Style Show And Exhibits At Junior High
Junior high students and staff invite the public to a Monday April 29 show starting at 7 30 p m featuring a home economics style show art exhibit and industrial arts display. The program includes clothing made by seventh and eighth grade classes, home economics clubs, candles and florals, over 400 art pieces from seventh to ninth grades and two art clubs, plus drawings, paintings, graphics, and three dimensional works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeanette Boone
Jeff
Debbie Earls
Roberta Anderson
Mary Snyder
Jeanette
Washington Junior High
Journal
Helen Gilbert
Effie Good 80 dies after long illness in Wayland
Effie Leeper Good 80 of Wayland dies at 12 35 p m Friday in Washington County Hospital where she had been ill since a heart attack five weeks earlier. A longtime resident and Wayland Mennonite Church member, she was born May 2 1887 to William F Leeper and Susan Sneath. She married Joseph E Good February 24 1909. he survives along with siblings and nieces and nephews. Funeral Sunday 2 p m at Wayland Mennonite Church officiated by Rev Walter Neufeld and Rev Vernon Gerig with burial in North Hill Cemetery. Zehr Funeral Home in charge.
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Wayland
Effie Leeper Good
Washington County Hospital
Wayland Mennonite Church
Mrs
Effie Leeper
Washington County
William F
Susan Sneath Leeper
Washington Academy
Joseph E. Good
Fred
Ethel) Hixon
Edwin
Mt. Pleasant
Paul
Packwood
Dinner Talk by Jim Hugley at Des Moines YMCA
Jim Hugley, Community Youth Program Director at the Des Moines YMCA, will speak Tuesday April 29 at 6 20 p m at the local World Service Dinner. The event highlights YMCA overseas work and honors past year contributors to the Y’s Men. Hugley, a Denver native with Westmar College chemistry and mathematics degrees, joined Des Moines YMCA in 1966 and heads Indian Guides Princesses and Day Camping programs.
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World Service
YMCA
Jim Hugley
Des Moines Ymca
Y’s Men
Hugley
Ecuador
Quito
Ymca World Service In Action
Lima
Peru
Mr. Hugley
Denver
Colorado
Colorado School of Mines
Golden
Westmar College
le Mars
Westmar
Y . Indian Guides
McCreedy memorials go to United Presbyterian Home
Gifts left as a memorial to Mrs. Nancy Mae McCreedy will go to the United Presbyterian Home in Washington. Mrs. McCreedy had resided at the Home here for some time and died Thursday after an extended illness. The Evening Journal erred Friday in reporting the gifts would go to Mrs. McCreedy's heirs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy Mae McCreedy
United Presbyterian Home
Washington
Brighton Soldier on 45 Day Furlough Homeward Bound
Sp 4 Donald E Stone of Brighton returns home on a 45 day furlough from Germany. He is en route to Vietnam and will report to Oakland California on May 25 continuing service with the U S Army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald E. Stone
Brighton
Germany
Vietnam
Oakland
California
Marriage License Issued in Iowa City Couples
A marriage license was issued today to John Darrel Studer of Iowa City and Karen Jane Pewitt of Iowa City by Washington County Clerk of Court Robert Porter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Darrel Studer
Iowa City
Karen Jane Pewitt
Washington County
Robert Porter
Social Calendar Notices and Engagement Report
Social calendar items list community meetings and clubs with dates times and hosts including YWCA YW Wives Linger Longer Club Plant and Bulb exchange Rosemary Club Harmony Club and a note on deadline for notices. Engagement announced Margaret Ann Gates to wed Larry Kenneth Sheppard June 30 with Gates employed at Washington State Bank and Sheppard a senior at Iowa State University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude Bain
Linger Longer
Corinne Phelps
Rosemary Club
Don Brown
Harmony Club
Don Gardner
Margaret Ann Gates
Robert L. Gates
Hopkinton
Iowa
Larry Kennth Sheppard
Miss Gates
Washington State Bank
Mr. Sheppard
Kenneth Sheppard
Coggon
Sheppard
Iowa State University
Ames
Weight Control and the Pill by Jenny Chorpening
Jenny Chorpening, daughter of Mr and Mrs Lester J Chor pening, A R 3 Box 55, author of Weight Control and the Pill explains the effectiveness and danger of dieting by pill in the April issue of Outlook for Today's Woman from Iowa State University's Home Economics College. She is a sophomore majoring in home economics journalism at Iowa State.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jenny Chorpening
Lester J. Chorpening
Outlook For
Home Economics
Iowa State University
Miss Chorpening
Iowa State
Hospital Admissions and Discharges Chronology
On the record, admissions today include Ronald Gregory of Washington for surgical care. Yesterday's admissions list Merle Edwards Washington medical care, Mrs Carrie Messer Pleasant Plain medical, Miss Frances Marshall Washington medical. Discharges yesterday include Mrs Hubert Loh rer Washington and Floyd Blank enhorn Washington. Today’s discharges include John Jarvis Washington, Mrs Leona Gardner Washington, Mrs John Linch and son Brighton, Mrs Edward Shephard and daughter Washington, William Young Washington, Fay Pratt Crawfordsville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ronald Gregory
Washington
Surgical
Merle Edwards
Carrie Messer
Pleasant Plain
Frances Marshall
Hubert Lohrer
Floyd Blankenhorn
John Jarvis
Leona Gardner
John Linch
Brighton
Edward Shephard
William Young
Fay Pratt
Crawfordsville
Law Day planned in Keokuk County
Keota April 23 Law Day U S A will be observed in Keokuk county May 1 and 2 with a mock trial at the court house in Sigourney. About 300 high school students will attend the observance sponsored by the Keokuk County Bar Association Judge R G Yoder will preside Separate trials will be held on each day. Senior students from Pekin Hedrick and Keota High Schools will attend May 1 and seniors of Tri County and Sigourney will attend May 2. Jury members from Keota include Milo Miller Charles Geil Bonnie Hammes and Gloria Sheets.
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Boyd Sanders Keota
Keokuk County
Court House
Sigourney
Keota
Milo Miller
Charles Geil
Bonnie Hammes
Gloria Sheets
Packwood
Roger Keifer
Highland
Tri - County
Joyce Bayliss
Sharon Davis
St. Louis
Missouri
Barbara Horan
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Iowa State Uni
Ames
Joyce
Leonard Bayliss
Nancy Schamberg
Letts
F. Glen Abney
Bay Springs
Mississippi
man in service recovering from Vietnam injuries
Sp 5 Jonathan M. Evans son of Mrs. Margaret Foreman Cedar Rapids is recovering from injuries suffered March 19 in an accident while operating heavy road machinery in Vietnam era service. He is moved to an army hospital in Japan and will return to the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonathan M. Evans
Margaret Foreman
E. Avenue NE
Vietnam
Earla Schneider
Cedar Rapids
Washington
Japan
U.S
Urge pork growers to join check-off in Washington County
Washington County pork producers are urged to join the voluntary Nickels for Profit check-off to fund state and national pork research promotion and quality improvement. Started Jan 1, the program has endorsement from the Washington County Pork Producers Association officers and directors. Larry Shalla, the county president, says letters have been sent requesting membership in Nickels for Profit and in the County Pork Producers Association. Membership is $2 per year. Washington County has 40 members, about 10 percent of local hogs, trailing neighboring counties Clinton 299 and Cedar 264, Guthrie 228, Scott 162, Muscatine 151.
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Washington County
Washington County Pork Producers Association
Larry Shalla
County Pork Producers Association
Pork Producers’ Group
Clinton County
Cedar
Guthrie
Scott
Muscatine
Halcyon Notes at Halcyon House Social gathering updates
Halcyon notes recount Saturday visits by Homer Jarrard’s daughter Velma, grandson Kenneth Wulf, and Kathleen Foster with great grandmother Blanche Foster. Local residents share birthdays, guild and club activities, hospital news, and party gatherings from Riverview to Mt. Pleasant, including reports on a Masson musical program and YWCA events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homer Jarrard
Velma Jarrard
Kenneth Wulf
Club activities at Little Flower Circle and friends
Little Flower Circle met at Mrs LeRoy Mc Graw home with 24 members. Money from the circle fund will equip half a hospital room. Refreshments served by several members. Next meeting with Mrs Lloyd Marek. Pansy Hill Club hosted by Mrs Owen Roth for a birthday luncheon with 12 members. three members celebrated birthdays. Marguerite Hering to hostess May meeting. Home Makers Club met with Mrs Isaac Kleese. after a brief meeting, visiting followed. May meeting set with Mrs Arthur Wiley.
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Little Flower Circle
LeRoy McGraw
Clem Eagle
Circle
Virgil Lintz
Jerry Greiner
Gertrude McFarland
Lloyd Marek
Pansy Hill Club
Owen Roth
Ruth Bridges
Frankie Sutherland
Lisa Widmer
Marguerite Hering
Homemakers Club
Isaac Kleese
Jack Trotman
Arthur Wiley
Hawkeye Spring Classic Sale Features Frank Smith consignor
Frank Smith and sons of Jer ry cattle breeders are listed as consignors to the Hawkeye Spring Classic Sale to be held at the National Dairy Cattle Congress grounds in Waterloo on Saturday April 27. Local residents Mr and Mrs Manuel Blick and others visited friends in nearby homes during the week with multiple calls and visits noted among the Amrine and Hyde families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merimac
Frank Smith
Ira Eshelman
Carl Amrine
Joe Beese
Clinton
Ross Lane
Mt. Pleasant
Mary Hyde
Johnnie Hyde
Robert Kientz
Ronald Statler
April CWF Meeting at Church Highlights
The Christian Women's Fellowship of the Christian church held its April meeting at the church with Mrs. Don Gardner presiding and reading a poem. A rummage sale is planned for May 14 and Pauline Brown reported on clothing sent to Church World Service. A new coffee service was added to the church kitchen. Participants noted attending a spring seminar at Sigourney. Mrs. Bert Britain spoke on Travel Tips for Christians with maps and literature, Mrs. Dale Dodge continued the worship on Christian Living, Lauren Chalupa sang How Great Thou Art, and the Priscilla group served refreshments from a tea table.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Women’s Fellowship of the Christian Church
Don Gardner
Pauline Brown
Church World Service
Sigourney
Bert Britain
Dale Dodge
Lauren Chalupa
Priscilla Group
Suspended five year term for Iowa girls coach
William Mazula 41, former Parkersburg girls basketball coach, pleaded guilty to grand larceny for stealing $1,100 in advance sales from girls state basketball game tickets and $680 from the school safe. Judge C H Wild sentenced him to five years at Fort Madison, suspended the term on parole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allison
Iowa
UPI
Parkersburg
William Mazula
Butler County
C.H. Wild
Mazula
Iowa State Penitentiary
Fort Madison
Vietnam War update reports rebuilding and air strikes
Vietnam reporting notes restored bridges near Haiphong and rails between Hanoi and China, enabling supply movement after U S strikes. In Saigon, four waves of B52s hit near Tran Tri, with up to 12 planes per wave dropping as much as 30 tons each, targeting troops bunkers and dumps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haiphong
Hanoi
U.S
China
Saigon
Tran Triangle
Keota sale set for May 4 in public auction
Public auction scheduled in Keota Iowa for the estate of Veronica Hammes at 1 p.m. for personal property and 2 p.m. for the home. Auction will cover all items and real estate within the three room residence. Proceeds support estate needs and distribution under Iowa law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keota
Iowa
Veronica
John) Hammes
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