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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1948
Page
2
Iowa wid s Korebaabe committee announces state convention in Waterloo June 12 and 13 will feature U S Sen Glen Taylor of Idaho as keynote speaker. Taylor is Wallace's running mate in the race. The committee released the notice in its first issue of the campaign.
Mr and Mrs Walter Lance and daughter Karen attended Marian Gray's wedding in Keo kuk where Mrs Lance was matron of honor. Bridegroom Martin Moschel of Ottumwa gave her in marriage. The Wilson family hosted visiting relatives including Jackie Lee David and Nickie. Donnie Wilson heads to Washington state for forestry duty. Richard Rabbe of San Jose Illinois spent the weekend with Simmerings before returning home Monday.
Members of the Y W Mixers club hold their regular business meeting in the Y W C A room tonight at 6 30. A cooperative supper opens the gathering and attendees should bring a dish to pass their own table service and sandwiches if desired. A style show from Tom Duncan's store for women will follow. The program committee will present the summer schedule.
A four page mimeographed pamphlet titled The Iowa Native Son denounces the Mundt bill in Congress to regulate communism as fascist. It condemns the front organization registration provision as inviting zealous surveillance akin to a Gestapo state.
Data show dairy births are single in 98 percent of cases and beef births 99.5 percent. Triplets occur about 1 in 300 in dairy cows and quads about 1 in 14,000.
Yesterday at the hospital Mrs. Etta Glass of 314% E Washington listed for medical care with Arthur Long and Frank Hoskins. Today includes tonsillectomies for Wayne Dickinson Donald Peifer Ivan Wilson and Larry Wilson. Also reported are births for Mr and Mrs B J McNurlan at 6 03 am and Mr and Mrs Glenn Sinn at 11 43 am in Keota Winfield Crawfordsville Wellman Richland.
A Washington group signs up for private and commercial pilot courses. Pilots from multiple bases fly to Moline Illinois for a large flight breakfast with over 500 airplanes and 100 attendees.
Helen Irene Simmering and Andrew J. Vangalis wed at the 15th Air Force Chapel in Colorado Springs. Major Foster Perry officiated the ceremony attended by the wedding party and about 250 guests. The couple will reside in Colorado Springs after a honeymoon on Cheyenne Mountain. The bride is a Navy nurse graduate from Mercy Hospital Burlington and served in the Navy Nurses Corps. The groom, from Wausau, is in the 15th Air Force. Out-of-town guests came from Washington and Wausau.
Allen Van Vranken flew a Stinson Voyager on a night cross country route visiting Iowa City Moline Monmouth Burlington Muscatine and returning in a little over three hours. Lester Woods and Samuel Houseal flew to Davenport in an Aeronea Chief.
The arrival of warm weather spurred increased air traffic as more than a dozen out of town planes stopped at the airport for services and visiting this Sunday.
Des Moines May 25 bids will be opened for a new 4.5 million dollar state office building to house departments now paying 17 thousand dollars a month in downtown rentals. The state office building committee had advertised for bids in March. Construction is expected to proceed promptly.
The May observance at St. James Church featured St. James School pupils marching in procession led by Crossbearer Wayne Barnes and Acolytes James Schulty and Tommy Adam. Nancy Perez was May Queen with attendants and a Queen's Court in pastel gowns. The ceremony included Act of Consecration, a sermon by Fr Hilary of Des Moines, and Benediction officiated by Father Corcoran with Mrs. Anna Harmeier as organist.
The article notes that US shoe production rose from the 1936 40 average of 411 million pairs to an expected 550 million pairs in 1947, reflecting a strong postwar expansion in footwear manufacture.
Mr and Mrs Boice Kurtz traveled from Moline Illinois to Ainsworth Saturday to visit Mrs Kurtzs mother Mrs Spessard. A Sunday dinner at the Marsh near Conesville honored Mr and Mrs Claire Carll of Los Angeles California with other local guests including Mr and Mrs Kenneth Ornduff and family and Mrs Spessard with Mr and Mrs Kurtz and daughter Lou Jean.
The six story building on the capital grounds has been planned since 1941 and $2,500,000 of the cost has already been appropriated.
Friends and relatives of Mr and Mrs George Shalla hosted a prenuptial shower for Marie Swailes and their son Norman Shalla at Riverside. Ninety four guests were served a light lunch and nine angel foods were baked by Mrs Will Tellin. Entertainment came from Mrs Leroy Duwa and Mrs Dale Duwa.
Mrs Charles Carriker hosted a Friday night baby shower at her Washington home for Mrs James Carriker. Attendees included multiple Carriker family members and friends from Washington and nearby towns. Guests enjoyed visiting, gift unwrapping guessing games, and refreshments.
A wedding is planned for June 5 with two families joining in a ceremony. Details on location or participants are not provided in the available text.
The text notes that California, once a disappointment to early Spaniards seeking gold, has become the leading gold producing state in the nation today.
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