Weekend Visitors and Local Social Roundup
Local residents hosted and visited over Labor Day weekend with gatherings across Washington and surrounding towns. Notable guests included families from Des Moines, Fulton, Elmhurst, Dubuque, and Burlington, plus trips to San Francisco, Catalina Island, and Laguna Beach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilma Nordyke
Washington
West Coast
Grace Nordyke
Los Angeles
Calif
San Francisco
Catalina Island
Laguna Beach
Raymond Crone
Catherine
Wisconsin Dells
Guy Carlton
Dubuque
William
Regiment Rest and Cold Storage Tips From Korea Report
In Korea a full regiment relaxes after ten days front duty taking baths and laundry by a river. Soldiers share river bath memories as GI Homer McKinney recalls landing on Makin Island. The piece blends homefront tips on freezing meat with wartime diary scenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Db. Quigg
Korea
Army Air Forces
Infantry
Makin Island
Pte
Homer McKinney
Atlanta
804Th Aviation Engineers
Start on funds for Washington airport tied to junior college training
Ten years ago a preliminary effort began to secure funds needed for the Washington airport project. The funding is deemed essential to initiate the junior college pilot training course as planned and keep the program on schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Burroughs Wins First Patent for Adding Machine
William S Burroughs a bank clerk turned machinist and inventor received his first patent in 1888 for the first adding machine His two core ideas the pivot principle and the locked keyboard aimed to prevent errors after totals were computed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William S. Burroughs
Passenger car lengths vary from sixty to eighty eight feet
Readable data notes passenger cars range in length from about 60 feet to 88 feet with the average near 1 foot outside overall measurements. Most newer passenger cars are 85 feet long.
Two Week Visit Notable in Boone From Evanston Guests
Mr and Mrs Edward Sherlock of Evanston Illinois spent a weekend in Boone with Mrs Sherlocks mother Mrs C W Stewart and aunt Eva Denny. Mr Sherlock returned home yesterday and Mrs Sherlock will stay for a two week visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. C. Hebensberger
Denver, Colo
O. C. Boshart
Will B. Jones
Indianola
Pi-Phi
Simpson College
Grover Custer
Darlene
Carl Gilitsie
Palmyra, Missouri
Carroll Warford
Leanne
Newton
Laverne Ragger
Keith
Carol
Joe Cavault
Guthrie Center
Jim Stewart
Byron Snider
George Latta
George Jr
Cyntha
Fulton, Mo
James Latta
Jerry
Jimmy
Nancy
Elmhurst
Needham Young
Cedar Rapids
Paul Ilarlan
Richland
Duane Griggs
Barbara
Cheryl
Snider
Harm Stubbe
George
Iowa
Tucson
Ariz
Clarence Goff
Tom Wolfe
Burlington
George Zeck
Goff's
Stubbe
Clark Gormiey
Baltimore
Howard Crozier
Gormley
Alice Gormley
Seattle
Wash
Walter Tabor
Washington
Eva Gormley
Ida Paisley
United Prresbyterian
Paisley
Crawford
Lyle Box
Ray Box
Mr. Box
Wis
George Williams College
Chicago
Richard Tughest
Washington, D. C
George Kerr
Pittsburgh
Board of “Directors
United Presbyterian Home
Robert White
Edward Sherlock
Evanston, Ill
Vanished Arctic Land and Its shrinking Inuit Population
An expanse of about 70 000 square miles in northern Alaska stretches from the Brooks Range to the Arctic coast. Two or three generations ago it housed over 3 000 nomad caribou hunters, tall Eskimos with Athabascan intermixing. Now fewer than 40 remain alive in a single group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska
Brooks Mountains
Arctic
Births Reported At Local Hospital
At the hospital dismissed today Mrs Francis Lauderdale and son from Pleasant Plain. Births yesterday include a son for Mr and Mrs Arlos Neffinegger in city at 1 48 p.m. a son for Mr and Mrs Charles Chalu pa of Ainsworth at 5 25 p.m. a daughter for Mr and Mrs Clifford W Leeper of Brighton at 9 40 p.m. a daughter for Mr and Mrs Ivan EB King of Grinnell at 10 45 p.m. Today Mr and Mrs Joe Serren Harper welcomed a son at 12 02 a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arlos Neffinegger
City
Charles Chalupa
Ainsworth
Clifford W. Leeper
Brighton
Ivan EB. King
Grinnell
Joe Serren Harper
Soldiers recollect shore leave talks amid war memory
Veterans recall ashore moments in 1943 with friends from Wilmington Delaware Atlanta Georgia and Mancelona Michigan. They discuss censors deleting words in wartime pieces and compare battlefield experiences with tanks air power and a North Korean banzai attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Su4th
Hermans Salz
Wilmington
Del
William M. Edge
Atlanta
Donald Patton
Mancelona
Mich
Also Mentioned on This Page
Charlene Brown
Homer Baird
Nevada
7Th Adventist Oak Park Academy
Baird
Charlene
Janet Tucker
Clara Faulkner
Alfred Faulkner
Moline
Stanley Fishburn
University Hospital
E. D. Crossett
Don Crossett
Stevie
Minnie Hazen
M. M. Crossett
A. J. Baschnagel
Des Moines
H. K.’. Bleifuss
Niane
Donna
Galesburg, Ill
Adolph Shalla
Beverly
Karen
Douglas
Barbara Etter
Bor
Wari Tressell
Town Falls
W. T. McIntyre
Tarkio, Mo
Tarkio College
Law
C. F. Letts
Hughes
California
Wendell Baker
Mary Gale Letts
New York City
Vera Wolfe
Bernard Wolfe
Eldon
Glenn Barclay
Robert Barclay
West Liberty
Iowa City
Allan Barclay
University of Iowa
Deanne Rinmner
Deanne
Iowa State College
Marian Inner
BE. S. Mullett
Ezra Wittmer
Wayland
St. Peter, Minn
Swedish Lutheran College
Freeman, S. Oak
Lelander
Eicher
C. B. Dusenberry
Dusenberry
Dan T. Edwards
Bloomfield
Mrs. Mae Bentley
H. D. Quigg
Tuscan
THUR
FBI
SAT
Don Barry
Robert Lowery
Huaudete Colbert
Robert Ryan
Wolf’s Flower Shop
Uggist
The
Washington Evening Journal
Your Home Daily Newspaper
American Zionist Organization
Truman
White House
Abraham J. Multer
New York
Benjamin G. Brawdy
International
Boone
Northern
Francis Lauderdale
Pleasant Plain
Kiple & DePrenger Furniture Company
Pin
Speedway
Fred Byers
Rath
Ham
Kenneth Dunwoody
Carl Steele
Louisa Gold Butter
Speedway Market
East Side Square
Clifford Nicholson
Daddy
Milwaukee
Camp Pendleton
Cal
Robert Nicholson
Marines
all-Milwaukee
18Th Infantry Battalion
Edge
Airforce
Air Force
Salz
Patton
Sol Bloom
Congressional Directory
Charlie
Leroy Brown
St. Each
Mace Motor
FORD
Mercury
Hormel
Rust
Farmers Store
North Iowa
R.C. Wead
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