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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1971
Page
4
The column notes a Des Moines survey ranking influential groups and speculates Washington churches and YMCA would rate high locally. It laments crowd misbehavior at basketball games and contrasts with deadly soccer riots in Glasgow, Brasil, and Italy, warning temper and safety matter.
A Washington Iowa reader urges action against misusers who harass elders by phone. The letter notes calls spiking fear when false death notices and insults are whispered, stressing the phone as essential for emergencies and family contact and demanding safeguards to protect seniors.
About 250 freshmen and sophomores at the University of Iowa participated in a world politics course experiment. The class split into two seven-country worlds, Arcadia versus Humber, exploring international agreement making, false intelligence, and the impact of conflict and negotiations on trade and aid.
In Finland a man who doubted his wife’s driving proved right when police arrested him for drunken driving after he took the wheel late at night. The wife, driving home sober, left the bar with him, then continued home as he was stopped and charged. She later crashed into a ditch.
A jumble of quips and oddities spans divorce myths, a seven year jalopy rule, typing hand counts, orange flavored pills, a Los Angeles skunk hunter, Fraser inquiries, Spero Galanououlo’s Berlin radio fame, a journalism Q and A on war history, snail spurt speed, hair counts by hair color, trends in redhead marriages, Civil War air corps balloons, and a language quirk noting a single vowel.
New York and California lead a broad business driven anti litter drive costing millions. Canada Dry workers rallied 800 volunteers in Central Park, collecting five tons of litter in four hours. National campaigns by Keep America Beautiful and the Soft Drink Association push signs, kits, and ads to curb littering nationwide.
Fragmentary OCR text lists names such as Robert Shaffer and Fouts, with references to a local ad firm, production and manufacturing terms, and figures like $14 and 4100 Gmonths. Mentions Wasaga Se Der week and Washington Nendgua, plus generic terms and foreign phrases.
In the Venezuela vs United States world championship match, the East-West cards reached six notrump at one table with Benaim and Vernon. Venezuela won 1,440 points, while the U.S. defense improved after Rossignol and Berah barged in with seven spades, costing 1,700 points and leaving Venezuela down 260 on the deal.
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