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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1950
Page
5
A collection of opinions on religion, aging, communist predictability, and public policy. It critiques Lustron housing failures, government housing costs, and the impact on private builders, honors Orville Elder’s contributions, and urges drivers to heed highway safety warnings citing a reckless Linn County driver as a warning to readers.
Riverside fire crews were summoned to the Rose Kahoutek farm home three miles southwest of town around 11 30 Tuesday morning as winds whipped a chimney fire. Smoke caused minor damage while residents reported several family updates and a distant relative’s death in Washington.
The report notes that steel has spent nearly two million dollars on expansion and modernization since World War II, with the petroleum industry matching or exceeding that level of spending.
Stringtown held a schoolhouse meeting with a potluck supper and a program featuring the Wayland high school boys quartet. The event was organized by Mr. and Mrs Allen Hertig Mr and Mrs Rex Swan and Mabel and Albert Graber. Local residents and visitors from Washington Mediapolis and Sugar Creek church activities are noted along with minor injuries to Arnold Rinner from a hog incident and his gradual recovery.
Merrimac residents hosted and visited family members on Sunday as Delmar Rhodebeck of Keota Roy Duttweiler and daughter Donna Glenn Schafer Cloyd Watson and Roy Eshelman and Dale Baldosier with Margaret Baldosier attended in a community gathering at the Schafers home on Sunday and midweek visits noted.
Lippert Productions shot The Dalton Gang at Fox Theatre using the rugged Santa Susana terrain. Don Ren Barry Robert Lowery and James Millican star in this frontier thriller about a ruthless western gang. Crew hauled heavy gear up the slopes due to inaccessible filming routes. The Pacific horned lizard bluffs fear triggers ocular blood squirting behavior.
Mr and Mrs Leonard Smith visited Thursday evening with Mr and Mrs John Baldosier. Mrs Max Hill and her sons spent Saturday at the Charley Graff home near Four Corners.
Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the members of the Washington Federal Savings & Loan Association of Washington Iowa will be held at its office in Washington Iowa on January 18 1950 at 2 00 p m To be taken up at this meeting will be the election of three directors for a three year term also a proposal to amend the association s charter in its en
A filing dated January 5, 1959 in Washington Iowa states Washington Federal Savings & Loan Association adopts bylaws under Home Loan Bank Board guidelines and reads in the form of Charter N with Ralph V. Bauer as Secretary Treasurer.
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