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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1949
Page
8
A Washington Evening Journal reader voices views on honesty, energy sources, and public policy. The letter touches on reformers, population shifts, shale oil, atomic power, truth in Russia, and the Iowa sterilization board. It argues for straightforward journalism and warns against regimentation.
A writer piles through desk clutter and mailings from magazines and companies. He notes recycled excerpts from Readers Digest, tax data, federal farm price outlook, water reclamation plans, and political notes while discarding 52 items that yielded nothing for his column.
The term standard matched refers to the upper lip of the groove being thicker than the lower. The lower lip thickness is constant across standard flooring thicknesses, so the gap between lips grows larger as flooring thickness increases.
Milford Nebraska residents Mrs. Sarah Trabert and Melvin Trabert with Karen visit Sarah's sister Mrs. Lizzie Widmer and brothers J C Dave Jonathan and Simon Graber and other kin. Many relatives share a picnic dinner at Stringtown school in honor of the Traberts. The Iowa State Commerce Commission set October 25 1949 for a franchise hearing in Des Moines Docket B-9298.
Washington reports a drop in farmland demand and prices. The July 1 value of farm real estate fell 3 percent from the peak, with seven states still rising. California farmland down 12 percent and Florida 11 percent. During the year ended last March, 17 percent fewer farms changed hands than the previous year.
The Great Barrier Reef, the world’s longest barrier reef, lies off the eastern coast of Australia. It stretches parallel to the shore for about 1,200 miles, highlighting the nation’s rich marine environment.
The Iowa Southern Utilities Company files with the Iowa State Commerce Commission for a franchise to construct operate and maintain electric transmission lines including poles wires towers and conduits across public lands highways streams and private lands in a described area of Washington County Iowa and within the village of Nira. The petition covers 2300 volt lines in Section 17 and adjacent sections described by township and range and includes rights to occupy streets alleys and public places in Nira and nearby sections.
The Iowa State Commerce Commission approves that the objector be represented at the hearing by an agent with full authority to act. The commission names David B. Long chairman Carl W. Reed commissioner B M Richardson commissioner. Attest George L McCaughan secretary. Dated Des Moines Iowa September 12 1949.
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