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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1952
Page
4
Riverside residents share visits and travels as families from Muscatine Des Moines Davenport Chicago and Palo attend dinners closings and vacations. Supt Colvin attends coaching school and Riverside teachers plan meetings while local clubs and stockholders arrange events and speakers. Major Helm's assignment and family care updates accompany community notices.
Fredric March plays Willy Loman in Stanley Kramer’s Death of a Salesman at the State Theatre. The role required 100 days of rehearsal and 1125 lines of dialogue in a demanding schedule. Supporting players include Mildred Dunnock Kevin McCarthy Cameron Mitchell and Howard Smith Laslo Benedek directed.
McGill University in Montreal enforces a strict no English rule in its six week French summer program. Students may not speak English at any time including to spouses or during residence life. Violations can lead to dean review and possible dismissal.
New York researchers report a faster method for making air craft propeller components by extruding tough nickel chrome molybdenum steel. The Curtiss Wright Co operating steel firms and the Air Force collaborated to heat, die, and form a 400 pound steel block into a tapered propeller shank using a mandrel and reheating steps.
A longer mandrel shapes the blade. Steel flows through the die to form flat hollow blades. The final stage involves flattening and twisting the blades.
Washington reports from the Pan American expedition to French Equatorial Africa describe rugged life for explorers. A native cook mistook automotive brake fluid for cooking oil, attempting steaks in it, while Walter AL Weber of the National Geographic Society praised the brake oil steak. The expedition is sponsored by National Geographic, the American Museum of Natural History, and Dr. and Mrs. Carnes Weeks.
St Louis bar owner George Thieme faced a health inspection and a store closure notice on takeover day. His refrigeration failed next, but he kept selling beer from buckets, drawing curious customers as his store gained notoriety and traffic.
Bethel church suffered lightning damage last Thursday as a cleaning crew found the light system out of service. plastering loosened in the choir loft and main ceiling above the east window showed damage. nearby homes reported burned fuses and cut telephone wires with multiple lightning strikes in the area over recent months. visitors attended Sunday services as usual with Sunday school at ten and preaching at eleven.
Des Moines bulletin lists two Washington county entries for the state fair. Mrs. Fred Kep hart of Washington enters pop corn sheaf erain and agricultural art salon and individual farm exhibit classes. Don Radda enters field corn. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Messinger Sr. announce birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Crane at Naval Hospital San Diego California. Virginia Messenger Crane is mother. Both mother and son reported fine. John C. Owen Bryan and Susan return from Boyd White game at Quincy Illinois and municipal opera trip to St Louis Missouri. Marie Landau, summer school student at Laramie Wyoming, arrives home to visit. Landau earned MA in elementary education from University of Wyoming at commencement in Laramie. She will teach first grade at Kenwood for next year after leaving Harrison.
Mrs Ralph Pratt and Mrs Clyde Pratt hosted a morning coffee for a group of Mrs Lester Jones’s friends. Visitors include Mrs Jones of Cedar Rapids with her daughter and their relatives, and Mrs Frances Thornton and children from Whiting Indiana. The Osineup home welcomed Prof George Ackerlund and Mrs Ackerlund of Toledo. Others travel mentions include Merc Bertha Woods recovering, Mr and Mrs Hardy L Boyd returning from North Dakota and Canada, Vaughn Thornburg’s return to Boone for school duties, and Mary Rita McLaughlin finishing summer classes at the State University of Iowa and teaching at Pleasant Hill.
Akron inventor Ernest G. Hunsickler describes the automatic raid alarm, a device that powers radios televisions or house lights on command to spread air raid warnings to sleeping residents. He plans to move the invention into production for use by defense officials and groups.
UN fighter bombers and carrier based planes hit a large Communist troop and supply base at Namyang on Korea's west coast. American Navy planes, F-84 Thunderjets, F-84 Shooting Stars and allied bombers bombed from offshore, with MiG-15 engagements and several large explosions reported.
The LOOF lodge held its regular meeting with F. Garrett presiding. Jessie Stout Keith Williams and Myrle Simnith were named to the nightly refreshment committee for September. Mrs Floyd Wheat of Ogden Utah left for home after two weeks with her mother Mrs Mae Carlson.
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