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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1968
Page
8
Patricia McCormack reports from New York on designer Stanley Hagler whose gold covered brass turtleneck tie, medallion breastplate, and turtle pins push jewelry into menswear. Hagler, a Swarovski award winner, foresees wives raiding husbands’ cases for his pieces and notes women’s bead lace collars and large chandelier earrings as spring trends.
Miss Linda Ray Frink daughter of Mrs L R Frink 386 Eighteenth Avenue SW was honored Monday evening at a linen and bathroom accessories shower hosted by Mrs Harold Hellentall Jr and co host Mrs Harold Hellentall at 1722 Apache Trail NW Thirty guests attended the event noting she is the April 12 bride elect of the year with upcoming marriage plans.
Richard White, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis White, appears in a recent family notice.
Mrs. Charlotte Crozier and her children Michelle four and Bill three faced a close call when her stalled car halted on a Kansas City street crossing and a freight train struck the vehicle. The family watched from about 30 feet away as the wreck occurred.
Mrs. Elaine Pisney hosted a Saturday birthday dinner at 1140 I Avenue NW honoring Mrs. Theodore Wendell of 651 Thirty-second Street SE and Miss Cindy Cornish of 1041 Twenty-sixth Street SE. The gathering celebrated the two honorees with friends and a festive meal.
Xi Chi chapter of Beta Sigma Phi met Monday evening at the home of Mrs. Philip Rummels 911 Twenty seventh street NE. Officers elected for the coming year were Mrs. Donald St. John Smith president Mrs. James Carter vice president Mrs. Gary West secretary Mrs. Charles Kean treasurer Miss Rachel Workman extension officer and Mrs. Jane Hana city council alternate. Mrs Rummel gave the program on Pictures and Mirrors.
Mr and Mrs Joseph A Rompot of Clover Drive SW entertained Saturday afternoon after the wedding of their nephew Joe F Pobuda and Miss La Donna Jean Paris of Davenport. The ceremony was at 130 PM at the Rompot home with Rev Alexander George officiating. Pobuda is the son of Joseph F Pobuda of Davenport and the bride is daughter of Mrs Laura Allison of Lincoln Nebraska.
Anthropologist Margaret Mead criticizes abortion, organ transplant, and euthanasia laws as unnecessary. She says such laws threaten medical profession integrity. Mead spoke Monday at a Rice University ethics conference following a news conference in Houston Texas.
Miss Barbara Bezdek was honored at a personal shower held Sunday evening hosted by Mrs. Ben Jeffords and co hosted by Mrs. Merle Reed. The event included 12 guests and celebrated her upcoming April 20 wedding to Gerald A. Klaus of Fairfield.
Folk singer Joan Baez aged 27 and David Harris 22, both of California, left the Municipal building in New York hand in hand after taking out a marriage license on Monday. They planned a press conference to disclose details of their marriage. Morris, once a Stanford student leader, was indicted February 13 for draft refusal.
Airman Kim Johnson and his mother visit Cedar Rapids for a week to see his parents Mr and Mrs Robert M L Johnson at 3811 Northwood Drive NE and Mrs Shirley Zimmerman at 882 Oakland Road NE. Johnson is stationed at Syracuse and attends the Air Force Skytop School.
In Chalchihuites Zacatecas State a miner’s wife Mrs Alejandro Castillo 34 gave birth to six babies Thursday three survived two girls and one boy born alive weighing 2 pounds 3 ounces and 2 pounds 4 ounces while three siblings were stillborn as health officials reported and the mother recuperates.
Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine is named woman of the year by the Congressional Secretaries club at a Washington banquet. A plaque honors her as "the first lady of the Congress" and the only woman to have served in both U S houses and to have been nominated for president by a major party.
The PILL BOX promotes a new advertisement for families living in rural areas and towns west of Cedar Rapids. The notice directs readers to see the ad on page 4 for details and assistance.
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