Prudential Forecast Sees Modest Growth in 1969
Prudential's annual forecast projects GNP rising to 915 billion dollars in 1969, a 6.5 percent gain from 1968, with a slowing pace through midyear but no recession. Inflation remains a worry, while consumer spending and housing rise, aided by tax and debt dynamics and stronger government outlays.
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Prudential Insurance Co
Michigan
Minnesota
Wisconsin
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Feed Grain Advisory Committee
Pru
Prudential
Counties Boost Agricultural Valuations in 1968
Iowa counties raised agricultural land valuations by 15.7 percent, with State Revenue Director William Forst adding 10.3 percent more to meet a 27 percent market-value target. Total property values rose to 7.2 billion, while residential and commercial assessments also climbed, and utilities and personal property were adjusted under equalization orders.
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DES Moines
IDPA
State Revenue
William H. Forst
Forst
State Department of Revenue
Plymouth
Forsthold
Boards of Review
Origins and meanings of the term broad in letters to Abby
A series of reader letters discuss the etymology and usage of the word broad. Contributors propose origins from Broad Street in Philadelphia during World War I, note varied senses from insult to neutral descriptor, and reference wartime groups such as Women Marines and a rabbi’s Hebrew explanation.
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Abby
Philadelphia
Broad Street
Broad
Annapolis
Nebraska Dear Abby column excerpt on word wide use
A reader questions the origin of the word broad linking it to Broadway show girls. The missive cites Hedonism and five B’s in a philosophy class and argues broad equates to a harlot via Hebrew Rehab, then invites personal replies and Abby’s booklet offer from Box 69700 Los Angeles.
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Abby
Nesta
West Covina
Rahab
Los Angeles
Cal
Five file suit to force Iowa food program access
Five individuals filed a federal suit in Cedar Rapids seeking to compel multiple Iowa counties to participate in federal food programs to provide a nutritionally adequate diet. The petition alleges the Iowa plan is invidiously discriminatory by excluding poor residents in certain counties and names Fayette Poweshiek Mills Bremer Adair Monroe Muscatine Page Polk Fremont Webster as nonparticipating. Defendants include the U S Department of Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman and Iowa officials.
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa
UPI
Iowa
Black Hawk County
Page, Polk, Fremont and Webster
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Agriculture
Orville Freeman
S. R. Smith
Consumer Marketing Service
Agriculture Department
Iowa Department of Social Services
Nasser convenes Cairo talks on student riots
President Gamal Abdel Nasser called a second crisis meeting of Egyptian advisers in Cairo to address accusations that foreign quarters were stirring nationwide student riots. Five universities remained closed as riots spread from Mansoura to major cities. In Jerusalem, Israeli forces reported capturing 17 Arab guerrillas tied to Hebron sabotage and recovering arms and mines, while a mine injures an American girl in Shaar Hagolan.
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United Press International
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Cairo
Egypt
Alexandria
Mansoura
Nasser
Arab Socialist Union Central Committee
Justice, Higher Education
Interior
al Ahram
Arab Socialist Union National Congress
Jerusalem
Hebron
West Bank
Jordan River
Subhi Bab
Jihad Jahshan
Shaar Hagolan
Jordan Valley
Thanksgiving visitors and local gatherings in Wayland area
Holiday visitors from Wayland to Central City and nearby towns fill the weekend schedule with family meals and hosting duties. Local residents travel between Ames Iowa City and Burlington for holidays while hospital updates and tax school attendance noted. An Iowa Army ammunition plant detonation in Burlington causes minor injuries to Gary Steward who returns to work after the incident.
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Edna Eland
Ames
Eda Boshart
Robert Boshart
Lisa
Lester Decker
Janice
Salem
Clair Boshart
Owen Roth
Judy
Jolene
Washington
Delmar Jorgensen
Delmar
Iowa
Sherm Umphrey
Earl Gingerich
Tucson
Arizona
Donald Meyer
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
Byron Thomas
Europe
Vernon Wyse
Linda Wyse
Michael Conch
Elmer Wyse
Goshen
Indiana
Harold Meyer
Pat Johnson
Denver
Colo
Leroy Meyer
Stanley Meyer
L. J. Zehr
Max Kauffman
Fort Des Moines
C. E. Schantz
Gilbert
C. E. Rhum
Henry County Hospital
Anna Campbell
Burlington, Iowa
UPI
Iowa Army
Burlington
Gary Steward
Steward
Delphic self knowledge and quirky top quotes
A collage of curiosities with humorous trivia and social snippets. It notes scalp hair averages for brunettes, Barbara dating psychology, odds in five card draw, postal worker health, and majority comic strip readership. It includes light Q and A on parking meters Alaska purchase price and Stephen Foster controversy, plus Wilde and father-naming polls.
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Barbara
United States Post Office
Satchel Paige
Oklahoma City
United States
Alaska
Stephen Foster
Virginia
Old Virginny
James M. Bland
Mr. Bland
Washington Evening Journal staff and affiliations
The Washington Evening Journal of Washington Iowa lists staff including David Elder editor and business manager William Shannon vice president advertising director Charles Morris news editor Bob Shaffer local advertising and Howard Hazen production superintendent. The paper is published afternoons except Sunday Christmas and July 4th and is entered as second class matter. It is a member of Inland Daily Press Association and other press bodies.
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David Elder
William Shannon
Charles Morris
Bob Shaffer
Howard Hazen
Pee Office
Washington
Iowa
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Harrison Weber
Iowa Daily Press
Evening Journal
Washington, Iowa
The
Small Society
Brickman
Blickman
Abigail van Buren
Corona, Cal
L. W
King
Oddo
Joe
Betty
Clark Advertising
Mark
Cai
Irma
Her
Furnie
Rasmussens
Nebraska
Wayland
Marlin Rasmussen
Rose Rasmussen
Central City
Gingerich
Fred Hixson
Phoenix
Warren Bergh
Lois Finke
New London
Wade Huffman
Edith Boshart
Omer C. Boshart
Effie Brooks
Duane Wittmer
Mary Ellen
Phillip
Wichita
Kansas
Duane
Ezra Wittmer
L. M. Boyd
Alexander Dumas
Monte Cristo
Oscar Wilde
Washington Evening Journal
Pele
United Press
Inland Daily Press
Ass’n
Iowa Daily ‘Press
Ass‘n
Iowa Press Ass’n
Audit Bureau of Circulations
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