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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1960
Page
1
Through six months the Washington area recorded 25.98 inches of moisture, about 8 inches more than the same period last year, with June's total at 9.54 inches. Clar ence Logan notes the six month normal is 16.94 and the full year normal is 33.44 inches. July current totals lag, and a monthly breakdown for January through June is provided.
Iowa’s fiscal 1959-60 tax collections topped 318.5 million, a state record as all 12 tax categories rose from the previous year. Gasoline, sales, road use and income taxes led gains, with detailed rises across inheritance, cigarette and other taxes.
In Guthrie Center the Iowa liquor commission approved plans to open a state liquor store likely in September despite protests by Rev. Robert T. Dotter and State Rep. Samuel Robinson. The delegation argued the store would boost alcohol consumption in the area.
A storm system battered the Midwest and New England with tornado sighting reports near Jefferson City Farmington and Kansas City Missouri and Fort Wayne Indiana. Flood warnings followed as windows of rainfall swelled rivers and cropland across multiple states.
The Washington Community Chest will hold its annual meeting at 8 p.m. Tuesday July 5 at the Don Minick home. Leon Hillman president will preside and five directors will be named during the business session.
Dr. Claire Davis will be guest preacher for the first Union service of the season in Central Park Sunday at 7 30 PM. In case of rain the gathering moves to First Presbyterian Church. The sermon titled Suffering With Christ will be given with Rev S Jay Curry presiding and a musical program by Mrs Robert Kiesey Mrs J M Lloyd and Mrs Irv Whitham singing Softly and Tenderly Edith Shields on organ and Logan Lee Heilman on trombone.
Cuban government takes over the Esso and Shell refineries after U S refusal to process Russian crude, raising fears of economic collapse as Cuba shifts to Soviet oil. Texaco refinery seizure follows nonpayment row with Venezuela, with further nationalizations expected.
Iowa Highway Patrol expects at least 600 drivers to be arrested for moving violations during the Fourth of July weekend. Chief David Herrick cancels leaves to deploy all troopers from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Monday. State safety officials urge maximum fines for violators as past records show multiday travel risk.
Mrs Iva Tisor 66 of Columbus Junction died this morning at Washington County Hospital after being taken there Thursday night. Funeral services are tentatively set for 2 30 p m Sunday at Stacy Funeral Home. She was born February 17 1894 near Newport Iowa to James and Mary Turner Stratton. Survivors include five sons Lawrence Clifford LeRoy Leonard Lester four daughters Velma Lee Tellma Conaway Alta Gildewell Barbara Bowen 28 grandchildren two great grandchildren one brother and four sisters.
Roy S. Shafer, 73, died suddenly Thursday afternoon at the Masonic Sanitorium in Bettendorf after arriving there to make his new home. The death was due to a heart attack. Funeral services are pending the arrival of his two brothers. He had lived in Keota with his nephew Ronald Shafer for six months. Born August 28, 1886 in Kinross, he worked in a Kinross grocery, was a member of the Farmer’s Masonic Lodge and the Christian Church. Survivors include brothers Harry Shafer of Longmont California and Eliery Shafer of Denver, Colorado, plus nieces and nephews.
At the Republican County Convention Wayne Norman presided as 28 residents were named to attend the State Republican Convention in Des Moines. Nine resolutions covered reapportionment education mail service unemployment and opposing state agriculture secretary appointments.
A teenage girl Violet Dunbar 15 died of injuries after a car collided with a semi truck seven miles north of Leon on US 69. Four others were injured and treated at Decatur County Hospital.
Funeral services for Earnest L. Rouse 79 of Colorado Springs Colorado will be held Sunday at 3 p.m. at Jones Funeral Home with Rev. Walter Smith in charge. He died Thursday night after a heart attack on a farm south of Washington. Born September 7 1880 in Illinois he was a son of Frank and Anna Brown Rouse. He married Laura Bridges of Washington and was a member of the Methodist Church and the Masonic Lodge. Survivors include his wife and siblings Myrtle Dykstra and Glen Rouse both of Washington D C.
The House approved a 740 million dollar federal pay raise bill despite President Eisenhower's veto by a 344 to 69 vote, sending it to the Senate. The measure would boost wages for 1.57 million postal and white collar workers, with many raises averaging 6 to 66 percent, and would make a temporary 10 percent postal increase permanent.
A 66 year old Columbus Junction Iowa woman Mrs William Swails was killed in a one car crash near Bishop California. She rode with sister Mrs Merrill Flake and her daughter Jackie who escaped unharmed while visiting their brother Arnold Edwards in San Pedro. Survivors include husband a son William Jr daughter Mary Lou Arthur and two brothers Paul Edwards and Arnold Edwards plus several grandchildren. Mrs Swails was born Aleda Edwards in the Gladwin area northwest of Columbus Junction.
A heavily armed escapee who jailed two officers and fled in a police car near Humboldt Nebraska was recaptured seven miles north and 22 miles east of Falls City by Nebraska state troopers. Orval Liegd Skinner, 48, had been sentenced in 1941 to 35 years for bank robbery at Lincoln and had been at Leavenworth and Alcatraz before his escape from the honor farm. His hometown is listed as Sioux City Iowa.
Washington County Democrats met at city hall to name delegates for the July 23 state convention in Des Moines and the July 3 judicial convention. Don Robison of Brighton was nominated for state representative. resolutions urged Democratic leadership and criticized Eisenhower administration policies especially toward farmers.
The Washington Municipal pool will not hold Red Cross swim classes on July 4 due to the Fourth of July holiday. The three groups that were set for Monday morning will meet later that month on July 12 in Washington, July 19 in Ainsworth, and July 26 in West Chester at 9 a.m.
George Henry Hlofmeyer aged 20 of Spencer was killed instantly when his car struck a bridge abutment and veered into a roadside ditch on county highway nine near Osceola. The collision occurred while passing another vehicle as night fell.
United Press International reports fair weather in Iowa through Saturday with slight regional temperature shifts. Tonight lows 52 to 60, Saturday highs 78 to 86, then partly cloudy with possible western county showers Sunday. Five day trend cooler early, warming weekend, then cooler again. rainfall 0.5 to 1.0 inches with showers and thunderstorms early week.
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