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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1952
Page
2
The club will host families and guests at 6 30 on Thursday evening at the club house. Mrs Don Paul chairs the event and Mrs R L Gibson serves as telephone chairwoman.
The annual Dill reunion gathered 46 members and a guest at Legion Hall on Sunday. After dinner a business meeting elected Lyl Palmer as president and Delmer Romine as vice president, with Marian Miller secretary, O J Walter treasurer and Mae Herr historian.
Dip bread in a mixture of egg and milk. Brown carefully in a little margarine.
Mrs. George Dare of Braden in Crawfordsville hosted the annual ice cream social at her home. Guests included Mrs. Warren Dare and Kathy of Washington, Mrs. Bernice Stafford and Janice with Gary and Lauren of Granite Falls Oregon. Mrs. Neil Trotman and Mrs Louis Lersen organized. A picnic was planned for Tuesday, August 5 in Sunset Park with a pot luck dinner invitation to all former members.
Pvt Robert Havel on a 20 day furlough was guest of honor at a Sunset Park picnic with family friends including Maynard Welch Geneseo and others from Cedar Rapids Riverside Ainsworth Lancaster Pa and more The event featured pictures from Korea and Germany and a later family lawn supper at the Vondrasek grandparents home with Charles Vondrasek and others present
The Alaskan fur seal spends much of its life in water and pups must learn to swim. Mothers do not teach the young to swim, contrary to common belief.
Mrs. Gerald Duncan announces the engagement of her daughter Shirley May Duncan to Thomas AB Mills son of Mrs. Alice Mills of Keota. The couple plans a late August wedding.
Mrs Minnie Allen celebrated her sister birthday Sunday at her daughter Mrs L M Bieber’s home with all children present. Attendees included Fred Messexer and Joan of Muscatine Warren Allen Wayne Allen and family Morning Sun Roger Kieher Boyd Wheeler Donald Richard Queen City Mo Paul Wheeler Letha Kleese and Mary Jo Marion Harry Haney and family Waterloo Reed Moore home. In the afternoon the Kleese Turtipseed wedding was attended.
The reunion of the John Meyer families will be held on Sunday August 5 at the Grace Hill community building. A basket dinner will be held at noon.
In Arthur Nebraska rescuers recovered seven victims from a Sunday night B 25 crash from Andrews Air Force Base. The lone survivor was Col J G Kirkson the pilot who parachuted to safety near Ogallala Nebraska. The wreckage spread over rough sandhill country hindering the search and the crash site lay on a Myer Land and Cattle Co ranch.
Panela Vandebure, four, daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Vandeburs of West Des Moines, died in a hospital Saturday night from polio. She is the third polio fatality in Polk County this year.
The article stresses that cows require ample water to sustain high milk production in both winter and summer, highlighting the importance of consistent supply and access to clean water for dairy herds.
Steelmakers note boron alloy is exceptionally hard but brittle and prone to corrosion, limiting its use despite its strong potential, as alternative alloying materials remain more readily available.
Pittsburgh area workers and steelworkers nationwide returned to mills as production resumed. Maintenance crews operated at U.S. Steel plants while some Pittsburgh district unions protested wage increases, voting to return under protest after daylong meetings.
A father visits his son at a boarding school and jokes about his late arrival. The exchange centers on the father being asked for money shortly after arriving from the train. The son counters that the train was twenty minutes late, framing the humor.
Amid shortages of chrome and nickel the industry reports ample boron supply and boron proves a satisfactory substitute for several applications. Industry sources note boron can fill gaps in alloying and coating roles while traditional metals remain scarce.
Prepare potatoes for French fries as usual then dip in corn meal before frying. Add salt to taste.
Senator Brien McMahon of Connecticut and chairman of the Atomic Energy Committee died after weeks of spinal ailment. He was 48 and died at Georgetown Hospital at 11: a.m. EDT. Doctor Philip A. Caufield said the cause was lung cancer that spread to his back and pelvis.
A very important meeting of the Washington Recreation council will be held Tuesday evening at Spa in the YMCA. AM members are urged to be on hand. To make French fried onions, slice a quarter inch thick separate into rings roll in flour salted and peppered and fry in hot fat at 375 degrees. They are excellent with steak or hamburger.
Six continental army headquarters contract with qualified civilian training firms for blind flying instruction. The piece notes cattle branding as a costly practice in line with movie cowboys and that branded leather hides fetch about forty percent less value than unbranded hides.
Three people were killed on an Iowa highway Sunday and two others died later from injuries. Harold Anderson, 20, Clarion. Leland Barnes, 19, Lone Tree. their car pushed into a ditch west of Hampton. Cpl Leo Winter, 22, Waucoma, died when the car left the road near Decorah. The 10 week old son of Mr and Mrs Gene Hoppenworth of Marshalltown died in Grinnell hospital from a crash east of Grinnell. Herbert Vestal, 46, Rock Island, died in Davenport hospital from a car collision.
Twila Mae Galloway of Washington was admitted to the hospital for medical care.
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