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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1964
Page
4
An editorial satirically weighs modern weather forecasting against superstition. It jokes about desperate rain methods including washing a car overnight, windows closed, and large water use, then proposes a playful rain dance idea in Central Park with rattlesnakes and tom-toms to amuse locals.
The column laments CBS’s plan to buy the New York Yankees and warns this would worsen the team’s already outsized income from television. It notes four fifths of on camera players and commercials involve New York teams, arguing TV ownership would distort pro sports and asks what remedies or buyers might balance the leagues.
Pravda warns of a real split between Moscow and Peking affecting world Communist parties. The dispute spans ideology and power, with Asia’s 3500 mile frontier at stake over Mongolia Sinkiang and southeast Siberia, a conflict dating back centuries.
An American Humane Association warning cautions that well meaning owners often harm pets through improper shelter feeding and discipline. It urges neutering, proper care, and informed feeding while detailing dangers from spoiling, excess attention, and inappropriate housing. Free pamphlets on dogs cats birds fish and small animals are available.
Des Moines shows how national rating groups score Iowa's congressional delegation based on 87th Congress votes. AFL CIO COPE ADA ACA NFU and Farm Bureau styles differ from liberal to conservative standards. Some voters use these ratings to decide ballots.
Four biographical cues ask for a Czech composer of the New World symphony and chamber works in the US, the current US Interior Secretary, and a polar explorer who claimed Antarctic interior regions in 1939. The clues spell a surname of a Miracle Worker Oscar winner. additional names include Dvorak, Udall, Key, Ellsworth, and Duke.
United Presbyterian Home in East Washington Cottage No 34 Leo Wolf 704 West Second new garage Charles E Sellers 1215 North Third Ave new residence James R Neil 500 South Marion new garage Gene Nicholson route one Carlton Mangold 422 West Washington new garage
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