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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1942
Page
33
Notes from the Capital recount wartime views on civil service trimming, urging elimination of unnecessary civilian government work. The writer mentions Rep Ulysses Guyer and Leander Clark college ties, sees Irving Berlin, and comments on air raid drills, a baby boom, and social scenes with officials, reporters, and visitors amid Washington’s war footing.
The article notes a growing trend of sectional plant containers in plaster, light or dark wood, and pottery. Arranged around lamp bases or book-ends they serve as table decorations and add a fresh touch to living rooms and shelves.
Advice to housewives as innerspring mattresses fade from production urges careful maintenance of current spring-filled beds. Follow four rules including avoiding beating or rolling, rotating every two weeks, inspecting seams and springs for damage, and repairing promptly to protect the mattress foundation.
Fifty watercolor works by Dorothy Houts are on display at the Cedar Rapids public library art gallery along with ten paintings from the Cedar Rapids Art Association permanent collection. The show runs through October. Houts, Roosevelt High School art instructor, studied at the National Academy of Art in Chicago and the Chicago Art Institute. She has worked in book illustration, engraving, and advertising art direction, and previously taught at Jackson School. Gallery hours are weekdays 3 to 5:30 p.m. and Sundays 2 to 6 p.m.
A reader argues drivers should see license sticker and insurance costs fall in line with reduced miles under travel restrictions. He cites 1942 fees totaling 29.09 and 10,000 to 12,000 yearly miles, urging proportional tax cuts or risk of cars going to dead storage, Mt. Vernon resident G. A. Hunter declares.
BEN DAWSON of 619 Seventeenth Street NE urges the government to permit labor freedom regardless of age. He argues insurance limits and state relief discourage capable men and that women already work. advocates half time or full work to support the war effort and American principles.
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