Five Story State Office Building Recommended for Iowa
A three member Iowa interim committee urged constructing a five story state office building at an estimated cost of 1.7 million dollars. They also proposed a 115000 dollar warehouse unit and a 350000 dollar central heating plant for the state house area excluding the new office building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
INS
Iowa Interim Legislative Committee
Statehouse
F. M. Dawson
University of Iowa
T . Age
Iowa State College
W.L. Perkins
Architectural Examiners Board
Courtesies for Out-of-Town Visitors Highlight Cedar Rapids Weekend
Out of town visitors fill Cedar Rapids as homecoming events approach at the State university. Mrs George Lutgerding of Phoenix hosts a dinner for visiting friends with Mr and Mrs David Turner in attendance. An informal tea at Mrs Isaac BR Smith’s home honors guests from Holland and Chicago. Bridge luncheons and other gatherings also mark the social week as local residents welcome guests and note friends moving to Santa Cruz California.
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The
State University
Cedar Rapids
George Lutgerding
Phoenix
Ariz
Agatha
Nell Cherry
Grande Avenue
Lutgerdina
David Turner
Twenty Third Street Drive
Bridge
Isaac BR Smith
Twenty-seventh Street Drive
James Noell
Wassenaar
Holland
Ernest Noell
Chicago
Smith Home
James I. Bever
Washington Avenue SE
Bridge Club
E E Hill
la Jolla
Calif
Alfred E Durins
Charles Denecke
Lindsay Couple Complete Westward Business Vacation Trip
Mr and Mrs Kenneth Lindsay of 310 Nineteenth Street SE concluded a two and a half week journey through the west and northwest late Tuesday.
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Kenneth Lindsay
Nineteenth Street
Reservations Made For Country Club Homecoming Party
Reservations for the Cedar Rapids Country Club Homecoming party are being taken this week. Linn county guests must have their names submitted in advance to Ben H Witwer. Dinner from 6:30 to 8:30 PM and dancing 9:30 to 1:30 AM with Don Coleman and his Southern Commanders.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Cedar Rapids Symphony Benefit Concert Attracts Record Support
Campaign reports show the Cedar Rapids Symphony benefit concert No 7 will draw record crowd Attendance appears strong with Lucy Monroe soprano as guest soloist Ticket sales and contributions indicate high response Campaign chairman B L Jackson notes last year’s John Carter concert left a favorable impression prompting broad support The event funds all other Cedar Rapids Symphony concerts for the year which will be free to the public.
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Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra
Lucy Monroe
B. L. Jackson
John Carter
Elizabeth Sommers Weds Duayne Walcott in Independence
Mr and Mrs George Sommers announce the marriage of their daughter Elizabeth to Duayne C Walcott on August 28 at the Methodist parsonage in Independence. The ceremony was by Rev HH Nill. Attendants were Mr and Mrs M E Powers of Cedar Rapids. The couple now reside at 257 Twenty-fourth Avenue SW Cedar Rapids.
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George Sommers
Fourth Avenue
Elizabeth
Duayne C. Walcott
Homer T Walcott
Toddville
Independence
HH Nill
M E Powers
Cedar Rapids
Waleuti
Minnesota
Twenty-fourth Avenue
Methodist Society Executive Board Meets for Upper Iowa Conference
The Executive Board of the Methodist Woman's Society met at Trinity Methodist Church for its initial session. Officers include President Mrs Baker and Vice President Mrs Ware. Delegates to the December Chicago jurisdictional conference were chosen, with district study meetings scheduled in Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, Davenport, and Waterloo regions on November dates.
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Upper Iowa
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Trinity Methodist Church
Women of Methodism
Church Womens
Foreign Missionary Society
Women's Home Missionary Society
Earle A’ Baker
Cedar Falls
Marjorie Ware
West Branch
Paul Peterson
Mason Cit
Baker
Ware
Ray D Young
Mount Vernon
H H Pill
Independence
Raymond Bivens
Marshalltown
Codagan
Waterloo
H V Cherrington
Town City
S F Kenderdine
R. S. Toogood
Cedar Rapids
Chicago
Dubuque
Manchester
Davenport
Ghost Gallops Halloween Dance At Coe College
Fifteen pledges of Coronet An independent women's group at Coe College were announced Friday night during a Halloween themed dance held in the men's gym recreation rooms. Pledges Vera Vespestad Elizbeth Daniels Beth Franck Dorothy Plank Margaret Jacobson Lucile Harris Carol Blodgett Dorothy Clark Betty Sharp Lois Benson Beulah Wessale Crystal Knox True Miller Phyllis Steele Ruth Rice were introduced by 15 white sheeted ghosts during intermission. Chaperons were Dr and Mrs Robert V Drexler Mr and Mrs Robert L Stone braker and Mr and Mrs G Paul Grant. Arrangement leaders were Doris Miller Betty Olson and Myrna Parks.
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Coronet
Coe College
Vera Vespestad
Elizabeth Daniels
Beth Franck
Dorothy Plank
Margaret Jacobson
Lucile Harris
Carol Blodgett
Dorothy Clark
Betty Sharp
Unity Center Open House Hosted by Miss Swanson
Miss Matel Swanson leader of Unity Center will host an open house at the center’s parlors on Thursday from 7 to 10 30 p.m. The event at 1015 Second Avenue SE invites all friends of the Center and refreshments will be served.
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Matel Swanson
Unity Center
Second Avenue SE
Friends of the Center
Mrs Friebel and Sloan Couple Return From East Trip
Mrs S Friebel and Mr and Mrs James W Sloan of 1542 Seventh Avenue SE returned Monday after a 16 day motor trip through the east. They visited the New England states and cities in Montreal and Toronto.
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S. Friebel
James W Sloan
Seventh Avenue
New England States
Montrea
Toronto
Club Board Honors New Members
Sixty members of Beethoven club gathered at the home of Mrs Lester J Baldwin to honor new members. Two past presidents presided at the tea table while the social committee organized the event with a yellow and white decor theme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beethoven Club
Lester J) Baldwin
Seventeenth Street
R. D Taylor
John T Massey
Glenn Fletcher
Leo Peiffer
W J McGuire
Marshall Hickman
D A Barker
John W. Donnelly
Paul Miner
Alfred Heinrich
Everett Beatty
Shellsburg
B J Paroulek
Otto Kohl
Fred Woolrich
Everett Wood
J F Young
Homer White
Ruth Engstrom
Marion
Martha Leksa
Earlinda Whitehill Hosts Halloween Masque Tonight
Earlinda Whitehill daughter of Mr and Mrs Earl Q Whitehill hosts a Halloween masque at 1920 Ridgewood Drive SE from 5 to 7 PM. Guests include Susan Starman Patricia Boudreaux Kathryn Chehak Sheryl Chehak Natalie Jenkins Joan Johnston Jane Kilhan Maryhel Kilhan Janis Jensen Patricia Schaber Catharine Yuill Sandra Studer and others friends of the hostess. Michael Martin Jack Cutler Bobby Stoddard Richard Stusak Ramon Cook John Cooper Bobby Owen Bill Seigel John Drabelle and Billy Lange attend.
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Earlinda Whitehill
Earl Q Whitehill
Ridgewood Drive
Susan Starman
Patricia Boudreaux
Kathryn
Sheryl Chehak
Natalie Jenkins
Joan Johnston
Jane
Maryhel Kilhan
Janis Jensen
Patricia Schaber
Catharine Yuill
Sandra Studer
Michael Martin
Jack Cutler
Bobby Stoddard
Richard Stusak
Ramon Cook
John Cooper
Bobby Owen
Bill Seigel
John Drabelle
Billy Lange
Wilson Hi Y Ette Plans Homecoming Dance
Wilson High School students will attend a Homecoming dance Friday night after the Wilson Roosevelt football game. Miss Martha Griffith hosted a dinner at 374 Twenty-first Street SE for the cabinet members and advisers who organized the event.
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Wilson High School
Akimni
Wilson Hi-Yette
Martha Griffith
Twenty-first Street
Wilson- Roosevelt
Dorothy Stofler
Grace Gordon
Miss Griffith
Gertrude Knake
Coral Brush
Gail Phillipson
Lillian Dusek
Arlene D
Siecherts Host Costume Dinner for Twelve Guests
Mr and Mrs Paul Siechert of 608 McKinley Street SE entertained 12 guests at a Halloween themed costume dinner party Monday evening. Dinner was by candlelight and after dinner bridge followed.
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Paul Siechert
McKinley Street
Bridge
Cedar Rapids Society to Hold Picnic Dinner at New HQ
The Cedar Rapids Society for the Hard of Hearing will host a picnic dinner at its new headquarters on 1262 Third Avenue SW this Friday at 6 p.m. All members and friends are invited to attend and bring the usual picnic items.
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Cedar Rapids Society For the Hard of Hearing
Third Avenue
Catholic Youth Jamboree Tonight At Immaculate Conception School
The Catholic Youth Organization invites both married and unmarried young people to a Halloween jamboree this evening in the Immaculate Conception school gymnasium.
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Catholic Youth Organization
Immaculate Conception
Cedar Rapids Radio Council Meeting Set for Thursday
The production committee will meet Thursday at 10 am in Miss Alice B Storys office in the public library to discuss council affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids Radio Council
Alice B Story
Public
Paul J Cash Gets Two Years In Leavenworth
U S Judge Charles A Dewey sentenced Anamosa lawyer Paul J Cash to two years at Leavenworth for impersonating his brother the postmaster in passing a bad check He pled guilty Fred Gerber and Elmer Le Vera Iowa City men also pled guilty to breaking into a freight car and stealing beer and were given six months in jail with credit for time served.
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Davenport
U. S
Charles A. Dewey
Paul J Cash
Anamosa
Leavenworth
Fred Gerber
Elmer le Vera
Iowa City
Navy acquires 31 auxiliary ships for Pacific fleet
Washington reports Secretary Frank Knox announced the Navy has acquired 31 fleet auxiliary vessels to support the fleet train based at Hawaii and available for service anywhere in Pacific waters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Frank Knox
Navy
Fleet Auxiliary
Hawaii
Pacific
City Briefs and Community Events in Local Notices
Kensington meeting of City Briefs T Z Cook Women's Relief Corps set for Thursday at 2 pm in Memorial building. Link-Belt Speeder workers and families invited to picnic supper and party at Y W C A tonight at 6. Turkey dinner Thursday eve at 50c. Sokolky postponed due to date mix up, meeting Friday evening in Sokol hall. W T Ramsay improving, expected out in a week. Knights of Pythias Halloween party and dance Thursday 9 to 12:40 am at Star of the West hall. Radio repair services advertised in Want Ads. Denny Hanson, 6, underwent emergency appendectomy at St Luke's. Dr Emma J Neal and Miss Verde Vearick returned from Kansas City. Waltonian Luncheon club meets Thursday noon at Lafayette club room. Army on Wheels shown courtesy of Handler motor company. Ladies auxiliary ILWU No 3 Halloween party 7 30 tonight at union office. Townsend club No 6 meets 7 30 pm Thursday Memorial building Superior courtroom. Public invited. Mr and Mrs Ed Stefan returned from Denver funeral services for Oliver Presentt. Mrs Stefan's stepfather Prescott was 72, formerly of Cedar Rapids.
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Ed Stefan
Seventh Avenue SE
Denver
Oliver Presentt
Stefan
Prescott
Cedar Rapids
County Candidates Bowdish and Jones Vie For Linn Recorder
Mrs Ida C Bowdish of Springville, a Democrat, seeks Linn County recorder in the November general election. Born in Marion township to William and Amanda Pearson Calvert, she held teaching jobs, ran a general store, and served in local clubs. Republican incumbent Dempsy Jones, seeking re election, was born in Kentucky and moved to Cedar Rapids in 1911. He previously worked in multiple firms, led a semi pro baseball team, and held civic roles. Jones resides at 914 Ellis boulevard NW.
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Ida C Bowdish
Springville
Linn
Marion Township
William
Amanda Pearson Calvert
Linn County
Bowdish
Cornell College
Waubeek
John S Bowdish
Glenn Bowdish
Ivan Bowdish
Cedar Rapids
Collins Radio Company
Dempsy Jones
Fountain Run
Capitol Hill
Mattoon
Ill
Warfield-Pratt-Howell Company
Cedar Rapids Oil Company
Iowa Railway and Light Corporation
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Gazette
L. L. Randall
Jones
Randall
Warfields
Mayme K
Herschel
Donald
Dale
Ellis Boulevard
Pulda Divorce Granted After Cruel Treatment Filing
Court records show Nora E Pulda was granted a divorce from William F Pulda on cruel and inhuman treatment after a petition filed at 1:45 PM and decree filed at 2:12 PM. The couple married in Rock Island on June 20 1932.
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Nora E. Pulda
William F. Pulda
H. C Ring
Rock Island
Bulk Oil Co Charged With Violating Fuel Storage Laws
Bulk Oil Co at 701 Third Street SE faced court action for unlawfully maintaining bulk fuel storage in a class D light industrial zone. Manager Al Kane pleaded not guilty. hearing set for Thursday as city officials cite repeated warnings since last June.
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Third Street
al Kane
Kane
Bob Blahnik
Felix O'Donnell
Don Hines
Blahnik
Harry Johnson
Tapper Divorce Hearing Continues In Cedar Rapids Case
Raymond Tapper sues Jeannette Tapper in Cedar Rapids on cruel and inhuman treatment. Judge A C Ring extends hearings to Thursday at 2 pm by agreement. Mrs Tapper may file a cross petition. The couple married in Hibbing Minnesota on October 15 1921 and separated in 1937.
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A. C Ring
Raymond Tapper
Cedar Rapids
Jeannette Tapper
Cedar Rapids Man Detained on Embezzlement Warrant
S R Robinson aged 32 of Cedar Rapids was taken into custody by Deputy Whittemore at 19 a m on a warrant issued by Justice Gillam Tipton for embezzlement. Linn officials said Cedar County attorney requested the arrest.
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S. R. Robinson
Cedar Rapids
P. J. Whittemore
E. C. Gillam
Tipton
Linn
Robinson
Cedar County
Political Leader Clarence Hamlin Dies in Colorado
Clarence Clark Hamlin age 72 publisher of the Gazette and Telegraph and a prominent Colorado political figure and attorney died Tuesday night at his home in Colorado Springs.
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Colorado Springs
Clarence Clark Hamlin
The
Gazette
the Telegraph
Colorado
West
Furnace Repair Classified Ad Hint
Notice directs readers to look under classification 8 in the want ads for furnace repairing, cleaning or servicing information. It points to a local newspaper Want Ads section detailing furnace service options.
Electrical Engineers Hear Talk By Sorensen
Dr. R. W. Sorensen, president of Caltech and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, spoke to the Iowa section at the Roosevelt hotel. He outlined long range weather forecasting, airflows in the Arctic, substratosphere records from high altitude balloons, and showed pictures of the Mount Wilson 200 inch telescope mirror being ground. He discussed new radio developments, Guggenheim wind test tunnels, the atom smasher, and advances in electrical engineering and welding.
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R. W. Sorensen
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
Calif
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
Iowa
Institute
Roosevelt Hotel
Sorensen
Arctic
Mount Wilson
Guggenheim Foundation For Aviation Studies
Brothers Face Separate Legal Troubles In City Jail
Two brothers ended up in the city jail after distinct incidents Wednesday. Jack Robertson, 19, of 913 Seventeenth Avenue SE, faces assault and battery charges from a Tuesday evening fight near the Allison hotel that left Benny Fine with a black eye. Kenneth Robertson, 22, of 1616 Ninth Street SE, is jailed on a no license charge after backing a state vehicle into a parked motorcycle operated by Patrolman Fuzzy Ahr.
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Jack Robertson
Seventeenth Avenue SE
Benny Fine
Fifth Avenue SW
Allison Hotel
Fine
Robertson
Jack
Kenneth Robertson
Ninth Street SE
Relief Department
Fuzzy” Ahring
To Name Cardinals At Rome Consistory
Vatican report says Pope Pius XII will convene a consistory to name four new cardinals before Christmas. The semi official Vatican news agency briefed reporters on the plan as Rome awaits papal decision.
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Rome
Vatican City
Pius XII
Vatican
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Courtesies
Sam H Nighs
Santa Cruz
Sam H. Nigh
Josephine Anne
Pasa Tiempo Country Club
Lindsays
Country Club
Elizabeth Sommers
Duayne Walcott
A&p
ASP
Arnott
Methodist Society
Malden
Mass
Club
Paul Siecherts
Hearing Society
Catholic Youth Party
Radio Council Group
Paul J. Cash
U. S. Navy
City Briefs
T Z Cook
Women’s Relief Corps
Kensington
Memorial Building
Commonwealth
Sokol
W .T. Ramsay
Thirtyfourth Street
Knights of Pythias
Star of the West Hall
First Avenue E
Denny Hanson
Mrs. Truman Hanson
Twenty-seventh Street
St Luke's Hospital
Emma J. Neal
Verde Vearick
Avenue
Kansas City
Neal
Carl E. Lewellin
Lewellin
Waltonian
Lafayette Club
Army On Wheels
United States Army
South
Handler Motor Company
Ladies’ Auxiliary
United Packing House Workers, IL. S. U. No 3
Stefans
Texas
Strom Photo
Ida Crowdish
Court House News
Bulk Oil Co
McKabe
Nola
Cedar Rapide
Fermanent
McRabe
DOWS
American Institute of Laundering
Alonim
ERC
Third Avenue SE
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