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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1963
Page
2
Italian designers unveiled spring summer lines in Florence with soft silhouettes and short knee hems. Citrus and turquoise dominated, capes and draped panels created breezy looks while long skirts returned for evening wear as capri pants vanished from beaches.
Exchange student from Naples Italy Pio Barone Lumaga will address Stewart School PTA Thursday at 730 p.m. A coffee hour precedes the meeting Harvey Holden will report on legislation before the general assembly to PTA members Discussion will cover continuing watchman service at the Fourth Avenue railroad crossing.
Applied Arts members heard Miss Sylvia Wilson review The Listeners by Taylor Caldwell. Fortnightly Music members, hosted by Mrs. Richard Paul, heard Mrs. W W Nolin discuss music in mental health and planned a Music Camp Scholarship and supportive therapy efforts.
Harry E. Huber Ford Samuel Turkington Cadillac Oren W. Jarvis GMC Rambler Fred J. Schroeder Rambler Lydia Swartzendru ber Rambler
Mrs. Annabelle Zeck Stafford of Washington is among seventeen students to be graduated with special honors at the State University of Iowa Saturday morning. She will graduate with high distinction.
Keota residents share a surprise birthday for Dennis Miller aged 23 with about 24 guests. Lt. Hugh Walker and family announce a South Bend birth. wife and infant to join in Okinawa. Local visits span Washington, Davenport, and Mesa. plus a mystery prize contest at Arizona Acres Resort and a bowling event in Muscatine.
Life magazine prints The Hipster's View of Washington a two year look at the New Frontier. The piece defines Kennedy aides and officials in hip slang with a domestic steel price row and stock plunge as the centerpiece. Eugene Horne discusses hip language and Einstein.
The column lists events for IOOF Bethel Missionary Society Navajo Club and more with dates and times and notes changes and a February 23 wedding for Glenda Kay Stoutner and Eugene Hammen, detailing schooling and employments. The page includes portraits of community life in Wellman and nearby areas.
The 1963 Mid-Winter Conference at Mt. Pleasant VFW Hall drew 96 attendees from Burlington Muscatine Keokuk Ft. Madison Washington and the host chapter. The Red Stole Investiture ceremony awarded four years of College of Regents service to Mrs. Minnie O Canes and Mrs. Howard Curl. Washington chapter elected hostess for the 1964 conference.
In Ste Adelaïde de Pabos Quebec a mother and 10 of her 12 children aged from 2 months to 13 years perished when their one story frame home burned early today. Father Fernand DuPuis 39 and sons Rene 15 Gilbert 16 survived. Gilbert woke parents and the father saved Rene before reentering to try to save the children. The roof collapsed trapping the mother and children. No cause given.
Yesterday list includes Rhonda Epperly Keota surgical Chriss B Miller Keota surgical William G Thom as Washington medical Earl White Ainsworth medical Ron ald D Murry Columbus Junction medical Dismissed Today names Mrs Carlton Wilson Mrs Jerry Goodwin and daughter Mrs Cletus Kafka and son and Mrs Omar Black all of Washington
Michael L. Hughes 18, son of Waukegan Police Magistrate John L. Hughes, earned a nomination from Senator Paul H. Douglas to the United States Military Academy at West Point for the class beginning July 1. He is a senior at Waukegan High School and competes with Illinois peers for admission.
Boston report states poet Ronert Frost died at 88 at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital after a seven week battle with complications from surgery to remove a urinary tract blockage. He was a friend of President Kennedy and a symbol of international goodwill after addressing Kennedy's inauguration.
The Washington Evening Journal masthead lists editor and business manager David Elder with William Shannon as vice president advertising director, Charles Morris as news editor, Bruce Cowden as contributing editor, and Howard Hazen as production superintendent. Published afternoons except Sundays plus Christmas and July 4. Entered at the Washington Iowa post office under the Act of March 3, 1870.
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