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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1969
Page
5
Sylvia Porter surveys tipping norms in the US and abroad, updating standards for hotel staff and service workers. It urges higher percentages for restaurants, porters, bellhops, room service, and chambermaids, and notes travel tips, personal distribution of gratuities, and the origin of the word tips.
A humorous New York dispatch listing imagined summer fears and phobias to justify staying in the city or suburbs. It catalogs varieties of phobias from monophobia to heliophobia and lyssophobia, each framed as a disease to fit a wife’s desire to avoid country life. The piece ends noting Pravda accuses NATO of planning an intensified arms race over the next five years.
AP reports Hartwick of Poweshiek County resigns as senator for Towa paving the way for a special election later this year to fill an unexpired term. Benda previously represented the district since 1962 and resigned to allow Gov. Robert Ray to appoint or call for the next steps. The Automotive News note references timing and production details linked to state actions this year.
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