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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1971
Page
2
Numerous Iowa households plan Christmas reunions and dinners with relatives from Washington Keota Winfield Iowa City Ottumwa Davenport and Ames. The Rathmell and neighboring families host multiple gatherings while engagements and travel plans unfold including a February wedding for Dana Fischer and Max Meyer and servicemembers visiting relatives over the holiday season.
Sergeant Patrick J. Shanahan, son of Mrs Jeannine Shanahan of Fremont Nebraska, received the Air Force Commendation Medal at Clark Air Base Philippines for meritorious service during a Vietnam era operation. He serves in the Air Force Communications Service at Clark providing global communications and air traffic control. A 1968 Bergan High School graduate, he is married to Nancy Goodrich of Riverside.
Hospital admitted yesterday includes Mrs Helen Foster Clyde Garrett and Michelle West all of Washington for medical care while John W Jones also from Washington is admitted today. Birth announced yesterday a son to Mr and Mrs Eugene Bixby Washington. Today a daughter to Mr and Mrs William Smith Douds and a son to Mr and Mrs Joseph T Miller Iowa City. Discharges yesterday include Mrs Raymond Cline Mrs Wilhelm Seiler and Mrs Raymond Weber all of Washington. Keota.
The United Presbyterian Church Board of Deacons invites college age youth to a Sunday evening event in the Fellowship Hall from 7:00 to 9:30. Mrs Francis McConnell is social chairman. Morning service will be led by Miss Marsha Kron and Miss Debbie Miller with speakers Lynn Martin Kevin Caldwell and John Lance. Millie Bordwell and Marsha Kron are soloists.
Edith Waldron, 77, passed her driving test on the fourth try in Exeter England Wednesday. She marked the achievement by removing and burning the L plates in the middle of the main street, signaling she is no longer a learner.
At the United Presbyterian Home in Washington the Christmas week featured Evensong Advent lessons and candle lighting for Mrs. Rankin, carols by Prairie Flower School students, a home talent variety program led by Rev. Willming, and a Jaycees sponsored Christmas Delight bus tour. Residents shared meals, visits, and holiday companionship with neighbors and relatives, including remembrances for Mrs. Nora Ebner and updates on residents’ families and illness recoveries.
Textiles specialist Jacquelyn Yep explains rapid action is crucial for Christmas spills. Practical guidance covers evergreen sap wax coffee tea milk butter fruits lipstick and more with steps like scraping, blotting, washing, and using solvents while avoiding chlorine bleach on permanent press fabrics.
A series of fines were issued to Washington residents for traffic violations including speeding and overtaking on the left. Complainants named Gary Louis Swift Sherry Ann Miller Michal John McGuire Donald F E De Smet Jerome Allen Flynn and Larry Arden Duncan with fines ranging from 10 to 15 dollars.
Wayland Mennonite Church hosts worship at 9 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. plus Bible study and a sermon titled In the Fullness of Time. Pastor Nick Kassebaum leads services with Sunday school at 10 a.m. and worship at 9:30 a.m.
The Starliners 4-H Club held a Christmas meeting and caroling party at Lana Weeks home. Twenty five members attended and refreshments were served by Lana and her mother.
A 52 year-old hobo named Anthony Keene slept in a derelict Peterborough house five days earlier. Workmen bricked doors windows and chimneys to seal the building. Keene was found Wednesday by passers-by after hearing knocks and said he would not return to empty houses.
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