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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1949
Page
4
A 1949 editorial argues against government subsidies for farming, warning subsidies invite control and distort free markets. It cites the potato program, noting $150,000 in 1948 costs and rising consumer prices, and cites England’s controls as cautionary. The piece advocates keeping government hands off or accepting controls, urging market integrity.
Readers note student and professional visits across Iowa City Chicago and Des Moines. An Iowa student couple and a Chicago technician plan Easter stays. a Washington journalist rests. others attend a State Community Chest meeting. A columnist argues against government subsidies in agriculture and industry citing Canadian wheat markets and cautions on federal control.
The article profiles Lyman Roscoe Carbee known as L. R. Carbee, a Milwaukee Road telegraph operator and station agent in Washington for 24 years. Born in Iowa, he tried farming briefly in South Dakota and Western Canada before returning to railroading, with early work from Cedar Rapids to Missoula and Seattle, culminating in his Washington station role succeeding Wilder Bell in 1945.
Dick Hayes, a Washington furniture dealer, lived years in Saskatchewan homesteading 160 acres of timber and prairie land. He built a pine log cabin and lived among Indians and few settlers, after earlier working as a Union Pacific fireman in Nebraska. It notes his arrival to Washington and provides context of his frontier life.
At the YWCA on Wednesday afternoon a craft class event honored two instructors Edna McCarty and Mrs. R B Palmer with gifts in appreciation of their guidance during the session.
Mrs. Robert Day chaired the activities committee as 24 ladies met at 2 p m to display items made during the class. They discussed which crafts to resume in the fall and refreshments were served by Mrs Far Loveless and Mrs Ralph Bauer.
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