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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1966
Page
5
Former Washington residents are invited to receive the Saturday News Review edition of the Washington Evening Journal. The call is to help ex-residents reconnect with the hometown by providing a periodic mail version of local content.
The Saturday News Review Journal notes it has 300 subscribers and believes 300 more exist nationwide. To attract new readers, a two month promotional offer is announced for January and February 1966.
A public notice promotes a trial subscription for former residents living 50 miles or more from Washington to the Saturday News Review Journal at 1.50 for six months. It provides a Washington Iowa address for the offer and mentions sending two free samples without a gift card. The aim is to entice weekly delivery and potential regular subscriptions.
A farmer recalls planning with a banker for the year ahead amid strong hog prices and prudent fertilizer use. He describes a fertilizer conference with nine Iowa State University professors, upcoming crop planning, and a rough day dealing with ice and snow impacting livestock. He notes corn and soybean bin checks, firmer local markets, and potential selling timing.
The column notes Washington High School ranked 12th in the state in the UPI poll, with a marquee win over Mt. Pleasant in the Southeast Six for lead. Coach Sproule runs pressure defense as the team averages 85 points per game, plus busy weeks for Washington wrestlers and bowling leagues at Melody Lanes. An adult education course, Understanding Sports, will discuss local games.
Poem by Edgar A. Guest from The Light of Faith contrasts poverty of purse with poverty of faith. It suggests belief provides strength when hope fades, noting winter winds and suffering yet predicting spring and summer await those who see beyond present pains.
Mabel Morton of Long Beach California outlines a 63 day Sea Safari African Cruise aboard SS Argentina. The journey spans South America, around Africa’s eastern coast, through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean and up the U S east coast with 18 shore stops. She will be joined by Amanda Zabel, her housemate of 34 years and known locally.
The Washington area features a YMCA swim team victory over Keokuk by 255 to 115 with five pool records set. Masonic officers were installed at an open ceremony led by Dwight S. Murray as worshipful master. Local residents received engagements, births, and travel notices, including Timothy Duane Hill and Amy Jo, plus family visits and travel plans across Washington and nearby towns.
Mt Pleasant Washington High School wrestlers fall 26 to 22 at the local gym Monday night. Larry Greer and Leon Lintz produced timely pins bolstering Demons victory, with Jim Doughty earning a pin after recovering from illness and Jim Sojka adding a fall.
Washingtons Demons defeated Prairie Cedar Rapids 8 to 64 on the local court Tuesday night, their second win over Prairie this season. The Wellman CES hosts a 6 30 PM potluck dinner Saturday January 15 at the Masonic Temple followed by an open installation at 8. Mrs Emma Sage of Pines Rest Home is 101 today. Florence Sherman visits her son in Hudson Colorado. The National Bank of Washington held its stockholders meeting at 10 AM Tuesday with Frank C Crone chairman and Richard L Weeks secretary.
Washington County residents without 1966 auto license plates risk being unable to obtain them as only 159 sets remain on hand. At current sales, plates will likely be sold out by tomorrow night. A severe Iowa snowstorm earlier caused hazardous travel and six to seven inches of snow in parts of the state.
Leslie E. Smithburg 16 leaves Fairfield area for Des Moines then Missoula to enter Trapper Creek Job Corps Center at Darby Montana. He is the first candidate from three-county area enrolled by Fairfield Iowa State Employment Office. The Washington County Hospital adds Dr. Clifton Anderson and Dr. Neal Llewellyn as associate staff. Purple Heart awarded to Staff Sergeant Duane Crawford of Brighton for wounds in Vietnam. Bill Wessler to perform in Phillips University musical Kiss Me Kate at Enid Oklahoma. Ainsworth trailer home destroyed by fire. Camp Fire Girls regional offices update. Several residents noted for university honors and travels. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Berdo visit East. legal success in Washington DC for their son.
Aunt Agatha reports a modest Iowa blizzard with up to seven inches of snow in spots and heavy ice on trees. No power outages, city services frozen solid, and local events include a pancake dinner, vocational school planning, a bank sale, a forestry workshop, rising car plate shortages, adult education courses, and a 5 cent pay raise at Ross Electronics.
A per-dated hospital list records admissions discharges and births. Names with locations such as Washington Pleasant Plain Packwood Columbus Junction Columbus City Wayland and Oslo appear among medical and surgical cases alongside newborns for Jack Cecil Ralph Unternahrer and others.
Mrs Glenn B Martin 73 of south of West Chester dies in Mercy Hospital Iowa City after illness since May Guy Work 63 of Washington dies at University Hospital Iowa City after 10 days serious illness Warren Thomas Farrell 49 of Dalton Ill funeral Tuesday at St Elizabeth Harper with burial at St Elizabeth Harper Rosary at Powell Funeral Home Keota Mrs Albert Striegel 80 of Harper dies in Ottumwa Hospital after stroke formerly lived in Harper entered Jefferson Square Manor Ottumwa in 1965
WELLMAN Oren Willis McDowell, 74, died Tuesday, Jan. 11, 1966 at the Masonic home in Bettendorf. KEOTA Myron Oswalt, 60, died today at 5:30 a.m. in a hospital at Mesa, Arizona. Mrs Bernard Conrad Pauly, 78, of 3015 Avenue N, Fort Madison, Ia, died Monday at 5:35 p.m. in Sacred Heart Hospital after a three months illness.
Arthur Forrest Garrett prominent Henry County farmer and stock raiser died suddenly at his home near Wayland after noon on Wednesday. He had been in ill health for three years, but the death came as a surprise to family and neighbors.
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