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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1950
Page
5
Aboard the Missouri the writer details a training drill featuring a dummy named Oscar used in man overboard responses. The ship circles, helicopters locate, lifeboats deploy, and crew members are checked, with notes on navigation, ship terms, and daily routines as they head east from Norfolk toward New York and Panama.
Dr. Priscilla Day Boekelheide, a Riverside physician, will address polio prevention and early diagnosis on Iowa State Medical Society Speakers Bureau radio programs. The talk airs on WSUI Iowa City at 11 30 a m June 27 and on WOI Ames at 11 15 a m June 29. Sunday visitors at the C V Dautremont home included Adrian Dautremont and family from Cedar Rapids and Dorothy Fitzsimmons who is recovering from a winter stroke. Dean Yordi, visiting grandparents in Riverside, has chicken pox. Donald Kron and daughter Donna Jay of Oakland California visit Albert Kron's home. Chester Bone and Verla of Greene spent the weekend with Melvin Bone.
Life insurance firms have placed over one billion dollars at the disposal of state, county and municipal governments. The funds are designated for financing roads, water systems, public buildings, bridges, schools and various public services.
Washington residents urge curb construction along street edges as council sets summer work. Petitions total 15 blocks with 112 property owners backing for 50 percent support to trigger assessment. East Jefferson leads interest with four blocks, while South Fourth and other scattered blocks seek curbing.
Citizens in the 200 block of East Jefferson push for curb installation from South Town Avenue to Burlington tracks. petitions from 300, 700, and 900 blocks note cost limits and street widening aims near a high school and county hospital. The board of education backs curb projects for improved street use and parking.
Local residents and property owners on South Fourth Avenue and North Avenue C along with blocks on East Van Buren East Seventh South Avenue D East Harrison Monroe South Ninth Avenue and other streets sign petitions for curb construction and street surfacing. City clerk John Lowash reports ample petition copies as united groups urge swift council action to plan curb limits.
Mrs. Robert Day and Mrs. A W Clow tied for low with 51 at a Washington women’s golf day at the Iowa City Country Club on Thursday.
The article notes copper’s ancient origins in Cyprus and its named origin as Cyprian Metal. It discusses coffee trade, stating annual export output around 29 million bags and import consumption over 30 million bags, with prewar production about 35 million bags and consumption 28 million. It also mentions wartime shipping limits reducing Brazil’s new plantings.
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