Chrysler unveils new line of cars for 1955
Chrysler Corporation dealers preview the 1955 line on November 17 with redesigned look across Imperial, Chrysler, DeSoto, Dodge and Plymouth. Cars feature lower profiles, sloping hoods, wraparound windshields, and extensive color options aimed at appealing to women. Public photos released November 9 to 15. prices to be announced soon.
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Chrysler Corporation
Studebaker
Chrysler
Imperial
Plymouth
Dodge
DeSoto
Orchestra Promenade Concert at Coe Tonight
Cedar Rapids Promenade Orchestra performs a light program at Coe auditorium open to the public. Selections from Gershwin Strike Up the Band and Song of Norway highlight the 30 piece ensemble with soprano Patricia Key performing two solos from Porgy and Bess and The Vagabond King.
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Cedar Rapids
Friml
Coe
American Federation of Musicians
America
Performance Trust Fund
The
Recording Industries
Lac Rao
Orote
Lacombe
Policemen's Ball Set for November 15 at Memorial Coliseum
The twenty second annual Policemen's Ball will be held November 15 in Memorial Coliseum with an open house at the police station from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. A floor show runs 8 to 9 p.m. Buddy Morrow orchestra will play with Billy Williams quartet. Tickets cost $2 per couple and proceeds go to the widows and orphans fund of Cedar Rapids Police Protective Association.
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Memorial Coliseum
Gale Long
Buddy Morrow
Coe
Billy Williams
Widows and Orphans Fund
Cedar Rapids
Pigeon Racing Complaint Sparks Police Visit in Kenosha
Police reports show Louis Blood noting a neighbor allowed racing pigeons to exercise during laundry hours. Officers advised the fancier to fly his birds at a more propitious time to avoid disturbance.
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Kenosha, Wis
Louis Blood
Day Shift Cartoon Debuts in Cedar Rapids Gazette
The Sunday Gazette presents Day Shift in the classified pages of The Cedar Rapids Gazette each Sunday. Created by Frank Adams a former Douglas Aircraft worker in Long Beach California the strip reflects working man humor and human interest.
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Sunday Gazette Today
Frank Adams
Douglas Aircraft Engineering
Long Beach
Calif
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Czechoslovak Founding Celebration Planned in Cedar Rapids
A free program marks the 1918 founding of Czechoslovakia at CSPS hall on Sunday October 31 with speeches and Czech color films by A J Jan dacek of Chicago. The event honors the republic amid Cold War era Communist rule and promotes next August’s junior convention of the Czechoslovak Society affiliates in Cedar Rapids chaired by T B Hlubucek.
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Republic of Czechoslovakia
Cedar Rapids
CSPS
A. J. Jandacek
Chicago
Federation of Czech Groups
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovak Society of America
T. B. Hlubucek
Edward Ashenbrewer
Esther Klersey
Charles Smreek
Carpenter Garner Injured At Tulsa Hospital Site
Tulsa AP report says carpenter J. C. Garner, 34, fell at the Oklahoma Osteopathic hospital construction site suffering a fractured elbow. He was X rayed, treated and placed in bed.
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Tulsa
Carpenter J. C. Garner
Oklahoma Osteopathic Hospital
Air Force Releases 87-Foot Balloons for Study
Fort Worth Texas AP reports the United States Air Force will release 87 foot plastic balloons from Tracy California to study high altitude wind patterns. Balloons rise to 38000 feet and drift eastward at winds of 128 to 110 mph. Timing devices will burst the gas bags after two to three days and 300 pounds of experimental equipment will parachute to the ground for base collection.
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Fort Worth
Texas
United States
Air Force
Tracy
Calif
Hartford Town Sends 26 Tons of Garbage to New Britain
Hartford shipped 26 tons of waste to New Britain to test a new incinerator and received a thank you note in return. The gesture highlighted the city's cooperation in waste disposal efforts and the incinerator project.
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Hartford
Conn
New Britain
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Craemer News
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