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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1978
Page
5
Cedar Rapids counselors note a surge in bankruptcy filings as medical debts and nonessential loans strain finances. Judge Thinnes says filings offer a restart, while counselors warn many discharged debtors fall back into trouble, with 80 percent reentering distress.
A UPI report outlines how bad checks cost retailers 1.4 billion dollars last year with costs expected to exceed 4 billion by 1980. Telecheck Services Inc. president Robert Baer explains why checks persist and details how fraud rises with inflation and a soft economy. He notes 300 000 daily bad checks and a shift in offenders from men to women, with detection services offering rapid check histories.
The Worcester Art Museum acquired a marble statue believed to depict Octavia, sister of Augustus. Dating to the 1st century BC, the sculpture was bought in London from a private collection.
Long Beach Calif UP I reports vocational technical schools provide repair and related services to the public as part of teaching programs. Students fix radios televisions auto trim upholstery under teachers supervision with some schools running student beauty shops offering bargain haircuts and permanents.
Russian babies spend the first five or six months swaddled from neck to toe in cloth strips. The practice keeps legs straight and arms by the body and they are unwrapped only for feeding, bathing, and diaper changes per the National Geographic Society.
On your way home from a hard match or after gardening stops by a Flex-a-Bed dealer to try the electrically adjustable bed. The ad promises comfort like never imagined and makes it all worthwhile.
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