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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1964
Page
4
The editorial lauds television coverage of the Los Angeles U S Soviet track meet. It praises video tape replay, telephoto close ups, and the home viewer experience. It notes the United States victory in combined men and women scores and celebrates televisual triumph as a bridge between science and art.
Fourteen newly trained astronauts endured a three day jungle survival exercise in Quebrada Maquinque near Panama City. Under Morgan Smith’s Tropical Survival School guidance they built a space village from palm fronds and bamboo while hunting for food and filtering water with purification pills.
A church bulletin lists twelve parental missteps that foster delinquency. It warns against overindulgence, lax spiritual training, hollow praise, enabling behavior, careless exposure to ideas, and frequent quarrels, concluding with blaming authorities when trouble arises.
A Richardson Texas stop on a Washington Iowa to Richardson vacation includes Fair Park Dallas Wax Works Museum Natural History building with large colored diamonds, Stagecoach Inn Salado lunch, hush puppies, fruit salad, and a Scot heritage primer. Mrs Marina Oswald and family reside in Richardson.
Brief items from the Evening Journal of Washington Iowa dated Monday July 27 1964. Notable notes and local tidbits reflect daily community life from that period.
Des Moines hosts the first Iowa showing of 76 paintings in the Faces of Freedom exhibit at the 4-H Exhibits and Education Building from August 21 to 30. The American Heritage Foundation and John Hancock sponsor this tour restart, spotlighting American artists who honor historical figures and events shaping the nation over two centuries.
Mrs Jim Bean spent several days at the Donald Bean home in Marion. Sunday visitors included Mr and Mrs Milton Edmonds of Oxford, Carolyn Zachs, and Bonnie Baker. The Wilbur Krotz family enjoyed a picnic in Iowa City Park and a trip to the Coralville dam. Ben Harrison returned home from Mercy Hospital after three weeks. Nine Chat and Patch members attended a Sunset Park breakfast and plan the August 26 meeting with Elleoise Papatsakic.
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