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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1966
Page
9
Column opens with reflections on work, holidays, and the year’s end, then weighs in on legalized pari mutuel betting in Iowa citing Tropicana Park figures and tax losses to bettors. A Newport Rhode Island party for Preservation Society showcases 1920s gowns, with comments on fashion’s cyclical look and contemporaneity.
On December 9 about 600 American business leaders gathered in Washington to discuss guaranteed payments for doing nothing. The symposium featured Theobald Tobin Friedman Hazlitt and Rep Curtin with Henry Hazlitt criticizing welfare expansion and urging work incentives while Tobin and Friedman touted a 50 percent negative income tax with a defined floor. The five-hour debate explored inflation risks and social impact amid calls for cultural and educational remedies.
A Mrs X reader asks why grandparents buy oversized clothing for grandchildren and Abby explains it stems from lean times, advising the wife to request proper sizes. A separate Innocent Bystander note explains how to recover a mailed letter and the post office steps involved if it has or hasn’t left town. A third letter discusses dinner guest etiquette when a man brings another woman, with Abby offering a tactful invitation approach.
Crawfordsville notes festive gatherings with the Magdefrau and McGuire families in multiple households across Wayland Milan and Washington. Guests include Williams Wells McGuire Leases and Whitings. Also mentions travel plans for holidays and a civic notice about Austrian Alpine school federation unification.
Germans rank bread as the most important food in a Grain Marketing Association survey. Meat comes second, then potatoes, butter, sugar and fish. Baked goods other than bread were last.
In contract bridge column West led a trump hoping to cut dummy. South used a trump endplay sequence after a club lead to salvage the contract. Declarer ruffed diamonds, cashed spades and clubs, and overtrumped West to reach ten tricks with only a spade and club lost.
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