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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1942
Page
6
A health note outlines causes of a sagging chin and throat line. It suggests posture, limited weight loss, and specific neck and jaw exercises to tone muscles. Gentle massage and chewing foods are recommended to aid jaw and throat strength.
Dr A R Lauer announced 40 coeds were named to take the ambulance driving course at Iowa State college. They receive training in driving and car care, emergency repair, first aid and poison gas handling. Last year 39 completed the course with students from Cedar Rapids Mechanicsville Oakville Strawberry Point among them.
Edna and Joe face parental snobbery over social background despite love and potential. A WAAC enlistment query seeks steps for a college graduate. Miss Manners directs to a Cedar Rapids recruiting office. Lonely fiancée wonders whether dating others is acceptable. answer urges moderate social activity and occasional outings to break monotony without betraying the fiancé.
The current events department met at the club house for a picnic luncheon hosted by Miss Anna Calderwood and Mrs. George Yuill. A program on the Great Lakes Region was presented by Mrs. W Armstrong, Miss Leota Te cam, Mrs. Giles Eeletee, and others. Miss Emma Ellicott closed the meeting noting migration from the South to the Great Lakes region.
Eighty four mothers attended open house at Tyler school with class performances led by Ruth Putnam and Mable Fenning. A Camp Fire group was formed under Julia Yuva, a benefit party set for Nov 4, and the budget approved after a report on the fall drive raising $11.
Mrs Roosevelt will stay two days in a first floor suite at Buckingham Palace, damaged by German bombs in 1940. She will dine on wartime rations and be attended by one lady in waiting and several footmen in blackout coats. The queen ordered quick preparations after Balmoral, with no elaborate state functions planned.
London reports a minor German air raid on a southeast coast town with a bouncing bomb. Eyewitnesses say a bomb landed on a beach and bounced over waterfront houses before hitting a side street house, while other bombs struck a street and bounced about 200 yards over cottages.
The data report shows brown hair prevalence with 75 percent in Spaniards, 39 percent in French, and 16 percent in Scandinavians. It highlights substantial regional variation in hair pigment within Europe.
Dorothy Houts, Roosevelt high school art instructor, displays 50 watercolors at the public library gallery. The Cedar Rapids Art association hosts a tea Sunday from 3:30 to 5 p.m. with a clay modeling demonstration by Leon Zeman of Franklin high school. The show runs through November.
A two piano program was presented at Sinclair Memorial chapel Thursday morning by Miss Eleanor Taylor and Dr. Stanley C. Mulholland. Taylor is Coe college organ instructor and Mulholland, of Santa Barbara Calif, is a son in law of Mr and Mrs Robert S Cook 222 Crescent street SE. The pianists played works from early masters to contemporary, including Bach preludes and fugues, an Adagio, a Rachmaninoff Waltz, Les Papillons by Debussy, and Begin the Beguine by Cole Porter.
Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels urged Germans that the Axis, after conquering vast territories, needs only time to build on solid foundations in his weekly Das.
Goebbels argues time favors the Axis noting Britain has won nothing since the war began and lost vital bases. He claims Axis food supplies are improving while Britain and Russia face worsening shortages.
Iowa gubernatorial candidate Kraschel will headline a Democratic rally at the C.S.P.S. hall Cedar Rapids starting at 8 p.m. Also speaking are state party figures. the Karla Masaryk chorus directed by Mrs. LeRoy Kiersey will perform and local candidates will be introduced.
James Manville, chairman, said the scrap metal campaign ends with Saturday’s completion. Calls for special pickups are routed to the civilian defense office, but no trucks will run next week. Some work on removal of old boilers and equipment will continue as special projects. Disposal arrangements are being made for the city scrap lot at Third Avenue and Sixth Street SE, with metal headed for the mills.
The Presidio of San Francisco served as the garrison protecting the mission and its surroundings, reflecting its military role in early California history.
Coe college presents a Friday 4 15 pm student recital in Sinclair Memorial chapel. Grace Bakken of Scranton leads the program featuring Leatta Jorgensen Lost Nation Joyce Roberts Williamsburg Patricia Hushaw Clear Lake Roger Kornder Davenport Lorimer Olson Nora Springs and Janine McGill La Porte City.
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