Joe Svoboda of Brno Studying at Coe College
Joe Svoboda, a 20-year-old Czech refugee, arrived in Cedar Rapids for the 1946-47 term as Coe College’s first foreign student. He survived German slave labor in Vienna and bombing raids in 1945, plans to study English, American history, psychology and sociology, and intends to become a citizen after five years. His brother Frank has lived in the U.S. twenty years and now broadcasts Czech lectures in New York.
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Louise Johnston
Joseph Svoboda
Bedford
Zanesville
Ohio
Coe
Joe
Alan Ladd
America
Frank
Dubuque
Our Town
Brno
Czechoslovakia
Vienna
Austria
New York
Justice Department
Irene
Office of Schools
Julie
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
I Never Ending Chinese War Part Tradition
James D. White analyzes China's civil war tactics noting two causes for the perceived bloodiness. He argues long standing strategy favors maneuver and outwitting the foe over sustained city combat. The piece contrasts Western expectations with Chinese emphasis on political aims and selective fighting.
Fifty Coe Students Without Housing as Classes Begin
About 50 of Coe college's 876 fall enrollees are homeless due to delayed completion of 13 two apartment quonset huts funded under FPHA programs. Married veterans and their wives face housing shortages as orientation week starts, with college officials appealing Cedar Rapids residents to offer apartments and vacancies.
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Coe
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Byron S. Hollinshead
the Gazette
Coe _ college
Donald A. McKenzie
Federal Public Housing Authority
Kuchara Construction Company
Des Moines
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Ellis Park
Verne Pangborn
FPHA
Kucharo
Voorhees Hall
Hollinshead
Wilson High To Hold First Paid Assembly
Wilson High hosts its first pay assembly with Jack Raymond of the Kentucky Reptile Garden speaking on Reptiles of North America at 12 45 p m Thursday in the school auditorium. The exhibit features 15 to 20 live specimens mounted skins and educational items from the Garden collection for public display and admission is via activity card or 15 cent ticket.
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Wilson High
Jack Raymond
Kentucky
Park City
North America
Wilson School
Ukrainians Expelled Under Repatriation Accord
The Polish government announced that 268,741 Ukrainians were expelled from southeastern Poland near Rzeszow to Soviet Russia under a Polish Soviet repatriation agreement.
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Warsaw
Poland
Rzeszow
Soviet Russia
He Saw the Deer But It Wasnt Alone
Cheyenne publisher Tracy S. McCraken saw a large deer by a highway at dusk. A fawn bolted into the road, struck the car, broke the windshield, and slid off limping. McCraken and his family escaped unharmed.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Tracy S. McCraken
McCraken
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James D. White
Associated Press
China
North China
Manchuria
von Clausewitz
Greene Hall
St. Luke’s Hospital
John A. Fisher
T. M. Sinclair Memorial
American Council
Women’s Field
Democratic
Furniture CO
First Street
Enve
Lopes
Second Street
Weced Sancrome
AR Rapids, Ova
Conti Castile
Moone
LILLY
Baume Bengay A
Fitch
DR. Lyon
Sara Od
Parker Vacuumatic
S.S
Alc
Jergen
DeWitt
Hershey's Cocoa
Pacquin
LUXOR
Magik Mist
D.D.T
Johnson’s
Bromo Seltzer
Peeata
Pierce
Combustioneer Stokers
WOME
Unipac
Mow
Revelationay
Acousticon Heeter CO
Merchants
Nat'l Bank
J. B. Weeter
W. W. Bockhaus
Mildred Wallace
Fk. L. Maresh
H. W. Woodard
J. B. Heeter
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