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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1963
Page
6
The families express gratitude to friends neighbors and relatives for acts of kindness sympathy cards flowers visits and support during illness bereavement and recovery. They acknowledge specific nurses aides and doctors for care.
James Stewart, a Gladwin area farmer active in the NFO, spoke to the Rotary club on The Plight of the Farmer. He urged preservation of the family farm, warned against corporate control, and described NFO holding operations and allied cooperation. Jay Brewer chaired. Earle Libe introduced Stewart.
Chicago markets show hogs steady under 240 pounds and firm to higher for heavier loads. Slaughter cattle and calves mostly steady with high and prime steers and heifers at elevated bids. spring lambs steady with limited top lots. Grain futures mix with wheat and corn trading around modest gains and soybeans edging higher.
Visitors from Santa Rosa and Granada Hills traveled to Iowa to stay with local families. Dennis Mitchum and Suzanne Deneice joined Mrs. Emil Fink’s guests in Kalona and Des Moines, then flew back to California. Don Minick and Suzie toured the East, including Washington DC and New York, before returning via Canada and Michigan. Robert McKenzie and four daughters arrived to visit George C. Stewart’s household for two weeks.
United Press International surveys a CBS special on press coverage of desegregation with Edward Barrett as moderator and Charles Collingwood reporting. NBC reports on care for animals in scientific research. CBS calendars feature moon race debates and a Heart study on Discovery ABC. Mystery Theatre on NBC, Reckoning on CBS, and Naked City on ABC fill the evening with drama and repeats.
A compilation of upcoming auctions across Iowa includes several farm and household goods sales with dates from August 24 to September 26. Listings note locations such as Keota, Pilotsburg, Crawfordsville, Washington, and Col umbus Junction, with estates and multiple livestock markets scheduled weekly. Households items at 515 West Madison Street and 219 South Taylor Street feature start times around 1 p.m. Auctioneers include Tom Carris and A W Motley, among others, with farms near the Crawfordsville Bank and Riverside paving.
The Mennonite group from Bethel Church led a Sabbath worship at the United Presbyterian Home. A quartet Mr and Mrs Ellis Roth and Mr and Mrs Madison Leichty plus Ira Wanger provided music and a devotional. Mrs Jennie Harris, recently released from Mercy Hospital and local hospital, rests in the home with her nephew Warren Harris and Mrs Carris visiting. Rev Bruce Gillis remains hospitalized in Iowa City. Fred Gessler was visited by his daughter and family from St Louis. Lois Swan visited a sick sister in Cedar Rapids. Mrs William Nolin and Mrs Frances Patton traveled to Monmouth Ill to see Dr and Mrs Ewing Bailey. Kay Ellen Kerr spent the birthday weekend at home and will finish a short course in I S A before a vacation and school year.
City police recently stopped motorists and fined them in justice of the peace court. Names include Herman Wagner of Brighton for striking an unattended vehicle, Eugene Lloyd Hoyle for careless driving, William E Rozevick of Hampton for speeding, and Barbara Ann Wood for following too closely. Speed tape tickets were issued to John Mark Mosier John Bernard Mulcahy Roger Douglas Leyden Delmar Richard Yoder Nancy Arlene Barr Delbert Earnest Earll Richard Alan Leavitt, who later paid fines.
WHBF prime lineup lists Lloyd Bridges at 6, Talent Scouts at 6 30, Picture This at 7 30, Keefe Braselle at 8, News Weather at 9, M Squad at 9 30, Theater 4 at 10. Kraft Mystery at 7, Eleventh Hour at 8, Comment at 9 20, Tonight at 9 30.
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