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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1980
Page
21
The reader plans a second wedding for Suzie after Ramona’s death in a prior marriage. Advice urges against “no gifts” notes, keeps gifts with guests, and suggests inviting Ramona’s parents only when appropriate and with care. Also thanks for AA success shared with Dear Abby.
Danny Stone of Batesville forced his single engine plane to land on four lane U S Highway 167 when the engine quit. Northbound motorists saw the craft but southbound drivers did not until it dipped past windshields. The plane taxied to the shoulder, engine worked, and Stone later took off from the highway and landed about a mile away at the local airport. He noted a prior 1978 engine failure near Little Rock with a highway landing near Jacksonville.
In a West Virginia bridge hand, declarer miscounted high cards and almost missed a slam. South opened one club on 19 points, West doubled, North raised to two no trump, South later found the missing queen and Blackwooded. The ending squeeze misled West, but South forged a successful slam with careful play and a diamond and spade sequence.
The piece lampoons spousal maintenance by noting insurers estimate a full time wife's worth at 355 dollars weekly. It calculates yearly cost of a wife at 18 460 dollars and argues many men cannot afford such a wife given average incomes and rising living costs.
Erma Bombeck humorously argues against wives being viewed as a luxury and jokes about hiring wives part time for daily chores. She recalls negotiating with her husband over a $275 weekly contract, highlighting female worth and modern domestic expectations.
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