Local air force and army personnel receives promotions and transfers
Lt. Ronald G. Popelka earns air force pilot wings at Webb base Texas after basic jet training. Pvt. Gordon D. Ingram tours Berlin as infantry trainee. Pvt. Curtis F. Cummins graduates neuropsychiatric course at Fort Sam Houston. Pvt. John F. Bailey graduates basic army administration at Fort Leonard Wood. Pvt. Fred H. Buckner completes general supply course at Fort Knox. Airman 3/c James A. Furnish transfers radar duties from Keesler to Tonopah. Lt. Merle E. Harris transfers from Gunter to March AFB hospital. Harris's wife Carolyn Bissell noted.
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Gordon D. Ingram
Newell R. Ingram
O Avenue NW
East Berlin
Berlin
Fort Chaffee
Ark
Williamsburg High School
Iowa State College
Curtis F. Cummins
John M. Cummins
Fourth Street
Army Medical School
Fort Sam Houston
Texas
Wilson High School
John F. Bailey
Peter F. Bailey
Bever Avenue
Fort Leonard Wood
Franklin High School
University of Iowa
Fred H. Buckner
Mary Buckner
C Avenue NE
Army
Armor Training Center
Fort Knox
Fort Polk
Griswold
Parsons College
Fairfield
James A. Furnish
Thomas E. Furnish
Wisconsin Street
Keesler Air Force Base
Miss
Tonopah
Nevada
Air Force
Merle E. Harris
Gunter Air Force Base
Ala
March Air Force Base
Calif
Arlington
Harris
Carolyn Bissell
Warren S. Bissell
Oakland Road
Trainees Near Completion at Lackland Air Base
Two men, Jerald J. Kust and Raymond J. Miller, are nearing completion of basic air force training at Lackland Air Force Base Texas. Kust is the son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Kust of 1027 C avenue NW Miller is the son of Mr and Mrs Clarence Miller of 2401 Second Street SW.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lackland Air Force Base
Texas
Jerald J. Kust
Joseph Kust
C Avenne
Raymond J. Miller
Clarence Miller
Second Street
World traveler Bertia Harding to address Cedar Rapids club
The Cedar Rapids Executives Club invites members to a 6:30 p.m. dinner at the Sheraton Montrose where Bertia Harding, a novelist and linguist, will discuss The Power Behind the Pen. Harding, born in Europe, has lived in Mexico and studied at two foreign universities. Reservations through the hotel.
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Cedar Rapids Executives Club
Bertia Harding
Sheraton- Montrose
Europe
Miss Harding
Mexico
Hapsburg
Franz Joseph of
Austria
Philadelphia
Youth Groups Help Optimists Sell Yule Trees Citywide
Cedar Rapids youth groups led by Boy Scouts Cub Scouts Camp Fire Girls and the Cedar Rapids Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps join the Optimist Klub Friend of the Boy Christmas tree sale. One-dollar deposit cards reserve a tree next month with proceeds supporting year round Optimist youth work.
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Optimist Klub
Christimas Tree
Elmer Brinkmann
Boy Scouts
Cub Scouts
Camp Fire Girls
Cedar Rapids Cadets
Brinkmann
Cedar Rapids
Cancer Society Names Directors Advisory Group
Linn County Cancer Society lists fourteen directors and six medical advisory members for 1957 58. The board meets Monday noon at the Sheraton Montrose hotel. Cedar Rapids members include Mrs Meade Vernon Perry Fairfax Vernon Marion Bowen and others. The medical advisory chair is Dr Newell G Ingle with Dr Regis Weland and others. Officers elected at the annual meeting are Mrs John J Locher Jr president Mrs Edwin H Wadsworth vice chairman Mrs E J Howard secretary James Ferguson treasurer and Mrs James Sigmund executive secretary.
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Linn County Cancer Society
Sheraton‘Montrose
Joseph Meade
Vernon
Ira Perry
Fairfax
C. B. Vernon
Marion
Philip Bowen
Howard H. Cherry, Jr
Ruth Hoppe
Orie S. Imes
Charles
Regis Weland
Wayne Cooper
Francis Tucker
Robert .Locher
L. G. Carrigg
The
Cancer Society
John J. Locher, Jr
Edwin H. Wadsworth
E. J.howard
James Fergusson
James Sigmund
Industry Told It Must Power Up
Atlantic City report quotes A. C. Monteith vice-president of Westinghouse Electric who warns American factories must boost electrical capacity before automation can meet future demand. He says industry today is underpowered and questions the feasibility of automation without sufficient energy.
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Atlantic City
INS
A. C. Monteith
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
National Electrical Manufacturers Association
C R Auto Club Officials to Attend AAA Convention
Cedar Rapids Auto club president Horace Hedges and secretary C C Birr will attend the fifty fifth annual AAA convention in Phoenix Arizona on Tuesday and Wednesday. Delegates from U S and Canada will hear Gov Ernest W McFarland and Mayor Jack Williams greet them. principal speaker is Howard Pyle.
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Horace G. Hedges
C. C. Birr
Cedar Rapids Auto Club
American Automobile Association
Phoenix
Ariz
Harry S. Kirk
Chicago
AAA
U.S
Canada
Ernest W. McFarland
Arizona
Jack Williams
Howard Pyle
Soapy Williams' Son Nicknamed Sudsey on Mackinac Island
Gery Williams a 16 year old son of Michigan Governor G Mennen Williams worked briefly as a dishwasher at a small motel on Mackinac Island. His colleagues called him Sudsey reflecting his father’s nickname Soapy.
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Mackinac Island
Mich
Gery Williams
Michigan
Mennen Williams
Sudsey
Ireland to Hold 1958 Song and Dance Festival
Dublin reports a traditional music festival to publicize Irish song and dance next year. American TV networks show interest and may coast to coast screen the event in the United States. The Irish Federation of Musicians backs the effort with over 1450 members. Prizes total more than 3000 dollars with Gaelic bands instrumentalists dancers and ballad singers featured amid parades exhibitions and dances.
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Ireland
Dublin
INS
Leon Nealon
Canada
Australia
Germany
Nealon
Two Fund Drives To Be Discussed By Committee
Cedar Rapids Solicitations Review committee will discuss two fund campaigns on Wednesday. Proposals come from Linn County Society for Crippled Children and Adults Easter Seal organization and the Jews Children's Home Society. Luncheon at noon in the Roosevelt hotel. Dr. W Ambler metallurgist of American Zinc Lead and Smelting Company to address Cedar Valley subsection of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers Thursday. His topic is Cause of Corrosion. The 7 30 p m meeting in Collins Radio Company cafeteria will feature a illustrated talk and a film on Zinc Controls Corrosion. Ambler Native of Texas served with the army engineers in World War II and has been a research metallurgist and corrosion engineer for nine years. He chairs the St Louis section of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County Society For Crippled Children and Adults
Easter Seal Organization
Jews Children’s Home Society
Roosevelt J Hotel
W. Ambler
American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Company
Cedar Valley
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
Collins Radio Company Engineering
Ambler
Texas
Army Engineers
Mr. Ambler
St. Louis
National Association of Corrosion Engineers
Final Tryouts Today For Jaycee Production
Final tryouts for Wonderful Town at the Chamber of Commerce building at 4 p.m. today and 8 p.m. Tuesday. Director Richard DuBois urges anyone interested in performing or production aspects to attend. The musical comedy by Leonard Bernstein recently enjoyed Broadway success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Richard DuBois
Leonard Bernstein
Old Canton bylaw bans nude bathing in city rivers
An old statute still on Canton South Dakota books forbids nude bathing from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. in rivers and streams within city limits. No provision addresses hours outside this period.
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Canton
S. D
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ECOND
Ronald G. Popelka
Edward G. Popelka
Twentieth Street
Webb Air Force Base
Popelka
Bartow Air Base
Fla
California
Cedar Rapids Flyer
Warren Air Force Base
Cheyenne
Fishwild Wye
Air Force Supply School
Air Force Commission
Roosevelt High School
C.R. Executives Club
William E. Feltes
Ray M., Feltes
Route 2
Navy
Port Hueneme
Bertita Harding
Newt
Empire
Iowa
Second Ave
S.E
C.R. Auto Club
Senhower
Oklahoma
Hedges
Birr
Los Angeles
James
Hawaiian Islands
San Francisco
San Jose
Thomas
Pat
Soapy” Williams
Irish Federation of Musicians
Jaycee
Ses As
Kratchmer
Cavalier
Reliable Furniture CO
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