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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1950
Page
6
Editorial notes readers as unreliable witnesses, reflecting on the duty to testify and the idea that even well meaning individuals can be poor witnesses. It cites a biblical line about bearing witness and questions personal credibility in public discourse.
A first person traveler from the Iowa Press Association tours eastern Iowa noting autumn foliage along the Mississippi bluffs and small towns. He details rural life, local editors, town benches, dairy cows, hogs, and the persistence of small communities amid inflation and Depression era memories, urging a fall drive to Davenport before leaves fall.
A new material named steel wallpaper combines glass with thin steel sheets to resist water grease acid and wear. It is intended for kitchens bathrooms stores and similar spaces. Rolls can be cut with a standard paper cutter.
The U S crop reporting board estimates July 1 1950 cotton in cultivation at 9 032 000 acres. This is 8 687 000 acres fewer than last year falling 31 3 percent and 32 9 percent below the 1939- average.
An account of the logger’s prized ax used for work and campfire tales. The text notes the ax’s versatility from cutting wood to shaving and keeping pace with daily life in the forest.
MGM presents a Technicolor summer musical featuring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly with Eddie Bracken Gloria De Haven Marjorie Main and Phil Silvers. Garland and Kelly perform multiple solo and duo numbers plus a big square dance jive production. Nita Bieber also showcases a spicy South American specialty. The song list includes If You Feel Like Singing Sing Happy Harvest Dig Dig Dig For Your Dinner Memry Island and Get Happy.
Roddy McDowall stars in a new outdoor drama shot at Mt. Whitney Lumber Company camps in the High Sierras. The production used a Johnsondale mill, mill pond, commissary, offices, forests, and mobile equipment worth 250 000 including tractors cranes and trucks. Opened Sunday at the Fox theatre.
Washington county home near town stores most winter food in two outdoor cellars. Canned goods include 1136 quarts tomatoes 1604 quarts green beans 378 corn 194 tomato juice 46 relishes 155 plums 146 peaches 306 fruit butters and jellies plus 225 quarts frozen fruits and 128 quarts peas. A 55 gallon barrel of cabbage and salt will become kraut. 75 gallons kraut ready. No ketchup this year due to frost. Potatoes carrots parsnips salsify onions fill root cellar. crop year favorable though apples light. There are 58 patients. meals use 16–20 quarts per serving. Ainsworth singer Wilma Miller Campbell now Mrs George Campbell Navy officer and writer, featured in Saturday Evening Post stories including Tombstone Admiral.
A Navy officer who served on destroyers transports and dirigibles Akron and Macon wrote about the Macon crash in 1935 for the Post. He recently left for Tokyo to lead public relations for the Far East naval forces, with his wife considering joining him in Japan. His wife also notes he is the son of a new editor at a Springfield Illinois paper.
Mrs. Bessie Barker of Washington has qualified as a member of the Women's Quarter Million Dollar Round Table of the National Association of Life Underwriters after producing at least $250,000 in regular life insurance. The certificate, dated in Washington D C, notes 202 members from 56 companies and 39 states.
A petition by Tow a Southern Utilities Company seeks Iowa Commerce Commission approval to construct operate and maintain an electric transmission line across public lands highways streams and private lands in Washington County Iowa The proposed 7620 volt single phase wye grounded system would run from the NW quarter of Section 11 Township 75 North Range 8 West along the highway and diagonally through Section 14 with specified start and route details. The notice appears in the Iowa State Commerce Commission records and addresses public rights of way and franchise rights.
Classifieds note weekly Friday Whittaker sale barn and Thursday Kalona Sale Barn auctions. Midway Sales at Columbus Junction hosts Wednesday sales. Ollie Iowa holds Tuesday afternoon exchanges. October 16 1950 closing out sale by George A Rossman near Lone Tree. October 19 Poland China boar gilt sale at Louisa County Fairgrounds Columbus Junction starts 1:00 p.m. D H Christianson Evergreen Farms. October 28 closing out sale of household goods 436 East Third Cecil Long.
The commission fixed October thirty first 1950 at ten oclock a.m. in Des Moines Iowa for hearing the petition. Objections must be in writing in triplicate and filed at least five days before the hearing. The commission urges objectors to be represented by someone with full authority.
An estimated 250000 model railroad hobbyists operate extensive layouts across the United States. Collectively they own enough track to span eight times the nation and spend about 5000000 dollars annually on equipment and supplies.
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