Two Cedar Rapids Scouts to Receive Eagle Rank This Week
Richard Travnicek 16 and Donald Newport 14 will be awarded Eagle Scout rank in separate courts of honor. Travnicek, son of the Stanley Travniceks, will receive the award at Hope Lutheran church Sunday at 2 p.m. He is a Jefferson high school student and holds the 50 mile hiking and safety hunter awards and is active in bands and orchestra. Newport, son of the Gerald Newports, will be honored at Hoover school Thursday. he is a Wilson junior high freshman, active in student council, band, orchestra, choir, tennis and swimming, and has served as senior patrol leader.
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Cedar Rapids
Boy Scouts
Richard Travnicek
Stanley Travniceks
Teresa Drive
Hope Lutheran Church
Travnicek
Minnesota
Philmont
Jefferson High School
Donald Schoenrock
Jefferson Marching
Hope Church
Tom Newport
Gerald Newports
Wilson Avenue
Hoover School
Wilson Junior High School
Newport
Order of the Arrow
Cold weather not direct cause of the common cold
A three doctor team reports in The New England Journal of Medicine that exposure to cold did not affect rhinovirus infection in 49 inmates inoculated with the virus. They suggest winter crowding and indoor transmission as likely factors in cold season spread.
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Boston
New England Journal of Medicine
Texas
R. Gordon Douglas
Robert B. Couch
Baylor University
Keith Lindgren
Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, D.C
National Institutes of Health
Air-taxi mail routes expand as trains fade in U S
The Sedalia Marshall Boonville Stage Lines and similar air taxi operators broaden mail service beyond sectional centers. By year end 200 airborne routes will serve 382 of 552 mail centers, replacing many postal trains that dwindle from 10,000 in the 1930s to 630 now.
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New York
United States
Sedalia- Marshall-Boonville
Wichita
Kan
Wichita Tower
Fred Barrus
Sedalia-Marshall- Boonville
United
Arnold Fletcher, Jr
S-M-B
Des Moines
Iowa
Post Office Service Rumor Circles Cedar Rapids Region
Sedalia Marshall to Decorah and La Crosse stage lines once ran highway post offices north from Cedar Rapids. Air taxi mail service has been rumored for Cedar Rapids says Postmaster Charles Seda, but the post office department has made no announcement.
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Sedalia - Marshall - Boonville Stage Lines
Cedar Rapids
Decorah
la Crosse
Charles Seda
Post Office Department
Integration Boss In South Resigns
Eldridge McMillan 34, chief of education activities in the regional U S Office of Civil Rights, resigned effective Oct 18 after a year in charge of enforcing desegregation in the South. He will join the Southern Education Foundation in Atlanta.
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South
Eldridge McMillan
U.S. Office of Civil Rights
McMillan
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Southern Education Foundation
Atlanta
Paul Rilling
Civil Rights Office
California Leads Nation in Agricultural Production
California tops the country in production of more than one agricultural commodity, driving national output with its diverse crops and farming sectors.
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California
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New York Times News Service
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Oklahoma City
Colby
Dodge City
Hays
Salina
Emporia
Topeka
Independence
Fort Scott
Kansas
Sedalia
Linn County Republican Central Committee
Jack Walters
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