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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1947
Page
2
Tulsa Ohio reports a marriage where Jeannie Madsen becomes Mrs Lee Odom. The bride’s mother becomes both mother and mother-in-law, as she is widowed and previously married to Lee Odom’s father J T Odom. The arrangement makes the groom a stepson and step son-in-law to his new mother-in-law.
Washington reports that most government controls on construction ended, potentially unleashing a two billion dollar surge in output while the Veterans housing program nears extinction. President Truman predicts harm to home building, while industry sources expect stimulation. Congress faces weeks of action on housing, with plans for Taft Ellender Wagner and long range measures unclear.
A strange family bond story notes that the woman is the mother in law to herself and her former stepbrother is now her husband, creating an unusual marital tangle.
Local families announce moves and visits across Des Moines and surrounding towns. Ed Gallagher plans to relocate to Mill Valley California with Mrs Allen, while Edward McCutchen moves into Gallagher's apartment on East Jefferson Street. Various relatives visit Des Moines, attend family gatherings at Greenwood Park, and travel from Kansas City, Fargo, and Nashville for holidays and stays. Community notices include shop closings and weathered items, word of a Fourth sale on chambray play suits and swim wear, and reminders of business hours and post-holiday closures.
Iowa State College Agricultural Engineer E L Barger urges farmers to adjust cultivators to throw dirt into corn rows to smother weeds. When cross cultivation is not possible, remove weeds immediately or they won’t be gotten. Smothering weeds allows earlier haymaking and other urgent field work.
More than 800 Iowa 4 H club boys at the first summer short course at Iowa State College in Ames elect new officers for the coming year. Nominees include Clifford Cristensen Atlantic Fred Cobler Ottumwa Cate Hoover New Sharon Jacok Lang Brooklyn Richard Lomen Decorah Dwight Nelson Boone Bob Smith State Center Forl Yater Jake Park. Delegates will tour farms engage in sports view an atomic bomb exhibit and take part in panel discussions.
Iowa City report shows May gains across building, permits, and payrolls. Building contracts up 44 percent from April, residential permits 22 percent, overall permits 15 percent. industrial payrolls and bank debits each up 3 percent. Farm prices and life insurance fell. Compared with May 1945, farm prices rose 8.5 percent and bank debits 82 percent, with payrolls up 24 percent.
The U S Bureau of Labor Statistics reports Russian living costs surged since September as Russia moved to end rationing. It estimates food prices rose by up to 166 percent in nine months while average wages increased about 25 percent.
From 1880 to 1940 farmland in New York decreased about 25 percent while farm production rose roughly one third.
An electrically operated device rapidly transforms pasteurized cream into butter in under ten minutes, promising efficient dairy processing and potential factory applications.
At the hospital today the list includes Roberta Arthur of 03 S Fourth Avenue and Walter Penn of 400 S Marion Avenue. Also noted are Robert Anderson of 729 E Jefferson Street and Wilma Beenblossom of Route One. Appendectomy for Eugene Rees of Columbus Junction. Dismissals include Mrs Melo Janecek and son Wayne Albert of Ainsworth, Joan Horning of Route Two, and Mrs Leo Oldfield of 1403 N Second Avenue.
The article notes palladium as a precious white metal in the platinum group first discovered in 1803. It cites a dictionary definition linking palladium to a bulwark and to liberty.
A B-17 bomber with an undetermined number of crew aboard reportedly crashed and burned 35 miles east of Shreveport early today. Col Victor H Strahm of Barksdale field said crash crews were sent to the scene near Minden, La. He noted a missing craft with about 10 aboard and no confirmation yet on fatalities.
A state lion hunter located two year old Greta Mary Gale on a mountainside a quarter mile from her vanished Chester area cabin. She was brought to Westwood Hospital thirteen miles away in good condition with the child’s flaxen hair and shirt noted in the report.
In Sioux Falls South Dakota on July 1 two children died in a barracks apartment fire at the army air base. Victims were Lawrence Alyn Winfree two and his 11-week old sister Mary children of Mr and Mrs William Winfree. Mother Elsie Winfree aged 21 was severely burned and father slightly burned while attempting rescue. They were hospitalized.
An angry mob of 300 masked white men attempted to storm Carroll County jail to seize a Black man accused of murdering a White farmer. Deputies Russell Lambert Otis King Carrollton police and state patrolmen protected the jail and prevented a lynching.
Crawfordsville June 36 The graduating class of Crawfordsville High 1922 held its class reunion at the Bill Bieber home near Olds Friday evening with six of ten graduates present. Those there included Bill Bieber family Dana Barnes Everette Mitchell Chester Cherryholmes and Danny and graduates Bilitch er Pearl Orris Herine Chester Sipe Cherryholmes Dana Barnes and Everette Mitchell.
A pre nuptial shower at the Tom West home featured Mrs Gene Kempf and Mrs Glen Widmer hosting. Guests arranged gifts on a decorated table and the bride-to-be guessed each contents before opening. Pinochle games accompanied the event with refreshments served.
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