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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1977
Page
4
A compact moral meditation cites Romans 13 14 urging putting on Jesus Christ and avoiding fleshly lusts. It contrasts loving God with cautionary lines about chance and action and ends with a quip about the value of a picture versus a corkscrew.
Burnett Smith of Brighton letters the editor criticizing a recent news story for inaccuracies. The editor admits errors, cites causes, and notes reader engagement as crucial, highlighting that Evening Journal circulation has reached a historic high in its 84 years.
The article examines Iowa public employee collective bargaining law and a Cedar Rapids budgeting dispute. It notes how outside arbiters can influence a city's spending and calls for careful scrutiny of legality constitutionality and potential expansion of budget controls in spending of public funds.
A reader urges stricter fact sorting in news reporting, lampooning today’s media for fuzzy, sensational content. He cites history reading, quotes Santangana on learning from history, and proposes a device to sieve facts from words.
An arbitrator orders 7 percent raises for Cedar Rapids police, higher than the city council budgeted 5 percent. The piece argues public funds derive from taxes and are controlled by an elected body, warning that arbitration that overrides this duty shifts accountability away from municipal leaders. It notes similar wage pressures across city departments and private sector workers.
Florida warns golf balls can explode from freezing liquid expansion and cause injury while a Florida man taps a limestone cavity to free swamp gas for heating. Chicago reports on design shows with a computerized exerciser, auto transmission bicycle, resilient GE plastic, rapid printers, self-retracting cords, and absorptive starch with foreign firms expanding into the U.S. in 1976.
A Chicago Tribune NY News Synd page features Abby's replies to readers. Topics include a high school senior boy babysitting being questioned, uniform dress among teens, and a 17 year old pregnant girl who swears virginity. Abby commends boy sitters and explains teen pregnancy can occur without intercourse.
The column mixes jokes and quips on life, aging, fashion, and daily curiosities. It notes contacts lenses that create stars in eyes, hints at hypochondria treatment, nun vows with swords, and social trends. It ends with a mail address and copyright 1977 by L M Boyd.
In a bridge puzzle with South dealer and both sides vulnerable, the key is a low diamond lead to dummy after trump drawing. This play threatens two routes to success, boosting the chance from even money to about 3 to 1, making a slam more likely than not.
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