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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1954
Page
7
A collage of editorial notes lampoons politics and culture from Ruth to space dreams. It muses on the Geneva conference McCarthy hearings and daylight saving while warning about comic books and adult reading material.
Brighton June 17 the Legion Auxiliary elected officers for the coming year. President Mrs Paul Boyd, 1st vice president Mrs Lawrence Hunter, 2nd vice president Mrs Leo Mullikin, secretary Mrs Earl Neal, treasurer Mrs Richard Morgan, chaplain Mrs Duane Van Winkle, historian Ms Elmer Moore, sergeant at arms Mrs Glenna V Pringle. Florence Lloyd visiting Denver. Janet Horton to Marion for weekend with Hal DeGoode. Roberta Horton at Cedar Rapids after Girls State. Hopewell Club hosted by Mrs Dave Paul with fifteen ladies and five children. Mrs Newton Robinson and Laura Lee left for Spokane Washington to visit Marlin Reed family. Robinson’s mother Mrs Fred Reed of Webster visiting with grandsons Ronnie and Fred.
Audrey Polzein visits her grandparents in Charter Oak Georgia Wise heads to Colo to work at a summit resort near Denver Mrs Cora Wringle returns from Washington hospital after a week of treatment Assistant Coach Donald Eden and his wife from Montana will teach in Brighton schools next year Eden to teach social studies Karl Fisher hospitalized in Iowa City for observation Pythian Sisters served dinner at Roof Phall Thursday for the community
About seventy members and their wives attended a business meeting held in the city park after a dinner. A separate note recalls a manhunt in Coyote New Mexico where escaped convict Leslie Oatis knocked on a deputy sheriff’s door seeking water, only to find the deputy at home.
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