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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1966
Page
4
The editorial cites Deuteronomy 8 5 and explains that God disciplines believers with loving purpose. It asserts that heavenly chastenings serve remedial processes in the life of a follower, suggesting that divine discipline is constructive not punitive.
Purely Personal recalls Jeff Goodell, five, borrowing a neighbor’s small bike and teaching himself to ride. His parents tried to buy it, neighbors loaned others, and Jeff’s street time grew as his first love remains cycling. Also notes Nic McCleery’s dinner explosion in Coralville motel, My Fair Lady at the week’s end, and lighthearted local anecdotes about radio host Roy Hodges and other community moments.
Iowa county mutual insurers fight a state plan requiring a $50 deductible on windstorm and hail policies for town dwellings. About 85 percent comply. 15 percent resist, raising questions of jurisdiction and possible court or legislative resolution.
The column notes that more city and county officials are underpaid than overpaid and argues that paper profits do not equal the kind of profits newspapers generate.
Washington residents see a slate of activities from a National Chamber of Commerce visit by R E Shannon Louis Kehoe and James L Quinn to Rotary Club honors for Bruce Cowden. Other items include a tornado cleanup, Roe Tin Shop reopening, Prospect Place subdivision plans, band festival notes, and forthcoming Memorial Day speakers. St. Louis policewoman Margot Warmann becomes first female president of the Juvenile Officers Association.
The April Pack meeting for Cub Scouts was held at the Kalona Methodist church with Cubmaster Malverin Gould presiding. Den 2 and Den 3 performed skits on the theme Mother Nature. Awards, including Bobcat pins and one and two year pins, were presented.
In a Becker column from the 1966 Evening Journal, North uses a two club bid to reveal extra values, South raises to four after hearts, and the play hinges on card distribution. West leads diamonds, East shifts to spades, and South eventually secures eleven tricks as he deduces the unseen king of clubs without needing a peek. The analysis notes the bidding and play reveal East’s king of clubs and the luck of proper card reading by skilled players.
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