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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1971
Page
4
Editorial reflects on snow disposal and the dangers of faulty exhaust systems after six Iowa deaths. It notes potential state car inspections, questions practical setup and costs, and urges drivers to ensure exhausts are sound while legislators ponder feasible systems. The piece underscores prevention over costly tragedy.
A reader urges outdoors lovers to review Iowa game laws as spring arrives. Most animals are under closed seasons and protected, including hawks, owls, songbirds, and Cooper's Hawk. The letter emphasizes safety, preventing harm to wildlife, and promotes photography over hunting.
UPI reports a long-running cycle of Soviet five year plans since 1928 aimed at boosting consumer goods amid heavy industry dominance. The piece notes Khrushchev's Virgin Lands venture, Kosygin's 1971-75 plan, and projected 44 to 48 percent rise in consumer goods, while flagging risks from military secrecy, worker reluctance, and production shortfalls in electric, oil, coal, steel, trucks, cars, tractors, and appliances.
A collage of trivia and social quirks covers topics from sour pickle gum in Tokyo to long eyelashes among tennis players. It ponders sardine lifespans, prisoner of war death rates, and the odds of recognizing one’s voice in a tape study. Reflections on twins, naval rope spinning origins, gorilla counts, Russia’s bunk life, and premarital cooking humor blend with humorous anecdotes about astrology and bachelor hunting.
An OCR fragment shows the Washington Evening Journal masthead with address, telephone, publisher Bilder Shannon & Co. Inc. editor David Elder, business manager William Stannon, advertising director Chates Morris, and production superintendent Robert Shaffer. Subscription rates are listed for carrier and mail in and outside Iowa, with multiple misread figures.
A reader asks how to handle a son's discovery of his father's affair with a secretary and how to address a grandmotherly guest’s thrift with meat leftovers. Abby advises confronting the father, while other letters discuss inlaws, divorce, discipline, and appreciating a mother’s parenting.
In a Masters' Championship hand, South opens 2 clubs and West leads a club. Declarer should avoid drawing all trumps immediately, using a timing sequence to ruff in dummy. By ruffing two clubs in dummy and letting South later draw East's trumps, the contract can be made while preserving ruffing tricks.
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