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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1965
Page
4
A 1965 Evening Journal editorial mirrors on judgment and leadership. It cites Zephaniah 3:12 about affliction and trust in God, contrasting the minority with God against the majority, and alludes to wealth comparisons with former President Herbert Hoover and a remark by Babe.
A lighthearted note from Washington narrates Don Todd once of A and W Drive In now in Perry. He and his wife trade ten bowling games to avert fights. Don bets with a neighbor over water bills after installing a cistern, winning by using outside watering to keep his bill lower. The tale ends with a vow of payback.
A summer fishing trip ends with Norm Schoonover losing his rod and reel when a boatmate Max Henness retrieves it later. Norm’s gear is later found in a four pound Northern fish. The column blends light anecdotes, jokes, and short notices from various small-town contributors about life, travel, and sports.
The Interior Department and Wyoming officials will place commemorative bronze plaques along the Lander Road, part of the Oregon Trail, from Gilbert's Station in Wyoming to Rock City in Idaho. The effort honors Frederick W. Lander and the road's role in westward travel and telegraph history, marking at one mile intervals.
U.S. travelers face new customs limits effective Oct. 1. The law reduces duty free value from roughly 165 to 50 in retail terms and caps liquor exemption at one quart for travelers 21 and older. The changes aim to curb abroad spending and improve the balance of payments.
Saturday Stamp Corner notes two new definitive UN stamps set for October 25 with 15 and 20 cent designs, plus Mexico’s UN Year tribute and Europa issues from the Netherlands Monaco Luxembourg. It also covers duty free allowances for Americans returning from territories, changes to gifts and declarations, and recalls to keep receipts for customs clearance.
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 Bruce Cowden contributing editor Howard Hazen production superintendent. It notes publication afternoons except Sunday Christmas and July 4 with second class matter under act of March 3 1879 and affiliations with Inland Daily Press Assn Iowa Daily Press Assn and Iowa Press Assn and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Mail subscription rates percent Iowa 40.
Kalona residents contributed 365.20 to the Iowa Children’s Home Society drive chaired by Mrs Del mar Schlabaugh. The report lists many volunteer solicitors and notes social visits and weekend guests with local families, plus hospital and football game attendances.
Egyptian farmer Sharfad El-Garary, angered that Britain’s Eighth Army confiscated his land for wartime HQ, planted about 1000 land mines in the ruined building at Alamein and blew it apart. He then received seeds for 3000 olive trees from the Desert Reclamation Authority and expects growth by next November.
In a 1965 bridge column, Becker analyzes a hand where West leads clubs and a squeeze develops after the dummy’s exposed threats. The defense misreads lines, allowing South to make four hearts as West’s mis elimination of a threat card enables the squeeze. East also erred by not removing the nine of clubs.
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