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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1968
Page
4
An editorial reflects on roadside litter seen during a spring hike and estimates millions of empty containers cluttering U S roads. It urges concrete steps such as taxing disposable items to fund more public cleanup workers and reduce trash nationwide.
President Johnson surprised prophets and experts by announcing he would not seek re election. Analysts, including William H Lawrence, had doubted such a move, while Johnson had long kept moves behind the scenes. Close aides recall his secrecy was deliberate and trusted by few, amused by critics suffering credibility gaps.
A Purdue University team reports a remote sensing and pattern recognition system to weekly survey global crops. Using airborne spectrophotometry and computer analysis, each field is encoded on tape and classified, yielding a map where oats, wheat, and corn are labeled and over 90 percent accuracy is claimed.
The Washington County Democratic Caucuses produced a large turnout. Delegates and alternates to the County Convention on April 19 were named, including Vic Flyn Bill Dusenbery Herb Hammen Nadine Hammen Richard Brinning Mary Brinning and many others. The County Statutory and Presidential Conventions will be held at 8 p.m. in the courthouse courtroom on Friday April 19.
About 65 people attended a Waco board of education session on March 27 to review school district building problems and high operating costs. No major program changes were urged, but a bond issue for emergencies and new football lighting was discussed.
French chef Pierre Orsi, new at Maxim's de Paris in Chicago, prepares French style grits for U S Senators Herman Talmadge and Mark Hatfield. His dishes Quenelle des Grits Grits Crepes a la Maxim and Grits Surprise Potato wow the diners as grits gain gourmet appeal.
Iowa’s non public school enrollments fell 7 percent to 92 949 this year while public school enrollment rose 15 490 to 653 556. Birth rates have declined 29 percent in ten years, with 16 4 births per 1 000 in 1967, and preschool counts shrank from 339 401 in 1962 to 307 723 in 1967. Estimates project stabilization or small declines in coming years.
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In a North South South West East contract bridge hand from Becker's column Sylvia held East with spades led, and her unusual deuce over the diamond nine misled declarer into a loss. Her strange logic and later jack on the diamond forced a down two after a sequence that would have yielded three notrump for many players.
A collage of quirky notes and trivia spans jail for wives who stray in Italy, rumored Hollywood links, toy ventriloquists, jokes about microwaves, and name changes. It catalogues puns, sports quirks, fashion quirks, and social observations, ending with a brief Evening Journal dateline and date.
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