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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1949
Page
6
Smart Implement and Sorrell bowled into the second round of the city league tournament last night by posting wins over Carson's Plumbing and Montgomery Ward. Each shop won two of three games.
Major League Standings report from United Press outlines team positions and win totals across the American and National Leagues. It lists leading teams, games behind, and notable shifts in ranking after recent games.
Weekly livestock sales occur at Whittaker sale barn Friday, Midway Sales Columbus Junction Wednesday, Kalona Sales Kalona Thursday, Ollie Livestock Exchange Tuesday 1:00 pm, Keota Junction Friday 12:30 pm. June 11 public auction Pleasant Mound School house 214 miles south of Wellman on 81 starts 2:00 pm with C Ty Johnson Jr as secretary.
Professional directory note listing Morrison & Morrison Attorneys and E. D. Morrison with office at Morrison Building and 245 West Livingston plus Robert Day Attorneys at 204 West Main with phone numbers 147 or 964.
The Freshwater Cubs won both games at Greenfield, defeating Benner Food City 9 to 2 as Art Edmondson and Fred Kimmell held the losers to two hits. In the nightcap, Dallas Chamberlin and the Cubs plated 16 runs on 9 hits against the Troop nine, who managed just three runs. Box scores note Clair and L recruiters as pitchers for Benner and Lurie Cole as loser. Play resumes Thursday with WEW facing the Cubs and Freshwater Feed meeting Bremers.
Shirley S Statler of Iowa Wesleyan College biology department accepted a research fellowship at the University of Illinois starting June 14 He will focus on entomology and spend most of his time pursuing a doctorate He is son of the late George Statler of West Chester and has been active in athletics Who's Who in American Colleges and Tri Beta president and biology assistant at Iowa Wesleyan He contributed last summer to the European corn borer project under the state entomologist.
New York fills the page with a swath of baseball action as Cleveland pounds Washington 15-11. Larry Doby belts two homers, Ike Boone a double and two triples, sparking a brawl after Doby’s 420-foot homer.
Mexican league jumpers returning to the United States discover clubs will not guarantee top salaries. Pitchers Max Lanier and Fred Martin report the St Louis Cardinals will not offer more than they earn in a Canadian Provincial league, signaling renewed contract battles. State Fair swine show details available from the state fair board in Des Moines.
The 194% Iowa State Fair runs Aug 26 to Sept 2 with more than $5600 in special futurities for major swine breeds. Poland China, Durve, Chester White, Spotted Poland China, Hampshire, Berkshire, Hereford, and National records feature classes awarding hundreds per event and a total of $18,812 across all futurities.
Iowa Farmers Union officials officially endorsed the Brannan plan proposed by Secretary of Agriculture Charles I. Brannan. County councilors and union leaders approved the plan at a Des Moines meeting and sent a telegram endorsing it to the House Agriculture Committee in Washington.
Pipe Major William Adamson said the University of Iowa Scottish highlanders an all girl bagpipe band agreed to perform next summer in Scotland at the 1950 Festival of Music in Edinburgh under the Scottish tourist board sponsorship. Members believe they will be the first American bagpipe band to appear in Scotland and plan tentative appearances in England Ireland and Scotland.
Girls softball teams must pay their share of field fees to team captains by Monday so captains can hand the money to Marie Blattner, league supervisor, who will submit it to the softball association. Rosters must be limited to 15 members and completed by Monday night for the rest of the season.
Iowa State College agronomists Dr. Martin Weiss and H. D Hughes announce a Friday forage crops field day to showcase birdsfoot trefoil and ladino clover in various mixes with grasses. They discuss proper grass legume pairings, rotational pasture use, and the performance of broadleaf birdsfoot trefoil.
Jowans will include developments in forage and pasture crops and a grass ensiling demonstration as part of the program.
Two St Paul gunmen in a wild 1000 mile 72 hour flight were to be taken to Fargo North Dakota to face federal kidnapping charges. Carl Bistram 27 and Allen Hartman 25 or 28 were to be arraigned before a federal commissioner as the others were treated for injuries after a car crash. They allegedly kidnapped Ralph Senn a Mandan North Dakota policeman and transported him across the Nebraska line.
Senn was the sole remaining hostage after seven captives, among them two policemen, were taken by the gunmen and moved across a state boundary.
In 1948 Scott Paper Co. of Chester Pennsylvania received the largest postwar casualty loss payment. An explosion in 1946 damaged a dryer roll paper machine and halted operations for over two years. The payout totaled more than $3.9 million, mainly from machinery use and occupancy policies per the National Underwriter.
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