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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1963
Page
10
Mary Macomber argues in Iowa Health column that restaurant breakfast plans should include fruit in the table d hote price. She recounts preferring juice and notes continental breakfasts tempt customers to skip fruit. She contrasts US dining hours with Europe and urges fruit included to break the morning fast.
Mrs Howard McBride entertained 14 Navajo Club members at a 1 15 dessert luncheon on Wednesday. Mrs Charles Kennedy opened with poems A Garden and Spring Cleaning. Mrs Walter Anderson and Mrs Clifford Connelly led quizzes. May meeting to be with Mrs Lloyd Neiswanger. Priscilla Club guests of Mrs W B Dupuis with dessert and program. Members shared a meaningful year in their lives. Cards were mailed to several ill. Mrs Les Eicher.
United Press International provides a Friday lineup with Keaton docudrama on NBC featuring silent films and a recreated Hollywood outdoor set. CBS covers daylight saving time changes at 9 a.m. while NBC presents International Showtime with a Milan circus hosted by Don Ameche. Prime time includes Route 66 at 6 30 and I’m Dickens He’s Fenster at 7 30 with a story of a hospital benefit. 77 Sunset Strip on ABC at 8 with The Left Field Caper and Jack Paar’s NBC show at 8 30 featuring Jonathan Winters and Cliff Arquette in color.
Notes list multiple group meetings in week ahead including Mrs Roger Sherman Family Living at 8 p.m. and Moose Women at 8 p.m. plus Executive board 7 p.m. Child Study meetings, Shirst and Skirts Graduation at Legion Hall with potluck, Double Deck Club at 7 30 p.m. and YWCA Coffee at 9 39 a.m. Numerous art exhibits and church gatherings fill Friday to Monday events across local clubs and organizations.
A large group of United Presbyterian Women from the area will depart by bus Monday morning for a ten day tour of the Southeast United States. The itinerary includes missions, church colleges, and other sites of interest. Participants include Bertha Williamson Helen Lackey Frances Patton Mattie Black Aurora McIntyre and many others led by caravan director Mrs Martin Tollefson of Des Moines who represents the National Missions board.
The U Go I Go Club met with Mrs. Mabel Holman on Wednesday. They set plans for the May 8 anniversary dinner hosted by Mrs. Sam DeLong. Pinochle was played at two tables, with high score earned by Mrs. George Jarrard and low by Mrs. Charles Schiebel. The next meeting will be hosted by Mrs. Charles Mayer.
Douglas Kiesey of near West Chester is named one of the top three accounting students at Iowa State University in Ames. The Des Moines chapter of the National Association of Accountants honored top students from Drake University and Iowa State at its April meeting. Funeral services for Josephine Cherry were held at 1 30 p.m. Wednesday at Jones Funeral Home with Rev. Milan Thompson in charge. Pallbearers were Claude Rhodebeck Lloyd Humston Carl Phillips Charles Custer Clayde Knupp Clark Hoping. Burial will be in Elm Grove Cemetery.
The Wellman American Legion Auxiliary will host Mrs. Julius Pietrzak as speaker at Mid-Prairie High School gym on Wednesday May 1 at 2 pm. Students and public are urged to attend. Pietrzak, a native of Poland, recounts deportation to Kazakhstan in 1940 with family, life in slave labor camps, and offered warns about complacency toward communism.
Cpl Gomer E Davis son of Mr and Mrs Alfred Davis Crawfordsville underwent surgery Tuesday April 23 at Camp Pendleton California His address is Gomer Davis Ward 30 US Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton Calif Bernard Payne and Dale York of Paynes Radio and TV attended an Admiral Color TV School Wednesday in Des Moines Mrs A J Gilpin spent Wednesday in Fairfield with her children Mary Mike and Pat all of Parsons College Pat has been a medical patient in Jefferson County Hospital for the past week but expects release Friday He will come to Washington to spend a few days before returning to his work as a teacher on the Parsons staff Wallace O Nelson of Minneapolis was a visitor in Washington yesterday investigating the publication of The Y s Men s World The Y s Men s World is a small magazine published in Washington for years Nelson will become editor in September Mrs Lee Baird and Mrs Ken Peters of Osincup Drug Store attended a DuBarry Cosmetics School in Cedar Rapids Wednesday Mrs Emma Wittman of Conesville is a medical patient in Mercy Hospital Iowa City and would be happy to hear from friends.
On the record admissions yesterday include Lloyd Griggs Washington surgical Nancy Robertson Washington surgical and Ira Saunders Brighton medical Dismissed today Glen Pringle Brighton
The annual Cancer Fund Drive in Kalona collected a total of 583 dollars from canvassing business houses and residences. Sponsored by the ABC club, it lists numerous volunteers who organized and conducted the house to house effort on Monday evening along with visiting guests from nearby towns.
Mrs Roger Kleese and her sons Greg and Doug visited the area this week, staying with Ralph Kleese and Harold Ahrens. They plan to return home after a weekend visit with their family.
Morrison, son of Mr and Mrs Paul Morton and a local high school graduate, has joined the Bowen Corporation in Washington as a new employee.
Miss Anna Dawson returned from a three week visit with relatives in the West. She enjoyed time with Richard and Jean Marshall and children in Phoenix Arizona and a reunion with Mrs. Marshall’s mother Mrs. Earnest Atchison who was visiting from Los Angeles. She traveled via Albuquerque to Adams and family home of Clinton and Mary Atchison, stopping in Oklahoma City and Topeka for cousins visits. She reports ideal weather and a wonderful time.
Washington lawmakers clash over extending two year payments to corn and feed grain growers to curb surpluses. Administration seeks narrow passage before a May 21 wheat referendum may trigger new controls. Republicans call timing premature. outcome hinges on city Democrats and pending wheat policy.
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