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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1966
Page
3
Abigail Van Buren dispenses opinions on bachelor living, dental tact, hosting etiquette, and wedding color symbolism. Readers seek guidance on marital privacy, self confidence, and social cues with practical, no nonsense recommendations.
The ad promotes Lytle's emphasis on quality and economy for shoppers. It highlights a policy of delivering orders of $1.50 or more for free, encouraging customers to phone in their purchases if downtown shopping is messy.
Iowa farmers may enter one or two pigs in the 1966 State Fair Production Tested Carcass Contest open to crossbred and pure bred producers. Pigs tested at the Iowa Swine Testing Station Ames for growth rate on a high energy ration from 60 to 200 pounds with weekly weigh days. Entries due by April 1. postmarked early entries reserve pens. entry fee ten dollars plus carcass value prizes to owners.
KCRG-TV Cedar Rapids and KWWL-TV Waterloo plan a joint project to build a 2000-foot tower four miles west of Walker and 2.25 miles north of Iowa 150. The $500,000 facility would host ABC affiliate KCRG and NBC affiliate KWWL with separate operations. The move follows prior FCC air space approval for the site and reflects shared infrastructure among rivals.
United Press International reports widespread rising waters as rain and warm weather thaw ice in the Iowa area. Ice jams threaten levees and rail lines, with the Maquoketa and Mississippi rivers breaking an ice dam and flooding lowland farms between Clinton and Dubuque.
Billy Rose a famed show business promoter and art patron died of pneumonia in a Montego Bay nursing home at age sixty six. He arrived with his sister for a six week vacation and his death followed Sophie Tucker by hours who died in New York on the prior Wednesday. Rose had been a songwriter Broadway producer impresario and longtime AT&T stockholder storing a five foot three inch figure in theater and culture.
The YWCA invites girls in grades three through six to a skating party at the Skateway Rink this Friday after school from 4 to 5 30 p.m. The event costs 40 cents, or 20 cents if they bring their own skates.
Mrs. Charles Harley departed for Texas to visit her granddaughter Miss Sandra Harley in Houston and her son Major Dwight Harley and family at Laughlin Air Force Base. She plans a three to four week absence.
Grace Holtzmann of Council Bluffs and friend Ann Racobs landed the 58 lb 13 oz paddlefish in the Missouri River, earning a 1965 Iowa official big fish record. Mary Jk. Jones of Des Moines caught Iowa’s largest northern, 20 pounds, while Roger Fairchild of Coralville recorded the biggest flathead catfish at 62 pounds. Forty-four anglers submitted entries to the year’s big fish records.
Grace Hill Ladies Aid hosted by Mrs Merle Brinning with 11 members answering roll call. Program included The Little Task by Albert Schweitzer and a lesson on Tribalism in Africa. Past Noble Grand Circle hosted by Mrs Keith Williams with 15 members, card and dining room committees appointed, pinochle and bunco played, prizes awarded. Rhoda Nielson Circle hosted by Mrs Charles McConnell with eight members. program Toward a Greater Tomorrow on public education followed by fourteen church calls and refreshments.
Glenn R. Baumgartner of Ollie Iowa was arrested Friday night on an operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated charge. He posted a 350 dollar bond and awaits appearance in Washington justice of the peace court. Moistened cotton swabs are handy for cleaning dusty Christmas ornaments and trimmings.
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