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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1971
Page
4
The Washington Evening Journal editorializes on humility as divine gift and honesty as rare, critiques a reader poll on property tax revision, recalls Pop Eye, and notes gradual adoption of the metric system from car engines to medicine, ending with a Cedar Rapids arrest for grams of nashish.
A New Yorker cartoon aside prompts a local recollection of spinach in school meals. A lunch cook attempted to disguise gallon cans of spinach with seasonings, eggs, crackers, and butter, highlighting the clash between nutrition and flavor.
A reader urges parents to provide love patience kindness and spiritual guidance. He stresses listening praying being present weekly family time and modeling the life they want for their child, warning against excessive busyness.
A reader outlines a bird friendly garden list for a magazine sponsored contest. The plan totals up to $100 in nursery stock from multiple firms, focusing on bird food and habitat. Plants include Amelanchier canadensis, Cornus florida, Elaeagnus angustifolia, Sorbus spp., Lonicera fragrantissima, Viburnum spp., Juniperus and Thuja varieties, Malus spp., Prunus spp., and others with berries, flowers, or shelter for birds.
Ten members of the Time for Coffee Club met at Mrs. Jerry Forinash's home in Westchester on February 3. Program books for 1971 were distributed and completed. A secret sister exchange yielded birthday gifts for four members. Refreshments were served and guests visited. The next meeting, with Mrs. Joe Bauer, is scheduled for March 3 at 7 30 p.m.
Riverside community notes report Murray Kueneman visiting his grandmother and teaching in the Highland system, Donna Waldschmidt returning to UNI, Christopher Dale Geret born Jan 26 with grandparents listed, Elizabeth Sanders taken to Mercy after a fall, second graders visiting the Washington Eve singing Journal building, Cub Scout Troop 233 January meeting awards for Wolf Badge Brad Russell and Gold Arrow Jim Long, and new members admitted to the troop.
In a Becker column the Bernasconi hand is highlighted as a near impossible six spades slam. The play features ruffing clubs, a heart jack finesse, and a critical squeeze by East when faced with discards. The hand demonstrates high precision and tense late-card play.
A collage of light questions and answers covers smoking, long life, lipstick, meals costs for the Navy, and social habits. It notes studies on memory, sleepwalking, and job tenure, and discusses golf safety rules and quirky signals on retirement home walls.
Troop 214 Washington members Mike Kopf and John Westfall Indian Dancers showcased authentic races. Pine Wood Derby winners included Jeff Foster Consolation Den 1 and Richard Schneider Den 2. Pack winners were Bobby Spenner in both Pack Championship and Consolation, with Brad Russell Best Looking Car. Den 1 Mr and Mrs Earl Harr closed the event. Earl Harr returned from Longmont after attending his mother Marguerite Harr Allen’s funeral in Sunley Nursing Home Fairfield California, January 25.
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