Editorials From the Washington Journal January 28 1969
Editorial notes urge citizens to report accidents on Highway 1 between Washington and Kalona for safety study by the Iowa Department of Public Safety. Readers are asked to share first hand incidents, dates, and names to aid a formal review. Also discussed is the possible retirement of J Edgar Hoover and a political angle on his successor.
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Percy Holder
The
Kiwanis Club
State Highway Commission
Highway 1
Washington
Kalona
Richard W. Schuck
Iowa Department of Public Safety
Schuck
Hoover Defends FBI as Federal Bureau Not Police
In a long tenure J Edgar Hoover has resisted political pressure and kept the FBI as a federal investigative agency rather than a nationwide police force. He argues a separate force prevents political entanglements and oversized scope, despite calls for broader federal policing.
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J. Edgar
FBI
Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Congress
NKVD
Room for Improvement in Anthropometry for Bath Tubs
A Norfolk Daily News item from January 28 1969 notes scientists study human measurements to redesign bathtubs and timekeeping to fit people. It questions bathroom plumbing stubbornness and mentions a protest sit-in as a humorous response to slow adoption. Also cited is a Soviet chemist claiming a mood drug, but it fails with a caveat that effects wear off and you remain in Russia.
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Russia
Norfolk
Neb
Daily News
Iowa 63rd General Assembly off to fast start
Des Moines IDPA Republican leaders say the 63rd General Assembly is moving quickly with pre convened committees, early hearings, and many bills ready for introduction. Bi partisan reapportionment plans, identical House and Senate committee names, and budgeting hearings mark the opening phase as leaders target adjournment by May 1 with a possible finish around April 23.
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63Rd General Assembly
DES Moines
IDPA
House
Senate
GOP
William Harbor
Roger Jepsen
Great Plains
Iowa
Robert D. Ray
David Stanley
Muscatine
Speaker Harbor
Who Will Succeed Hoover as FBI Director
Nixon faces the retirement question for J Edgar Hoover as the 74 year old director weighs the future of the FBI. Hoover built the agency since 1924 and may recommended a successor from within the FBI, while Senate confirmation could bring political scrutiny.
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Mills
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Richard Nixon
Hoover
White House
FBI
Senate
Nixon
Supreme Court
What Can a Girl Do If She's Stood Up
Compiled quirks and Qs on dating wit and wisdom from readers. Notes include Ed Howe quips, Kennedy popularity, a Seattle mystery man, eye openers, and a Fairbanks anecdote. Also touches on eye color genetics, a math riddle about Bruno and his lobster, and brief humor exchanges from customer service and literary vanity debates.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Stinker
Washington Evening Journal Masthead and info
The Washington Evening Journal lists staff including David Elder editor and business manager William Shannon vice president advertising director Charles Morris news editor Bob Shatter local advertising and Howard Hazen production superintendent. It notes publication afternoons except Sunday Christmas and July 4th and that it is entered as second class matter under the 1879 act.
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Washington Evening Journal
Washington
Iowa
David Elder
William Shannon
Charles Morris
Bob Shatter
Howard Hazen
Peat Office
United Press
Inland Daily Press Ass'n
Iowa Daily Press Ass'n
Iowa Press
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Washington county trucking earnings and registrations rise
Washington county recorded trucking earnings of 5.10 million dollars in 1967 with 940 workers and trucks valued at 3.2 million. Nationwide, 1967 employed 162,800 Iowans in trucking earning payrolls of 884 million while trucks paid nearly 58 million in state highway costs and almost 90 million in taxes.
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Des Moines
Washington County
Iowa Motor Truck Association
Iowa
L. E. Crowley
Iowa Department of Public Safety
Iowa Truck Fact
Iowa Trucking
Ers
Cancer Leaders to Meet Feb 5 in Mt. Pleasant
Representatives from 13 southeast Iowa county chapters of the American Cancer Society will gather in Mt. Pleasant on Wednesday February 5 for a one day area crusade planning meeting. Mrs. Wilbur Allen chairwoman of Henry County announces a 9:30 a.m. registration at the United Methodist Church. Arthur F. Stocks executive vice president of the Iowa Division will moderate. The meeting aims to review plans for an April education and fund raising drive involving more than 45 000 Iowa volunteers. Chapters include Davis Des Moines Henry Jefferson Keokuk North Lee South Lee Louisa Mahaska Poweshiek Van Buren Wapello and Washington.
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Iowa
American Cancer Society
Mt. Pleasant
Wilbur Allen
Henry County
United Methodist
Arthur F. Stocks
Mason City
Davis
Des Moines
Henry
Jefferson
Keokuk
North Lee
South Lee
Louisa
Mahaska
Poweshiek
van Buren
Wapello
Washington
Reading Opponents' Cards in a Contract Bridge Play
The article uses a West dealer contract in which South must infer West's distribution after a spade lead and a series of heart and club plays. It explains counting tenable tricks and choosing lines that avoid finesses likely to fail, emphasizing how South deduces West's king and plans to reach nine tricks by selecting safe leads and timing advances for clubs.
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Declarer
West
South
King
East
Res Syndicate, Inc
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Earth
Apollo
Outer Space
Kalona Road
Journal
State Director of Public Safety
Highway Commission
J. Edger Hoover
Washington, D.C
Bert
Vancouver Provincial
Washington, Iowa
Harrison Weber
Iowa Daily Press
Jepsen
Harbor
Legislative Research Bureau
John N. Mitchell
J: Edgar Hoover
Martin Luther King
L. M. Boyd
Howe
Seattle
Sen
Edward Kennedy
ST. Louis
Bruno
San Francisco
Buddy
Boyd
St. Sebastian
Vanity Houses
Rudyard Kipling
Robert Burns
Edward Fitzgerald
Omar Khayyam
London
RAPID
Jay Becker
West North
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