Picnic at United Presbyterian Home Draws Residents and Staff
The week featured a lawn picnic at the United Presbyterian Home with about 150 attendees including many residents, staff and families. The event showcased a Caravelle quartet from Cedar Rapids Marion area singing barbershop style and honored two couples for 51 and 55 years of married life. Additional notes mention birthdays, anniversaries, visits from relatives, and a planned annual watermelon feed on the Copeland cottage lawn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caravelle
Cedar Rapids-Marion
Bruce Gillis
Karl Megchelsen
Copeland Cottage
Copeland
Senior Center Plans September Local Trips and Dinner
The Senior Center welcomes Ed Blattner back as attendance rises. Two events are set: a September 16 tour of Perfex plant and McCleery-Cummings Calendar factory with lunch at Winga's cafe, followed by a potluck dinner on September 27 with speaker John Davis of the Kidney Foundation of Iowa. Reservations advised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Blattner
Perfex
Winga’'s
McCleery - Cummings
John Davis
Kidney Foundation of Iowa, Incorporated
Iowa City
Davis
Raymond Davis
Price drop for girls YWCA activity tickets
Renewal for the 1971 72 year begins in September at the YW office with hours 8 am to 5 pm Monday to Friday and Tuesday and Friday evenings until 9 pm. Tickets cost 5 for the year covering swim dips gym classes Sugar and Spice Club and instructional activities. Renewal required for fall swim team and all past year tickets expire this month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
YWCA
Local families share moves and visits across states
Mr and Mrs Mark Bjorndal move back to Washington from Iowa City residing at 303 North Avenue B Mrs Regina Hayes now Mrs Bjorndal is a private secretary to a University of Iowa professor and her husband studies business while managing Red Carpet Travel in Iowa City George Westen family returns from Azusa California to attend grandson Paul Hubbard s wedding in Covina Assembly of God Church Pfc Martin Jerome McCarthy departs Sept 2 for duty near Frankfort Germany his wife Judy to join him later Charles McConnell returns from the west with Wendell Boeing engineer tour of Seattle Mt Lake Terrace then Boise Idaho visit to daughter Linda Mangold family from Westport Conn arrive for visit Harold Mangold and E L Edmondsons of Brighton host the guests from Cedar Rapids area and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Bjorndal
Washington
Iowa City
North Avenue
Bjorndal
Regina Hayes
University of Iowa
University
George Westen
Azusa
Calif
Florence Westen Hubbard
Paul B. Hubbard
Florence
Blythe A. Hubbard
Assembly of God
Covina
Martin Jerome McCarthy
Frankfort
Germany
United States Army
Judy
Keith Vetters
Charles McConnell
West
Wendell
Boeing
Seattle
Mt. Lake Terrace
Boise
Idaho
John Ranft
Linda
Area school lunch menus Week of September 6
Washington and Mid Prairie schools preview weekly menus starting Monday with no school at Washington. Meals include creamed dried beef on biscuit and spaghetti with meat at Washington, and Little Smokies with parsley potatoes at Mid Prairie Tuesday. Wednesday offerings feature spaghetti and meatballs and toss salad, with Jello fruit salad. Thursday presents hamburger patties and pork patties with sides, while Friday serves baked beans with wieners and spinach. Milk accompanies every meal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mid-Prairie
WACO
Pre-nuptial shower honors Rhonda Kindred at Grace Hill
Rhonda Kindred was honored at a miscellaneous bridal shower hosted by Mrs. John Johnson and Mrs. Richard Hayes at the Grace Hill Community Building. The event featured guest introductions and gift presentation with assistance from Lucetta Hayes and Connie Baker of Wayland. Relatives of the bride and groom attended, and pink and white decor graced the tea table. A weekly school lunch menu for the Washington Evening Journal is listed for the days ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhonda Kindred
Grace Hill
John Johnson
Richard Hayes
Lucetta Hayes
Connie Baker
Wayland
Bride Elect
Bill Kindred
Helen Dickerson
Ainsworth
Jane Shephard
Sarah
May graduate joins nursing program at Fort Des Moines
Marsha Ann Brock, a May graduate of Washington High School, joins the Walter Reed Army Institute of Nursing program with concurrent Army enlistment. She will study two years at Upper Iowa College Fayette Iowa, then transfer to Walter Reed and the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Brock is daughter of Mr and Mrs Delbert W Brock 909 North Seventh Avenue Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marsha Ann Brock
Washington High School
Walter Reed Army Institute of Nursing
Fort Des Moines
Army Nurse Corps
Brock
Upper Iowa College
Fayette
Iowa
Walter Reed Army Hospital
University of Maryland School of Nursing
Marsha
Delbert W. Brock
North Seventh Avenue, Washington
Schwengel pushes for campaign finance reform in Congress
Iowa congressman Fred Schwengel at a Davenport news conference denounces current election laws as a farce and urges House action on reform. He notes Senate action and outlines proposed spending limits including 5 cents per voting age, $30,000 floor for broadcast spending, $30,000 bid on non broadcast spending, full reporting, and a $25,000 contribution cap for candidates and families.
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Davenport
UPI
Iowa
Fred Schwengel
Congress
Schwengel
Senate
House
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Megchelsen
Robert Megchelsen
Tom
Ann
Merle Simpsons
Austin
Texas
Gerard Megchelsen
Stewart Hall
Blanche Stephens
John Moffett
Mary Masson
George Masson, Jr
Myrtle Meyer
Richard Meyer
Steve Meyer
Bolder
Cole
Mary Holmes
Joe
Bellflower
Edna Sherriff
Robert Boles
Indianola
Muscatine
Peter van Liere
Heather
Eleanor Cresswell
Theodore Allebach
Mrs. Waldo Patton
Miss Frances Patton
Conesville
Sylvia Plotts
Plotts
Betty McCall
David
Annapolis
Maryland
By Grace Kerr
Gad
George K
Kenton) Mangold
Susan
Westport
Conn
Cedar Rapids
Harold Mangolds
E. L. Edmondsons
Brighton
Rhonda
Washington Evening Journal
Cyril Kenney Ritter
Mt. Pleasant
Jacqueline Denise Zear
Journal
Vel Te Mel
Chuck Parkinson
Clark Brothers Clowns
Wharton
Charro Gomez
The
Imperials
Madison
Jimmy Dean
Sun Art
Osincup’s
Longsleeve Boys
East Side Square
L. G. Robertson
Waco Drive-in
Wolf's Flower Shop
Fdig State Bank
Washington, Iowa
Osincup Drug Store
Augers
Washington County Farm Store
Kalona, Iowa
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