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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1947
Page
8
Ten years ago today Santa Claus arrived in Washington for the Christmas season. Hundreds of children greeted him and each received a box of candy from the jolly visitor.
The report lists hogs topping at 26.15 as weather shifts from rain to snow flurries tonight. Expect mostly cloudy skies with rain or snow tomorrow and little temperature change.
A United Press division spokesman announced that telegraphers and maintenance workers across the domestic system voted 188 to 10 to authorize their negotiating committee to call a strike. The ballot followed rejection of a compromise award proposed by an arbitrator chosen by both sides.
Merle Sankey, a rubber check specialist famed for past publicity, sent coiled landscape paintings to Police Chief Sim Smith and Patrolman Charles Harbison as Christmas gifts from prison. Sankey, jailed in Galena, Illinois, previously decorated cells there, and he praised Smith and Harbison in a note signed in his familiar script.
Aaron Horvitz, acting as arbitrator, awarded a weekly wage increase of $1. 6S. The company agreed the raise would be effective from December 1. Talks failed despite many conferences, with a further meeting scheduled in New York next Tuesday to press wage and differential settlements under the unsettled contract.
The Legion Auxiliary met at Wayland on Tuesday evening. President Mrs. Bessie McGuire led the session. Gift packages were mailed to Knoxville and Mt. Pleasant hospitals and aid given to local families. December hostesses were Mrs. Eda Boshart, Mrs. Marian Magdefrau, and Mrs. G. W.
A Greyhound bus and a semi-trailer collided on highway six near Wiota Iowa killing Sgt. James L. Howe of Cresson Pennsylvania. Bus driver Clarence Van Deventer 33 of Omaha Nebraska was seriously injured. The other truck driver escaped injury.
Crumbs fall out by tipping the toaster to remove them from the crumb pan. If crumbs burn or stick to the units brush gently with a soft brush. Do not wash the toaster with water or immerse it in liquid.
Bodies of 590 midwestern servicemen and civilians killed in Europe will be sent to their home towns from Chicago starting today. Most arrived from Belgium and France and were killed in the Battle of the Bulge. The return will continue through December 20 to January 5 with most arrivals before Christmas.
Grinnell announced the first batch of 3,490 fallen from the Solomon Islands will be brought home around February 12 with a following shipment of 6,019 expected from Europe on February 25.
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