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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1977
Page
4
In the southwest corner of the town square a Cedar Falls artist paints a bold western mural on the Golden Touch Decorators wall. The piece will cover most of the exposure with bright representational images including koalas and penguins. The editor promises daily updates as the evolving scene unfolds.
A group of inner city Philadelphia boys, mentored by a math teacher, built chess skill through lunch games, saved for travel, and won the national junior high championship in California. Four of six plan to high school together as their grades rise, showing chess boosted academic performance.
Senator Gary Hart proposed a parking fee for House members, senators, staff and newsmen at the Capitol, a motion promptly tabled by the Senate. The piece also notes quirky names and local curiosities such as WATSUP, Himalaya, His and Hernia, Wind Bags and Lyres, and BO PEEP, with Canton Kansas boasting two water towers labeled HOT and COLD.
Abigail Van Buren offers responses to three letters. A grandmother frets over her daughter’s plan to keep one of newborn twins with a club foot and cleft palate while placing the other for adoption. Abby urges psychiatric help and cautions the adoption may not be final for a year. The second letter concerns a sister who sneezes at dishes. Abby suggests an allergy to dish soap and a medical check. The third defends hunting as a wildlife funder. Abby grants equal time but notes animals cannot defend themselves.
A Belgian service offers posthumous gift sending with cards, promising decades of birthday presents for relatives like Willie. Also, excerpts quote a veteran director on memory, jokes on drunkenness stages, a quiz on marriage and dogs with a black tongue, sunglasses test, and notes on Oregon Trail as a prewhite contact route. Copyright 1977 L. M. Boyd.
In a bid by South to preempt East West, five diamonds doubled risks heavy loss as West finesses and East ruffs threaten 800 points. A precise defense by South through a king spade into dummy and discarding allows only two losers, avoiding the feared club ruff and preserving 500-point loss. Tomorrow: All the tricks but one.
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