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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1954
Page
2
Dr Doumyer lauds the interim committee visiting Independence Mental Health Institute. They scrutinize therapy programs and department methods while ensuring efficient use of taxpayer dollars. The panel asks detailed questions to confirm current up to date treatments and patient welfare.
Prize winners in an annual high school photography contest will be shown at the Y camera club meeting Thursday at 7 30 p m in the Keen Teen room YMCA. Sponsors are the National Scholastic Press Association and Eastman Kodak. Winning 1953 prints were displayed in Cedar Rapids last fall. Each print will be discussed by club members. Members should select slides for the November 18 meeting when entries in the Photographic Society of America contest will be chosen.
Esther Crane former New York Times reporter in Japan will headline the Cedar Rapids Chamber Civic Bureau dinner meeting Wednesday. Her talk titled Japan Friend or Foe covers decades from prewar Japan to postwar government and journalism roles. She has worked with The Japan Advertiser Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service and Pacific Stars and Stripes.
Kingsport Tennessee patrolmen responding to a plane crash scene found a group of youngsters repairing a smashed gasoline model plane.
Mrs. John Healy of Carr Canyon near Bisbee Arizona reportedly killed a small mountain lion in her yard, pushing her lifetime total to 18. The AP describes her as possibly the nation’s most successful woman lion hunter.
In Thompsonville Connecticut police report Robert S. Johnson grew overly excited while following his brother Chester Johnson. Chester struck a pole causing the lead car to lose control and hit another pole, ending in a two-vehicle crash.
A Gateshead teenager visits Cedar Rapids mayor Milo Sedlacek as an ambassador of Gateshead. He brings a letter from Mayor Ben Nicholson Young and notes a link to Dr Myron Koenig in London. A British corporal seeks a Cedar Rapids girl pen friend, listing his interests and favorite singers.
United Air Lines inaugurates a Cedar Rapids to Chicago mail flight with a 9 05 a m deadline for special deliveries. Minor changes to eastbound 238 and westbound 207 and 335 flights shift deadlines slightly to 10 05 p m 8 45 p m and 10 30 p m respectively, affecting nationwide mail delivery times.
DETROIT AP reports the school board votes to raise diploma fees to 27 cents each for next year, two cents higher than this year. The policy targets about 10,000 graduates across Detroit schools and ties diploma costs to honoring student achievements.
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