Engineers Club names two Cedar Rapids scholarships
The Cedar Rapids Engineers Club doubled the 1955 56 scholarship awards to two 200 grants. Recipients are James Gloshen Roosevelt high school Cedar Rapids and John Raich Marion high school immigrant from Austria. Both will attend Iowa State University in the fall.
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Roosevelt High School
Marion
Cedar Rapids
Dick Clausen
Coe College
Engineers Club
Merrill 5. Smith
Colling Radio Company
Iowa State College
University of Town
SUI
ISC
Raich and
Gloshen
Bundesrealschule
Innsbruck
Alps
Healso
Geological Survey
John
United States
Anni Isa
Lves
Marion High School
Stuber Motors
Mariow
Lament of Modern Woman Is Voiced By Mrs Stevenson
Ellen Borden Stevenson, the divorced wife of Adlai Stevenson, writes a verse play in Chicago magazine September issue titled Modern Woman. The piece staged as a round table with Plato Aquinas Bacon Voltaire and Freud debating the twentieth century woman's woes ends with the Modern Woman still troubled and self critical.
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Chicago
Adlai Stevenson
Ellen Borden Stevenson
Thomas Aquinas
Francis Bacon
Voltaire
Freud
Phest
Cain
Greece
Flato
Snappy Uniforms May Dress U.S. Mailmen
The post office department weighs snappier mailman outfits while sticking to gray blue since 1868. Possible updates include stylish tailoring, blue gray shirts, or a colored braid replacing black trim.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Congress
Community Chest Budget Reviewed and Campaign Quota Set
The Committee spent eight nights this summer reviewing agency budgets and shaping the 1956 Community Chest budget and this fall’s campaign quota. A luncheon on Thursday at the Montrose hotel will present figures for final approval to Chest workers agency reps contributors and citizens. Public Welfare bureau and Chest board have already approved the budget and goals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Community Chest
Montrose Hotel
Pubic Welfare Bureau
Chest
Kenneth Kowalski
Dwight Walker
A. T. Pierne
Ed Sears
Ronald C. Booth
Edgar L. King
Charmayne Wilke
M. E
Money's Worth Slowing Down on House Mortgages
Sylvia Porter reports that government housing agencies have tightened mortgage terms. Veterans now face higher down payments and shorter payback periods, while lenders curb risk as the housing boom intensifies.
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Sylvia Porter
York
Federal Housing Administration
Veterans Administration
Dallas Zoologist Declines Public Python Measurings
Pierre Fontaine, director of the Dallas zoo, says Pat the Python is too mean for a public measuring contest with Fort Worth's Pete the Python. Harry Jackson, owner of Fort Worth's python, had challenged Dallas to a halfway-point measure to decide the rivalry. Fontaine refused, citing Pat's violent behavior whenever anyone approaches.
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Dallas, Texas
Pierre Fontaine
Dallas
Pat
Python
Fort Worth
Pete the Python
Harry Jackson
Forth Worth
Fontaine
Eagest
Chamber Dinner for Square D Company Friday
The Chamber of Commerce will host a Friday dinner honoring Square D Company and its directors. The Barber-Q quartet will perform, flown in for a 10 minute program. Eastern reporters from major papers will cover Cedar Rapids events and a plant preview tour is planned.
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Chicago
Chamber of Commerce
Square D Company
Chamber
Cedar Rapids
Square D
New York Times
The
Wall Street Journal
Manufacturers Bureau
Square 2
Square DB
W. Magin
Company
Presient
Obvious Brick Theft Arrest In Salt Lake City
Police officer R B Jacobsen found a man loading bricks into a car at a residence construction site. The 29 year old claimed to be a student and was jailed for drunkenness.
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Salt Lake City
R. B. Jacobsen
Chooses Jail Rather Than Pay Third Fine
Oklahoma City resident Enoch O'Dell Bush opted for jail over a third traffic fine. In Kansas City a man complained of thieves targeting his exposed front window safe, valued around $1,974 plus $400 in checks, after a midnight theft.
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Oklahoma City
Enoch O'Dell Bush
Kansas City
Donald
Rudnick Kent
Del
City
Okla
K. L. Seal
Edinburg Traffic Lights Test Ends in Crash
In Edinburg Texas police boasted no accidents on Court House Square during three months with lights out for construction. Within an hour after lights were restored two vehicles collided on the square. The Wanderobo tribesmen are described as nomadic people in British East Africa in the copy.
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Edinburg, Texas
Edinburg
Courtshouse Square
British East Africa
Graze Warning Issued On Boise State Parking Lot
The Idaho state land department posted signs around the new asphalt surface near the statehouse in downtown Boise. The signs warned to keep off the area, stating no grazing, no timber removal, no mining without a permit, and to keep stock away unless permitted.
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Boise, Idaho
State Land Department
Statehouse
Boise
Sans Souci Begins 10 Year Term For Robbing School Operator
Raymond A. Sans Souci age 17 of Pawtucket Rhode Island began serving a 10 year prison term for the June 30 robbery of a chanting school operator in Fayetteville North Carolina.
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Fayetteville
N. C
Raymond A. Sans Souci
Pawtucket
RK. 1
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Montrose
John Raich
Bad Gastein
Austria
James Gloshen
Ceai Rapids
Taylor and Johnsonade
Roosevelt
Municipal
Camp Waubeek
Valley Forge
Order of the Arrow
Trinity Methodist Church
West Sun Mart
Mrs. Stevenson
Phy Ahora
Sergecom
Wershonts Sonk
Mebigal Arts
Jad Street
U.S
Hollwood
America
Jbuilders
Billicn
Corr
M. Ai Soon
3Rd Street
Waolipaper
Bunc Bated
Broulie Bros. Painters and Paperhanpees
Second Street
COE Gallery
John J. Murray
Albert S. Schmidt
Coe History Department
Cary Dunn
Coe
West Gallery
Sal , Trubell and Stuart
Olympia
Hermes
Remington
Royal
Smith-Corona
Underweed
Iowa
First Avenue
Comport
Idaho
Harvard
Thousand Island
Boston
Atel Roosevelt
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