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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1942
Page
30
A wartime female audience is advised to create a feminine restful bedroom with a chaise lounge, mirrored dressing table, full length mirror and slipper chair. Lighting should support reading and late rising, with Venetian blinds for light control and warm carpet for morale.
The Cedar Rapids Elks Club hosts a naval aviation recruiting event with a Minneapolis flight selection staff. High school graduates aged 18 to 26 can apply at the Elks club after 8 a.m. on Monday and Tuesday. Doctors will conduct physicals, and about 60 men may be enlisted immediately.
Judge G K Thompson made an equity assignment in district court for the week of October 8. Cases include Objections vs Estate of Passmore on Oct 8, Hay vs Iowa Chemical Co on Oct 9, Williams vs Williams on Oct 12, Lones vs Lones on Oct 13, Objections vs Estate of Metcalf and Claim vs Estate of Culp with jury waiver on Oct 14 and Searles Dairy Co vs Campbell on Oct 16, and Andrews vs Andrews on Oct 19.
Kelvin society of Coe College will host Dr. Karl A. Stiles for a talk on Aviation Biology at 7:30 Tuesday in Science hall. Dr. Stiles, biology professor and division chair, will discuss recent research and his work on a book The Biology of Flight sponsored by the CAA and US Office of Education.
Second Lieutenant Benjamin McClintoeIs, 24, of Charlotte NC, steered his fighter craft away from New York City after a dead engine. He guided the plane to the Hudson River near Yonkers and safely exited before the aircraft sank.
Kansas State adopts a new slogan Beat Nebraska to the scrap heap and challenges the rival to a scrap metal contest. The two states compete to build the bigger scrap heap as K State collects two old cannons from the Nichold gym entrance to kick off the effort.
Lincoln Nebraska Governor Dwight Griswold announced he wrote Harold Ickes and Leon Henderson expressing opposition to Midwest fuel oil rationing. He told reporters the move would affect residents and industries across the region.
The Gazette reports strong reader response to FBI employment ads. R S Wahab will interview applicants in Cedar Rapids at the Roosevelt hotel on Wednesday and Thursday with dawn, afternoon, and evening slots. Eligible applicants must be high school graduates, U.S. citizens, in good health, ages 18 to 40.
Earl Brown 28, a war plant worker, was shot by his father in law Charles Merrill 65 in a dispute over Brown’s selective service reclassification from 3A to 1A. Merrill said he acted in self defense. No charges were filed. Coroner James W. Graves cited Brown's belief the family was to blame for the reclassification and a late night argument after returning home.
An enrollment meeting for a fundamentals of radio course is set for 7 30 p m Wednesday on the third floor of the Chamber of Commerce building. The Cedar Rapids schools vocational department and the University of Iowa mechanical engineering department sponsor this federal program to train radio technicians for the war effort. No age limit. Open to men and women. 16 week course with three hour sessions three nights weekly. Tuition free, textbooks and materials under five dollars. Part 1 covers mathematics review and radio fundamentals with theory and laboratory work.
Board of education officials announce a new course following the completion of one Part I and one Part II course with about 35 students. Certificates will be granted to those who finish the programs. Further information available from E. H. Christensen, director of industrial and vocational education, at phone 3-1779.
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