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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1969
Page
4
The December 12 1969 Washington Journal editorial discusses California's upcoming dissolution of marriage replacing divorce on January 1 1970. Grounds shift to incurable insanity and irreconcilable differences, with both parties deemed to blame. The piece argues irreconcilable differences justify dissolution and may benefit children, contrasting past marital norms.
To the editor we applaud Mr. Youngquist and Washington high school students for a wonderful Tuesday musical. Many enjoyed live entertainment, not TV, and proved youth stay active in football, basketball, wrestling, art, band, and drama. Hoping for big crowds at the junior high musical and the band's Christmas concert.
The Elite Club met at Mrs. Lida Rowe's home on Sunday December 7 with Emma Millice as co hostess despite heavy snow. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. William Detweiler Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Glen Blumenstein and Mrs. Tresa Yoder plus guest Mrs. Edna Blumenstein.
Washington reports big city mayors led by John V. Lindsay and Carl Stokes urged President Nixon to keep the war on poverty under federal OEO control as House debates poverty legislation. A substitute would shift responsibility to states, drawing opposition from Gardner and Rumsfeld to a GOP line.
Abigail Van Buren fielded questions from readers on marriage jealousy dinner etiquette and household meddling. A husband who nearly married another was urged to attend a top of empire state building reunion with his wife while other letters discuss a wife shocked by a husband's affair a sister-in-law overstepping as an efficiency expert and a humorous note about oven dishwashing mishaps.
A list of new cars and potential buyers or owners includes Chrysler Ford Plymouth Chevrolet and Olds models with names such as Geraldine Scheeler Wayne Fisher Roger Schuer man Hobbs Wagenknecht Jolly Goode Pleck er Chabal Gray Marine Yoder and Dann among others.
Contract bridge notes by B. Jay Becker highlight his top record in Masters' Individual Championship play. West dealer, East-West vulnerable. Hand shows King ten, King queen, jack, spade four, queen, ace, ten, ace, five.
A bridge hand is analyzed where South loses four hearts after a diamond lead and double finesse. The article notes West held king of hearts and clubs split 5-1, with poor spade locations, making the 60 to 1 odds against such a run. It argues declarer could guarantee ten tricks by playing the club ten from dummy at trick four if West follows low on the second club, instead of the usual A-K sequence.
A brief newspaper record noting a December 12, 1969 publication date for the Washington Evening Journal in Washington Iowa with a Friday issue.
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