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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1970
Page
4
Editorial notes urge parental example and faith, humor about railroads and fortunes, and a holiday diet warning. A Melbourne based science blurb claims the world’s oldest flea evolved 120 million years ago with a bandicoot, a lighthearted aside from the Goshen News.
Letters To The Journal encourage Brighton readers to attend the Project Star violin concert at Stewart School on Friday December 11 at 7 30 pm. The writer praises students for playing from memory and urges support for funding a violin program amid ongoing school budget debates.
A country mile surveys winter color in Iowa winter scenes. It catalogs birds such as cardinals blue jays nuthatches and woodpeckers and notes colors from red berries to gray mosses. It highlights plants like shingle oak bittersweet buckbrush and cedar waxwings amid a scene that hints at spring.
Nixon urged Congress to act on eight Indian reform bills, with only one passed. The BIA reorganized to shift from management to service, aiming to empower tribes. India’s population nears 700,000, poverty remains the big problem with high unemployment and low incomes on reservations. Some Indians favor reservation life, others urban assimilation. The policy favors self help and leadership, with many top BIA posts held by Indians.
Ad copy urges readers to allocate the full Journal classified space in their advertising budget, arguing partial spend is as if buying a ticket halfway to Europe and not reaching the destination.
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