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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1940
Page
7
A 7 day menu plan outlines affordable meals for a family of five with a focus on balanced nutrition. It includes recipes to revitalize stale bread, scrambled eggs with milk and bacon drippings, buttered toast, coffee and tea portions, spaghetti with tomatoes and hamburger, beet salad, assorted cold cuts, potato salad, and a peach pie. The cost estimate per day is about 1.68 dollars.
Summary of local milestones including Cedar Rapids girls entering Grinnell College and notable travels. Mentions Miss Jane, Rucy, Betty, Catherine Byers, Marguerite Konczyk as freshmen or sophomores. Reports on Ben Haddad fracturing his thigh in a bicycle collision and Eleanor Cook heading to Carnegie Tech for junior year. Includes daily livestock and produce prices and staff movements at local institutions.
A man named Joseph Olisev faced a ten dollar fine after attempting to crash a wedding dance. The incident was described as serious enough to warrant enforcement, with witnesses noting the responders did not bluff.
Sky Olisevsky, 32, from 2000 Fifteenth Avenue South, was escorted from a wedding at Z C B J hall in Atlantis after crashing the dance. He displayed a black eye and was detained for intoxication as partygoers recalled he resisted leaving and toppled a guard at the venue.
Police found Olisevsky staggering on the sidewalk and claimed he walked into something with his eye. In police court he was fined $10 and costs on the intoxication count.
Methodist units in Nebraska on Friday were urged to raise one hundred thousand dollars to be divided equally between world service and church activities within the state.
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