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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1944
Page
11
In Iowa both Democrats and Republicans unite on the slogan Get out the vote Nov. 7. Frank Nye notes campaigns intensify as parties align efforts to mobilize supporters and maximize turnout. Both sides press ahead despite national differences, seeking a decisive election day impact.
DES MOINES AP Infantile paralysis, which has affected 136 Iowans this year, appears to have passed its peak. Dr. C L Putnam notes the trend is down, with nine cases in the week and a peak week of 25. Iowa may finish 1944 with far fewer cases than 204 in 1943.
On the Bricker swing through the eastern states supporters report growing crowds and heightened voter attention. The train includes Bricker's personal car a parlor car a diner and sleeping cars for reporters photographers and others with a baggage car for dark rooms and typewriters.
Louise Lur reports at Iowa City that the Daily Iowan now has women in all editorships and management roles with one male exception. The board of student publications governs policy while students control news and makeup, under director Fred Pownall. Dotty Klein, editor, notes women have proven capable despite wartime shifts, with veterans returning to college yet women still bearing main editorial responsibility.
Iowa public junior colleges number twelve this fall with skeleton structures to last until after the war. J P Street reports enrollment fell about 60 percent from prewar times, with about 440 students across 13 remaining colleges last year and 85 projected for Burlington this year.
The Linn county War Fund will launch a week long drive outside Cedar Rapids to raise 25000 for the National War Fund 2000 for the Boy Scouts of America and local campaign expenses J F Krall of Fairfax chairs the drive Farmers and wage earners contribute under a fixed formula with pins and ground willow stickers awarded Contributions outside Cedar Rapids will be credited to the contributor's home township and the Cedar Rapids Community War Chest begins after this drive ends on October 17
An application for a war ballot from Frank J. Trant, a soldier in Dubuane Iowa, was received in Secretary of State Wayne Ropes' office. Col Robert Cutler of the secretary of war said a company commander asked ballots be sent after requests by Sept 26 could not be mailed due to remote position. The letter says the ballot request will be mailed to Iowa authorities to forward the ballot.
Ryan Leslie Emerson, son of Mr and Mrs Ray Emerson, has been promoted from first lieutenant to captain. He serves with a tank battalion of the First Army in Belgium.
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