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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1940
Page
8
Twenty separate night classes offered by as many professors will be part of Coe College extension services starting this week. Tuition is five dollars per semester credit plus a one dollar matriculation fee for new students, with two or three credits per double period class.
Participation of public assistance families eligible for the food stamp plan rose in September in Cedar Rapids and Linn county despite higher orange stamp requirements. The September orange stamps totaled 20 628 while blue stamps reached 10 314. overall participation climbed to 65 percent from 62 percent in August as families learned more about the program.
More than 500 youths join Cedar Rapids junior Willkie-for-President club, led by temporary chairman Art Gersten. The Franklin high school 14 year old members will parade on Willkie day and campaign with enthusiasm. Club office at 410 Third Avenue SE open daily 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. All under 21 eligible to join and receive a membership button.
Dr Edward A Steiner professor at Grinnell College will address the Coe vesper service at Sinclair Memorial chapel at 4 pm. The program includes organ preludes and choral selections with an address by Steiner and a benediction.
Amos Plotz 58 of 717 Tenth avenue SE made his twentieth visit to the Cedar Rapids saloons at 5 p.m. Saturday after Sergt Frank Hrabetin arrested him for intoxication on First street SE between First and Second avenues. Police said he drank bag rum. Plotz had been arrested two weeks earlier on a similar charge and has a 30 day suspended county jail sentence in Justice H R Churchill's court.
In St Matthew's and Garfield schools kindergarten classes add miniature post offices built by Walter Pepmeyer and Roy Ritz with scrap materials. The five by four foot models include mail slots cages and parcel post window as pupils trace letter routing and plan to learn wrapping and scales. The project moves to another city school later.
A Detroit column reviews the week of tensions as Britain appeals for aid and the United States weighs steps to counter Axis threats. Mussolini and Hitler meet at Brenner pass while Spain may join the push to Gibraltar. Churchill reshapes leadership as Japan presses plans in Asia and the Pacific.
Praised by military experts is the Canadian army disappearing camouflage. Under fire is the air corps reserve captaincy for Elli ott Roosevelt son of the President. Albert Einstein becomes a new American citizen at 62. A death noted in New London Conn at 33 Coal F Harrington WPA administrator.
Washington AP Major General Leslie J. McNair ordered army posts to limit guardhouse discipline for draftees in mass training. He urged nonpunitive methods when possible and minimal confinement while conditioning recruits with blank rounds and live-fire tests to toughen nerves for war.
Miss Tona Bolton 21 of Marion suffered a bruised right shoulder in a two car collision at Fifth Avenue and Sixth Street SE. Fred Bolton 46, also of Marion, drove the Bolton car. Lloyd Chesmore 36 of Olin said he was traveling east on Fifth when another car crossed, causing the crash. Bolton said he believed he had time to cross.
Full daylight is about 600000 times brighter than the light from a full moon, illustrating the vast difference in luminance between solar and lunar illumination.
The fifth annual Queen's Ball of the Allied Industrial League will be held Friday night November 8 in the Memorial Coliseum. Each company will select a Duchess and two Ladies in Waiting a Knight of Labor and two attendants to represent it in the coronation pageant. A secret committee will crown the King and Queen. Retiring regents Shirley Huston and Margaret Forbes will abdicate. Industrial plants are urged to submit court representatives to the YMCA. Admission is by free tickets for industrial employees only.
Local Czech societies announce two benefit performances to aid Catholic National Alliance relief funds. The Z C B J circle presents Kutilo va Zeni Syna this evening at 7 30 in their hall directed by Pavla Hromadka with a cast including Jusia Vyskocil and Frank Libal. Ceska Lipa plans a Sunday Oct 20 show at St Wenceslaus hall titled Pa nem Na Rodne Hroude featuring Bohus Horak Jan Popelka and others under Wes Drahozal. A third production From Bohemian Dramatic Association Under the Mill Wheel will play at CSP S hall on Nov 3 with a three act comedy by Frank Lasek and music by V Sedlak directed by Joseph Pazouris with Olga Chramosta vocal duties.
Moving pictures of Z C B J activities will be shown in Czech communities beginning October 8 with Richmond Ja first on the list. J Penkova of Chicago Z C B J organizer will present the films. Additional showings are slated for Oxford Junction Chelsea Irving Iowa City and East Maine. The Sokol and Czech groups schedule regular meetings and social events including a stag party and park picnic this week.
Chicago police appeal to Illinois Indiana Wisconsin and Michigan authorities to aid in the search for Franklin J. Kester real estate dealer and civic leader who left Chicago August 16 for a Wendell Willkie notification ceremony at Elwood Indiana and never returned.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette marks its 1883 start with the first seven issues printed in a basement at 309 First Avenue E. Newsboys rush the door, sparking a jam as they vend Evening Gazette for five cents. Veterans recall routes, early earnings, and the paper’s role in urging clean government.
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