Pigeon Blane Beno Williams and a lifetime of service
A nostalgic portrait details Hal Beno Williams and a life of quirky tales. From pigeon escapades in a Kansas town attic to a 30 year reserve career and Marine Corps service, the piece traces a colorful figure known for humor, wrestling ties, and long public broadcasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Blane
O. J. Rice
Haldene Williams
Hal
Beno) Williams
Marine Corps
M.P
Beno
Iowa
Earl Wampler
Earl
Scranton
Wildcat
Norfolk
Virginia
Reno
Killer
Villian
Passing Years in Washington Local Notes
Local item notes Miss Mary Livingston starting work in the Journal news department and plans a Washington summer. Other items cover travel to Independence Oregon Yellowstone Park, Mortuary Science graduate Jerry Zager home from Chicago, Wayne Hyde’s furlough in Washington, the Grossheim family’s visit from Fort Ord en route to Fort Benning, and several community events.
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Mary Livingston
Robert Speed
Billy
Jim
Independence
Ore
Washington
Paul Grossheim
Ann
Linda
Ft. Ord
Calif
William J. Grossheim
Glenn Wilson
Ft. Benning
Danny
Moline
Bob Thompson
Ames
Ralph Thompson
E D. Morrison Jr
Y’s Men’s Club
Billy Boshart
Iowa City
Wayland
O. C. Boshart
Virginia Stutsman
A. E. Atchison
Mary Elizabeth
Jean
Los Angeles
Westwood
Scott Jarrards
Leonardy
Robert
Patricia
Chicago
Vera Craig
Riverside
Josephine Bailey
Wellesley
Mass
Dana Hall Preparatory School
Ellen Morrison
Marshall Field
E. B. Hammer
Eunice
Gertrude
Winona
Ind
Ohio
Canada
Farm Bureau head reviews Iowa legislature tax reform
J Merrill Anderson reports on the 1967 Iowa Legislature as it funds education by widening taxes beyond property taxes. The session increases sales income beer and tobacco taxes by about 102 million annually to lift state aid to public schools and aid local property tax relief. It enacts hog cholera indemnity, feeder pig licensing, home property tax relief, slow moving vehicle emblems, and sub districting measures while blocking farm protection against processing firm failures and a constitutional convention.
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Iowa
Expert play in contract bridge Seeks the extra thought edge
In Becker's discussion of a masters level hand South faces a test of how to play hearts and clubs after a diamond lead. The educated choice of finesses and discards yields the slam after a careful sequence that counters West's possible holdings.
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East
King
South
West
Declarer
Reading tastes and new books for June releases
The column surveys current taste in fiction with editorials on classifying readers by quality and notes on readers craving wholesome love stories. It highlights new titles across genres including Labyrinth, Treblinka, Flight From the Firing Wall, One Lady Two Cats, Smoke on the Mountain, and The Vendor of Sweets, plus non fiction works and a June Story Hour reaching 4400 circulations.
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John Walcott
Thomas Duncan
Richard Lockridge
Ellen Crain
Granny Weller
Smokey Mountains
R. K. Narayan
India
Division Street
Studs Terkel
Chicago
Julietta K. Arthur
Queen and Habenstein
Clarence
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Mr. Blane
Pigeon Blane
Iowa National Guard
113Th Cavalry
Reserve
Shorty Crossett
Washington Railway
Journal
Joe Palooka
Shorty
Rono
Washington Junior College
Albia
Williams
Brickman
Evening Journal
Washington, Iowa
Harry Sowden
al Ledger
Ted Johnson
Paul Horak
C. S. Pratt
Sowden
Pratts
John Lemmon
Jon Bruce
Lake Geneva
Wis
Lemmon
Bruce
Timber Trail Camp
Rotary
M. J. Cruise
Fred E. Miller
Ralph Bauer
Walter Friedman
Hugo Lensch
Phil Weldin
George Kerr
C. E. Tucker
Margo
Lincoln
Bob Patterson
Keith Droz
Dan Brindley
D. N. Jessen
Wellman
Harry Ward
Dorothy
Charlotte
Howard McCleery
Grimes - McCleery
Charles Johnson
Winfield
M. J. Redlinger
Nellie Ryan
St. Mary's
Miss Ryan
St. Mary’s
Farm Bureau
UPI
J. Merrill Anderson
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Iowa Farm Bureau
Senate
Congress
U.S
B. Jay Becker
West Pass
Aqaa
North Fast Pass
Res Syndicate, Inc
Pynhot
Ivanhe
Godel
Gatnel
the McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Shies Iy
Washington Public Library
George Crabbe
Joe
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