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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1969
Page
6
Barbara Zoellner, 19, claims in interview she will marry Christiaan Barnard the heart surgeon who performed the first human heart transplant. Barnard’s press agent denies the engagement.
Patsy Evans, a Miami resident, died Monday claiming to be 123 years old. Born on a Jefferson Georgia plantation, she moved to Miami 40 years ago after her husband died and said she had 19 children with four surviving her. She never drank, occasionally dipped snuff and puffed a cigar, and credited learning to live at age 40.
The ceremony took place Saturday at St. John Lutheran church with Rev. Dohrmann officiating. Pamela Jean Maas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marold Maas of Van Horne, married Mark Anthony Beisker, son of the George Beiskers of Denver. The bride wore an Adine gown of silk Faille with jeweled lace, a pearl and lace crown, and a red rose bouquet. Bridesmaids wore light blue chiffon dresses with velvet bodices. The reception followed at the Fairview club. The couple will reside in Cedar Rapids.
The board notes the plant has been so eutvanized that it is now devoid of leaves. No other context is provided in the readable text.
At Reno, about 800 women and ten men, mostly students, attended a fashion show launching Sex Week. The event, billed as examining sexuality in fashion, featured a black evening gown with a plunging neckline and sparked discussions on birth control, premarital sex, and communal living.
Mamie Eisenhower earned the National Multiple Sclerosis Society bronze chest in Harrisburg at a central Pennsylvania chapter dinner. The widow of Dwight D. Eisenhower attended with rare public appearances and received a gavel plaque and a feather-bound album.
The Rev Ray Hoover officiated at Webster United Methodist Church on September 1 20 for Shirley Glider and Stephen Knight with both couples parents named Glider and Knight. The ceremony occurred at 7 30 pm and the couple will reside in Iowa City after a West Coast honeymoon. Knight works at Sheller Globe and Glider at Northwestern Bell. In Cedar Falls Nancy Wyckoff married Jim Blad at First United Methodist in Rowley on September 20 at 2 00 pm with Rev Ralph Kitterman presiding. Blad is with Greater Manufacturing in Independence.
The census bureau reports 8 million of 35.2 million wives worked outside the home in 1982, rising to 15.3 million of 49.3 million in the subsequent year. The share grew from about one in five in 1952 to over one third by 1983, reflecting continued shifts in labor participation among married women.
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