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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1952
Page
3
Names of Republican and Democratic committeemen chosen last Monday’s primary for county party machinery are listed, with about 200 men and women named. The county conventions meet Friday June 27 at 10 AM to nominate candidates who failed to reach 35 percent and to select delegates to the state conventions.
A long list of Republican committeemen and delegates is recorded by township and ward across Brighton Cedar Clay Crawford Deutsch Creek Kalona Richmond Franklin Center Westchester Highland Iowa Jackson J Oak precincts Marion Oregon Seventy Six Washington First Second Third Wards. Names include Hunter Irwin Mumper Lloyd Hudson Hunt er Wentworth Kubler Ful Smith Denison Benson Norman Miller Jones Miller Rich Cherryholmes Anderson Richmon Wisely listed positions and delegates across multiple localities.
Local ballot excerpt lists Democratic committeemen and delegates for multiple townships including Dutch Creek Kalona and Jackson with names such as Dwight Ruson Elizabeth Lamansky Wayne Knupp H A Dusenbery John Rome Clintie Ethel Pepper Emerson Witting Georgia Williams Melvin Booth Howard Fisher Zelda Shebeck J Shebeck Ruth Kai and others. Delegates named include John Re Me Clintie Max T Me Clin tie Ethel Pepper Yaro Sojka J Hora Roy Duffa Lloyd Foster Ruth Bull Charles Allen Verlin Nickell and more, with several townships showing no delegates.
County extension director Tom Robb reports multiple inquiries on controlling fire blight in apple and pear trees. The disease shows as blackened twigs and leaves with bark splits, especially in warm humid weather. He advises removing and burning infected shoots four to five inches beyond disease, disinfecting tools after each cut, and spraying with a fumigant if infested. Next season apply weak Bordeaux or Zineb spray during bloom.
Happy birthday to Leonna Ruth Lunning daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Lunning age given. Ronnie Jo Frederick age six. Couples note Vee and Mrs Joe Hill wed on the day in June 1917. Multiple birthday salutations follow for Charles Spinler Jean Koening SaraK and Young and others. Committee and ward listings conclude the public notice.
Bethel Mennonite church eight miles south of Washington hosts the Bethel Bible School closing program on June 6. Enrollment reached 121 with an average attendance near 168. Diplomas were awarded to Donna Bain, Lilah Graber, Larry Leichty, Patricia Schanta, and Ronald Wyse for completing the Herald Press summer school courses.
County extension Director Thomas A. Robb advises applying a second cover spray 10 to 14 days after the first. Target crops include apples, plums, pears, peaches, apricots, and cherries with a mix of DDT and wettable sulfur in water. another general purpose fruit tree spray may work.
Robb recommends one percent rotenone dust for four spotted fungus beetles on strawberries raspberries gooseberries and currents and a nicotine sulfate soap spray for aphids. During absence Mr and Mrs Dave Elder travel to St Paul for a convention with others planning to attend later this week.
Mr and Mrs Verle Galla gher and Mr and Mrs Harold Weir depart this morning for Banff Canada to attend the International Convention.
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