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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1973
Page
5
George Usher born April 1 1880 on a Covington area farm lived 91 years in Cedar Rapids region dying in 1971. The memoir recalls a hard life in the 1890s with horse power farming and primitive tools, Indian memories, a German girl romance and a lively community.
A collection of reader questions seeks genealogical details on Iowa families and figures from 19th and early 20th centuries. Names include Loomis, Conner, Brooks, Mitchell, McAdams, Bunting, Hohanshelt, Playter, Burke, Davenport, and Davenport lineage links to Massachusetts. Correspondents request exchanges of information.
In San Francisco AP report Pan Am pilots use a 16MM color film library showing from the cockpit views of landings at 160 airports worldwide. The FAA accepts film study to qualify for unfamiliar approaches, replacing prior mandatory orientation trips. Photographers Dave Crosse and Chuck Saleeby from Pan Am compiled the library since 1955.
John T. Crehan from the Defense Contract Audit Agency will address the Eastern Iowa chapter of the National Contract Management Association in Cedar Rapids. The event at Long Branch Supper Club begins social hour at 6 30 p.m. followed by dinner and his talk on Cost Accounting Standards. Crehan has led DCMA since its 1965 formation and is a Duquesne graduate and CPA.
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