Editorials Mix of weather wit and liquor local option
The Washington Evening Journal threads editorials on weather reports from TV and radio, a Davenport clubs theme of Golden Pathways to Success, and a debate over liquor by the drink. It cites Chen Ching po a Tokyo golfer invited to Augusta finishing 15th. The piece urges explicit local option elections and cites public attitudes toward education and governance.
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Tokyo County Club
Japan
United States
Augusta
Georgia
Chen
Arnold Palmer
George Baer
Gene Littler
Jay Hebert
Tommy Bolt
Washington City
Iowa Deserves Better Than This Billboard Controversy
Reader urges Iowa lawmakers to restrict interstate billboards within 660 feet to qualify for federal funds. The letter argues outdoor advertising could fund state needs without harming rural beauty and calls for full legislative debate this session.
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Iowa
Billboard Ban on Iowa Interstates Hits Subcommittee Roadblock
A proposed Iowa law would ban interstate billboards within 660 feet of the right of way and secure a $17 million federal bonus. Lawmakers debate compensation for landowners as federal rules shift, with strong public support urging full legislative debate and floor action rather than delay.
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Iowa
Credulity of tax payers and the spenders in politics
The piece critiques rising U S tax rates and government spending, citing Churchill and Hopkins to argue politicians buy votes with citizens’ money. It traces the graduated income tax from 1913 to modern times and labels voter complacency as a “spend and spend” trap. It ends with a provocative line about the public being manipulated to accept endless taxation.
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Woodrow Wilson
Harry L. Hopkins
Texas Guinan
Scenes from a kitchen window in Marge's note
Marge writes of concerns from 1960s youth drug use mixing cough syrup with pills to get high. She laments lax sale restrictions, recalls family dinners, Easter parades, burp cloths, garden mishaps, ice cream requests, and dated dessert recipes. She signs off with a personal homemaker tone.
Towan author wins Black Hawk prize for West Willow
Des Moines based awards honor Wal lace Stegner born at Lake Mills for West Willow a personal memoir of the plains frontier between Montana and Canada. Viking Press published the work and Stegner heads Stanford University’s Creative Writing Center.
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Midland Booksellers Association
West Willow
Stegner
Viking Press
New York
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Canada
Waco PTA To Elect Officers Wednesday
The Waco Parent-Teacher Association will elect officers Wednesday at 7:20 pm in the Wayland school building. Prof. Frans Kirwanek, head of the art department at Town W Jegan College, will speak. he is a Czechoslovakian native and former WWII prisoner of war who later emigrated to the United States. Social hour will follow.
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Waco
Parent - Teacher Association
Frans Kirwanek
Town W Jegan College
Kriwanek
United States
Vienna
Rome
Shenandoah, Ottumwa
Plea
Social Hour
Ban the Bomb March Sparks Clash in London
Police clashed with about 16 000 to 20 000 ban the bomb demonstrators as they swarmed across London striking near Bucking ham Palace and Hyde Park Corner. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan intervened to oversee the security probe into alleged government leaks about Britain's nuclear war preparations.
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Hyde Park Corner
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Henry Brooke
RSG
Macmillan
Sussex
Brooke
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