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Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 31, 1969

Page

6

Soviet Tass says half of Chinese Communist leadership purged

Tass reports in Events in China that at least half of the CPC leadership was purged in Maoist cultural revolution and survivors joined revolutionary committees with military dominance. Talks on the Sino-Soviet frontier resume soon as Kuznetsov returns.

Moscow UPI Tass Communist Party Mao Tsetung China Peking Revolutionary Committees

Chicago Livestock Prices Report Hogs Cattle and Sheep

Chicago market report shows hogs 3 000 head with Nos 1 2 200 225 lb barrows and gilts at 28.00 to 28.50 and 146 head at 28.75 to 29.00. Cattle and calves 3 500 with slaughter steers uneven steady to 25 lower. cows and heifers at or near steady to 25 lower. Prime and high choice steers and heifers listed with prices around 27 29 per hundredweight. sheep market not enough for trend.

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Champion fairs have their day

In Burlington Wisconsin the Burlington Liars Club named A Wundewald of Pura Ti Switzerland the World’s Champion Star of 1969 for a weather quip about August cold. Runner up Lou Powers of Ortonville Minnesota joked of seven blizzards this winter and a windmill oiling task. Others cited included E Steinbach Mayville Wisconsin and James F Gross Milwaukee Wisconsin with jokes about hard water and cold January air. Charles H Gilbert Green Bay remarked on a miniskirt and clothes pin humor.

Burlington Wis UPI A. Wundewald Pura Ti Switzerland Burlington Liars’ Club Wundewald Lou Powers Ortonville Minn Rush Lake Wisconsin E. Steinbach Mayville James F. Gross Milwaukee Charles H. Gilbert Green Bay

Washington’s Barbados Visit in 1751 Highlights

George Washington spent two months in Barbados with half brother Lawrence in 1751, his only trip outside current U S borders. He contracted smallpox during the stay but recovered without serious illness.

Washington Bridgetown Barbados UPI George Washington West Indies The United States Lawrence

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