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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1967
Page
4
Editorial tone recalls Peter guiding disciples toward perfection and urged aiming at holiness. A businessman endures a long IRS session and quips that he wishes the Indians had fought harder, illustrating wartime spirit and impatience in a brief local column style.
A long time friend Horace Allen and his wife Catherine Gallagher visit relatives in Washington. The reminiscences cover school days, athletic leadership, strategies for games, and a humorous barber shop shaving episode. A Iowa visitor comments on a fig tree sight, a student jokes about history length, and a floating kidney worry leads to a pastor’s quip. The piece closes with light, local anecdotes.
A reader in Phoenix Iowa recalls Dr J C Boice and a Keokuk Medical School graduate. They discuss Kipling lines, a country doctor diary about a pneumonia patient fed mouldy bread, and a question if mould could aid healing. The note folds in local clubs and a bid for debate on progress from accidents.
Local items list travels from Washington to Cedar Falls Madison Wis and Minneapolis reunion for the 90th division. Roller rink trade show in Des Moines. New York trip for Jones and Leavitt as top salesmen. Navy duty returnees and Korea football team chatter. College and church notices, obituaries, and school events fill a busy period.
The executive council outlines relocation of state agencies to the Valley Bank Building and Lab Building to ease chronic space shortages. Commerce liquor and conservation boards move to Valley Bank. archives to Lab Building. Department of Public Instruction to the new office building with space for archives and aging commission, among others.
Washington Evening Journal published afternoons except Sunday Christmas and July 4th in Washington Iowa with staff including David Elder editor and business manager William Shannon advertising director Charles Morris news editor Bob Shaffer local advertising Howard Hazen production superintendent. United Press Leased Wire Inland Daily Press Assn Iowa Daily Press Assn Iowa Press Assn Audit Bureau of Circulations. Mail subscription rates listed for Iowa and outside Iowa with per week by carrier in Washington.
The piece surveys recent reference books and fiction for all ages, noting additions such as The Oxford Companion to the Theatre, The Flying Saucer Reader, Your Social Security Medicare Guide, Eden Was No Garden, and varied titles for children and adults, highlighting themes from theatre history to conservation and humor.
In a four spade contract South won a delicate endgame after East misread a five card trump lead. East cashed ace and returned heart, enabling South to build a long diamond series and discard a heart. The correct defense would have been a trump return to thwart dummy’s entries and diamonds.
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