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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1962
Page
3
Notices include St Rita St Joseph and other circles with times 8 p m to 10:30 p m plus events at Nazarene Church Independence Club Walnut Women’s Club and more The page also lists PTA meetings WCTU circles and social gatherings with host names and locations for the upcoming week
Thirty four members and families attended a wiener roast and potluck at the Stanley Knapp home on Tuesday evening. Guests included new neighbors Mr and Mrs Francis Litwiller and Mrs Grace Stewart. Mrs Knupp was chosen to attend an extension course on Becoming Colors for You and report back. The group discussed the annual Thanksgiving dinner and voted to donate to the YMCA for the Christmas party. A social evening followed.
Directory entry listing multiple local professionals including attorneys Stewart Shearer Morrison Owen and Morrison & Morrison, with offices on West Main and West Washington, plus dentists Dr Garrell and Dr Etter an osteopathic physician and eye care services. contains addresses and phone numbers.
Grover Custer of Washington remains in Fairfield hospital in room 213 for medical observation and invites friends to visit. Craig Neuhart, Har lan Neuhart's son, finished medical technology school second in class at Great Lakes Naval Hospital and plans to visit this weekend.
More than 100 Rotary club members from Iowa's 600th district attended a Monday institute at the YMCA in Washington. District Governor Richard Herner and Bud Moore of LeMar Missouri led sessions for presidents officers and committee chairs. Don Whitlatch Knoxville Rotary president greeted attendees and visited with friends before returning to Knoxville as a funeral director.
United Press International lists CBS Alfred Hitchcock Hour with Captive Audience starring James Mason and Angie Dickinson at 9 pm CDT. NBC Wide Country features What are Friends For at 6 30 pm CDT. Perry Mason on CBS presents The Case of the Hateful Hero at 7 pm CDT. Dr Kildare on NBC with The Mask Makers at 7 30 pm CDT. McHale's Navy on ABC A Purple Heart for Gruber at 8 30 pm CDT. Hazel on NBC Barney Hatfield Where Are You at 8 30 pm CDT Color. Andy Williams Show on NBC at 9 pm CDT with Martha Raye as guest.
Mr and Mrs Dell Walker entertained the Rosemary Club with three tables of bridge Tuesday evening. Mrs Don Brown and Earl Galloway won high scores while Charlie Wiley and Mrs Wes Lavely were low. Mrs Galloway assisted with refreshments.
First Presbyterian United Presbyterian Women circles IV and V met Tuesday evening. Circle IV hosted a cooperative dinner, with devotions by Ruth Minor and a Romans 8 lesson led by Helen Breese. Circle V, hosted by Myra Leavitt, had fourteen attendees with devotions by Rodney Letts and study from Romans 8.
The Republican Women of the first district plan a two day bus caravan October 25 and 26 visiting Davenport Muscatine Columbus Junction Mt. Pleasant Fairfield Keosauqua Donnellson Ft. Madison Burlington Wapello Washington Wellman Williamsburg Homestead Iowa City Tipton West Liberty with noted speakers Sen. Bourke Hickenlooper and Rep. Fred Schwengel joining at stops. Reservations via Mrs. P F Whisler.
The National Association of Men's Sportswear Buyers forecasts spring leaders in fabric will be seersucker in stripes and patterns, denim, and chambray with madras in lighter hues. Also notes on black lacquer furniture effect via flat wall paint and varnish steps.
UPI reports the US dairy industry may adopt rubber mattresses for cows. Tests at Beltsville and Ithaca show sleepers yield about five percent more milk and 80 percent lower risk of mastitis and tuberculosis, as the Latex Foam Rubber Council notes.
New York fireman George Planding has cooked for Rescue Squad One for 30 years guiding meals for 12 to 14, sometimes 22 during filming. NBC will air a documentary Sept 30 about their kitchen improvisations in crowded Midtown Manhattan.
In Indianapolis at Western Electric, Bell system telephones are produced at 30,000 a day and a local lab tests future designs. Vision includes home intercommunication, panel phones, and remote control, while ECO in New Jersey promises faster calls and memory dialing for frequent numbers.
In Indianapolis UPI reports experts predict the telephone will become an expanded communications device within the lifetime of most users. It will shop for the housewife at home and perform kitchen tasks for her when she is away.
James Laver, curator emeritus of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, argues that fashion cannot be prophesied by a few Paris businessmen. He maintains fashion is a deeper, evolving phenomenon not controlled by industry elites.
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