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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1972
Page
4
May 27 1972 Washington Iowa editorial urges vigor in faith and condemns luke warm members who do not align with the cause, arguing they harm the mission more than outspoken opponents.
A Washington High School Jazz Band night yields quirky incidents from a stuck steering wheel to a hog leaping from a truck and golfers at a new Washington Golf Club. The piece also carries a long letter praising Uncle Sam by Alton S. Newell of Newell Manufacturing, recounting poverty to success and civic duty.
South wins the opening club lead with ace and shifts to trumps. East shows out, forcing a trump loss but leaving a spade discard plan. West discards a diamond and the spade ruff sequence yields a late club return, setting up the diamond queen discard for a slam. The hand proves engaging though not difficult.
On this date in 1935 the Supreme Court ruled the National Recovery Act unconstitutional. In 1941 the battleship Bismarck was sunk off Brest. In 1968 the nuclear submarine Scorpion was lost with 99 aboard. Julia Ward Howe born May 27, 1819. Mark Twain quote included.
The Washington Evening Journal lists staff roles including David Elder as president and editor, William Shannon as vice president and advertising director, Charles Morris as managing editor, and Leonard Llewellyn as production superintendent. It also details subscription rates by carrier and mail for Iowa and outside Iowa.
A collection of reader letters to Dear Abby cover sex discrimination in domestic work, marital privacy during infidelity, fantasies and aging, and a complaint about a husband who chews gum while directing a choir. The editor notes publishing the letters may help or at least not hurt.
A 1972 column by L. M. Boyd collects humorous bits on proposals, bank scams, tongue twisters, beer drinking, Native humor, praying mantis eating, cooking tips, a Swedish phone info routine, and old times at the Biltmore Castle. It cites a Joliet prison incident and notes the author’s copyright.
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