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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1963
Page
2
Mary Macomber argues that restaurant breakfasts often omit fruit from the fixed table price, prompting diners to order fruit a la carte. She recalls a hotel breakfast missing orange juice and compares U.S. breakfast customs to continental patterns, urging fruit options be included with meal prices.
Mrs Howard McBride entertained 14 Navajo Club members at a 1 15 pm Wednesday dessert luncheon. Mrs Charles Kennedy opened with poems A Garden and Spring Cleaning. Quizzes were led by Mrs Walter Anderson and Mrs Clifford Connelly. May meeting with Mrs Lloyd Neiswanger. Priscilla Club guests of Mrs W B Dupuis with dessert and program. Members shared memorable life years and experiences. Cards mailed to several ill members. Mrs Les Eicher.
NBC leads with Buster Keaton life and film clips in a two hour special with a recreated Hollywood outdoor set. A daylight saving time calendar segment and various NBC CBS ABC programs follow including Route 66 77 Sunset Strip I'm Dickens He's Fenster and Jack Paar showing guests Jonathan Winters and Cliff Arquette.
Community notices list meetings and events from Family Living to Bethlehem Commandery with speakers, lunches, exhibits, installations, and officer practices. Highlights include Women of Moose, YWCA Coffee, Art Exhibit at the Library, and a Word Weavers session.
A large group of United Presbyterian Women from the area depart Monday by bus for a ten day Southeast United States tour. The itinerary includes missions and church campuses. Notable travelers include Bertha Williamson Helen Lackey Frances Patton Mattie Black Aurora McIntyre and others with Mrs Todd Macdonald and Mrs Martin Tollefson directing representing the National Missions board.
The U Go I Go Club met Wednesday with Mrs. Mabel Holman. Plans were made for the anniversary dinner May 8 with Mrs Sam DeLong. Pinochle was played at two tables. High score went to Mrs George Jarrard and low to Mrs Charles Schiebel. Next meeting to be hosted by Mrs Charles Mayer.
Douglas Kiesey of near West Chester named one of the top three accounting students at Iowa State University Ames. Des Moines NA of Accountants honored top students from Drake and Iowa State at its April meeting. Funeral services for Josephine Cherry held at 1 30 p m in Jones Funeral Home with Rev Milan Thompson. Pallbearers listed, burial at Elm Grove Cemetery.
The Wellman American Legion Auxiliary invites the public to hear Mrs. Julius Pietrzak speak at Mid-Prairie High School gymnasium on Wednesday May 1 at 2 p.m. Zofia Pietrzak recounts deportation from Poland to Kazakhstan in 1949, life in slave labor camps, and hardship under communism. The couple, both Poland natives turned U.S. citizens, met in Egypt and studied in Italy. The talk promises a firsthand message on dangers of communism and civic vigilance.
Cpl Gomer E Davis son of Mr and Mrs Alfred Davis of Crawfordsville underwent surgery Tuesday April 23 at Camp Pendleton California His address is Gomer Davis Ward 30 US Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton California 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 to be released 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 Ys Mens World The Ys Mens World is a small magazine published in Washington for a number of years Nelson will become the new 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 her friends.
On the record hospital intake lists Lloyd Griggs of Washington admitted for surgery Nancy Robertson of Washington admitted for surgery and Ira Saunders of Brighton admitted for medical care Dismissed today Glen Pringle of Brighton
The annual Cancer Fund Drive in Kalona raised 583 dollars from business house canvassing and residential outreach on April 15. ABC club sponsored the effort with many volunteers assisting in soliciting and house to house visits.
Mrs. Roger Kleese and her sons Greg and Doug, from St. Paul Minnesota, have been visiting Ralph Kleese and Harold Ahrens this week. The Kleeses plan to return home this weekend.
Mr Morrison son of Mr and Mrs Paul Morton is a graduate of the local high school and now employed at the Bowen Corporation in Washington.
Miss Anna Dawson returns from three weeks visiting relatives in the West. She toured Phoenix and Prescott Arizona with Mrs. Marshall and mother Mrs. Atchison from Los Angeles, flew to Albuquerque and stopped in Oklahoma City and Topeka for cousin visits.
Washington faced a party driven contest over farm policy as the House debated extending two year federal payments to feed grain growers to curb surpluses. Administrations seek a narrow vote to bolster wheat program conditions tied to a May 21 referendum.
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