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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1971
Page
4
Washington readers encounter a set of opinions from February 19 1971 addressing religious reassurance about God and love, cautions on flirtation phrasing, a link between unemployment and crime with drug violence notes, and a call to heed air and water pollution. The piece quotes UI professor D C Spriestersbach on balancing population growth and technology impacting the environment.
A serviceman letters editor criticizing conscription and the all volunteer army. He calls many career soldiers derelicts and argues the draft harms morale, urging a world with no army. He notes the writer’s wish to anonymity and cites private views on military service in San Francisco.
A reader urges the town to provide an ice skating venue recalling youth era skating at Cherry's Pond in Washington. The letter expresses strong support for creating a public rink as a community amenity.
A jumble of light items covers drinking mornings post binges musings on happiness and memories. Beulah is named as disliked by Florida college girls while aging hearing loss affects men earlier. Snippets include pest control trucks marking status city life and quick Q&A on games and snail trivia.
Wayland Wayland Osbornes marked their Silver Wedding Anniversary with an open house at their home on Sunday February 4 from 2 to 4 pm. About 100 guests including children Ralph Osborne Jr and Robert, and Mrs James Howard of Muscatine attended. Helpers wore red roses, cake served, punch poured, and a guest book was signed. Several relatives and local clergy visited, and two monetary trees plus gifts were presented to the honorees.
Rubio Feb 16 Several residents assisted Mr and Mrs John Cox and family move from Rubio to North English. Helpers included Jerry Hartnell Victor Parcell Richard Bond Tommy Hartnell Charles Blakely Steve Rusk Dean Luers Wilford Marvin and Carrol Steinbeck. Lunch was at Jack Hesseltine home with Mrs Hesseltine’s helpers. Clay Club met at Mrs Jim Wolcott home with entertainment by Charles Blakely. Next meeting at Mrs Lee Schaefer Brighton. Ronnie Ward family and Sigourney guests and Hartnell Terri Jo and Earl Ward visited parental Kermit Ward home.
The menu lists daily items for Washington and other weeks including repeated dishes. Highlights include Monday toasted cheese sandwich, Tuesday sauerkraut with wieners and chili soup, Wednesday no school, Thursday chili soup and cinnamon rolls, Friday fish sticks with tartar sauce and chocolate milk. Other weeks feature goulash, meat loaf, baked beans and franks, tuna noodle casserole, maidrites, oven fried chicken, spaghetti and meatballs, cream turkey and chicken fried steak with varied sides and desserts.
Nearly four hundred guests attended an open house in Kalona on Sunday to honor Mr. and Mrs. Sam E. Bender on their Golden Wedding Anniversary. Local hosting came from the Ben M. Miller and Ira D. Bender families, with out of state relatives from Goshen Indiana and Kirksville Missouri. Additional anniversary events included dinners in Iowa City and Washington, with many family and friends attending, along with hospital visits and local gatherings.
Raymond Sojka and wife transfer an interest to Donald E. Stone and wife commencing 68 feet north of the southeast corner of Lot 5 in Northwest Washington, detailing boundary start and property description for the deed.
A list of names and car brands appears, including Jon C Brissman Chevrolet Albert C Miller Pontiac and others such as Ton nie Clyde Crile Chevrolet Eunice M Letts Plymouth Harold Dennis Murphy Chevrolet Truck Samuel Sheila Ge rot Dodge Ernest Dean Williams Pontiac Maurice Benjamin Grieser Buick Amelius Dorothy Bash Pontiac Allan Clarence Lucas Chevrolet and Helena Chemical Co Ford Truck Dennis LeRoy Miller Chevrolet Truck.
Fragmented OCR shows a Washington Evening Journal masthead with incomplete staff and pricing data. It mentions editors Leonard Llewellyn and David Hitler, production roles, circulation figures, and mailing rates for in town and outside town delivery. The text is garbled with stray punctuation and misread words.
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