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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1968
Page
10
The 1967 birth rate reached 17.9 live births per 1000 people, the lowest on record, with about 3.5 million babies born to women aged 15 to 44. Experts cite shifts in child bearing, family planning, and a decline in births among women in their 30s and 40s as key factors.
Sunday Welty Way results list first place by Mrs. John Stamy and Mrs. S G Blencoe with Grace Reeser and Viola Schenken second. Saturday Night Club master point winners at the YWCA include North-south Mike Huddleston and Ken Goland first, Richard Christensen duo second. East-west winners are Mr and Mrs Robert Safely first with Bob Otto and Jim Nash second. Also notes a Monday movie on CH 9 Take The High Ground in color at 9.
Miss Pat Rohlena received a surprise miscellaneous shower Sunday at the Engquist home in Madrid hosted by Miss La Jean Engquist and Miss Pam Slee. Pat Rohlena plans to marry Richard Semelroth May 25 at St Wenceslaus. Phyllis Jane Hastings wed Roland Henry Latteyer in Edgewood with a reception at Colesburg American Legion hall.
A frustrated reader laments grandparents loosening rules with grandkids and asks Abby to address the impact on parenting. A mother complains a school dentist shamed her daughter for yellow teeth, causing her to dread dental visits. Abby urges the dentist to mind his own mouth.
In New Delhi wealthy guests at Pierre Cardin's spring collection show gasped at sheer blouses worn without underwear during the U N Conference on Trade and Development events. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi's fiancée Sonia Maino attended in saris.
Mrs John F Kennedy and her children arrived in New York Sunday after a five day vacation in the Laurentian Mountains north of Montreal. The brief item notes their return and offers a generic want ad prompt.
A veteran investigator outlines telltale traits of male bigamists and offers a questionnaire to help married women detect a hidden second life. The piece cites Tracers Co. of America data on investigations, numbers of illegal marriages, and warns of potential arrest though prosecutions are rare. It lists personal and lifestyle clues to evaluate a husband’s history and character.
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