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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1963
Page
3
Dear Abby readers share conflicts on custody choices, parental divorce, and romantic misunderstandings. Letters discuss living with custodial parent versus the other, trust issues with a sister’s accusations, and a husband’s love versus jealousy, reflecting midcentury advice culture and humorous asides.
Indebted to Mrs Edwyna Payton Fenton of Centerville for four fine recipes. Fenton writes a long running cooking column with popular Towegian readers. Jellied Asparagus Tomato Salad uses lemon jello tomato sauce and tarragon vinegar served with mayonnaise and chives. Coffee Chip Fudge combines coffee sugar corn syrup milk butter vanilla and nuts for a rich finish. Summer Chicken Breasts feature seasoned salt pepper paprika onion green pepper mushrooms cheddar and bouillon baked to doneness.
Cream butter and sugar, beat in egg yolks one at a time, then stir in flour oats and salt. Press into a greased pan and bake at 350 for 25 minutes. Arrange milk chocolate bars on hot cake to melt, spread, add almonds, then cut into 40 bars.
United Press International lists TV highlights for Wednesday with The Dialogues of Allan Nevins and Henry Commager on CBS exploring the state of the Union and human condition. NBC airs a Victor Herbert tribute. The Kraft Mystery Theatre on NBC features Of Struggle and Flight with Janice Rule. The Dick Van Dyke Show on CBS follows Rob and Laura’s night out. The Eleventh Hour on NBC presents My Name is Judith I’m Lost. Armstrong Circle Theatre on CBS offers Assignment Teen Age Junkies. ABC presents Make It Ladies Dollars and Add Love to It featuring Ed Begley and Luther Adler.
Ronald Tolle has been hired by the town of Brighton to work in the water and street department. He will begin his duties on July 29 and his family will move when housing is found. Also notes several local visits and open house events for Nelle Swank Long's 89th birthday with 62 guests and a neighbor snake incident observed in town.
Local news item notes Mr and Mrs Frank Burlin and Mrs Warren Stewart returning from a two week vacation visiting Mr and Mrs Art Ebener in Dodge City Kans and guests of Paul Strube in Portales New Mexico. They also passed through Missouri before returning. Also mentions Mark Shearer birthday celebration and visits by Diana and Melinda Pacha to Brighton and by Mrs Dodder mother to Denver for a 50th anniversary in Chicago and New York trips.
Donn Gift, a Los Angeles radio announcer, has formed Los Angeles at Home to match foreign visitors with local families for dinners. The group lists at least 250 hosts and aims to foster cultural understanding, inspired by a Danish exchange program Gift experienced in 1945. The effort has support from officials and tourism groups but no capital.
Michener returns with a globe spanning adventure focusing on Ellen Jaspar’s disappearance in Afghanistan. Attache Mark Miller searches the no man’s land among nomadic tribes seeking to restore the restless heiress to her home in Dorset Pennsylvania.
In rural Bucks County Pennsylvania a Swarthmore College graduate spent years teaching English and history before becoming a textbook editor in New York. His first book Tales of the South Pacific earned the 1948 Pulitzer Prize and drew on Navy World War II Pacific service.
Local items report Nate Bovee, son of former Washington mayor Ed Bovee, hospitalized in Tucson Veterans Hospital in Room 242 Ward 8. Other brief notes mention Melva Roberts returning from vacation, Eva Reim planning to stay in Enid, Ohio, Bryce Woods visiting Tarkio College graduate Larry Woods at John Deere in Waterloo, Jack Dillon’s Korea return and stationing in Michigan, a family picnic at Indian Lake near Farmington, Marsha Simpson visiting. Kay Long and Fairfield relatives weekend visit at Otto Sheetz’s home.
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