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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1972
Page
1
Officials warn vandalism of rural mailboxes with firecrackers violates state and local laws and draws federal action. Local post office reports scattered mailbox damage as July Fourth celebrations continue and vandals face stiff penalties if identified.
Washington County Red Cross renewed its appeal for funds to aid thousands affected by the Black Hills floods. Nationwide relief quota is five million dollars with a local target of four hundred seventeen dollars. Contributions can be mailed or delivered to the Red Cross office on Washington's east square. In the past two years disasters have cost thirty seven million with over half spent in the Midwest. A UPI report adds a New York case: a soldier mailed a letter from Africa to a Bronx sweetheart and it arrived after the recipient was buried ten days earlier with postal officials unsure why.
A veteran Iowa Department of Social Service employee Calvin Auger, 12, was named superintendent of the Mental Health Institute at Mount Pleasant. He will take the new post July 1 with an annual salary of 21,420 dollars. Auger is currently acting superintendent at Mount Pleasant and heads the Iowa Security Medical Facility near Iowa City.
In Fort Madison Iowa wives of penitentiary guards held silent marches at three locations near the State Penitentiary to urge stronger security after a guard was stabbed to death last week. Signs carried slogan No more blood spilled Who will be next.
Tonight brings variable clouds and a chance of thundershowers with lows from the 50s in the northeast to the low 60s in the southwest. Saturday features a forenoon shower risk in the east and otherwise partly cloudy skies with highs in the upper 70s to the 80s from east to west.
The State Board of Regents approved beer sales in the University of Iowa and University of Northern Iowa unions and allowed beer in dorm rooms and Greek houses as Iowa moves to lower the drinking age to 19. Iowa State unions to follow. decisions target campus social spaces and liability.
The annual summer learn to swim program by the Washington County American Red Cross starts Monday June 19 at the Washington Municipal pool. Milo Steele Jr reports 703 students enrolled with directors Mrs. Grover Hosenkild, Mrs. Charles Crull and Kim Steele guiding.
The Senate approved abolishing the Subversive Activities Control Board by 42 to 25, ending its 22 year effort to root out Communist influences. Critics mocked the agency as underused, noting recent court rulings stripped its powers and the executive order to broaden its reach sparked controversy.
About 40 residents toured farms on Day, Rogers, Weber and Kieffer properties in Washington Keokuk and Jefferson counties. Experts including Paul Boettcher Jim Frier John Eckes and others explained outlet terracing mulch tillage and other practices and noted soil loss can drop from 50 75 tons per acre annually to under one ton with terracing and contour plowing.
Officials warn Abrams nomination as Army chief of staff could be delayed by Gen. Lavelle controversy and Vietnam war considerations. Westmoreland retires July 2, leaving Army briefly without a chief of staff as Nixon weighs Weyand Davison and Abrams for the post.
A large barn on Rolland M. Yoder’s farm near Wellman and Kalona burned Thursday night. Yoder saved hogs and livestock, but the blaze destroyed about 2,500 bales of hay and straw. Fire officials battled the flames with 10,000 gallons of water as onlookers hindered access. Debris smoldered into morning with firefighters remaining on site to water nearby granary.
The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife will deliver fish for farm ponds in Washington on June 20. The Fairport National Fish Hatchery truck arrives at the Post Office at 8 a.m. with large mouth bass for initial stocking. Eighteen ponds will receive fish this trip, at 200 per acre, with fingerling channel catfish arriving later to complete stocking.
James McCreedy of the Washington County district announces county winners in Division I and II. Sikke Temple wins Division I for owner operator farms. Harold Gilliand and Dillon Graber also compete in this division. The Division II winner is the Robert and Hazle Spera farm operated by Leroy Yegay in Jackson township with Mrs. Bessie Hagist and Dennis Berger as other entry. Jeanette Miksch of Mid-Prairie schools wins Division I in the Teacher Section for elementary teachers. Judging committee includes Cletus Reed, James Frier, and Paul Boettcher. The program is sponsored by multiple state and local conservation bodies.
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