shirley Weiland 26 of Milwaukee who braved cows and hitchhiked to Plainfield Illinois where a state policeman recaptured her.
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