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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1946
Page
5
In a 1946 editorial the author questions beliefs about creation and endless progress. The piece urges readers to rethink life as part of a long chain of consequences beginning ages ago and ending in eternal progress. It cites 1 Timothy 5 6 to exhort awakening and spiritual light.
In a collage of opinion excerpts from editors and columnists, writers urge cautious action on reconstruction, warning that food gifts alone won’t heal postwar hunger and calling for moral leadership, housing recovery, and pragmatic aid rather than mere charity.
West Chester hosts sectional basketball this week at Journey with the winner of Kinross versus What Cheer to face Tuesday night. Freshmen show best attendance as the fifth six weeks begin. Virginia Argo transfers to Keota High School for the year. The film New Methods of Farming was shown and used by the agriculture class. Pris cilla Porter Betty Griggs and Corinne Nicola represented WC HLS in the State Preliminary Vocal Contest with Pris cilla and Corinne advancing to the next level. Webster and Keota also attended the Alice and Jerry Series. Transportation study included making airplanes with hangers and runways.
Riverside February 26. A benefit shower was held Sunday afternoon in St Marys hall for Mrs Ivan Shradel whose home sustained a fire on February 1 destroying food stocks and the drug store in the building. Committee of friends and relatives sponsored the event with social time and refreshments.
Mrs Frank Yansky and her daughter Helen of Iowa City visited Sunday at the home of Mrs Anna Inrotz in the Riverside region. The past week included moving into the Joseph Birka property in the same area.
In Wellman local news Everette Wells returns home from service in the China Burma theater to open a new Black and White sandwich shop in the former Moffat Produce space. The Wells family will run living quarters above the shop with Mrs Rol Erb’s prior shop history noted.
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