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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1954
Page
3
The Cedar Rapids Life-Saving Crusade ended with optimism and caution. Chairman E. R. Potter of the oil safety committee led the effort that boosted driving habits and drew Midwest attention. There were no serious city accidents that week, and Potter urged continued, broader safety programs.
The Safety in the Making show, climax of the Life-Saving Crusade, was postponed due to inclement weather. Cooperating groups want a later presentation, with the oil industry safety committee saying the program will likely be staged next spring.
Early this week grim reminders will disappear as wrecked cars are removed from downtown and crosses and coffins are taken down. Potter stresses that the week’s effort fails if motorists forget safety tips and fails to make each driver take personal responsibility for avoiding accidents. The oil industry safety committee backs courteous driving as a key deterrent and distributed about 5,000 "Courtesy is contagious" stickers.
Potter notes a week of more courteous driving and says the Life Saving Crusade serves another great purpose by reminding drivers to be considerate. He plans to place reminders on car visors as constant prompts for safer conduct.
Bertha M. Weeks of Chicago, operator of Record Controls, Inc., speaks at the Cedar Rapids National Office Management Association meeting Tuesday at 6 30 p m in the Roosevelt hotel. Weeks's firm reorganizes record systems, streamlines filing, and trains clerks. She writes on filing systems and record procedure and previously worked with Globe Wernicke and Chicago Bureau of Filing and Indexing.
In Covington Virginia a hospital nursery reports the weekend birth of twins to two families, the Lambs and the Wolves. The newborns belong to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Lamb and Mr. and Mrs. William Wulf.
Air Force Reserve units leave the N G Training Center for new quarters in Cedar Rapids starting Monday. Offices for the group and squadron shift to the Disabled American Veterans building at 1213 Second Street SE. Monday night’s Cedar Rapids unit meeting will be the first in the new location and focuses on Military Correspondence. The DAV retains partial use of the building and keeps its meetings there. the new phone number is 3 5175.
Archer Eggen Cedar Rapids public librarian will address the Retired Men's bureau of the Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday afternoon at 4 in the library building auditorium. His topic is The New Look in Libraries and delegates are invited to the bi weekly Civic bureau dinner at the Chamber building afterward. Some Massachusetts cranberry bogs have many owners due to early development costs and 64th share sales.
Brig. Gen. W. E. Potter, Missouri River division engineer for the Corps of Engineers, will address the Cedar Rapids Engineers club Tuesday at 6 30 p.m. in the Montrose hotel. The talk covers the St. Lawrence seaway’s relation to the Midwest during a joint session with the Iowa Illinois chapter of the ASME.
Police investigated a break in in Albany where Lloyd Dobner an air force base airman was stopped after a housewife reported seeing a radio antenna protruding from his pocket. Dobner was arrested on burglary suspicions.
Harry J. Lipset sues Los Angeles County for 5450 damages claiming he lost his false teeth while a patient at General Hospital and has grown weak from the inability to eat solid food.
Hazel Laird of Coyle Oklahoma designed small Christmas trees from turkey feathers. The idea gained demand as neighbors requested more, a manufacturer pays royalties, and plans to produce over 200000 feather trees for this Christmas with national distribution arranged.
A Mississippi postcard postmarked Greenville asks the Concord Chamber of Commerce for “the reason of the Civil war.” The message reads like a curious visitor inquiry rather than a serious travel prospect. The source notes the unusual framing and regional origin.
The first asteroid, discovered by Piazzi in 1801, lies between Mars and Jupiter in orbit. It marks the beginning of asteroid discovery, with the population numbering in the dozens by that era and a year roughly around 900 days for an asteroid to orbit the Sun.
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