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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1958
Page
7
Practical social tips for newcomers by Ruth Ailiilett advise leaving the old home behind and embracing the new community. Listen more than you talk, remember faces, join groups, entertain promptly, and take on local duties to quickly feel at home and influence one’s place in the town.
Kathryn Ann Miller wed David Dean Wessel in a double ring ceremony at St Patrick's Catholic church Newton. The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Miller, wore a pink suit with pink hat and white accessories. Wessel, son of Mr. and Mrs. J Melvin Wessel, is a Stanford senior in physics and a Fulbright scholar candidate. After the ceremony the couple planned a reception at their Newton home and a September wedding trip to Germany. Members of Cedar Rapids branch of the American Association for the United Nations attended Des Moines meeting with officers elected including Gladys Nelson and Drake's A LéRoy Bennell.
Mrs. M. E. Dengler will leave Wednesday for Des Moines after a 10 day visit at the home of her son Edward V. Dengler and family at 246 Franklin Ave NE. The Denglers include Ed, John and Susan.
Mrs Eisenhower arrived in Denver unaccompanied by President Eisenhower and sp ent Mother's Day with her mother Elivera Doud. She attended services and visited her father's grave with her sister and officials present. Secret Service controlled access as reporters were kept at bay and no interviews were cleared.
Two Cornell College sophomores Joyce Wigensgarden and Charles Isehneider were named Theodore Presser scholars by Paul Beckheim head of the college conservatory. Both majors are pianists noted for contributions as accompanimists in the music program.
United Lutheran Synod plans an 83 acre camp site with a $66,000 purchase and a further $200,000 fund drive to build facilities. Mina Lillian Megonigle married Richard C. Kabelitz in Des Moines with 150 guests attending the ceremony at Trinity Lutheran church.
Incidental intelligence notes that hair grows faster in summer and during daytime than at night. It cites statistics: about 0.4 percent of men are color blind, with women at 0.4 percent. (1958 New York Herald Tribune Toc.)
Trans World Airlines announced it hired Margaret Grant 21 a Hunter College psychology student as the first Negro stewardess for an international U S carrier. She will enter hostess training in Kansas City after graduation and is the second Black flight attendant hired by a U S airline following Mohawk Airlines. New York Airways previously hired a Black stewardess for a domestic helicopter line.
New book collections on fact and fiction for children added to the two Bookmobiles visiting 11 city areas weekly. Titles include County Fair Colt Alaska the Land and the People Story of American Sailing Ships and World of Pooh. Prizes totaling 15000 include a Fort Lauderdale vacation and a Hawaii trip.
Helen Giesse a 34 year old Cleveland housewife was chosen Mrs America 1958 after a week long Ohio state pageant run in Fort Lauderdale Florida. Finalists included Irene Runkle Betty Bach and Elizabeth troupe. Giesse will perform homemaking show appearances nationwide while her husband William works as an advertising executive.
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