This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 11 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1965
Page
3
A reader outlines a ham weight discrepancy in a company eight-pound gift tradition and Abby advises on honesty versus compliance. Other letters discuss imagined experiences, a dated relationship dilemma, and annoyances with guests damaging furnishings. Abby offers cautious guidance and self care.
Highland district educators inspect the North English site as the new junior and senior high school nears 46 percent completion and plan a February Washington closure. The board adopts a revised 1965 66 curriculum adding Early Science Consumer Math II Metal Work Auto Mechanics Art II and Art IV changes include making Speech a required ninth grade subject and discuss baton lessons in summer.
In Selma Alabama Judge Edgar Russell dismissed disturbing the peace charges against Robert A Lloyd a 20 year old member of the American Nazi party who appeared in blackface at a restaurant to harass Negroes during an integration drive The judge criticized Lloyd calling him a lit fuse and postponed related rockwell and other Nazi cases as a church rally gathered to support voter registration amid the civil rights push
Lt Col and Mrs William Perdock membership chair of the Reserve Officers Association attended a council meeting in Waterloo Sunday Major General Burkhalter of the 103rd Division spoke on the Reserve Reorganization Plan.
A former University of Iowa basketball star Nolan Gentry and Don Bennett were named as assistants to Attorney General Lawrence Scalise. Gentry will handle social welfare and public instruction. Bennett will head the criminal division. Both are Iowa natives and 1960s law graduates. Bennett and Gentry will earn about $10,000 annually.
The Word Weavers will sponsor a poetry contest for Washington high school students in grades 9 through 12. Prizes of 3, 2, and 1 dollars await the top three poems with honorable mentions for the next three. Judging will be by a local poet.
Houston reports a $35,000 study by the Texas Institute for Rehabilitation and Research on using an upright standing bed to replace or supplement wheelchairs for certain muscular dystrophy patients. funded by the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the device aims to keep patients more active and slow disease progression.
Oklahoma City reports from Tinker AFB and Wichita show a claimed parachute entangled in a KC-135 engine after a Wichita Kansas crash that killed 29. Officials disputed the claim. no evidence linked the drogue chute to the crash. Johnson grass noted in one engine.
Iowa State University researchers report rural residents show a higher suicide rate than city dwellers. The study notes 16 per 100,000 rural versus 11.6 in urban areas, with men 65 and older most affected and violence favored by men, poison by women.
The Rainbow Girls met at the Masonic Temple with Diane Perdock, worthy advisor, conducting the meeting. Board members and mother advisor absent from installation were installed. Candy for Valentine sales planned and a Rainbow charm will be awarded to top seller. Assembly invited to Sigourney installation Saturday Jan 23 at 7:30 p.m.
The Suez Canal Authority announced a record income of 179.149 million dollars for 1964, up from 163.976 million in 1963 and 74.136 million in 1955, the year before canal nationalization in Egypt.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.