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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1950
Page
5
A 1950 editorial column discusses daily personal sacrifice, political integrity, and voter leadership. It questions campaign ethics, franking mail, and government spending while offering guidance on surviving atomic threats and maintaining calm civic resolve. It notes inflation trends and subversive elements amid ongoing security concerns.
The chamber will hold a dinner at 7 p m at the Washington country club with a turkey dinner. Wives are invited. Tickets are 125 cents. Tickets available at Ainsworth Meat and.
R. E. Shannon of Washington will be the speaker at the meeting, delivering remarks on the program and its goals.
Bruce Cowden muses on organizing local barber shop quartets in Washington. He cites a Des Moines contest win by a small Iowa town quartet and suggests clubs here form groups to compete in a Burlington Rotary duck dinner contest. He notes past local ensembles and urges community interest and action despite lacking musical expertise.
The report notes eight Iowa hospital projects under the federal hospital construction program with six now open in Red Oak Bloomfield Greenfield Winterset Manchester and Maquoketa. Total costs reach 18.5 million dollars, about 9 000 to 16 000 dollars per bed, with Fairfield Sac City Keosauqua Waukon and West Union projects progressing, while Washington county funded its own hospital plan.
The brief item notes three Chicago men converting a passenger car with a diesel engine at a cost near a dollar per person. They paid little for travel besides coffee and packed sandwiches. Engine added 25 pounds, 34 mpg, speeds around 38 mph with rain delays. potential 70 to 99 mph on the Pennsylvania turnpike under favorable conditions.
The Rock Island railroad releases its Oct 20 crop report estimating yields for corn and soybeans across 14 states. The reviewer finds no major discouragement despite a lower corn forecast in Iowa and nationwide. The mail shows Rock Island operates lines in 66 of Iowa’s 99 counties.
Kansas has 41 counties, Missouri 23, Oklahoma 20. Washington county stands as the principal railroad hub touching nine of our 15 townships. Iowa’s estimated corn yield is 447 million bushels, with 292 million in Rock Island counties. Last year’s state yield was 553 million bushels. The forecast for Ill:
Iowa remains a major soybean state with an estimated 38 million bushels, including 32 million in counties served by the railroad. The state ranks second to Illinois in soybeans, with Iowa’s yield up by ten million bushels from last year as Iowa trails nearby states in corn by ten million bushels.
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