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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1979
Page
8
Comedian Erma Bombeck notes how excuses have social power, citing “I have to watch my show” as a dominant refrain that dissolves meetings and family moments. She traces cyclical excuses from marriage to parenting, TV worship, and modern culture, ending with a light personal anecdote.
Dr Walter Black outlines psychometric and projective tests for child intelligence and development. He explains measurement limits age effects reliability concerns and the use of instruments like Stanford Binet WISC Bayley Merrill Palmer and infant scales. He notes draw a person usefulness and urges parental discussion of results with psychologists.
Before 1900 four blood types were identified and in 1939 the RH factor was found expanding types to eight. Dr. Delane Wycoff notes every blood type is needed for accidents and major surgery patients. Blood type percentages and donation contacts are provided for Iowa communities.
The Cloverleaf Squares host a Friday 7 30 p m workshop and 8 p m dance at the Linn County Co op Building on 35th Street in Marion, correcting the earlier Gazette notice that had named the REC Building. Today’s birth days list includes banker David Rockefeller 64 George Bush 55 Vic Damone 51 Jim Nabors 46.
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