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Newspaper
Citizen Times
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1968
Page
3
A reader served with a 5 cent per word classified rate card for Citizen Times and Eagle Industries in St. Louis Park. The piece blends brief business ad copy with a string of light humor and jokes about telegraphs and campus gossip.
Army Specialist Four Stephen R Kroeger 23 son of Edward and wife Judith Kroeger Mt Vernon Route 2 Iowa served as supply specialist and armorer in the 11th Brigade near Duc Pho Vietnam. Mor ris R Denson Airman completed basic training at Lackland AFB Texas assigned to Air Force Technical Training Center Lowry AFB Colo for munitions schooling. Denson is a 1967 Amana Township High School graduate.
Limited new patients accepted at Irene's Nursing Home 848 2nd Ave SE Cedar Rapids phone 364-3743 Vacancies for elderly at Mt Vernon Rest Home call 895-8673 Wanted to buy striking clocks 221 10th St NW Cedar Rapids phone 365-8935
Classified snippets show multiple job pleas including male female help wanted for 30 hour week with guaranteed $600 monthly, a full time salesman post seeking a sharp candidate, extra money part time all ages with phone numbers, and several part time openings via Sarah Coventry branch manager. Contact details include 366-7364 363-3680 and P O Box 4278 Cedar Rapids Iowa.
Mt. Vernon sewing machine shop advertises 14 years experience with February special price for regular 6.95 down to 3.95. Offers repair services and financing on zig zag portable and cabinet machines for customers with good credit.
An Army doctor questions a draftee about eye checks, with a quip about eye color and a joke on changing norms. The text then contrasts a marital argument where the husband goes to his club with a primitive man who grabs for it, highlighting social change in behavior.
Predictions cover NFL AFL results with dates August 23 to August 25 listing teams and scores including Baltimore 30 Detroit 17 and Green Bay 28 Dallas 10. Baseball forecasts show a record of 10 wins and 1 loss in 11 picks on August 13.
A humorous collage notes jokes about Thigh-focals a modern judge and a jailed tax theme. It includes a golfer in a trap a clerk with a moonlight kiss line and a tax refund quip. The piece mimics light newspaper humor with dated social reflections.
A wife chastises her husband after a party in a humorous exchange. The agent quips that termites are keeping a tumble-down shack intact, delivering a light moment amid domestic banter.
Bill Scherle in Washington notes DOT will study free car repair and free public transport for the poor prompting a quip that the lazy may thrive. A honeymoon couple and a rash of light captions finish with a joke about turkey stuffing and a newspaper comparison.
Iowa Conservation Commission conducts statewide pheasant inventory to track population trends for season setting. Quail and rabbit counts completed. surveys cover 180 pheasant routes across counties with roosters hens and broods tallied. Counts run sunrise to early morning in habitat-based routes to provide annual comparisons and guide wildlife management decisions.
Trojan Products Co of Albia will manufacture a folding pontoon boat trailer combo after a royalty license deal with Shellsburg men Harold and Donald Fiebelkorn. The project, aided by SBA and Iowa Development Commission funds, will create 25 to 30 jobs and boost Albia payroll by over 125000 annually. The trailer spans 6 by 14 feet on highways and unfolds to 10 by 14 feet for boating.
The Veterans Administration hospital system provides medical care to about 13 percent of the nation’s population, and VA controls about 2.3 percent of the nation’s hospitals.
St Mark United Methodist Church at 4700 Johnson Ave NW Cedar Rapids donates 175 dollars to Area Ten Community College. Jim Gratchen says the funds fund a need based scholarship for a student chosen by need and motivation. Gift comes from church tithes and aid follows ACT or College Scholarship Service statements. About 10 percent of full time Arts and Sciences and Vocational students receive aid.
Area Ten Community College plans an adult education course for Area Ten businessmen titled Introduction to Advertising Its Place in Commerce and Communication. Taught by Larry Buchanan of Three Arts Advertising Cedar Rapids the class runs ten Mondays from Sept 16 at Washington High School Cedar Rapids. Tuition is 12 dollars. Contact the Coordinator of General Adult Education at 366 5321 for details.
Area Ten Community College will offer an adult high school completion program this fall in cooperation with Cedar Rapids Marion Linn- Mar and College Community school districts. Courses cover English science industrial arts homemaking mathematics social sciences and business. Classes start September 9 and run to November 28 at the college main campus and several area high schools. Tuition is 10 per course.
The Over 60 club of the Jayne Boyd community house took 31 people on a bus to Coggan for a picnic lunch by the Wapsipinicon river. Three fishermen tried their luck before and after lunch but caught nothing while Harold Luck and Sadie Ritter each landed a fish. The group enjoyed the day and plans another picnic on Wednesday.
Our church Where Christ is Exalted invites all believers to hear good singing led by Darwin Blackford with his guitar and Clyde McNight as soloist. Sunday School at 9 45 a m Worship at 10 45 a m Evening Service follows. A street joke about a car stopping near mid town Manhattan underscores city life with a witty pedestrian reply.
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