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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1968
Page
3
Abigail Van Buren addresses reader questions on honesty with children about birth, a daughter in law conflict over parental candor, infidelity skepticism about expense accounts, a grandfather’s remarriage, and a near-miss bicycle accident urging safer bicycle reflectors for children.
Des Moines Iowa former legislators and news men are invited to testify before a select committee January 31 on streamlining legislative processes. Testimony will cover salaries pensions annual sessions and staff with names like D C Nolan Jake Mincks Scott Swisher Mel Wolf Ray Eveland Jack Scroeder Carroll Lane Alan West and Ed Gilmour.
Jay Trier and Tom Heisdorfer visited Ames to see Greg Baumert who attends Iowa State. Mr. and Mrs. Cloyce Dill joined Dills 42nd anniversary event at Washington with cake from Bob Dill of Sigourney. Numerous local residents hosted and visited relatives over the weekend including Baker in Houston and Timson in Durant.
Keota Iowa reports Mrs How ard Bohr hosted the January O A O Club meeting with five members present due to cold and illness. Roll call answered with How I Spent New Years Eve. Refreshments served. Listed social visits and family events through early January.
ELEADER Iowa UP I saying The American farmer is being forced to pay a disproportionate share to hold back inflation John C Culver D Iowa Tuesday night called for concerted action to correct the imbalance between farm prices and costs In remarks prepared for a joint meeting of the Fayette and Clayton County Livestock Feeders Association Culver noted a 10 percent farmer loss this year helped keep food prices stable while non food costs rose nearly 3 percent He covered the meat inspection bill new objectives to regulate processors who run their own feed lots bonding to protect farmers against small packing firm failures and labeling of foreign meat products He argued meat imports must balance with long range agricultural trade interests.
The 1968 Official Iowa Highway Map will be available to the public on January 18 with one million copies printed. Distribution will be through many public agencies across Iowa including the State House, courthouses, chambers of commerce, Highway Patrol, Conservation Commission, Development Commission, State Printing Board and Highway Commission field offices and garages.
At Richland Friends Church Earl Ward has not missed a Sunday in 628 Sundays up to December 17, 1967, marking 12 years of perfect attendance. A Richland native living alone on the town’s west edge, Ward serves as church treasurer and Sunday School secretary and works on his 28 acres caring for crops, sheep, cattle, and a daily milking of one cow. He is 79 in October 1968 and has a son, grandchildren, and a great granddaughter.
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