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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1969
Page
4
A 1969 editorial warns that poison gas poses grave risks when old or surplus canisters are mishandled. It cites mustard gas disposal mistakes off Denmark, warns of rail shipments of phosgene and stresses tighter, multijurisdictional safeguards and monitoring to prevent disasters.
In a bridge column by B Jay Becker, South plays against North and East West in a 3NT contract. The article critiques South’s first plan and proposes a superior line to secure nine tricks, stressing precise club play and avoidance of East’s heart return. It notes B ackground context on poison gas disposal and a nuclear question, linking strategic thinking to risk avoidance.
A curious column blends trivia and anecdotes about lightning speeds, historical bolts, phobias, and public curiosities. It notes extreme bolt temperatures, speeds, a 1934 South Africa fatality, and keramnphobia. It also touches on aviation, media voices, symbols, and light social questions. The piece invites reader questions to L. M. Boyd.
Excerpts from the Washington Evening Journal letter column include multiple readers recounting abuse, warnings about “loving” relatives who molest, and appeals for parental caution. The sample letters reflect survivors’ perspectives, warnings to mothers, and calls for vigilance amid family and community risks.
Numerous families and relatives from Bluffton Bloomington Springfield Des Moines and Milford Neb gathered for reunions picnics and visits in Wayland Hesston Hutchinson and Winterset Iowa. Attendances include Mrs Bea trice Zihlman Mrs Fannie Weaver Mr and Mrs John Baldosier Mr and Mrs Everett Monson and many extended kin from Iowa Missouri Illinois and Indiana across multiple weekends.
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