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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1965
Page
3
Dear Abby columns offer practical advice on social missteps and ethics. Readers share issues from jealousy over a neighbor’s golf success to teen kissing choices and professional boundaries with volunteers. Abby counsels patience, honesty, and self control, stressing modesty and reasonable expectations in friendships, dating, and work.
Gov Harold E Hughes appointed seven Iowans to the newly created Commission on the Aging to serve terms ending 1969 or 1967. Named were Dr W W Morris Arthur Downing Rev Clarence Tompkins Otha Wearin Guy Gillette Robert B Blue and Mrs Thelma Kass. The six other members are three senators and three representatives. The panel will study aging needs and coordinate services with agencies and private groups with an annual budget of 25000 for staff and office.
County Fair schedule lists 9 a.m. judging for 4 H clothing and 11 a.m. pigs, 1 p.m. tractor pulling and beef heifers, 2:30 p.m. colt judging, 7 p.m. band concert, 7:30 p.m. livestock parade and awards, 8:30 p.m. 4 H star revue. Thursday features market livestock sale at 9 a.m. and girls exhibits release at 10 a.m. followed by a Kiwanis kids program with prizes and a free watermelon feed, then the annual horse show and an Es corts dance at the skating rink. Early livestock judging results highlight Dairy Heifer categories with champions and blue/red placements for Ayrshire, Brown Swiss, Guernsey, Holstein, and other lines. notable names include Abbie Timmins, Jim Sheetz, Larry Yoder, and Duane Lewis among Riverside Ramblers, Crooked Creek Cyclones, Jackson Boys, and Chicagua groups.
A fragmented listing covers dairy categories from reserve to grand champion with names such as Peggy Kephart, Duane Milking Shorthorn, and Washington Hustlers. Market pigs feature champions and reserves led by Cathy Hora, Joe White, and Mike Hora among numerous exhibitors and clubs.
Gina Swift celebrated her third birthday with family and friends in Crawfordsville as relatives from Washington and Columbus Junction joined the afternoon gathering. other locals marked birthdays Robyn Henderson and Coleen Gipple, while area residents attended a Red Cross meeting and prepared for farm chores. Head Start youngsters planned a trip to the Henry County Fair with a picnic at Saunders Park before returning home.
The record lists individuals including Robert Patterson, Red-Phil McConnell, Bob McConnell, Tom Widmer, Connie Goodlander, Fritz Engel, George Miksch, Jim Sojka, Mike Robertson, Ron Zieglowsky, Christine McAllister, John Ham il, Bob Davis, Edd Ossman, Tom Walker, Carolyn Goodlander, Ted Witthoft, Dave Duensing, Tom Witthoft, and Steve Roberts as participants or attendees at the event.
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