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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1962
Page
6
UPI notes moderate hog activity in Des Moines with prices steady to 40 cents higher than Saturday and receipts around 75 000. Cattle and calves show mixed tone with steers and heifers under pressure from previous lows while hogs hold gains and lambs stay steady in key ranges. Names of buyer groups or firms not specified.
TV has wrecked the movie star system by turning almost everyone on screen into a star. The Perry Como Show and Bonanza illustrate inflated billing with co stars and guest stars replacing true film stardom. Movie audiences still favor major icons like Monroe and Taylor despite TV’s grip.
A marriage license was issued at the courthouse Saturday to Charles Russell Capper of Wellman and Joyce Lynn Davis of Davenport. This is the first license of the new year here. Walter Borrall of Walcott was fined 300 dollars and costs by Judge L R Carson in district court for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He was arrested December 1.
Ice and heavy wind crippled utilities from Bay City Michigan to Wisconsin and Minnesota. Detroit airports faced sand and ice cleared runways as 50 mile per hour winds halted traffic. Southern California and New England sweltered with heat while Carolinas faced floods and Mississippi saw freezes.
Dubuque Iowa Mary Madigan age 29 was sentenced to eight years in the women's reformatory for the death of a child under her babysitting care. A district court judge accepted a psychiatric report finding her technically sane yet unaware of harm from clutching infants. Police say she admitted holding three toddlers tightly as they cried.
A dated column lists multiple closing out and farm sales across Iowa in January. Entries include dates from January 9 to February 13 with start times and precise locations near towns such as Wellman Washington Packwood Columbus City Wapello Kalona and Riverside. Individual sellers like Sattler Yoder Ernest Jones Loren McAllister Duane Wilkerson and Warren Langstaff are named along with venues like Wayland Smylie's Kalona Ollie and Rock Island stockyards.
Readable fragments show a long list of programs and times across WHBF WHBP WMT KTVO and other outlets for Monday with titles like Real McCoy Rifleman News Weather Sports and various daytime and primetime shows including Danny Thomas I Love Lucy Dobie Gillis The Texan and Hallmarks of the era.
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