YWCA announces 1968 swim class schedule and team practices
The YWCA starts instructional swim classes January 9 through March 15, costing $4. Instructors are Mrs. Max Owens Mrs. Harlan Neuhart and Mrs. Richard Schiebel. The YWCA Girls' Swim Team coached by Mrs. Steele and aided by Mrs. Huber will practice at their usual time. Registration line provided with contact number.
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YWCA
Max Owens
Harlan Neuhart
Richard Schiebel
Steele
Robert Huber
Owens
Neuhart
Leftover turkey storage and flavor ideas
Home economist Sally Smith outlines safe storage for Christmas leftovers. Remove stuffing from turkey, store turkey, stuffing, and gravy in separate containers in the fridge and use within 1 to 2 days. Freeze properly wrapped turkey for up to two months for best flavor, with air tight sealing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sally Smith
Extension Home
Miss Smith
Community club notices from Wellman December
Happy Hour Club hosted Wellman and families after the Odd Fellows meeting with a six o'clock supper. Royal Neighbors met at Mrs. Myrl Weller’s home. Van Guard Sunday School class held a 28-member pot-luck dinner. Mrs. Nevada Rampleberg presided and played a tape of her minister son, Rev Jack Rampleberg. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Tandy hosted a church dinner with 100 attendees and a 78-signature Open House. A potted-plant gift from the Wellman Savings Bank marked the couple as fifty-year customers. Also noted: local hospital and nursing home patients, surgery recovery, and meetings of TTT Chapter AD and WCTU.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellman
Happy Hour Club
Wellman Rebekahs
Odd Fellows and Families
Odd Fellows
Myrl Weller
van Guard
Nevada Rampleberg
Jack Rampleberg
Bert Tandy
Church of the Brether
Wellman Savings Bank
Tandy
Max Adams
Wright
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
Vena Schlabaugh
Shenk
Fred Gislain
Leo Gislain
Des Moines
Jim Wagamon
Oxford
Wilbur Geyer
TTT
Washington
Harriet Alcorn
WCTU
Grace Heiserman
Wallace Campaign Struggles for Ballot Peace Slate
Wallace contends with 66 058 required registrations to place a peace slate on the primary ballot. Jack Weinberg, state party administrator, expects 22 000 more by next Tuesday, citing student and minority support. Wallace’s bloc is strong in Los Angeles County, boosting the American Independent party registrations. Observers think Wallace would draw Republican votes while Peace and Freedom would pull Democratic votes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Weinberg
Peace and Freedom Party
Wallace
Los Angeles
American Independent Party
Alabama
Laos Conflict Report Stirs Prowl Amid Monsoon Rise
Reports from the southern panhandle between Thailand and South Vietnam and northern Laos near the North Vietnamese border describe a general offensive by Communist forces. U S officials downplayed the action, calling it a seasonal step-up in fighting that often accompanies the changing monsoons.
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Panhandle
Tahiland
South Vietnam
Laos
U.S
Pentagon
ASCS Urges Wool Marketings Applications by January 31
Growers should file 1967 wool, lamb, and mohair marketing year payments with ASCS by January 31. Howard Lins notes payments restore national average prices to incentive levels: 66 cents per pound for shorn wool and 76.4 cents for mohair, with pulled wool aligned. Live lambs unshorn payments based on shorn wool rate and wool value. Early reports ensure accurate yearlong average prices. Payments begin around April. post December 31, 1967 marketings count as 1968 and pay eligibility shifts to 1969.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Lins
Agrcultural Stablization and Conservation County Committee
ASCS
Plans Forming for February Wedding
Miss Gingerich works at Owens Brush Company in Iowa City while Mr Cronbaugh is with Tubb's DX in Cedar Rapids. Plans are being made for a February wedding.
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Miss Gingerich
Owens Brush Company
Iowa City
Mr. Cronbaugh
Tubb
Washington Business and Professional Women's Club Meeting
Fourteen members attended the Tuesday evening meeting at the Captain's Table. Guest Ame lia McGannon of Davenport joined as guest. Esther Hough introduced Earl Rae who spoke on water colors and displayed his paintings of old countryside buildings with historical value. Geraldine Schulty announced a Defensive Driving Course on January 30 and 31 at the Iowa Southern Utilities room with a $2 registration fee for interested women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Business and Professional Women’s Club
Amelia McGannon
Davenport
Esther Hough
Earl Rae
Geraldine Schulty
Iowa Southern Utilities Room
Christmas Eve and Holiday Guests for Local Families
Local notes list Christmas Eve visitors to the Havel and Lund home in Cedar Rapids and to the Rummelhart, Kenagy, and Putnam households in Hills Washington. Cooperative turkey dinners at the KC Hall Brighton and a chicken dinner at the Fairgrounds Washington feature gift exchanges and family attendance. Hospital updates include Mrs. Clyde Stoutner Jr. with injuries from an accident and Lyle Crawford on leave from Ft. Hood awaiting Vietnam. Other entries mention Ray Patterson’s discharge to home care in Iowa City.
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Edward F. Havel
Eileen
Godfrey Hejkal
Josephine Lund
Cedar Rapids
Ivan Rummelhart
Hills
J. Omer Kenagy
Opal Putnam
Washington
C. L. Brown
KC Hall
Brighton
Glen Mullikin
Debbie
Douds
Seth Carris
Dianna
Packwood
Doyle Brown
Betty
Clarence Brown Jr
Wesley Mullikin
Kenneth Brown
Lockridge
Dale Brown
Iowa City
Russell Hill
Tim
Clyde Stoutner Jr
Mercy Hospital
Keota
Highway
Stoutner
Lyle George Crawford
Ft. Hood
Texas
Lyle Crawford
South Avenue C
Vietnam
Duane Daering
Richard Murray
Gaylen Kron
Keith Daering
Carl Daering
Mary Harvey
Ray Patterson
Ronald Detweiler
Seymour Avenue
Jehovah's Witnesses Seminar Planned in Cedar Rapids
Ministers of Jehovah's Witnesses in Washington invite to a January 1921 training seminar at Memorial Coliseum Cedar Rapids Iowa. Charles Sellers presiding minister announces over 800 delegates from eastern Iowa and northern Missouri expected. Principal speaker will be J D Wengert district supervisor of Jehovah's Witnesses New York.
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Jehovah's Witnesses
Washington
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Charles Sellers
Missouri
Memorial Coliseum
J. D. Wengert
New York
Viet Cong Overrun After Air and Artillery Barrage
A South Vietnamese unit and U.S. forces repelled an assault as an armored column blocked escape. All Skyraiders and helicopter gunships pounded the Viet Cong, allowing the highly decorated 2nd Battalion to overrun enemy defenses within about an hour, forcing retreat from bunkers.
Washington Evening Journal personnel and affiliations
The Washington Evening Journal in Washington Iowa lists David Elder as Editor and Business Manager William Shannon as Vice President Advertising Director Charles Morris as News Editor Bob Shafter Local Advertising Howard Hazen as Production Superintendent. It notes publication afternoons except Sunday Christmas and July 4th and details postal classification and press associations.
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David Elder
William Shannon
Charles Morris
Bob Shafter
Howard Hazen
Ost
Washington
Iowa
Social calendar highlights from Thursday and Friday
Regular meeting at Moose Home tonight at 8. Executive board at 7. Pansy Hill Club hosts Mrs. Stanley Chabal at 2 with a Christmas exchange and time change. Square Dance Lesson at 8 in Legion Hall. KP meeting at 8 at KP Hall, West Chester. Friday events include IOOF Rebekah at 6 30 with potluck and card party at IOOF Hall.
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Women of Moose
Moose Home
Pansy Hill Club
Stanley Chabal
Legion Hall
West Chester
New Year Dance at YMCA Saturday Night
YMCA hosts a New Year dance to kick off the new year on Saturday December 30 from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Open to Washington high school and returning college students, the event costs 1 dollar per person. Sponsored by the YMCCA Teen Center Board with music by The Children of the Darkness.
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YMCA
The
Washington High School
Ymcca Teen Center Board
Children of the Darkness
IOOF Rebekahs Hold Potluck and Card Party
The Odd Fellows and Rebekahs invite members to a potluck supper and card party Friday December twenty ninth at 6 30 p m at the IOOF Hall. They will also install officers January eighth at 7 30 p m at the IOOF Hall.
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Ioof - Rebekahs
the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs
IOOF
The
Odd Fellows and Rebekahs
Ioof Hall
Will Sheetz mark 50th anniversary at open house
Over 200 friends and relatives joined Mr and Mrs Will Sheetz for an open house at the Captain s Table on Saturday honoring their fiftieth wedding anniversary. The event featured a three tier anniversary cake, white and gold decor, and a display of silver crystal and roses with many family hostesses and grandsons greeting guests from Des Moines Oskaloosa Sigourney Keota Washington and Illinois. The Don Sheetz family hosted a separate Christmas and anniversary dinner at their home for the immediate family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Sheetz
Wendell Eden
Merle Sheetz
Marion Sheetz
Myrtle Neiswanger
Verle Gallag
Charles Kennedy
S. E. Blattner
Ed Hahn
Lynn Blanchard
Gary Sheetz
J. L. Kennedy
Logan Ahrens
Florence Sherman
Pat Sheetz
Cindy Eden
Cathy Eden
Mary Morrison
Des Moines
Oskaloosa
Sigourney
Keota
Washington
Illinois
Don Sheetz
Miss Abbie Timmins Guest of Y's Men Club
Miss Abbie Timmins, Miss Washington County, spoke at the Y's Men’s club Tuesday night. She sang several numbers and discussed her reign as county queen, noting appearances help train for next year’s Miss Iona Pageant. Nancy Mangold accompanied on piano. Herb Osincup served as chaperone. A tape from eight years ago with club predictions for 1960 was shown, and next week the group will record predictions for 1968.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abbie Timmins
Washington County
Miss Timmins
Nancy Mangold
Herb Osincup
Admitted and Dismissed Names Noted in Washington Records
Yesterday Carl Jarrard of Washington admitted in medical matters. Today Esther Palmer admitted. Dismissed today Ray Downs of Washington and Patrick Allen Wood of Ainsworth.
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Carl Jarrard
Washington
Esther Palmer
Ray Downs
Patrick Allen Wood
Ainsworth
Deborah Hudson Engaged to Charles Hoff for June Wedding
Miss Deborah Diane Hudson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hudson of Marion, is engaged to Charles Eugene Hoff, son of Mrs. Geneva Christian of Washington and the late Charles Hoff. A June wedding is planned.
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Archie Gingerich
Washington
Janet Yvonne
Steven Clark Cronbaugh
Melvin Cronbaugh
Cedar Rapids
Edward Hudson
Marion
Deborah Diane
Charles Eugene Hoff
Geneva Christian
Charles Hoff
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Mr. Greenlee
Shepherds
White Shrine
Masonic Temple
Tappan Johnson
Mr. Johnson
David Walter
Cloyd Garrett
Wayne Marston
S. Eighth Street
Jaycees
Helen Gilbert
Howard Baker
Fairgrounds
Ted Ross
Omar Black
Clark Baker
Jerry Fisher
Monty
Robert Long
Lori
Bill Hazelett
Brian
Don Reese
Lawrence Baker
Gary Oswalt
Richland
Ronald Ross
Pella
Danny Aggson
Daryl Black
Joe Baker
Michelle
Ray Schooley
Viet
Shington
United Press
Inland Daily Press Ass'n
Iowa Daily Press Ass'n
Iowa Press Ass'n
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Louis J. Kehoe
Jeffry
Livingston, Day, Meeker & Bates
Robert Day
Everett Meeker
Robert Bates
South Ave
Morrison, Morrison and
Lloyd Edmund D., Morrison, Jr
James E. Lloyd
Washington St
John C
Owen
West Washington
South Side Square
Stewart & Shearer
Attorneys At Law
Richard A. Stewart
Paul V. Shearer
West Main
M. L. Tweeton
North Marion
P. L. Etter
Osteopathic
Spurgeon’s
Rebekah
Deborah Hudson
Orig
P.J
Penney’s
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