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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1968
Page
6
A collage of letters to Dear Abby covers marriage hygiene issues, infidelity suspicions, mortician spouse jokes, deception in relationships, expecting a baby concerns, and parental support. Abby offers pragmatic guidance on communication and honesty while noting selfish behavior and safety in family matters.
A panel of more than 10 women's club officers from ten Midwestern states heard at the University of Iowa that old patterns of discrimination are ending and women can advance via professional, volunteer, or community service routes. George Tapper urged organized effort and practical action, stressing leadership, tact, and knowledge of local issues, with Newark’s changing demographics cited as a caution.
Anne Adams pattern 4803 offers brig prints linen blends and cotton fabrics for a wide wedding band collar dress. Size 13 bust 33 requires 2% yards of 45 inch fabric. price 65 cents, add 15 cents for mailing. Send name address zip size style number to Pattern Dept Cedar Rapids Gazette New York address.
In Honolulu a 46 year-old multimillionaire oilman and 18-year-old June graduate Shirley Au wed Dr. Wendell Phillips at Central Union church. Phillips, an archaeologist and author, reputedly runs the world's largest oil concession and has an estimated fortune of 120 million dollars.
Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine left Columbia Presbyterian hospital where surgeons operated on an arthritic condition in her left leg. A hospital spokesman said she was discharged a couple of days ago from the Harkness pavilion after entering August 3 for the procedure.
London promoters for Miss World complain Madeleine Hartog Bell ignores agents after winning last year. Mecca wants an Australian tour and a London crown in November for Miss World 1968, but Bell says she is not obliged and may change plans. She cites boutique work and travels in South America while noting uncertainty about November availability.
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip interrupt their Scottish break to enroll 8 year old Prince Andrew at Heatherdown Preparatory School near Windsor Castle. The couple will travel by train to enroll him and return to Scotland by Friday. Prince Andrew is second in line to the throne.
Prince Charles will join a school with roughly 80 other boys, entering a new learning environment and social setting for his education.
African chiefs of state agreed to nominate Angie Brooks Liberian undersecretary of state as president of the United Nations General Assembly when it opens in New York on September 24 Liberia Uganda and Morocco had competed but the latter two backed Brooks making her likely the second woman to preside over the Assembly following India’s Mrs Vijayalakshmi Pandit in 1953.
Simon Sinclair 17 in Cuddington England must retrieve personal poems he wrote to a girl 18 months after moving away He faces an offer to publish them yet fears breaching privacy and the girl’s sense of trust.
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