Rall’s Free-For-All 1964 Baseball Prophecy Winner Revealed
The Washington Evening Journal notes Mrs. R. L. Mame Livingston of Washington Iowa won the American league division in Owen Rall’s 1964 baseball prophecy contest. Livingston died last week at 84, two days before the Yankees clinched their pennant and four days before St. Louis won theirs. Her life showed thrift duty charity piety and industry with a love of puzzles and baseball.
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Rall
R. L
Mame) Livingston
Washington
Iowa
Mame Livingston
Mame
President Johnson and Schwengel on government internship programs
The piece notes President Johnson borrows an idea from Iowa Congressman Fred Schwengel who has run a similar program for six years. Schwengel has hosted about a hundred young people in Washington as guests of his office, with half Republicans and half Democrats, while Johnson aims to bring 15 yearly interns. Schwengel funds his program personally and emphasizes practical, hands on experience in government, a model the writer endorses.
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Johnson
Iowa
Fred Schwengel
Lehwengels
White House
Washington, D. C
Schwengel
Schwengels
Uranium City Faces Oblivion Amid Slump in Demand
Uranium City, Saskatchewan, once a booming uranium mining hub, now faces decline as demand drops. The camp produced about 235 million dollars in ore in ten years but population fell from 8000 to around 1500 as miners leave. The town lacks tourist draws or mythic legends to sustain revenue.
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Uranium City
Canada
Saskatchewan
Providence
Tombstone
Virtue of Patience and Child Development Note
A Desert News quotation discusses patience as essential to a child's growth and notes that impatience by parents worsens a child’s confusion and resistance. It contrasts instinctive farm animal patience with educated parental failures, reflecting on internal pressures to run for national and local offices.
Highway panel shifted to asphalt on interstate project
Iowa highway commission altered its practice after a 1964 review of paving options on an 57 mile Grinnell to Iowa City stretch. The paving determination committee once favored Portland cement but later decisions favored asphaltic concrete, amid questions about construction balance and safety.
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L. M. Clauson
A. F. Faul
Donald McLean
Highway Commission
Iowa City
Harry Bradley, Jr
Grinnell
Bradley
Ames
Clauson
Commission
Rainy porch scene and kitchen notices from readers
A small Peke appears on a front porch during a rainstorm and is claimed by a local paper boy to a new town family. The page also contains homey notes on gift certificates, a pear honey recipe, cactus collecting, bulb planting, and a recap of interstate road paving costs and asphalt vs cement debates with figures and testimonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike
Truth is stranger than fiction bridge tale unfolds
In a rubber bridge game South opens with a diamond and momentarily locks North in. South misreads and bids three diamonds claiming game and forty while North notes we have game and thirty. The quarrel centers on a miscounted bid and potential penalties. The hand ends three diamonds seven making, opponents win rubber next deal.
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South
North
King
West
Diamonds, Clubs
Notrampres Syndicate, Inc
Five New Books at Washington Public Library
The Washington public library has acquired five new works of fiction. Titles include Captain Sutter's Gold by Janreed Lauritzen, One-Man Jury by Stephen Ransome, Children and Others by James Gould Cozzens, A Doctor Comes to Bayard by Elizabeth Seifert, and a Gerson biographical novel about Andrew Jackson. Each book is described with author notes and themes.
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Washington Public Library
Captain Sutter
Janreed Lauritzen
California
West
Sutter
Stephen Ransome
Florida
James Gould Cozzens
Bayard
Elizabeth Seifert
Bayard Hospital
Gerson
Andrew Jackson
America
Guests in Wells home at Keota
Sunday visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Wells were Mr. and Mrs. Barney Wilson of Fremont and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bauer of Washington. Mrs. Gale Smith of Columbus Junction returned home after helping care for the new baby. Andy Sheetz came home from Veterans hospital in Iowa City. Several others drove to Webster for dinner and to Waterloo for the Dairy Cattle Congress. Verla Walter appointed Grand Chapter Committee Member of OES for 1965.
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Keith Mound
Bess Lantry
Susan Evans
Waterloo
Dave (Verla) Walter
OES
Washington Evening Journal masthead and staff list
The Washington Evening Journal is listed with its editorial and advertising staff including David Elder as Editor and Business Manager William Shannon as Vice President Advertising Director Charles Morris News Editor Job Shaffer Local Advertising Bruce Cowden Contributing Editor Howard Hazen Production Superintendent. The paper publishes afternoons except Sundays Christmas and July 4 and is entered as second class mail under federal act. It is affiliated with Inland Daily Press Association Iowa Daily Press Association Iowa Press Association and Audit Bureau of Circulations. Circulation per week is by carrier in Washington AO.
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Washington Evening Journal
Washington, Iowa
David Elder
William Shannon
Charles Morris
Job Shaffer
Bruce Cowden
Howard Hazen
Washington
Iowa
United Press
Inland Daily Press
Ass'n
Iowa Daily Press
Iowa Press Ass'n
Audit Bureau of Circulations
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Owen Rall
Chicago
Pense
Arizona
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Desert News
W. H. Marriott
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Joe Palooka
Ham Fisher
Dixie Dugan
BY Mevoy and
Striebel
Portland Cement
Harrison Weber
DES Moines
IDPA
BY Marge Luckey
King Ranch
Kleberg County
Texas
Marge
Noel B
Wells
Keota
Mrs. Boyd Sanders
Blondie
Chic Young
Nancy
BY Ernie Bushmiller
Momie
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