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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Oct 25, 1946

Page

4

Radio NOTES AND DRAMA TO FILL FRIDAY NIGHT AIR

Friday night schedules feature Love Story Theater premiering at 7 30 over Mutual with original writers Fannie Hurst Faith Baldwin Paul Gallico and Frederick Wake man Opening play Concerto in C Minor Jim Ameche guest stars in The Surprise Witness on Mys painted Theater at 9 over NBC Martha O Driscoll appears on WGN Tales of the Foreign Service broadcasts Elihu Root Secretary of State at 10 30 over NBC Arthur Lee leads Highways in Melody debuts MAC MORGAN becomes Highways in Melody soloist Jannette Warren guest on Sparkle Time over CBS WMT Ellington Duke appears on Jack Smith Show and Monica s Music Album features Hazel Scott Others include Gene Autry Bill Stern s Sports Newsreel and a pep band program at 4 30 Iowa Notre Dame game at 1 45 PM and Iowa State Oklahoma A at 1 50 PM on multiple stations.

Rama Love Story Theater Mutual Jim Ameche Fannie Hurst Faith Baldwin Paul Gallico Frederick Wakeman VNAL Tales of the Foreign Service Elihu Root NBC WMAQ Arthur Lee Yther Duke Ellington Jack Smith Cbs-Wmt Hazel Scott Monica Mutual-Wgn Billy DeWolfe Ginny Simms Cbswmt Gene Autry Bill Stern Nbcwmaq

Radio Schedule Highlights From October 25 1946

Broadcast listings show KXEL WHO WGN WMT and others air all day Friday and Saturday with programs from Star Time to Fights News and later segments. The page notes a breaking report: Archbishop Victor head of the Russian Orthodox mission to China was arrested and released without charge. Also a line mentions the first use of nitrous oxide for a tooth extraction in 1844.

WGN Bradley WMT Jack Smith WGN Enty Agto Mel, Willson Kxel Pioneer Sons WHO Kaltenborn Shanghai Victor China

Public Works Costs Exceed Truman Limit By 165 Million

President Truman announced that civilian federal public works for this fiscal year will surpass the $900 million limit set last August by $165 million. He noted no further military cutbacks are under consideration and cited increases for the war department engineers and interior reclamation programs as the only authorized rises.

Washington Truman Steelman Department of Interior Reclamation Budget Bureau Tennessee Valley Authority Agriculture Department Mr. Truman War Department

U S Colonel at Bremen Faces Army Trial

Col. Bion C. Welker and Lt. Col. Joseph W. Shamel face court martial on multiple misconduct charges in Bremen. Welker, relieved Sept. 20, is under arrest at an army hospital. Shamel is restricted to quarters. Accusations include obstructing military justice and improper use of Red Cross supplies.

Bremen Germany Bion C. Welker Mountainside Joseph W. Shamel Mt. Carroll Welker Shamel Red Cross United States Army

Advertising Drives America’s Economy Says INBC Chief

INBC president Niles Trammell told the National Association of Broadcasters convention that advertising unlocks resources and ingenuity, making mass consumption and production possible, raising living standards and employment, and expressing the hope enterprise and ambition of the American people.

Chicago Niles Trammell National Broadcasting Company America National Association of Broadcasters Convention

Eisenhower Denies Bradley as Possible Chief of Staff

In Washington AP reports Eisenhower said he did not mean to imply Omar Bradley would actually succeed him as chief of staff. He volunteered a comment on a report about Bradley possibly taking the post but clarified his remark.

Washington Dwight D. Eisenhower Omar Bradley Bradley

Memorial Commission invites bids for Cedar Rapids recreational center site

Official publication announces plans and specifications for grading and street work for a Cedar Rapids recreation center. Three contracting parties review plans in City Hall. Bids due with corporate surety. payments allocated among parties. work to start within ten days of award and finish in fifty working days. Publication dates October 25 and 26.

Memorial” Commission Sat Cedar Rapids Iowa Cation Schoo Walter E. Miller Memorial Commission Code of Iowa Council Chamber Enve Jones Gordie Bankers Town City of Board of Education Howard R. Green Company Bever Town

Ida Grove boy’s Hereford steers sets world price record

A 15-year-old Iowa farm boy, Jack Hoffman, sold his grand champion Hereford steer T. O. Pride at 35.50 a pound for a world record $42,600 at the American Royal Livestock Show auction in Kansas City. The 1,200 pound steer was bought by E. W. Williams of Williams Meat Co after shrinkage adjustments.

Kansas City Ida Grove T. O. Pride Jack Hoffman 4-H Club American Royal Livestock Show E. W. Williams Williams Meat Company American Royal Jack T. O Williams Raton N. M Carl Harkness Golden Colo

Hereford and Short Horn champions sell at high prices

The reserve grand champion carlot of Herefords shown by Karl Hoffman realized about $15,000, selling at 60 cents a pound to Burnett Meat Company. The champion load of Short horns exhibited by Teddy Schmidt sold to Waldorf Astoria in New York for 43 cents a pound, about $6,100. Young Hoffman plans to retire from 4 H livestock shows. Lee Bennington, 18, won first in the 1945 national farm mechanics contest at the National Victory convention of Future Farmers of America, earning $250 for a self feeder, grain box, trailer project, and tractor work.

Lee Bennington Park River N. D National Farm Mechanics Future Farmers of America Bennington

Bob Hope Receives Medal of Merit for Morale Efforts

Washington reports film and radio comedian Bob Hope was awarded the Medal of Merit by General Dwight D. Eisenhower. A presidential citation praised his morale work on home and war fronts. Hope quipped that he can’t wait for Crosby to see it.

Washington Bob Hope War Department Dwight D. Eisenhower Truman Hope Crosby

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