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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1971
Page
4
A humor piece contrasts Bess Myerson ice cream labeling with a domestic exchange about a husband’s phone-tracking duties. The narrator and his wife Dorothy debate schedule communication and the need for precise progress reports in a playful, long marriage vignette.
In the 1971 Washington Daily entry on contract bridge, South faced a club opening lead and a late spade finesse. The recommended cure is to draw two rounds of trumps ending in hand, then lead a low spade to the queen, hoping West follows low, so the queen wins. If East holds the jack, the tactic fails. but the safer line foresees East's jack and avoids a loss by forcing West to give Declarer a spade trick.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars held a Tuesday evening gathering where Don Pilcher was chosen commander and Karel Farrier senior vice commander. George Brock was named junior vice commander with Walter Carr as quartermaster and Dave McGaffey as chaplain.
Questions on luck and lightning spark trivial trivia and gossip in this collage of Q and A and anecdotes. Comments on match lighting, Rorschach nickname, regional card sending, and the careers of actors Byron Barr and Gig Young appear among杂.
A total of 112 Pekin Community School students were named to the honor roll for the third quarter of the current school term. Among them 13 earned straight A grades, with extensive lists of freshmen sophomores juniors and seniors noted for A and B averages.
Iowa district officials examine why school expenditures rise. The budget committee notes 75 percent of costs are salaries for instruction and administration and urges study of pupil teacher ratios. It recommends a state commission on district mergers and warns against hasty budget changes without proper analysis.
Record shows Robert Day and wife to Thom Palmer Jr percent interest in Lot 1 Block 3 Auditor Subdivision Ray E Goodwin and wife to ula Prather West Half Lot 1 Block 1 Ashbys Addition to Washington J H Crooks to Clarence Fletcher and wife South Hi of Lots 3 4 and South Half of West Half of Lot 2 Block 1 Crawford Addition Crawfordsville The transfers include description of parcels and named grantees with spouses listed.
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