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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1946
Page
8
Social notices detail Thanksgiving meals at the Ross home with 16 relatives present and other gatherings. Families like Rohrer, Caviness, Hamilton, and Unzicker are listed with visiting relatives and events at St. James Bazaar and local hotels, plus students traveling home from Iowa and Colorado.
Mrs Elizabeth Young and relatives gathered for a duck dinner with 22 relatives present though children stayed home due to whooping cough. Attendees included N E Young J Young Dale Woodburn Dick Anderson Harley Davidson and G W Manassier Jr. Floyd Ellis and family joined Cedar Rapids guests Karl McKeehan and relatives. E L Rouse hosted a Thanksgiving party with E M Bridges Muscatine plus Edna Ruth Bridges. Shelby Green returned to Tulsa after visiting C A Fishburn family.
Senator George A. Wilson proposes abolishing the Republican steering committee to end perceived censorship and give western states more policy influence. He backs creating a deputy floor leader role, signaling changes aimed at avoiding multiple posts for a single leader and distributing power beyond Taft White and Vandenberg.
About 100 worshippers fled St Marie Lutheran Church in Cedar Rapids minutes before a blast ripped the building apart. Police evacuated the congregation as fire crews arrived and the rear wall collapsed, injuring one person amid falling timbers. Fire officials attributed the cause to an overheat incident.
Rev Lewis Malmin of Nevada Iowa will conduct special services at the Tabernacle this week from Monday through Sunday. Services begin at 7 50 each evening. Tabernacle pastor Rev W J Stevens praises Malmin as a god fearing man whose message makes Christ real and salvation clear. Malmin will also sing at the services.
Heat from a furnace caused an explosion sending smoke and gases within the walls. The church board met yesterday and said plans for a new church had been underway for some time. No damage estimate was provided.
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