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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1963
Page
1
A room is repurposed for ASC office use, with the update noting the space is now designated for administrative tasks. No dates or additional details are provided in the readable fragment.
The ASC in Washington County announces voluntary sign up for the 1963 feed grain program covering corn grain sorghum and barley. Signup runs Feb 1 to March 22. Features include a single feed grain base, a 20 percent conservation require, diversion payments, and price support loans and purchases for participants.
Police urge residents to stop prank and anonymous threat calls. Violators face fines or jail, following multiple late night complaints to city and county officers. Chief Clarence Lee notes past tracing and new warnings to prosecute all nuisance callers.
Elmer Schneider presided at the NFO meeting at the Fairgrounds electing Victor Flynn Bill Martin Ray Hammen Homer Brinning and Gerald Feltz to the meat board with Grove Letts as alternate. Future meetings set for Home and Garden Buildings on the Fairgrounds the third Monday each month and weekly meetings at the Franklin Center School until spring work begins. Guests included James Stewart Columbus Junction Ivan Stravinsky Tipton and Jim Bolene Lone Tree.
Members of Leon Beatty American Legion post endorsed the AFS foreign student exchange program now operating at Washington High School and voted to support it financially. The action was taken at a post meeting Tuesday evening. Legionnaires also began planning for the annual national birthday party to be held about mid March.
Mrs. Harold Putnam and Mrs. Paul Ryan lead the Y's Men’s bridge marathon after the seventh round with 16 810 points. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Britain hold second with 14 590 and Mrs. Charles Snyder and Mrs. Nate Young are third with 12 950. Dean Anderson and the Young Snyder duo are the only undefeated teams. Top ten also include M. M. Schell 11 670 Kneen 10 890 Powers 10 800 Bates and Gillesby 9 760 Campbell 9 590 Meyers 9 550 and Robertson 9 270.
Washington YMCA officials report 724 members and 4355.52 dollars turned in toward a goal of 850 members and 4900 dollars. Enrollment leaders expect the total to reach the target after all reports come in. The drive was reviewed at a Tuesday evening meeting with praise from YMCA board president Robert Reed and Y Secretary Robert Gillesby. Frosty Westering of Parsons College spoke on the value of physical education, sharing coaching memories. A ladies night is planned for next Tuesday with Top Twenty entertainment and dancing after a meal.
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker dissolved Canada's 25th Parliament after a cabinet revolt and set April 8 as the election date. He survived a no confidence vote with crucial Conservative support as Anti Americanism and U S nuclear policy debates loom in a two month campaign. Lester Pearson favored to become next premier.
Jacquelyn Renne Messer age 1 died at her parents home in Cedar Rapids after a period of illness. She was born December 31 1961 and is survived by her parents Phillip and Jean Messer her siblings Stephen and Crystalyn and grandparents Chester Messer and A L Suppella. Graveside services set for Friday at 10:30 a.m. in Pleasant Plain St Joseph Cemetery with Rev Bergthold. Gould Funeral Home in charge.
Mrs. Fred Mauthe 89 a longtime Washington resident who moved to California in 1960 died Monday Feb 4 1963 in Burbank California. Funeral 1 30 p m Saturday at Jones Funeral Home Rev Lloyd Latta to officiate burial Elm Grove Cemetery. Friends may call from noon Friday. Survivors include two daughters Mrs L H O Laughlin Glendale and Mr Raymond Bowers Pueblo Colo a sister Mrs Nellie Thomas Carlsbad N M and a brother Dr Fred Taylor Denver Colo plus three grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
William Smith of Washington Iowa is jailed in Warren county awaiting a Saturday hearing on a stolen auto charge. He and Wes Custer were tied to an open house theft in Martensdale road house in Custer's car. Smith pleaded not guilty to larceny of an auto and faces Oskaloosa police charges for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated.
In Des Moines the rural dominated house moved toward easy passage of the Shaff reapportionment plan after defeating a substitute by Rep. Tom Riley. Riley, a Cedar Rapids attorney, argued his plan offered reform but faced legal and constitutional doubts. The chamber recessed for lunch before final action, with opponents warning the plan skews representation to rural areas.
Washingtons Community Chest nears its 1963 goal with only about 300 dollars left to raise. President Richard Weeks and a special committee ask uncontacted residents to pledge more at the National Bank or through secretary Mrs Don Minick. Five new directors named for three year terms are John Walker Eldon Brake Mrs John Phleger Mrs Walter Doak and Robert Bates. Auditing committee Marion Snodgrass and Howard Timmins report books in good order.
About 15 Iowa lawmakers from the House and Senate Board of Control visited the Roosevelt Junior and Senior High School at Mitchellville to inspect the campus facilities, housing for 84 delinquent girls, and ongoing remodeling projects as part of oversight of Board of Control institutions.
One hundred two market pigs were shown with top live hog going to Melvin Jennings of Winfield for a 195 pound Hampshire barrow. Carcass placings will be announced Feb 14 at the Washington Adult Agricultural Evening School.
Chamber of Commerce board meeting reviews membership drive results as Chuck Hotle outlines a clean-up plan to contact unvisited members. The group discusses bureau assignments and routine business while voting to remove and later repair a Washington Street sign. Dale Connelly presided in Walt Farrell’s absence.
Cloudy and colder tonight with a low around 10 to 15 degrees in the northeast and 25 to 30 in the southwest. Thursday brings partly cloudy skies and cooler temperatures with highs from 30 to 45 depending on location. Friday looks partly cloudy and milder with little or no precipitation expected.
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