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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1966
Page
2
Washington County CAP board heard about Head Start dental care and budget considerations. Discussion covered multi purpose centers, Day Care, Welite and Employment offices, plus counseling and Job Corps. Next meeting announced for Mount Pleasant Oct 3. guests invited.
Daughters of the American Revolution marked Constitution Day with a four o clock meeting at the Log cabin in Sunset Park. Mrs. Robert Clark led an English view of Our Constitution discussion. a memorial service for deceased member Mrs. J C Carris was given by Mrs. EB Ward. business and a cooperative supper followed. The Guild girls of First Baptist held a wiener roast and potluck at Sunset Park with 14 members and 5 guests. Washington County Club invites members to a Saturday dance at the club house with a chuck wagon on site and reservations by Thursday through the Country Club or John Logan.
Jim Moyer will attend the Ite College of Iowa majoring in industrial arts. Ardelle C. Hasty, discharged after 20 years in the army, will serve 11 months in the Marshall Islands, address Box 1274 APO San Francisco. Sister Kieran McCarthy visits B H McCarthy. Pat McGinnis travels from Briar Cliff College to Chicago and New York. Families in Des Moines, Marengo, Harper, Hedrick, Wellman, Keota share gatherings and support others headed to University of Iowa.
Joe Jones of Washington is one of nine students who completed the 1966 FS Summer Internship Program, ending Friday. An agronomy major at Iowa State University, he spent the summer at the Farm Bureau Service Company in Benton County, Vinton, Iowa. The FS Services sponsored program blends summer work with study to teach cooperative business goals and offer on the job training with potential FS placement.
A fragmented Washington Iowa newspaper record lists staff including Editor David Elder Business Manager William Shannon Advertising Director Charles Morris News Editor Bob Shatter and Local Advertising Howard Hazen with Inland Daily Press Association and United Press Leased Wire noting circulation audit by Inland Daily Press Association and Audit Bureau of Circulations.
Dennis Stutrud was named today as residential chairman for the 1966 Community Chest appeal in Washington. Co chairing the residential area is Keith Lord. They will begin solicitation with ten five member teams on October 6, driving through October 9 in one of the shortest drives in the history of the United Community Appeal.
Charles Long of Riverside was fined $15 and costs in Justice of the Peace Holden's court Tuesday after being arrested by city police following an altercation in front of a local tavern.
Washington firemen answered an eight thirty p m call at the corner of West Second and North Avenue B to a blaze on an asphalt roller used in city street construction. Bruce Gambach the roller operator and L J Osborn Company employee tried to smother the flames with a hydrant hose and suffered minor burns. Firemen extinguished the fire with chemical foam.
Morning rain brought relief to the Washington area with .36 of an inch measured by 7 a.m. and more rain to follow. The observer notes rainfall year to date is 2.49 inches below normal, with August at .29 inch and July at 2.09 inches, concerns for farmers.
Truman Yoder 70 of Kalona died at University hospital after an auger fell while being lifted from a hole on the Waldo Fisher farm near Wellman. He was taken from the scene to Town City hospital and pronounced dead Tuesday afternoon. Surviving are his widow Sadie Knepp a sister trio and two brothers. he was born March 10 1896 in Washington County and had lived his life in the Kalona area.
Miss Edna Sherriff conducted the Litera ture Department meeting at Fortnight in Mrs. A S Smith’s home. Miss Margaret Applegate reviewed In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Federated Women's Club convention set for Oct 13 in Williamsburg. Refreshments served by Mrs. Maurice Meyer. guests Mrs. Ross Copeland and Miss Martha Glass.
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