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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1966
Page
2
The Washington County Community Action Program board meeting set for Monday, April 25, is postponed. A committee is drafting a multi purpose CAP center application not yet ready for board review. The next board meeting is May 9 with location details sent later.
J A Dickinson, 84, retired farmer, died at his Richland home after four months of failing health. Funeral services Saturday at 2 pm at Gould Funeral Home with Rev. A R McMurrin officiating. Burial in Highland cemetery. Born January 14, 1882 near Yee to John M and Sara Waggoner Dickinson. Married Pearl Bristow January 3, 1912 in Richland. Survived by wife, a son John W of Phoenix, five grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Mrs. Joe D. Yoder 80, died this morning at Pleasant View Home Kalona where she had resided for years. Born August 1 1885 to Peter and Magdalena Gingerich Yoder she is survived by four daughters Mrs Clarence Swartzen Mrs Alvin Stoltzfus of Wellman Mrs Clifford Page of Midland Michigan and Mrs Darrell Wade of Washington two sons Leo of Archbold Ohio and Willard of Kalona and a brother Mose P. Yoder of Kalona Funeral arrangements are pending at Yoder Funeral Home Kalona.
The Iowa State Commerce Commission granted Railway Express Agency a permit to operate motor freight between Davenport and Washington with intermediate stops at Columbus Junction and Muscatine. REA plans truck service after the Rock Island & Pacific Railroad limited options. The application faced opposition from American Buslines Muscatine Davenport Clinton Company and Iowa Parcel Service of Des Moines.
Riverside hosts the annual Kindergarten Roundup for pupils entering Riverside Kindergarten. At 1 30 p m Wednesday April 27 parents bring the child to the kindergarten room to meet teacher Leona Kucera and register the child who must be five by September 15 1966. Bring the birth certificate.
The Washington Evening Journal in Washington Iowa lists editorial staff and department heads with an afternoon publication schedule excluding Sundays Christmas and July 4th. It notes second class matter status under the 1879 act and lists mail subscription rates for in and outside Iowa.
Mrs James Butler was elected president of the Washington County Tuberculosis and Health Association at the annual meeting Monday evening in the Christian Church. She succeeds retiring president Mrs John Owen. Officers named include Bob Koehler vice president and J D Jones secretary. Don Johnson of the State Department of Public Health spoke on health services and the state program. The state received a federal grant for TB control in southeast Iowa with Washington County funding Sunnyslope clinic facilities.
Mr and Mrs Gerald Dun can have returned from a recent visit with their daughter and family in Janesville Wisconsin. Don Duncan will become Iowa Home Loan examiner May 1 with office at the Des Moines courthouse. Pvt Jerry Deaton completed basic at Fort Leonard Wood and will attend engineering school at Ft Belvoir. John Whalen is in University Hospitals Iowa City for ear surgery. Paul Hayes SA stationed in Sasebo Japan reports recent return from Philippines and Hong Kong and enjoys Japan. Mrs Grace Maffitt of Des Moines has returned home after a weekend visit.
H Ray Dunchee 72 died suddenly Monday afternoon in Indianapolis where he had lived 15 years. Funeral Saturday at 1 30 p m in Powell Funeral Home Keota with Rev David Stout in charge Burial in Keota Cemetery Friends may call at the funeral home Friday afternoon He was born Sept 27 1893 in Keota son of Frank and Fairy Jackson Dunchee reared there and attended a college in Des Moines He married Grace Leeper June 24 1920 a member of the Christian Church and a World War I veteran Surviving are a son Bryant of St Paul Minnesota three grandchildren and one sister Mrs Melvin Bell of Keota Preceded in death by parents one sister and four brothers
Yesterday admission records show Ezra Smith Washington medical Mrs Rex Todd Columbus City medical Mrs Jacob Conrad Wayland medical. Today Virgil Smith Washington. Dismissed today John Knotek Riverside Mrs Eugene Hammen and son Keota Mrs Dale Gerling Columbus City.
The Washington YMCA Jr Hi Y club sponsors an April 23 dance for all junior high age boys and girls. The event runs 7 30 to 9 30 p m at the Legion Hall with Cavaliers providing music. Fees 25 cents for members 25 cents for non members for the dance and 35 cents for a day pass. The party has been held monthly for five years and moved from the YMCA building to the Legion Hall during construction.
Isaac Rothschild 96 a clothing merchant in Washington for years died Tuesday in a Dakota nursing home Vermillion South Dakota where he had resided the past four months. He operated a south side store near Seifert's. Surviving are two daughters Mrs Ira Gastman of Los Angeles and Mrs Harry Margolin of Yankton, four grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Funeral Friday at Newcomer's Chapel Paseo Brush Creek Road Kansas City with Masonic graveside services at Elmwood Cemetery. Memorials directed to family. Born August 7 1869 in Muscatine County he married Emma B Gradwohl September 6 1893 in Salina. He was a member of the Jewish faith Blue Lodge Masons and Eastern Star.
Funeral services for Mrs Emma Shalla were conducted at 1 30 p m Tuesday at Jones Funeral Home with Rev M O Smith presiding. Pallbearers named James Norman Marlin Jesse and Wayne Shalla and Robert Fowler. Burial followed in Richmond Cemetery.
Barbara Etter Kessell, a Washington graduate student at the University of Iowa, joins 51 other U I students gaining teaching experience this semester. She began student teaching in a Coralville sixth grade class in mid March and will observe and teach five days a week through late May after completing education courses at the university.
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