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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1964
Page
4
In a 1964 Evening Journal editorial the Miss Universe pageant in Miami Beach is praised for its international variety. Greece wins with a tall, vivacious winner. the U S representative from Kansas, DC, is noted as a high achieving student. The column also criticizes the Minutemen sabotage plan in politics and shares a humorous bishop anecdote.
A detailed account defines alcoholism as a progression from casual drinking to compulsive use, noting costs to society and rising absenteeism. It outlines four stages from pre alcoholic to chronic addiction, and stresses early intervention through education and medical help.
Park Avenue in Harlem marks two starkly different worlds from luxury apartments and elegant life to worn streets and poor life. The stretch from 32nd to 98th Street illustrates a crossing where the New York Central train emerges to connect the wealthier zone with dense urban poverty, highlighting the city’s striking class divide.
A Harlem feature discusses two Park Ave worlds from a 98th street penthouse to the ghetto blocks. It describes economic barriers with two sets of rights, rising unrest, and police clashes in St Louis Rochester and Brooklyn. Harlem’s hope lies in projects and HARYOU funding.
The Washington Evening Journal of Washington Iowa lists staff positions including David Elder editor and business manager William Shannon vice president advertising director Charles Morris news editor Bob Shaffer local advertising manager Bruce Cowden contributing editor Howard Hazen production superintendent. It notes publication afternoons except Sunday Christmas and July 4th and that it is entered as second class matter under the 1879 act.
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