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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1950
Page
4
A March 11, 1950 editorial blend covers restraint in quarrels, radio versus newspapers, and doctor Sander’s mercy case. It weighs regimentation prospects, lamprey threat to Great Lakes fishing, and federal aid for education versus political control. The piece cites diverse opinions from Fort Wayne to Estherville, urging cautious, fact-based public discourse.
Danny Kaye delivers song and dance in Warner Bros. The Inspector General opening Sunday in color. He plays a simple barker mistaken for the inspector in a graft ridden village with a comic clash against Walter Slezak. The cast includes Slezak Bates Lanchester and Lockhart with direction by Henry Koster.
Superintendent report notes attendance irregularities from whooping cough and storms. Graduation exercises on Feb 24 featured five boys and 31 girls. A June 29 reunion at First U P church and Rink venue drew 200 with an alumni association forming and officers elected. Dues set at 25 cents.
Bruce Cowden recounts a Washington Iowa school report from 1892 93. The leap year class of 1892 graduated Feb 29, 1892, a unique event in local history. The 1893 class graduated Feb 24. The article lists superintendent D W Lewis staff salaries 125 monthly, 50 for assistants, 37 50 for teachers, and district details including 15 teachers, 797 pupils, 200 library volumes, and 450 apparatus dollars.
United Press reports a renewed flying saucer scare as Washington officials call it misinterpretation or hysteria. Venus in the sky and Mexico City papers spur unsubstantiated sightings across the United States, with a claimed crash in Mexico and reports in North and South Carolina.
The column recalls the 1892 class with Feb 29 graduation, listing members still in Washington and others known to be living elsewhere. It notes the old Graham opera house and Everson's hall as former venues and names several classmates, including Jessie Smouse, Ida Cavender, Carrie O Laughlin, James Boyd, and others, with many details from Mr. Lewis's 1892 list.
Dell Stewart Helwick and Walter Loughead lead a group of residents including Jennie Park Ida Bailey Inez Holden Lulu Anderson Stella Nichols Mattie Sam son Harry Clyde and W Burt Hamilton in a community note naming several notable locals.
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