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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1947
Page
6
Twelve senior girls who called themselves the Wiz Zy Dozen were treated to a waffle breakfast at the home of Worts Kleprer marking ten years since high school days. Kodak films developed and printed and ready within a few hours.
Weather forecast notes generally fair skies with continued cool temperatures tonight and tomorrow. Agricultural price entry lists hogs at 25.2a dollars, indicating market figures alongside forecast conditions for the period.
Alexis Smith chases a frightened bolt ing horse on the Hidden Vallidy ranch near a movie scene with Patti Brady aboard. The mare bolts as a civilian plane circles, Smith subdues the horse just as Patti risks a fall during Stallion Road filming at the State Theatre location.
Democrats and Republicans clash over delaying the vote on a tax cut bill. Sen. Millard Tydings argues the GOP figures are speculation as stock prices decline and dividends stay high. A Democratic motion seeks to defer further action until June 10 to assess budget implications for the 1954 fiscal year.
Lora Mae Palmer Keota and Margaret Reyhous Lisbon were candidates for state president of the Iowa Future Homemakers of America at Des Moines. About 100 FHA members from 45 town chapters attended the two day meeting with election of officers due later today. The group, organized three years ago, plans the 1947 42 program and individual chapter projects.
Des Moines May 2 The education director for the state gravity department notes confusion and incomplete submissions about the new traffic accident reporting rule. Drivers involved in accidents with fifty or more dollars damage must file an individual report with the public safety department.
Four men were reported in serious condition at a Keokuk hospital after a large crucible at Keokuk Electro-Metals Co exploded while pouring cold steel. Raymond Soule and Hiram Agnew were most critically burned. Fred Dickens and Luther Galley also in serious condition. Several others suffered minor injuries.
Joan Crawford co stars with John Garfield in Humor esque at Fox through Tuesday. Her previous triumph was Mildred Pierce for which she won the Academy Award.
A fragment notes that he asserted all congressmen are subjected to party controls, implying widespread political oversight within the parties.
Louis Jones 75 an Iowa City farmer died from injuries after his car hit loose gravel and overturned near Jewell Iowa. His wife was hospitalized in Fort Dodge in fair condition. The couple were en route to visit a daughter when the accident occurred and funeral services will be held here with burial in Lake City.
Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson urged a world grain conference in Europe by mid July to avert a repeating food crisis. The International Emergency Food Council heard that nearly 8 million tons of grain must be shipped this summer to sustain low rations amid overseas shortages and food riots.
Mrs Gracie Marshall wife of Burdell I Marshall a former Washington resident now in Dallas submitted two paintings for the Exhubeit in Dallas Texas on May 26 and plans to display them locally.
U S Representative Fred Bradley of Michigan died suddenly while visiting the coast guard academy in New London Connecticut. The 49 year old lawmaker had complained of the pace and strain of his job and will be flown home to Rogers City Michigan for interment.
The Vewan Fine Arts association shows a 194¢ general exhibition open to all Texas artists. Both entries were accepted and are on display at the Elizabeth Ney Museum in Austin. One painting is a still life in oil and the other an outdoor watercolor scene. Mrs. Marshall has made frequent visits to Washington.
May 26 report from Minneapolis notes TM Phillip W. Pillsbury, president of Pillsbury Mills, Inc., says company directors will convene June 1 to discuss the expected bumper wheat crop and the ongoing foreign food crisis.
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