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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1963
Page
5
In a May 4 1963 Washington Evening Journal editorial a light anecdote recalls a club president Fred Neiswanger joking about a sleepless morning on a country road behind the fourth green. The piece notes Harold Kerr as current superintendent and highlights shared comfort and community wit through golf lore.
Wally Fagen has a new and novel complaint about mushrooming this season. He says that every time he stoops to pluck one a triskls of oil gushes up at him. But after all, it is nice to have both mushrooms and oil in this community.
May baskets arrived from neighbors Mary Bordwell, Donna Bordwell, Patty Bordwell, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Burr Bordwell, and from Mike Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Young. The gifts lifted spirits despite not making baskets this year and made a warm impression in our home.
A local man recalls a college friendship scam in which a telegram urged immediate payment with a note promising an explanation. He later received a letter and check claiming a wage from a partner who had five loyal friends to send money. A later airmail request for fifty dollars was refused, raising suspicions of a test to see if he would pay.
A former junior member recalls working at Washington Golf and Country Club for 1.50 a day, noting duties from rough cutting to weed removal on Bent grass greens. He mentions summer pay and club equipment, then recalls a teen dance before an Anti-Litter Committee talk and a caller about a littered cat.
A retired columnist recalls early 1930s kittenball days and late innings of a marathon game. He describes Elmer McFadden as head scorekeeper, a 21 inning slog ending 2 to 1, and a rain drenched 0–0 Fairfield football clash in 1931 featuring Dick Crayne.
In Caracas the communist effort fades as Winifred Marich, a 25 year old UCLA graduate, works with Accion en Venezuela in the Altanista barrio. Adults learn to read, homes are beautified, trades taught, and a self built sewage system rises with government supplies. Betancourt governs amid debt relief and steady foreign investment.
A 1963 mock trial in Washington county High School draws county lawyers, Judge Harold Fleck and 12 senior jurors to reenact a car collision case between Robert G Brown and Vernon A Smith. The hung jury, eight to four, ends with Brown satisfied and Smith unfazed as the audience enjoys the educational showcase.
In a contract bridge example South sits in three notrump after East overcalls with a heart. West defends by discarding the ace of clubs on a heart lead, a choice that wrecks the contract. East signals with the deuce heart, West’s discard and play collapse, giving South ten tricks only if West had discarded differently.
The piece reflects on the seasonal migration of so called snowbirds returning to the north for summer. It contrasts southern winter life with an April homecoming in Washington and Iowa, noting spring signs, garden patches, and roadside scenery. It ends with anticipation of reconnecting with friends.
Oak School PTA retools meetings to boost participation. Under Wallace Cuneen leadership, the group prints minutes, times meetings to 9 15 pm, seats parents at coffee tables, hires teen babysitters, and fuels engagement with lively content. A Max Rafferty speech drew 900 attendees, the county’s biggest PTA turnout.
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