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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1968
Page
4
A collection of opinions and sayings appears in the Washington LA Evening Journal. Topics range from prayer and opportunity to weather, politics, and travel, with crass humor and cautionary notes about earthquakes and vacations in 1968.
A reader recalls harsh school rules issued to teachers in Dakota Territory in September 1872. The list mandates duties from lamp filling and coal to Bible study and moral conduct, with dismissals for women who marry, and raises after five years of service.
A March 11 22 visit to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands notes that Puerto Rico transformed under Operation Bootstrap since 1949. It cites boosted life expectancy, tripled income, 700 percent education budget increase, 500 new factories in a decade, bank assets of 1.4 billion and a growing tourist trade yielding 110 million annually, with projections to 200 million.
The Island lies about 1,000 miles southeast of Florida's tip, east of Cuba and the Dominican Republic. Non stop flights connect Chicago to San Juan and also serve Miami and New York City.
Boy Scout Troop 17 of Columbus Junction held its first Court of Honor on April 10. Scout Master Dave Brownell presided as Tender Foot awards went to Chris Van Auken and Gregg Allen. Merit Badges awarded to Don Garrett John Reaney Brad Garrett and Stacy Lewis. Announcement made of a rifle range construction The troop has 25 members. Institutional representative Arthur Pugh Committee chairman Warren Lewis with members Robert Clark LaVerne Leonhard Kenneth Carroll and Val Oliver Assistant Scoutmasters D E Archibald Steve Garrett and Louis Rathjen assisted with activities including cleanup at Charles Garrett's cabin north of town following a recent fire.
A collage of quirky observations on fashion timing, aging, and everyday irony. It notes why men’s shirts button at the front, cites physical ease of reaching a back, and hints at social dining and wrestling norms. It also includes brief quips on wallets, longevity, clergy numbers, dog behavior, lipstick history, telephone pauses, brake pedals, Marie Antoinette, taxes, naming, love, and a vintage song’s reception.
In the 1967 world championship match between Italy and North America, Edgar Kaplan and Norman Kay played a complex hand. A misapplied bidding sequence led to three clubs doubled, which Kay narrowly made, yielding 470 points for the American team before Italy clinched the Bermuda Bowl.
Mil ton Roth, water superintendent of Wayland, attended a Water Works short course at the Iowa Memorial Union in Iowa City on Tuesday and Wednesday. The report covers local visits, family gatherings, church connections, and social events with various households traveling to nearby states and hosting relatives.
On the record Earl R Wood transfers to Claude C Dickerson and wife lot 5 and east 64 feet of lot 6 block 8, OP Ainsworth, in a recorded real estate conveyance.
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