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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1967
Page
4
The Washington Evening Journal comments on Dorothy Lehrer’s letter about the Business and Professional Women's UNICEF card sale. It praises UNICEF card art as beautiful modern international work and notes the cards are sold by B P W members in Washington Iowa, linking art, charity, and global aid.
The Business and Professional Women's club of Washington supports UNICEF greeting card sales for three years. Proceeds aid medicine, food, and teachers in 120 nations. This year space is provided at Washington Cleaners by chairwoman Mrs. Keith Crossett. The U S committee for UNICEF supplied an editorial for use. Gratitude is expressed for Journal coverage and publicity.
An appeal outlines UNICEF work aiding hungry and sick children in developing countries. It notes five cents buys penicillin for two, fifty cents covers malaria protection for seven, and one dollar immunizes eighty against tuberculosis, with readers invited to buy UNICEF greeting cards and calendars. Friday, Dec. 8, 1967.
A humorous column by L. M. Boyd surveys quirky science claims and social clichés. It notes Caesarean babies’ crying, women’s cheerfulness, and James J. Corbett’s prizefighting motto Go one more round, plus a vignette about a couple with a stable courtship. It covers eye strain for needlework, needle threading speed, and a country upbringing under expert rulings. It ends with light trivia on spider eyes cow jumps barometers and name letter fates.
Lions members met at the schoolhouse with Herbert Rich leading. Santa is set to visit December 23 at 1 30 p.m. Dr Reuben Widmer spoke on the Blood Bank. Sunset Circle hosted a luncheon and holly craft. New officers include President Haydn Thomas and Vice President Floyd Fisher. Next meeting December 15 features a $1 gift exchange.
The Washington Evening Journal of Washington Iowa lists staff roles including David Elder as Editor and Business Manager William Shannon as Vice President and Advertising Director Charles Morris as News Editor Bob Shaffer as Local Advertising and Howard Hazen as Production Superintendent. It notes publication afternoons except Sunday Christmas and July 4th and entry as second class matter under the 1879 act. It also lists organizations Inland Daily Press Assn Iowa Daily Press Assn and Audit Bureau of Circulations with press affiliations and outside Iowa coverage.
Paul and Mrs. Nichols of Granite City Ill. visited Everett Nichols and relatives in Ollie Pfe over the weekend. Ronald and Mrs. Keiser and Jamie of Belleville Ill. stayed with Lyle Keiser and Mrs. Claude McEntire. Roy Decker and family moved from the former Christian Church parsonage to Birmingham. Harry Elmore of Davenport visited sisters Bertha Readnour and Nellie Elmore. Nellie Essley 92 moved to Helen's Guest Home from Wapello Nursing Home. Mrs. Shockley Mrs. Johnson’s mother near Olivia Minn. suffered a stroke. Grace Tinnis visiting Davenport with Lloyd Derby family. Hoskins Farm Supply installed a corn dryer and holds open house Dec 8. Diana Mary Crish Engaged to Dean Nichols Weber of Richland. W. O. Allen farm east of Richland to be auctioned Dec 16. Grant Peterson former Richland telephone manager hospitalized in Iowa City.
Readers urge fair pay for newspaper boys, propose marriage tips for soldiers, and vent about thank-you notes. Abby advises carriers deserve prompt payment, encourages waiting for wartime engagement, and blames a mother for teens’ manners while suggesting open family discussion and legal counsel for wills.
The Merry Ten Club met with Mr and Mrs Erwin Wulf for December, with Mr and Mrs Ted Meyer as guests. Four tables of Pinochle produced high scores for Mr and Mrs William Wulf and consolation prizes for Mr and Mrs Harold Kuenemann. Refreshments followed the games and the group decided to skip January.
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