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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1964
Page
4
An editorial snippet from The Washington spun Evening Journal on Friday July 17 1964 offers a thought for the day based on I Timothy 5 8 about denying the faith and the idea that faithfulness in small tasks at hand leads to possible greater adventures.
Quotes from W H Marriott dated June 17 critique primary and general elections. Notes on politicians, taxes, campaigns, public relations, state rights, divorces, and fiscal debt. Highlights view that a dairyman’s helpers matter, roads need less and price ads for power. Mentions Indiana governors, Kentucky politics, and Scranton’s convention remark.
A reader revisits an 1887 county history and profiles J L L Terry a Washington justice of the peace and early resident. The sketch recounts his boyhood near Natchez Mississippi a banking and surveying career in Illinois and Iowa and later in Washington. It notes his Civil War era service via his son’s enlistment his temperance work and church and Masonic ties.
Shirley Bush of Wellman toured Scotland with The State University of Iowa Scottish Highlanders. She recalled sipping high tea in a Chinese restaurant in Inverness, praised welcome in Elgin, and shared tours of London Oxford and Edinburgh landmarks. She met Queen Elizabeth and admired Westminster Abbey in London. Bush is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bush.
A confidential Iowa State University survey outlines the canning industry’s scale. It reports $22.499 million in Iowa owned food pack fob cannery value, with $2.55 million paid to growers, and notes sweet corn dominates acreage and yields. The report highlights contract farming and a decline in Iowa sweet corn area from 1952 to 1960 while neighboring states increase.
Eight youths from Prairie Flower Baptist Church will travel Monday to Regular Baptist Camp Grounds at Clear Lake for a week long camp. Attendees include Myrna Cave Connie Goodlander Carolyn Goodlander Shirley Luers Debbie Musgrove Diana Musgrove Eldon Luers and Bill Strum. Mrs Charles Hawkins will accompany the group and they return next Saturday.
Six Winchester High School girls who led a Du Pont fashion program contest share do’s and don’ts for teens. They urge courteous behavior, no public gum chewing, avoid sneakers with long formals, choose heels for dances, and stress wardrobe basics, neat hair, and modest makeup.
In a test Your Who's Who style query the five surnames point to a famed American novelist later British subject who wrote Portrait of a Lady and Washington Square. The clued initials spell his last name.
In New York May, Britain edged Italy 4-3 in the 15th qualifying round of the World Bridge Olympiad. A daring defense by Terence Reese and Boris Schapiro defeated four hearts. misguessed hearts and a fatal safety finesse doomed the Italian Blue Team on one hand, while the British held a different line to reach four hearts and earn 470 points on the hand.
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