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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1950
Page
4
An editorial urges readers not to fear the decline of civilization, arguing that history shows prosperity returns and urging patience. It counsels believers to trust in providence and refrain from pessimism about evil doers.
The letters discuss rising public debt since the 81st Congress and proposed spending on social programs, criticize high taxes, and describe farm subsidy effects on potato prices. They note government purchases and taxpayer costs, urge lower prices, and question overpayment interest on state and federal taxes.
A three year trial of Washington city’s all year garbage collection shows steady service at nominal cost. About 800 to 900 households pay monthly or quarterly fees for pickup. the system uses a city owned truck and staff year round, with waste hauled to a nearby farm for hog feed.
Residents and workers share daily challenges in waste disposal. A farmer’s hogs reject kitchen leavings. Debris from furnaces adds weight to daily pickups. Skeet Miller recalls a dog threatening him as he approached a yard to collect garbage.
The passage notes a five ton unloaded weight and ten tons more when filled for a big truck used by Embree and Miller. It explains a crushing contrivance for waste after dumping and describes their work driving into alleys from around five in the morning until late afternoon six days a week.
The piece notes a common complaint about the sanitation department that the large truck wears deep ruts in streets though it concedes that if accumulations are properly disposed of and alleyways checked, the ruts can be filled.
The text highlights the development and refinement of troop carrier and airborne forces during World War II. It notes Russian origins, German advancement, and the United States applying final polish, making airborne operations a key factor across major European campaigns.
Street lighting along north south avenues provides brighter, more even illumination than east west streets in both summer and winter, according to this observation.
The Washington Evening Journal in Washington Iowa lists staff and publication details including publishers editors and managers. It notes publication afternoons except Sunday Christmas and July 4th and lists associations and gross subscription rates by carrier and mail.
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