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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1965
Page
24
Kentucky story notes a long standing Christmas project at Alice Lloyd College aiding 200 impoverished children in eastern Kentucky mountains. Students have prepared small gifts for elementary schoolers in one room schools, renewing a half century old local kindness initiative.
Miss Karen Kay Clements and James E. Stryker were married Saturday at Trinity Lutheran church. The Strykers, former Cedar Rapids residents, plan to live in Lincoln Park Michigan where both work for Ford Motor Co.
Dee Marie Pata wed Victor the First Methodist church in Cedar Falls in a ceremony shared with Diana Lyon Mohr and James Morris Knoblauch family ties. The groom serves in the army at Fort Eustis Virginia and the couple plans to reside there after a reception for 300 at the church.
In Covington Kentucky a plane crash that killed 58 people left Toni Ketchell a 25 year old airline stewardess recovering in a hospital. The piece details her Christmas in a flower filled Cedar Rapids hospital room and notes her engagement and wedding to Jeralditines Tubaugh as doctors describe her progress.
Dorothy Fields 23 a polio victim paralyzed from the neck with a respirator celebrates marriage to Robert Fields 28 in Chapel Hill North Carolina Memorial Hospital They plan to live in a mobile home and await transfer of the respirator to their care Their wedding follows a six year battle with disability and a prior marriage ended by paralysis
Secretary of Defense McNamara lauds the outpouring of gifts from Americans to service members in Vietnam. He thanked citizens from all 50 states for sending 470 tons of gifts flown to Vietnam. Air reserve and air National Guard crews volunteered to fly the donations in the Christmas Star operation.
A vintage advertisement praises Lemon Jelwyn as a skin cleansing and bleaching product. It claims to clear blemishes, refine texture, and stimulate surface cells while promising a sparkling hair rinse when used in shampoo. It targets women seeking clear, fair complexions.
Biography of William McK Chapman, editor of House and Garden, who moved to South Dakota with his family. He recounts life on the prairie, oversees St Elizabeth's school on Standing Rock, and meets figures like Crazy Horse and Little Crow in an engaging account.
Veteran Alaska author Frank Dufresne chronicled grizzlies to polar bears with anecdotes from forty years in the field. Tales include a Fairbanks black bear raiding a moonshiner cabin and a 100 white polar bears feasting on a beached whale, with illustrations by Rachel Horne and notes from Field and Stream associate editor H G.
The Arnold Ditch home four miles northeast of Center Point was ransacked Thursday night with only a half jar of cookies stolen. Bicycle tracks were found and Sheriff Walter Grant suspects a juvenile. Earlier Tuesday at the Edward Pospisil home in Bertram a thief took 48 freshly baked Christmas date cookies, nothing else.
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