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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1948
Page
1
Washington June 18 Up Rep Dewey Short said conferees agreed to start inductions 90 days after the law. The House passed a delayed action peacetime draft for one year inductions to begin next year by a 283 120 vote.
Washington county residents are urged to host one or more "fresh air" children from Chicago for a two month summer. Mrs. L. E. Dunlap will arrange placements and has received inquiry from Rev. R. L. Kortkamp of Howell Neighborhood House. The program has operated for years with Chicago children staying in Iowa homes to enjoy a summer away from crowded streets.
Will Manners 77 died Wednesday night at Methodist hospital Des Moines. Funeral service set for 1 30 PM Saturday at Dunns Funeral Home Des Moines with burial at Glendale cemetery. He was editor of Crawfordsville imprint and later edited Hubbard Iowa newspaper before joining Des Moines Register. He is survived by wife and two daughters.
The House passed a housing bill with controversial public housing and slum clearance provisions removed. The roll call was 517 to 90, more than the two thirds required under suspension of the rules. The bill, funding aids to builders, moves to the Senate where its fate is unclear.
Mrs Daniap has requested that children who may accompany her travel to Washington. They are expected to arrive within a few days and finish their current school term on June 24.
Mrs. James Chalupa 62 lifelong Richmond resident died at home Thursday at 4 14 pm after a year of illness following a major operation. Funeral Saturday 2 pm in Richmond Methodist church with Rev. McKenzie officiating. Burial in Richmond cemetery. Jennie Prochaska born near Richmond November 14 1885, daughter of Frank and Elizabeth Vodicka Prochaska, married January 1 1995 to James Chalupa. Survived by husband five children Glenn and Mrs Ernst Schneider of Washington Winnie Greiner Clement and Raymond of Wellman, two half brothers Rudolph Whitmire of Richmond and Frank Whitmire of Washington DC, six brothers and sisters preceded her in death, eleven grandchildren. Pallbearers Joe Vodicka Stanley Vodicka Joe Belcha Herman Henske John Horak Milton Novy.
Dr. T. J. Barrett in Harnessing the Earthworm reports earthworm populations vary from 800000 to 2000000 per acre in American soil and when properly directed these worms greatly increase crop production.
Representative Jesse P. Wolcott of Michigan says if the Senate tries to fold the public housing and slum clearance parts of the Taft Ellender Wagner bill into any compromise measure, there will be no housing legislation passed this session.
Officials in charge of the Washington summer playground program announce a new schedule starting Monday June 21 at Stewart and Lincoln schools. Younger children attend Stewart Monday and Thursday mornings and Lincoln Tuesday and Friday mornings with Miss Ross supervising. Craft classes run Wednesday at Stewart and Lincoln. a weekly hike is set for boys nine and older from Stewart Tuesday and Lincoln Thursday. A community sing is tentatively set for July 1 at Lincoln playground.
President Truman returned to Washington from a 16 day coast to coast tour and prepared to tackle Congress as it rushes to adjournment. He met with cabinet members and planned to review legislation while promising vetoes in the public interest amid an ongoing campaign push.
Gerald Duncan of Washington announces a Saturday afternoon exhibit in Thomassen's Super Valu window on the west side of the square. The display will show the corn borer life cycle with eggs larvae and moth stages to aid farmers facing pest prevalence this season.
Coach George Bowman of the Junior Legion reports that yesterday’s Journal notice was in error about the Olds Washington game. The two teams will meet this afternoon at Case Field at OS.
Joe Cheves reminds local men about the Monday evening stag. Unregistered men should contact Mr. Cheves immediately. Golf begins after 4 pm and dinner is at 7 pm in the club house.
Mayor urges safe bicycle riding and participation in a city parade. Judges including Mayor Mace, Chief Carl Hancher, and Attorney 4 Kehoe will select winners for best decorated bikes. Montgomery Ward, Evening Journal, and the Chamber of Commerce sponsor. registrations handled by Norman Leehner.
Harold E. Stassen asks the GOP platform committee to adopt a liberal plank backing aid to Europe and opposing any Norris La Guardia labor injunction changes or industry wide bargaining limits. He seeks UN charter revision and a program to develop natural resources with dams and federal hydro power lines, while opposing socialized medicine. He notified Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. of his intent to testify at the Philadelphia meeting.
The Freedom train drawn by public interest visits Iowa City after Burlington where 2,000,000th visitor Edith Blanchard Madison entered the train. The tour continues to Cedar Rapids tomorrow and Des Moines Sunday with 7,241 attendees noted at Burlington.
Deputy Sheriff Alexander Carcieri, 64, doubles as a portrait painter and says his canvases of Rhode Island politicians are the most-viewed paintings in the state. He creates portraits as a labor of love for campaign soundtracks.
The Chicagua chapter of the Izaak Walton league failed to obtain permission to stock the Rock Island reservoir at the west edge of Washington. Frank B. Miller reports a letter from B. R. Dew, Rock Island railroad superintendent, saying the company is not willing to change the reservoir status now. The plan aimed to provide a local fishing site for Washington youths, with Dew promising to reconsider if the railroad abandons or alters the reservoir in the future.
Washington and Copenhagen rejected a London report claiming an agreement to withdraw U S troops from Greenland. Officials described the claim as imagination noting no major developments in Greenland talks. A Danish embassy spokesman said he had heard nothing about such an accord.
West Frankfort is the only U S city with two separately organized post offices. Mail to West Frankfort Heights arrives at independent city stations. Frankfort Heights once had its own post office before West Frankfort expanded around it.
A supermarket S4 self service unit offers 1 900 slides carrying canned bottled and packaged groceries to customers. Inventor claims it cuts shopping time by 30 percent and speeds checkout.
Federal Mediator Cyrus S. Ching announced after 2 hours of talks with soft coal operators and United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis that the deadlock remains and the case will be referred to the White House. President Truman could invoke Taft-Hartley fact finding and injunctions. the current contract expires in 12 days and a strike is feared next month.
Four Shenandoah men from Iowa suffered minor injuries when their four passenger Stinson Voyager plane crashed on takeoff at a Minnesota landing strip. Pilot Robert A. Read sustained a broken nose. passengers William Ramsay E V Malloy and Walter Nixon received cuts and bruises. They were en route to a fishing trip in Canada but returned to Spirit Lake after the crash which occurred as a soggy field with hay windrows slowed takeoff. Read taken to Fairmont hospital.
Waterloo Iowa June 18 The Back Hawk grand jury recessed until Monday its investigation of the May 19 strike violence at the Rath Packing Co plant. CIO united packinghouse workers unions said they voted to accept proposals in a new contract to be negotiated by the union and company. Terms not disclosed but said to include clauses not in the previous contract.
Washington firemen were called early this afternoon to extinguish a grass fire burning northwest of Sunset Park.
Cloudy and cooler tonight with occasional showers in northeastern and extreme eastern sections. Clearing tomorrow with highs around 68 to 72 today and 65 to 70 tomorrow. Tonight's lows expected 42 to 46 in the northwest and 50 to 55 southeast.
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