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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1968
Page
4
Local appliance dealers highlight automatic electric ranges and clothes dryers as modern time savers. Features include programmable ovens that start and stop at set times, adjustable dryness, auto shutoffs, and surface units maintaining fixed temps. The promotion urges shoppers to choose modern, convenient, economical appliances today.
The Washington Evening Journal in Washington Iowa lists editors and staff including David Elder editor and business manager William Shannon vice president advertising director Charles Morris news editor Bob Shaffer local advertising and Howard Hazen production superintendent. It notes publication afternoons except Sunday Christmas and July 4th and that it is entered as second class matter under the March 3 1879 act. It also lists press associations and mail subscription rates in Iowa.
A marriage license has been issued here to Ralph Edwin Evans of Mt. Pleasant and Sherri Lynn Miller of Washington.
Washington homeowners were reminded of city ordinance standards for sewer and plumbing work. Changes to plumbing or sewer lines require a permit and must meet specifications. A city inspector must inspect the work, and homeowners can check at city hall for answers.
Lynn Neuhart son of Mr and Mrs Harlan Neuhart of Washington and former resident here is named acting personnel officer and administrative assistant to Eau Claire city manager Walter Kane. He succeeds the previous assistant who moved to Loveland Colorado. Neuhart holds a BA from the University of Iowa and an MA in governmental administration from the University of Pennsylvania. He has served as an administrative assistant in Eau Claire since June 1967.
Fairfield insur ance agent Lew Cooley announced his candidacy for a delegate seat from Iowa's First Congressional District to the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach. Cooley, a long time Republican organizer, favors an uncommitted Iowa delegation and has held multiple local leadership roles in Jefferson County.
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