Grant Wood Gallery Opening Slated
The Grant Wood Gallery will open next Sunday October 28 at the Cedar Rapids Art Center with a public noon to 5 p.m. reception. The third floor space houses about 125 works from the Cedar Rapids Art Association’s collection including a Turner gift and a 200 foot wall area for displays. The exhibit traces Wood’s life from Anamosa birth in 1891 through his mature midwest vision and such works as Woman With Plant American Gothic and Stone City with commentary by Stan Weiderspan and James Dennis. Also view Wood’s stained glass window in Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
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Grant Wood
Cedar Rapids Art Center
Third Street
Cedar Rapids Art Assn
Collec
John B. Turner II
Building Fund
Anamosa
Cedar Rapids
Eral
Europe
Stone City
Cludes
Stan Weiderspan
Art Center
Midwest
Dennis
John B. Turner
Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Munich
Linn County seeks genealogical materials for Bicentennial project
The Linn County American Revolution Bicentennial commission asks residents to report private holdings of genealogical books records and pamphlets. Contact Sharon Hruska at 617 Owen Street NW phone 364 6522 to list existence for county inventory. Mrs. Hruska chairing local genealogies subcommittee. materials to be catalogued for statewide publication.
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Linn County
Cancer Death Toll Seen At 355000 In 1974
The American Cancer Society reports 355,000 expected cancer deaths in 1974 with 109,000 potentially preventable by earlier, better treatment. One in four Americans now living may eventually have cancer, and two of three families may be affected over time.
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Washington
UPI
American Cancer Society
U.S
Society
In Memory of Louis Mann and Others
Memorial notices list contributions from families including Elvin Simmons, Kirk, Waldo Thomas, Robert Nirk, Jack Dingleberry and Bette, Roy A Bowman Jr, and Florence Knight. The passage also notes rising lung cancer in women linked to smoking and breast cancer expected to claim 33,000 American deaths in 1974.
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Louis Mann
Elvin Simmons
Kirk
Waldo Thomas
Robert Nikirk
Jack Dingleberry
Bette
Roy A. Bowman, Jr
Sasquatch Reported Seen by Vancouver Fishermen
Three Vancouver fishermen reported a tall gray humanoid on the beach described as about ten feet high. Nick Pisac said the figure walked slowly along the shore, matching the Sasquatch legend.
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Vancouver
Nick Pisac
Arkansas 1968 Vote Stumps Analysts Across State
The 1968 Arkansas general elections puzzled analysts as third party candidate George Wallace led the presidential tally while Winthrop Rockefeller, a Republican, won the governor’s race and Sen. J. W. Fulbright, a Democrat, led the Senate results.
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Little Rock, Ark
UPI
Arkansas
George Wallace
Winthrop Rockefeller
Sen
J. W. Fulbright
Polish Air Force Shaped Battle of Britain Impact
University of Connecticut psychiatrist Dr. Michael A. Peszke notes Polish pilots in the RAF faced heavy losses but achieved high kill ratios in 1940. From July 10 to Oct. 31, Polish flyers accounted for 9 to 1 overall during the Battle of Britain, with Kosciuszko squadron downing 126 enemy planes and 154 Polish pilots serving, 30 dying.
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Farmington, Conn
University of Connecticut
Michael A. Peszke
Journal of the American Aviation Historical Society
Royal Air Force
RAF
Kosciuszko
Britain
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Washington High School
Stone City Art Colony
James Dennis
University of Wisconsin
Ernie
Can Revolution Bicentennial Commission
Department of History and Archives
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage
C. O. Norberg
Muriel Trewin Hall
Florence M. Knight
Robert Lundquist
Los Altos
Calif
Jean M. Whalen
Solon
Ohio
Emerson Long
George and
Ruth Taylor
Mother
William Thompson
Robert, Netta
Eleanor and
Jo Anne
Libby Fieseler
Blanche
Palo
William J. Fieseler
H. B. Robinson
Eeere
Louise Seelig
B. W. Odell
Longbranch
Twist
Holley’s
Don
Jim
Mike
Mark
John
Lindale Plaza
Politic
Oberthien
Public Safety Commissioner
John Oberthien
Our City
Police Department
Metro
Fire Department
Iowa
Traffic Department
Public Safety
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