Had 14 Big Fires in 30 Years in Cedar Rapids
Gazette staff writer reviews Cedar Rapids major fires since 1990, reporting over 1.5 million dollars in damage from 14 blazes and noting many exceeded 100,000 dollars. Chief Kohout urges stronger home and industrial fire safety as national losses near 1 billion in 1952. The era’s biggest blaze began January 30, 1931 at Newman Mercantile, causing about 500,000 dollars in damage with 319,600 paid. Another large fire hit Cargill Inc.’s soybean mill October 11, 19xx, with 202,500 dollars in damage, followed by a 1951 Cargill blaze totaling 197,500 dollars.
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Edar Rapids
E. P. Eohout
Kohout
Cargill
Art Educators To Meet Friday In Burlington
Art Educators of Iowa plan a two day Burlington conference on art education with Helen Parkhurst from New York joining three sessions. The event runs Friday and Saturday at the Burlington hotel and is open to all Iowa teachers and school administrators. Parkhurst speaks Friday at 7 30 p m Let the Child Create and joins a Saturday 9 a m panel Art and the Growing Child with Lampard Bauman and others.
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Art Educators of
Iowa
Burlington
Helen Parkhurst
New York
Bur‘Tington Hotel
A.E.L
Miss Parkhurst
William D. Lampard
University of Iowa
Archie Bauman
Cedar Rapids
Gazette
Jean Strons
C. R
Conference of
Art Educators of Iowa
Gerry McNeill
Roosevelt
Stanley Aten
Large 14-fire string totals 1.68 million in losses
Chief Korout reports total payout of 1,683,285 for fourteen fires including a 187,500 blaze at May Drug Company warehouse at First Street and Fourth Avenue SE. Other listed losses span 1932 to 1952 from Hach Brothers, Klinger Paint, Cedar Rapids Airways, National Lumber, Wilder Grain, Chandler Pump, Coe College chapel, Technical Publications, Sutton Appliance, and the Ely block blaze.
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May Drug Company
First Street
Fourth Avenue SE
Hach Brothers Company
Klinger Paint Company
Cedar Rapids Airways
National Lumber and Shingle Company
Wilder Grain Company
Chandler Pump Company
Coe College
Freedom Key To Solvency Of Austrians
Austrian political scientist Dr. Rudolph Strasser told a Birmingham audience that independence is needed before Vienna can again be solvent. He argued Soviet control in the eastern sector, under Potsdam terms, has given the Soviets rights to German assets and control of 200 industrial plants, 106000 acres of farmland, and Austria’s oil field, threatening the economy.
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Austria
Strasser
America
Austrian Federal Chamber of Commerce
Birmingham
Ala
INS
Vienna
Rudolph Strasser
United States
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Cargill, Inc
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Falfa
Pikce Sale
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U.N
Remington
Lowa Typewriter Exchange
Hest
Kresge
Libby
BO Watt
Iti Ie
SOIC
Kroehler
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