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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1952
Page
9
The Gazette presents a photo feature with Cedar Rapids resident Pat Addison and husband John Addison. Pat smokes while John abstains, photographed by Tori Merryman. They reside at 720 Seventh Avenue SW.
Valentine Keiper celebrated his 90th birthday with family at his home on Maple Drive NW Cedar Rapids valuing a life spanning from 1862 in Germany to 1866 immigration and years in Iowa. He has 9 children 45 grandchildren and 60 great grandchildren and plans church services then open house for grandchildren. He lived 36 years at the Maple Drive location after a farm life near Atkins and South Dakota years with his wife.
Industrial television helps workers monitor distant operations in steel mills, electric plants, and labs. Cameras report furnace and stack conditions, rail yards, rocket pits, and medical schools rely on close up views, with one operator handling multiple feeds from a central screen.
The Town Toastmistress club plans a 6:15 meeting at the Montrose hotel with the theme Our Chamber of Commerce. Invocation by Miss Marcia Traer, topic mistress Mrs J E Norrgard, toast mistress Mrs E W Preston, speeches by Mrs Adelph Ahrens Mechanicsville Mrs E D Holvenstot and Mrs W C Pickard. Evaluation by Mrs Richard Neenan and Mrs Hugh Lamont.
NEA correspondent charts the C-119 Fly ing Boxcar troubles, citing security constraints in the Far East, grounding in Korea last February after unexplained crashes and propeller issues, and questions whether fixes were incorporated into new planes from Fairchild. The piece blames Pentagon red tape for responsibility and notes impending investigations.
Sixty residents of Weorim near Brisbane, many pensioners, race to save their township as ocean beach sand burying land reaches 15 feet deep and threatens 50 houses. Residents build windbreaks to halt the dangerous dune wave.
Washington AP reports Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee plan to slow tax relief until Eisenhower settles in. They favor cutting spending first, aiming for a balanced budget with a top 70 billion dollar cap next year. Some relief may reach manufacturers as excise taxes expire June 30, but individuals likely won’t see savings before 1954-55.
Washington AP reports Democratic Civil Service Commission head Robert Ramspeck likely to remain as a minority member under the Eisenhower administration. The Census Bureau will cut 1,700 employees by New Year including 1,200 temporary workers from the 1950 enumeration. Some agency workers who refused time off to see the President elect complained to the Republican National Committee. Up to a million tons of copper were produced from U.S. ores in two years.
Soviet citizens are urged to save in a vast network of state run savings banks. Deposits reached billions of rubles with rising figures in 1951 and 1952. Interest rates are 3 percent on demand deposits and 5 percent on term deposits, with tax exemption for savings interest.
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