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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1964
Page
4
For every creature of God is good if received with thanksgiving. God created all things to be good and they will be so now if we use them according to His will.
The article questions the new official war on poverty after Congress passes an Anti Poverty bill. It notes a $35 million initial appropriation from the Office of Economic Opportunity, with over a third for building camps for Job Corps and refurbishing others, another third for local projects, and a 1 to 12 federal to local funding split. Several programs bear grand names, prompting doubt about their concrete actions. It predicts further large funding and suggests direct cash to people as a simpler remedy.
Seven multilingual welcome signs were erected on town outskirts in Illinois. A translation error on one sign, in Vietnamese, allegedly read Yankee Go Home, triggering concerns at city hall and local outcry.
A Saturday Review reader muses on how various professions would be ejected. He suggests playful terms: an electrician could be delighted a musician could be denoted a cabinet officer could be disappointed a cowboy could be deranged a model could be deposed a medium could be dispirited an office worker could be defiled.
An editor notes a second UPI dispatch on extra sensory perception. The piece discusses spontaneous time travel dreams and precognitive episodes reported by ordinary people, including a Lincoln dream, and summarizes Louise Rhine's findings that ESP experiences are realistic, varied, and often fulfilled within minutes to days rather than decades.
A discussion of precognitive dreams and parity between dream events and real outcomes. It cites Dickens reportedly dreaming of a future acquaintance, expands to parapsychology research, and presents a Washington state case of a dream forecasting a chandelier collapse protecting a baby.
Republican ex-congressmen may receive pensions from 2800 to 14600 yearly if they joined the voluntary pension plan. Jensen Hoeven Schwengel and Kyl listed with varying eligibility ages and years of service, while Bramwell lacks eligibility. Voting issues and leadership changes also noted, with Edgington beating Baringer for minority floor leader by three votes. Fulton comments on Senate session scheduling and activity.
KEOTA notices several Thanksgiving gatherings across Iowa towns. Mr and Mrs Don Davis traveled by train to Lincoln, Nebraska to visit Mr and Mrs Warren Davis from Wednesday to Saturday. Mrs Verne Dill spent Thanksgiving with Ed Miller family at Ainsworth. weitere visits by local households are noted including Jim Flanders from Kirksville and Christmas homecomings with Norbert Flanders and other relatives.
Kalona event features 105 member junior high chorus and 87 piece band under Bob Gaston and Mrs Johnnie Stout. Concert in the junior high gym on Tuesday December 8 from 7 30 to 8 30 p m with Christmas music and other selections.
South West vulnerability and the West hand analyzed from Morehead on Bidding. West doubles four spades after diamond signals, then leads diamonds to exploit assumed seven to eight diamonds for a stunning four down by declarer.
The Washington Evening Journal based in Washington Iowa lists staff roles including David Elder editor and business manager William Shannon vice president advertising director Charles Morris news editor Bob Shaffer local advertising Bruce Cowden contributing editor Howard Hazen production superintendent. It notes publication afternoons except Sunday Christmas and July 4th and that it is entered as second class mail under the 1879 act. It also lists press associations and auditing bureaus such as United Press Leased Wire Inland Daily Press Assn Iowa Daily Press Assn Iowa Press Assn and Audit Bureau of Circulations.
Dr. Harold Mulford of the University of Iowa reports in the Journal of the Iowa Medical Society that about 50,000 Iowa alcoholics, roughly 3 percent of adults, account for nearly half of state liquor revenue. Heavy drinkers make up 5 percent of drinkers, with a male to female ratio of 5 or 6 to 1, concentrated in urban areas, many married and employed, while a small minority are chronic offenders.
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