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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1971
Page
2
Readers seek guidance on jealousy over football, a mother reading mail, and a father reading aloud in a living room. Abby offers practical attitude changes, warns Sailor to set boundaries with his mother, and notes handling privacy with mail and parental interruptions.
Miss Mary Phelan, the first woman barber on the University of Tulsa campus, works at the TU hair cutting salon. The 30ish instructor jokes about scissors and razors as she trims hair, noting her popularity with women and men alike and her path from a small-town shop to TU.
Printed pattern 4993 offers misses sizes 8 through 18 with a size 12 bust 34 requiring 256 yards of 39 inch fabric. Price 75 cents per pattern plus 25 cents air mail handling. Send to Anne Adams, Cedar Rapids Gazette, Pattern Dept. 243 West 17th St New York NY 10011.
Harvard physician Dr. T Berry Brazelton criticizes routine childbirth drugs viewing pregnancy labor and delivery as a natural process not a disease He endorses unmedicated deliveries while acknowledging cases where drugs may be needed He cites Lamaze and Read methods and notes possible benefits of delaying medication for mother and infant.
Pauline Bibb a 24 year old cancer patient died at her parents home near Liverpool England with her husband Paul 25 and their three children beside her Her wish to return to England for a final visit was fulfilled after a Detroit News story prompted donations of plane tickets and 6000 dollars enabling the trip to England by the family.
Readers share remedies for squeaky beds. One suggests removing cross boards and using metal clamps to secure the mattress while another advises locating the squeak in the box springs and oiling the springs around the area. An upholstery stapler fix is noted but deemed difficult.
Dear Polly I seek guidance on making lampshades from styrofoam egg cartons. Please provide a simple method and materials list for a safe, decorative lampshade project.
A reader shares a simple home solution for elderly care using a secretary's chair with wheels as a space efficient alternative to a wheelchair. It aids moving a patient, enables easy seating, and fits around a dining table, praised for maneuverability and safety.
A letter advises when children reach an eligible age to carry a billfold for a photostatic copy of the family medical insurance card and to include birth date religion last tetanus inoculation and any known medical condition
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