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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1947
Page
2
Albert Wehr and Mrs. Wehr were in Rochester Minnesota yesterday with Mrs. Wehr remaining at Worrell hospital Room 120 and expected to return home in about a week. Ruth Mandel of Chariton is visiting sister Mrs. S. N. Sorrell this week.
Mrs Cy Birka returns to her Phoenix home after a visit with her parents Mr and Mrs M R Snider and other relatives in town and Mt Feasant She plans a brief stay in Sioux City with her son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Ellsworth Smith and two children. Mrs Hillhouse attends State League of Women Voters convention in Cedar Rapids. Mr and Mrs M R Snider travel to Iowa City for brother’s hospital visit and Cedar Rapids to see their daughter Mrs Leslie Shurtz. Theo Logan comes home from Denver for a week with her parents. Logan Heilman is confined at home with influenza and cannot work at the Washington State Bank.
The final normal training exams will be held at Wellman and Brighton high schools this week as normal training ends in all high schools. A legislature bill requires increasing college training for teachers, reaching two years of college by September 1952 to earn a teaching certificate. Dr and Mrs Ivan Lenley of Ottumwa visited the Schlatter home. Betty Schlatter also at home between hospital shifts. Duane Wittmer of Chicago flew an Ercoupe to Wayland for Mother's Day with his parents, joined by Ralph Wiederhold of Park Ridge. They had attended Iowa Wesleyan College briefly before transferring to Chicago Studio School of Art and flew home Sunday.
Senator Joseph McCarthy stated a sugar surplus justifies easing or ending rationing. He warned he would push compulsory action if the Agriculture Department does not increase housewives’ supply, arguing current limits waste fruits and raise living costs.
Since 1939 railroad wage and material costs rose over three times freight rates and five times passenger fares prompting concern about who pays for rising rail costs as reform debates continue.
Washington's American Legion Juniors held their first baseball practice with over 30 boys turning out at the east-edge Case field diamond. Coach Bill Boshart praised the turnout and outlined workouts this week, a future schedule of inter-city and inter-squad games, and hopes for more home games while the new field is finished.
E C Whiting, holder of the Washington golf and country club nine hole record, repeated his feat with a 32 yesterday. He parred the club’s holes 1 2 3 4 and 7 with long tee blasts and finished one over on hole 5, coming in twice under par for the local course. Teammates Joe Piken and Bill Hoppe watched as a short putt on hole 8 slid out, denying a new record.
American Pearl routed Cargills 14 to 0 as Kimmel Buckwalter formed the battery for the first four innings and Edmondson Knott pitched the last three. The winners had 12 hits to the losers two. A rematch is scheduled for Wednesday evening.
Civil air patrol searched Round Lake for a family of five missing since a Sunday fishing trip. London Sutton, his wife, and their three sons Frank 7 George 6 and Jimmy 5 were believed drowned after a storm rushed across the lake.
Wayland high graduates gather at the high school for commencement exercises at 8 pm with Dr. W. J. Peterson delivering the address. Rev. W. H. Regier offers the invocation and Rev. E. S. Muller delivers the benediction as Dolores Alliman leads the processional and student choirs perform.
Waterloo Iowa May 13 mayor Knapp Matthews 69 died suddenly from a heart attack after a city council meeting. Matthews had served as city clerk for 10 years and was appointed mayor a year ago to succeed Stanley Shane. He previously ran a printing business and worked as a reporter for the Waterloo Tribune. He is survived by his mother.
Searchers at the ranch found a capsized boat believed to be the Suttons used, a straw hat floating on the lake, and the family pickup parked near the water's edge as authorities pursue leads in the drowning case.
Yesterday at the hospital a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Acord of West Chester at 12 46 PM. A son followed for Mr. and Mrs. Carl Zieglowsky Route One at 8 09 PM. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Minick 514 West Second Street welcomed a son at 9 53 PM. Today Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Schultz of Ainsworth welcomed a son at 9 55 AM. Admissions
Glenn McCall reports the birth of Robert Marling Lauer Jr a nine pounds four ounce baby to Mr and Mrs R M Lauer of Belleflower California Betty McCall is the mother to be. Out of town guests attended a mothers day dinner at Mrs John Davidson including the Beemblossoms Davidsons Glasgows and others from Milan Rock Island Coal Valley Chicago Davenport and Des Moines. International public employment service delegates from Iowa attend a New York convention May 26 29 with Mrs Pamela Lay among them.
Instructions describe drying soap scraps and shaving or grinding them into chips using a knife or a food chopper. The guidance emphasizes repurposing leftover cake soap into smaller usable pieces for later use.
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