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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1952
Page
4
A miscellany essay discusses gratitude, prosperity, and free speech, then shifts to postwar politics. It questions national endurance of prosperity, critiques leadership and book controversies, and analyzes voting influences, federal aid, and social programs in the Midwest with cautions about change and resistance.
Wilfred Vittetoe, son of Mrs. Marcella Vittetoe, left Tuesday for Des Moines to enlist in the army. From Des Moines he was sent to the separation center at Camp Crowder Missouri. Ed Heck recovers satisfactorily after surgery at Mercy hospital Iowa City last Friday, now in room 223.
Eileen Paulsen, student nurse from University Hospital, stayed Monday night with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ladehoff and returned to Iowa City Tuesday evening with the Ladehoffs and Mr. and Mrs. Charley Thrapp. Mrs. Ellen Snellenbarger and daughters from Lafayette Ind are visiting the Lyall Moore home en route to San Diego.
Skelgas Flames beat Duncan's 2 to 1 with 1914 total pins for Skelgas and 17238 plus 165 handicap for Duncan's. Carson defeated Rock Island Produce 2 to 1. Carsons 1970 and Rock Island 1897 plus 21 handicap. Mootharts beat Doaks 2 to 1. Mootharts 1927 and Doaks 1427 plus 390 handicap. McCleery Cumming over Ainsworth Bank 2 to 1. McCleery 1971 plus 177 handicap, Ainsworth Bank 2037. High team series: Ainsworth Bank 2038, McCleery-Cumming 1971. High team game: Ainsworth
Washington reports the new British airfield at Entebbe Uganda is Africa s largest with two mile runways able to handle jets. Located 250 miles south of the Anglo Egyptian Sudan border it sits between the Middle East and South Africa offering year round good weather and seaplane access on Lake Victoria. The piece notes cultural shifts under the jet age including changes in housing dress and transport alongside inflation price controls affecting marriage dowries.
Pvt. Richard A. Norman, 23, of Wapato, Washington, severely burned when a lamp exploded in a kitchen during mess duty. He needed a blood transfusion and received a pint he had donated two weeks earlier. A doctor happened to pick up Norman's bottle for the transfusion.
The 136th Bearcat Regiment of the 47th Infantry Division led a full line blood drive at Camp Rucker Alabama becoming the Army's first major unit to achieve a complete donation rate. Private Richard C Gilley of Warren Massachusetts whose Korea wound inspired the drive sparked the campaign and Major General Norman E Hendrickson personally praised the final contributor Private First Class Dale Dunn Brigham City Utah in a letter from General Clark.
DetroIt police recaptured 27-year-old Donald Mace of Akron Ohio after he escaped from guards while serving a burglary sentence. He complained a jail guard barred a goodbye kiss from his girlfriend who visited his cell through a wire screen.
Clarence Gillen 31 of Harrison N J climbed a 365 foot brick chimney at a mill using scaffolding. He stayed atop for an hour before police took him into custody for investigation while smoke-filled and dizzy. Two other lines note college basketball scores and players.
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