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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1948
Page
8
The National Safety Council reports a 3 percent drop in total traffic fatalities for the first nine months of 1948 compared with the same period in 1947. September 1948 saw 5,040 fatalities, reversing prior declines after 2,920 deaths in September 1947.
Plan to establish plantations resistant to insects and disease and to use fast-growing tree varieties to ease Europe’s timber shortage as part of a broader forestry strategy.
Cattle and sheep items from a regional market: loads of fed steers and heifers vary by weight with highs around 30.75 for 875 lb heifers and 24 plus for Canadian grassers. Slaughter cattle mostly steady to weak and lambs trending up modestly, with totals around 1700 head including 1500 cattle and 1500 sheep. Continuous notes indicate weaker bulls and cows with some steadiness in canners and cutters.
The Chicago produce market shows poultry at steady with 29 trucks and no price change. Eggs in mixed browns and whites total 5,559 cases with a weak market. Extras range 60 to 80 percent, standard eggs 42 to 60, current receipts 42 to 44, checks 35 to 356 mg.
Actor William Haade says breakfast in bed keeps husbands content and would cut divorces if more wives served it. He praises his wife Anna and notes his silver wedding anniversary as proof while Republic's Exposed plays at the Fox Theatre.
Mrs Eldon Bauer led the Week of Prayer and Self Denial with the theme Light and Life to All He Brings. Members presented gifts of money during songs at a taper lit table to support annual program projects. Social hour refreshments were served by Mrs Paul Griffith, Mrs Bauer and Mrs Frank Kleese.
Washington's junior high football team meets Ft. Madison at Case Field Saturday at 2 30 in their final game. Coach Glen Hall's squad has defeated Mt. Pleasant and fallen to Muscatine in Little Six play. The season will move into basketball and track after this game.
The Mission study group of the Methodist church of West Chester met Wednesday afternoon at Mrs C E Griffiths home with twenty in attendance. Mrs Roy Gardner reviewed the first two chapters of the new study book Chima Twilight or Dawn and members passed and read cards with facts about China. Mrs Gardner closed with a Grace Noel Crowell poem.
Northwestern faces Ohio State in a key Big Nine showdown that could shape Rose Bowl hopes. Northwestern seeks a win to secure a Christmas bid for coach Bob Voigts and his star players, while Ohio State aims to disrupt the Wildcats' surge.
Philip Lenzi a London confectioner announced in the New York Gazette that ice cream could be had at his shop most every day. The ad marks the first known ice cream advertisement in the paper dated May 19 1777.
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