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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1973
Page
13
The Humane Society Auxiliary urges dog owners to clean up yard feces to curb flies and disease. The note highlights how one dog mess can harbor hundreds of flies for weeks, spreading bacteria and potentially serious illnesses. It also warns about worm eggs surviving cleaning and the need for responsible pet management.
In Sao Paulo a bus driver kept passengers safe by sealing the doors as high voltage wires fell around the bus. The wires stopped moving and the driver evacuated the passengers before the bus suddenly exploded into flames. No injuries were reported.
A compiled note from Linn County Heritage Society inviting readers to submit Iowa connected questions. It includes addresses for responses and outlines multiple genealogy inquiries about Irvine, Gurney, Preston, Strang, Singer, Baker, Mendenhall, Burnett, Richardson, Everett, and related families with places like Cedar Rapids Atkins Ottumwa Mt. Vernon Centerville and Marion Wayne counties.
Dow Chemical president Earle Barnes says profits indicate wage levels. Data from 1967-71 show petroleum refining earned about 10 cents per sales dollar with $4.82 average hourly pay, chemical industry 6.5 cents and $3.94, furniture 3.2 cents and $2.90, apparel 2.2 cents and $2.49.
Twenty years ago The Gazette Company withdrew its application for a channel 9 television permit, enabling Cedar Rapids Television Company to receive the permit and ensure fuller television service for the city at an early date.
Philadelphia article reports Mercy Douglass Hospital, among the city’s oldest black institutions, closes after receivership and mounting debts. At closure time 3 30 p m only 43 patients remained of 160 authorized. administrator Warren Pannell cites finances obsolete plant and staff shortages as causes. Dr George Ward says integration and changing times contributed to the shutdown.
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