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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1967
Page
5
In Des Moines IDPA reports fifty four Iowa counties now issue food stamps to low income residents for use at participating grocers. Applications from fourteen more counties are pending USDA approval, with several on file six months. The shift aims to widen food access and avoid surplus foods.
In Crawfordsville on Tuesday the Woman's Society of Christian Service met at Mrs John Hamil's home for a 9 o'clock breakfast with co hosts Mrs Harold Williams and Mrs Allen Conrad Twenty one ladies and three children attended The program covered The Harvest lesson October Is Here and Week of Prayer and Self Denial planning for a Football Dinner on October 28 Funds were raised including forty dollars for Aikings and seventy five dollars for the Mission Fund Kitchen equipment purchases were authorized for the church.
Keota Fortnightly Club met with fifteen members present as Mrs. Ruth Zehr hosted. The program featured Copenhagen Christmas Plates displayed by Mrs. Elva Statier. A kitchen towel shower honored Mrs. Nancy Story who plans to move from Keota. Next meeting is a pot luck at Mrs. Ron Shafer’s on October 23. Local social and church event notes follow.
Seaman recruit Dennis A. Schoonover USN, son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Schoonover of Washington Iowa, completed nine weeks of Navy basic training at the Naval Training Center San Diego. The program covered military subjects, seamanship, survival techniques, drill, and shore and ship station preparation under veteran petty officers.
Iowa Congressman John Culver said the American exhibit at the Odezha International Clothing and Textile Fair in Moscow was totally inadequate and a waste of money. He voiced his judgment in letters to Secretary Trowbridge and Deputy Secretary Katzenbach after visiting as head of a House Foreign Affairs Committee study mission. Culver warned the exhibit failed to impress Eastern European and Soviet buyers and noted several exhibitors pulled out to protest Soviet policy, urging reconsideration of either canceling or replacing the American display.
A speaker emphasizes the group's nonprofit status, saying it is not about making money from patients. The aim is to apply more funds to health care when needed, ensuring donations and efforts directly support care rather than profit.
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