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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1955
Page
7
A collection of ponderings on leadership during crises and the dangers of overpromising politics. The piece cites quotes from Robert Quillen and Henry Thomas, notes fiction and Dionne quints, and critiques reliance on promises in farming policy while urging focus on practical solutions and humane progress.
Lois Deal Dublin reports a Norfolk Virginia group including Lee Crosby Effiel Crosby and families visiting Perry Deal for Christmas. The article lists numerous Christmas dinners and gatherings with relatives from California Chicago Ottumwa Des Moines and Washington plus local residents.
Kalona residents hosted multiple holiday dinners and visits, with Mahlon Schlabaugh and family entertaining relatives including Ralph, Dale Brenneman, Omer, Raymond, Emil, Delmar, Judy and Gladys Schlabaugh. Other gatherings included Wagamon relatives, Shaver families, Fry and Fry visitors, and Yoder and Swartzendruber households visiting or hosting guests through the week.
The Washington Evening Journal presents its publisher Shannon Elder and Co publishers with staff including managing editor Dave R Elder business manager Bruce Cowden and news editor Charles Morris. It notes publication afternoons except Sunday Christmas and July 4th and lists postal class and press association memberships. Subscriptions offered for months six months and one year.
Kalona December event shows Intermediate Girl Scouts hosting a holiday tea for mothers at the school with gifts for each mother. Weekend and Christmas guests from Melbourne, West Branch, Kinross, Des Moines, and Indiana joined local families for gatherings and dinners.
Friends and neighbors gathered at Grand Prairie school for a picnic farewell in Bethel. About seventy attended as the Kos family plans to move to California around February 1.
A speaker urges citizens to address the root cause of highway fatalities, comparing drunk driving to a broken water or cattle-feed problem. The piece questions why society accepts ongoing loss and criticizes reliance on temporary fixes rather than preventive measures. It calls for gubernatorial action and personal responsibility.
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