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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1976
Page
6
Washington county extension director Jim Frier notes winter damage from warm spells and dry fall 1975 affected white pines arborvitae and spreading junipers. A E Cott urges pruning dead material to live side branches and replacing overly misshapen plants this fall or next spring.
A Bethel Friendship Club meeting featured a nine o'clock breakfast led by president Mrs. Wilma Campbell, gift exchange with house plants, and a Mother’s Day photo guessing game. Reports cover Calvary barn demolition near the cemetery road, frost impacts on potatoes and gardens, Washington Care Center open house, and planting efforts on Gideon Wolfe farms. The item also recalls baby dresses from 1902 1903, garden planting plans, and mulching advice for shrubs and trees.
Debate centers on a $150000 Senate approved grant to open a Frankfurt West Germany office for the Iowa Development Commission. Rep Avenson proposes funding elsewhere or only creating the office, while Rep Halvorson pushes to keep the full appropriation. A third option suggests state-private cost sharing, but Halvorson argues for direct funding. A separate note cites South African Airways’ Boeing 747SP achieving a 10290 mile non stop Seattle to Cape Town flight in 17 hours 28 minutes with fuel to spare.
Dublin reports Tim Severin plans a four month voyage in an exact 36 foot currach replica of Brendan the Navigator s vessel to prove Irish contact with North America before Columbus. The crew will sail Kerry to Iona Faroes Iceland Greenland Labrador and Boston using modern gear while Severin prepares a book. The piece notes legends and artifacts suggesting Atlantic links and cites scholars and manuscripts supporting Brendan s voyage. Also mentions aspirin consumption per person at over 100 yearly.
Washington reports that social security is slowly removing gender discrimination by boosting retirement benefits for men under a 20 year old clause. The change raises the maximum monthly benefit for a 65 year old man retiring in 1976 from 364 to 387.30, while a 65 year old woman would rise from 387.80 to 403.10.
The Population Reference Bureau reports the United States no longer leads in per capita income, ranking fifth at 6640 dollars while United Arab Emirates sits at 13500 and Kuwait at 11000. Sweden and Switzerland also exceed the U.S. The report notes continuing world population growth, with 6 billion by century's end and 8 billion by 2014, amid a birth rate decline from 31.5 to 30 percent in one year.
The Senate passed a bill on unified law enforcement allowing counties to join county wide systems with local referendum funding. Five counties already operate under such systems citing economies and single records and communications. The bill does not mandate participation and preserves local control while enabling funding after referenda. The Senate also passed House File 1059 increasing funding for extension education and kept criminal code revisions in play, with concerns about修ments to Senate File 85.
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