West Chester High School News Benchmarks and Holiday Event
Severe snow shut sessions on December 11 with a return on December 12. West Chester teams beat Kalona 36 to 23. History class projects and declamations progress as students prep term papers. Christmas carols, P T A meet, and vacation run December 22 to January 2. Stamp and bond sales total 161.40. Seventh and eighth graders perform Christmas skits and songs. younger grades present pantomimes and a play about Silent Night and its origins. Holiday greetings and spelling contests cap the week across grades one through six.
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West Chester
Kalona
P.T.A
Jean Ann Cherry
Dluo
Esther Bauer
Charles Greiner
Jimmy Tucker
Christmas Dinners Dot Holiday Weekend Across Area
Elizabeth Irwin travels to Lincoln Nebraska to spend holidays with Rev Harold Irwin and family. Dozens share dinners hosted by McFarlanes, Weeks, Porters, Downings, Haneys, Green, Krauses and others. Multiple local families gather for meals, gifts, and Christmas cheer across Wellman West Chester Cedar Rapids and surrounding towns.
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Elizgabeth Irwin
Lincoln
Nebr
Rev
Iarold Irwin
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay at State Theatre
The Paramount comedy starring Diana Lynn and Gail Russell plays at the State Theatre. The film follows two precocious debutantes on an unchaperoned European trip, causing Paris and London to tremble with their misadventures. Cast includes Charlie Ruggles Dorothy Gish Beulah Bondi and newcomers Bill Edward James Brown.
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Gail Russell
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London
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Dorothy Gish
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Bill Edward
James Brown
Lewis Allen
Rock Island Social Figures Plan Short Vacation Nearby
Callers at the David Lintner home Saturday evening included Mr. and Mrs. W B Tregoning and daughter Ruth Jean, Mrs. Lucile Freitag, Mrs. Loretta Wilcox all of Rock Island. Frank Casey will leave tonight for Excelsior Springs Missouri for a two week vacation. Mrs. Casey plans to visit her mother before joining Frank in Excelsior Springs.
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M. L. Brown
Daugher
Shirley
Lake Charles
William W. Brown
Greensboro
N.C
David Lintner
W. B. Tregoning
Ruth Jean
Lucile Freitag
Loretta Wilcox
Rock Island
Frank Casey
Excelsior Springs
Mrs. Casey
Christmas notices and wartime family gatherings across Iowa
A running column lists Christmas dinners and holiday greetings from families including the Wolfe and Hamill households in Hawaii and Iowa. It notes service members, furloughs, and arrivals home, with veterans visiting relatives in Ottumwa, Grinnell, Winfield, and Evanston along with a large wartime broadcast from KGU Hawaii and WMAQ Chicago.
Definition of Small Business Under Commerce Rules
The department of commerce defines small business as firms with net sales under 50 000 dollars annually. Wholesalers under 200 000 dollars turnover also qualify, as do manufacturers with fewer than 100 employees. Jesse Jones noted that over nine tenths of all business concerns are small and account for 45 percent of workers and 34 percent of dollar volume.
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Department of Commerce
Jesse Jones
Christmas Program At Lookout School
Lookout pupils perform a Christmas program Friday evening at Pilotburg church. Sunday morning services follow. Families gather for dinners including Scott, Klopfenstein, Ferguson, Griggs, Maas, and Oldfield. Vivien Byers marks 50th wedding anniversary. Pilothburg school hosted a cooperative supper and program led by teacher Marcia Henn.
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Frank Stransky
Pilotburg
Lookout
Orva Scott
Cdhildren
Richard Scott
Harold Klopfenstein
Ferguson
Lloyd Griggs
Wellman
Maas
Meredith Maas
Byers
John W. Atlen
Pilothburg
Marcia Henn
Dayton Grove Community Notes and Christmas Wishes
Dayton Grove records visitations and greetings from December including Mrs Sadie Moore visiting Ric Island Sunday with her mother Mahoney and sister Roy Bain. It notes deaths, condolences, and local church events at Comrade Sunday school and the Methodist church with Mrs J B Moore hosting.
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J. B. Moore
Dayton Grove
Sadie Moore
Ric Island
Mahoney
WM Roy Bain
Jouwnr
Ofice
Jennie Leanon
Walter Dwuvaj
Roy Argo
Robe Stephens
Methodist Church Monde
Lois and
Wilbur Moore
J. B
Cedar Rapids Editor Clare Marshall Dies at 51
Cedar Rapids editorial director and treasurer Clare Marshall, 51, died in a Rochester Minnesota hospital after a month with a liver ailment. He served on the state rehabilitation commission and co chaired the War Rapids postwar planning committee and had worked tirelessly for months.
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Cedar Rapids
Clare Marshall
Cedar Rants Gazette
State Rehabilitation Commssion
War Rapids
Dam regulates irrigation to boost Imperial Valley water supply
The Boulder dam regulates water for irrigation in the Imperial valley California and the Gila and Yuma projects in Arizona. It has reduced the Colorado River flood damage and provides a daily supply of billions of gallons of domestic water to the Metropolitan Water District comprising Los Angeles and twelve other coastal California cities.
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Boulder Dam
Imperial Valley
California
Gila and
Yuma
Arizona
Metropolitan Water District
Los Angeles
Cleaning used rags with kerosene and soap wash
Old cloth rags used for polishing furniture or waxing can be cleaned by soaking in sudsy water with a small amount of kerosene added.
Local News from Crawfordsville Christmas Week
Mrs. Freda Jones of Murray visited sister Mrs. Evelyn O Neal in Crawfordsville and left for Christmas vacation with school closed. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hotle of Washington stayed with Lavon Gardner and family, formerly Lavon Gardner, at her grandparents’ home.
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J. Martin White
West Chester
Mabel Plummer
A. Hiochatadtler
Keota
Flummer
Betty Hamil
Omaha
Nebr
Floyd Flamil
Hamil
Roy Whiteman
Conn Whiteman
Biggsville
H. H. Allen
Shirley Dowell
Mary Manners
Crawfordsville
Freda Jones
Murray
Evelyn O'Neal
Eugene Hotle
Washington
Better Vision Institute Study Sparks Eye Task Debate
The Bet ter Vision institute notes that historic viewing tasks were simpler, while the question of whether primitive peoples had superior eyesight to civilian races remains debated and not well evidenced.
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Better Vision Institute
Average mileage by age of passenger cars
The data show annual mileage declines as cars age with averages of 13,000 in year one, 11,800 in year two, 8,700 in year five, and 6,100 in year eight. Overall, cars of all ages average 8,860 miles per year.
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