Endowment Vital to YMCA supports youth and future
The YMCA Endowment Fund remains key to finances, with 1972 investment income of 20 639 08 up nearly 2000 from the prior year, yielding about 6 percent. Washington with 7000 residents benefits from the endowment aiding building and program costs and keeping member dues lower. Gifts from bequests, including the J B Dill Estate, bolster the fund. community members are urged to consider estate planning as an investment in youth.
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YMCA
Washington
J.B. Dill
Summer Fun Club at YMCA Shapes Busy Summer Schedule
A YMCA summer program for grade school boys and girls runs June 4 to August 3 with Monday Wednesday and Friday sessions. Mornings feature arts and crafts and rock polishing, paper folding, candle making, and metal art. August 1 hosts an art fair in Washington Square. Afternoons switch to quiet games, tournaments, athletic activities, plant tours, and nature studies, with lunch break from noon to 1 pm. Registration by May 30 requires a $5 YMCA club membership or full YMCA membership.
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YMCA
Washington Square
Washington
Golf lessons start this June at Case Field
A seven week beginning golf course taught by Kevin Koehn runs Thursdays from June 7 at 1 pm to 2 pm at Case Field. Class size capped at 14 with need-based extra sessions. YMCA members pay 5, nonmembers 7.50. Open to junior high and high school students. sign up by June 2. Students must bring clubs.
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Kevin Koehn
Case Field
YMCA
Water basketball debuts as YMCA summer sport
A new water basketball program arrives at the YMCA this summer with referees and lifeguards supervising matches. Games will be Thursday mornings starting June 7, with trophies for the winning team and sign up at the front desk for men’s paddleball enthusiasts seeking an easy introduction by Kevin Koehn or Ike Maggart.
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YMCA
Kevin Koehn
Ike Maggart
The Price of Discipleship and Weekend Weather
An editorial reflection on consumer leisure and religious commitment contrasts fear of discipleship with following Christ. It notes leisure erodes pleasure and cites Russell Lynes on weather, praising a brief, improved weekend after persistent rain.
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Russell Lynes
Pork Producers Meeting Highlights and State Visit
Journal reports on last October pork festival with the Washington County Pork Producers Association and a Des Moines visit to discuss journalism’s role in promoting pork. Attendees included fieldmen, National Board members, and spouses from several states. The group aims to boost pork consumption through major markets like Boston, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, with San Francisco showing a 30 percent rise in per capita pork use after targeted ads.
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Washington County Pork Producers Association
National Pork Producers Council
Des Moines
Pork Producers
Parkettes
Women’s Auxiliary Organization
New Iberia
Louisiana
Minnesota
Thoreau
Walden Pond
Nebraska
Boston
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Washington County
Iowa
Memory peptides link rats across experiments in Baylor study
Scientists from Baylor College of Medicine report that memory can transfer between rat groups by injecting brain peptide extracts. The researchers say memory materials are chains of amino acids called peptides and demonstrate transfer of fear of bells and darkness in new rats. They caution the work involves animals only.
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Baylor College of Medicine
Georges Ungar
S. R. Burzynsky
Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology
Bell
Washington Iowa publication pricing and staff listing
Washington Iowa based newspaper notice details a local publication from Nancy via Elder Shannon Co. Inc. listing offices at 111 Fort Marion Ave Washington Iowa and outlining staff positions including David Elder as president editor and business manager William Shannon as vice president advertising director Charles Morris managing editor Robert Shaffer local advertising Leonard Llewellyn production overseer. It also lists subscription rates by carrier and mail within Iowa and outside including terms for Washington headquarters route and onside Iowa.
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Fort Marion Ave
Washington
Iowa
Elder, Shannon &Co., Inc
United Press
Sy Carrer
Dear Abby advice column reader letters mix and match
A jumble of Dear Abby letters and reader responses discuss premarital sex, deception in marriage, and a shaving irritation anecdote. Timothy Bowers from Columbus objects to the hold something back notion and questions women’s honesty impact on marriage while Prairie Village explains a bedside prank poem solution. The note ends with Abby contact details and booklet offer.
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Abby
Timothy J. Bowers
Columbus
Ohio
Timothy
Prairie Village
Kas
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