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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1963
Page
19
Postmaster General Day clarified Paterson New Jersey postal uniform rules allowing fur hats with either a long coat or a jacket, after a series of conflicting directives. A February bulletin confirmed the July order allowing wear with either coat or jacket.
Sam B. Sloan former University of Iowa professor emeritus has bequeathed his library to Coe College. The library includes complete works of Dickens Thackeray Stevenson Hardy and Galsworthy and contains priceless out of print volumes. Sloan taught at SUI from 1899 to 1939 and died before the gift was presented.
Alexander C. Kern and Mrs. Kern, both English professors at the University of Iowa and Coe College, receive a rare joint award for summer research at Huntington Library in San Marino. Mrs. Kern will study satire in the 18th and 19th centuries, while Mr. Kern investigates Thoreau.
Germans spend more than 736 million dollars annually on advertising across newspapers magazines radio and TV in West Germany. The Federation of German Advertising Associations reports a 10.5 percent rise to a new all time high while cautioning that growth will slow to a steady pace. Newspapers and magazines led with 626.4 million dollars, up 9.2 percent from 1961.
A report on the Hope, the American hospital ship, returning from Trujillo Peru will be heard by Danida Tricantal Ca uicg wn TuLalaway and AJUSULAL society at 6 30 p.m. Monday. Dr. Merle Hale of Iowa City head of University hospital dental department will speak after his two months aboard the Hope.
Terri Jean a one year old kitten died when struck by a car during a snow storm as a YMCA ceremony to honor her approached. The feline had saved its owners Mr and Mrs Richard Voyles by waking Mrs Voyles during a December house trailer fire. The event would have awarded the William O Stillman Certificate of the American Humane Association. The story mentions unrelated items about Germanys TV networks and dental education in a garbled manner.
In Washington AP report a Los Angeles firm unveils a large cleaning unit to decontaminate radioactive garments. Contaminated items up to 100 pounds are washed with a solvent that pulls radioactivity into a sludge for burial while distilled solvent is reused. The system aims to decontaminate leather gloves and other protective clothing.
London officials report the Anglo French marriage market collapsed after President de Gaulle vetoed British Common Market membership. Heather Jenner of the London Marriage Bureau notes the blow ends cross channel matchmaking prospects and signals strained ties between Britain and Europe.
The 34th annual El Kabir Shrine Palm Sunday concert is set for 3 p.m. today at Memorial Coliseum with free admission. Shrine Chanters and band, directed by Dayton Merriman and Dillon Holcomb, will perform religious, marches, and Broadway numbers under various soloists and arrangements. Downtown Parkade will be open for concertgoers.
A witty line notes that the want ads are the place to find every sale. The phrase humorously frames classified notices as the go to source for items and services offered by sellers.
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