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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1968
Page
2
Washington UPI reports a Senate ready to pass a one year farm bill extending current programs to 1970 with a possible hitch over a $20,000 ceiling on annual payments to individual farmers. Conferees set December 30 1970 expiration and total program funding at 825 million for the life of the food stamp program.
The Kiwanis Club held its annual family picnic indoors at the Captain's Table after weather canceled Sunset Park plans. About 100 people attended the sociable evening with food and table hopping, and members were reminded of the Cedar Rapids district convention and ongoing ticket sales for the travelogue series.
Maxine A. Ulin 46 died at home September 19 1968 after a long illness. She was a beauty operator and ran Wellman laundromat and cleaners. Services set for 10 a.m. Saturday at Wellman Asbury United Methodist Church. Burial in Wellman Cemetery. Survived by husband Cedric and two daughters Marcy Ann and Tina Leigh, mother Nell Adams. Burial by Powell Funeral Home. Visitation after 7 p.m. today. Born March 22 1922 in Iowa City.
The Toastmasters Club gathered Wednesday at 7 p m at the Captain s Table with Frank Patterson as toastmaster. Bernard McCarthy led table topics and five minute talks were delivered by John Lemmon on Drama of Gold and the Players Joe Martin on Freedom is Not Free and John Ganon on Humor in Your Home Town Arthur Edwards of Moline, visiting governor of Toastmasters, assisted as the special guest to help prepare for the humorous speech contest on October 13.
The YMCA offers a beginners' bridge class that begins Monday with room for about a dozen more students. The class size is limited to forty and has proven successful after eight lessons. It meets two hours on Monday evenings and details are available by telephone.
Washington area residents form a community chorus sponsored by the YMCA. Thor McMillen directs rehearsals Mondays 8 to 10 pm at the Y Adult Center. Openings in tenor and alto. dues total five dollars yearly. bring music back if not continuing. Don Pearl is president and Ruth Englestad secretary treasurer.
Columbus Junction Lewis Newell is re elected president of the Columbus Community School Board. Charles Jenkins is re elected vice president. The board secretary is Mrs. Lois Whisler.
Both banks in Columbus Junction will stay open until 6 p.m. each Friday starting this week, a change from summer hours when Friday closings ran until 8 p.m. Scouts of Troop 242 St. James plan a fundraising breakfast at St. James school cafeteria this Sunday September 22 after each Mass. public invited.
Mr and Mrs Merle Statler returned home Tuesday evening from Derby Kansas where they visited Mr and Mrs Marvin Statler and Mr and Mrs Merle Stone Their grandson Robert Polson has been discharged from the army and was home also Lane W Jarvis son of Mr and Mrs Carl Jarvis near Brighton and his wife are now near Ames Lane enrolled as a freshman at Iowa State University and Mrs Jarvis commutes to Des Moines for work at the State House Mr and Mrs Jon C Jarvis of Nutley NJ flew to Honolulu for a week long vacation They will return to San Francisco to visit Mr and Mrs Taylor S Jarvis and see their new home at Hayward in the San Francisco area Both men are sons of the Carl Jarvises Mrs John Dodd who lives at Maplewood Manor Keota will celebrate her 90th birthday Sunday September 22
Funeral services for Mrs. Arthur Lambert will be held Saturday at 1 30 p.m. in the Jones Funeral Home Rev Richard Peterson will conduct the rites and burial will be in Keota Cemetery Mrs Lambert died at the hospital here Wednesday
Hubert H. Humphrey campaigned in Massachusetts with Sen Edward Kennedy at his side as he prepared a Boston speech. He urged unity with House Democrats and claimed the nation must choose to keep moving forward. Nixon faced picketing and heckling as he contemplated his first exposure. O'Brien said most McCarthy and RFK supporters were now backing Humphrey.
Admitted yesterday were Mrs. Joe Richards Washington surgical Mrs. Lester Walby Washington medical Dismissed today were Lewis J Goodlander Washington Mrs Laura Stewart Riverside Mrs Rudolph Bonnichsen Columbus Junction
Authorities recovered license plates stolen from a Town and Country Plymouth in Cedar Rapids. The plates were found on a car reported stolen in Davenport, Iowa, and traced to Kirksville, Missouri for recovery. Douglas Lee Clara han serves ten days in county jail for intoxication after appearing before Justice of the Peace Richard Hotle. The Cedar Rapids board of education for Cedar, Johnson, Linn and Washington Counties schedules a meeting for September 23 at 6 30 p.m. at 305 Second Avenue SE with superintendent Dwight G. Bode.
North Carolina ranks second to Texas in the number of farms within its boundaries, highlighting a strong agricultural footprint. The data underscores NC's sizable farming sector and ecosystem compared with other states.
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