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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1966
Page
4
The Evening Journal reflects on Washington Iowa’s new YM YWCA building dedication praising community support and its upkeep free of government funds. It argues for using the facility to wear it out, and it defines a Big Game through tradition and rivalry, citing Army Navy and Harvard Yale as examples.
A Sunday November 27 1966 service at the Washington Community YMCA featured opening and closing prayers by local pastors. The Rev Clarence Dehne of First Presbyterian led gratitude for past contributors and hopes for unity and renewed service through the facilities. The Rev T J Lew of St James Church offered a blessing for government and religious authority, and thanked donors who funded the building’s completion.
In a contract bridge lesson by 8 Jay Becker South, declarer, faces a heart lead and a 4-0 club split. By ducking the first club and letting West win, South secures six clubs and avoids a fall if the finesse fails, resulting in ten tricks rather than seven.
Iowa weighs creating a chancellor to oversee the three state schools and coordinate activities as PAS studies reorganizing state government. Possible successors to long serving chief engineer Clauson are discussed as Dec 1 appointments loom.
The record covers property transfers from Hal R Hotle and wife to Robert D Zager and wife in Washington Union, and a life insurance to Alva L Klein. It lists various vehicle brands in a public notice alongside Marion area road plans and department chiefs. It also notes Jack Miller and John Culver gaining Senate and House seniority, and Laird R Skin Laird retiring after 41 years as adjutant of the Iowa American Legion, effective June 30.
Wallace L. Fagen of Washington has completed an extensive mutual funds training program at American Diversified Investors Fund in Bloomington Illinois. He has been licensed by Iowa to sell securities.
Christmas is celebrated across Asia in diverse ways. In Burma children carol in dusty streets, in Tokyo carols blare from Ginza speakers, and in Hong Kong department stores feature San Tan Lou Yin figures. The Philippines, the only Christian nation in Asia, marks a long festive season with dawn Masses and noche buena, blending Spanish and American influences.
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