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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1976
Page
4
A Friday July 30 1976 editorial reflects on Micah 6 8 and the duty to do right, love mercy, and walk humbly. It argues the good life is social as well as spiritual, cautions that authority cannot replace true leadership, and contrasts easy comfort with steadfast judgment.
Community Center site features a towering new flag and flagpole, drawing praise from Green Meadows residents who can see the display from their homes. Opinion runs strong on amnesty for Vietnam era draft dodgers and deserters, with veteran groups urging accountability and completion of service.
The USDA blacklist lists an Indianapolis store among six month disqualifications for taking food stamps for ineligible items such as cleaning aids cigarettes and pesticides. It marks the first Indianapolis case and seventh in Indiana since last September. Dennis M Doyle Midwest regional director notes such violations weaken the hunger program.
Letter to the editor endorses Blair House Players of Washington for a weekend show July 30 to August 1 at Mt. Pleasant’s Old Threshers Theater Museum. The writer urges local attendance, praising the play for all ages and noting air conditioning, reasonable admission, and lemonade and popcorn inside.
A compact collection of jokes and quips from The Odd Column includes lines about loving trouble, misfired heaven jokes, a Napoleon quote on thieves, a tale of a man in heaven craving work, a Geo Faulkner quip on mediocrity, and a minister's rain prayer reply.
A batch of Dear Abby letters covers friendship about a missing front tooth, avoiding contact by wearing a wedding ring, gifting etiquette for weddings, and a wife’s disclosure of fantasies. The column suggests handling the tooth concern as a group fundraiser, jokes about romance, and advice on not sharing fantasies with a spouse.
A collection of playful trivia and quirky facts. It covers origins of the rocking chair linked to a Massachusetts Bay pilgrim, notes on Ben Franklin and chair refinement, ideas about Chinese dictionaries, zebra color logic, presidential heights, survey quirks, electricity at the White House, tartan quantities for kilts, historical population ratios, Bermuda onions, Attila the Hun’s height and marriage, and a mailing address for L M Boyd in Weatherford Texas.
In a high level bridge deal East leads spades, South pursues an endplay into five hearts. West senses the trap, shifts to a cunning ten over the low club, and South misreads Easts king. Wests defense preserves the contract as South goes down one on a clever misdirection.
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