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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1968
Page
9
Homemakers are urged to visit local electric appliance dealers to trade up to electric ranges and flameless electric dryers. The ad touts cleaner, cooler kitchens, precise heat, energy efficiency, self cleaning ovens, and convenient placement. It promotes permanent press saving ironing and versatile uses for dryers. It insists buyers will have made a clean break with the past and enter a wonderful world.
Royal Neighbors met in Keota on Thursday for their annual birthday party and business meeting. They lunched at the Golden Buckle Buffet with Mrs. Elmer Waller, Mrs. Ruth Page, and Mrs. Boyd Trier as visitors, then adjourned to Mrs. Vina Mattison’s home. Mrs. Willard Ginkens presided pro tem with ten in attendance. Mrs. Earl Chambers read the bulletin, a thank you from the Fleig family was noted, and Boyd Trier joined as a new member. A birthday gift exchange was held and refreshments were served by Mrs. Mattison. The next August meeting will be with Mrs. Earl Chambers.
Principal invites parents and citizens to elementary schools to become familiar with new instructional materials and innovations for 1968 69. Mentions Gina & Co readers, updated texts, and the speaker's schedule at Ainsworth and Riverside schools with office locations and contact through school secretaries.
Becky Miller reports the Mennonite Youth Fellowship will again park cars at the Iowa City church corner of Greenwood and Myrtle Avenues for all Iowa football games, about five blocks from the stadium. The note lists numerous local visitors and gatherings around the area.
And sons and Emma Yoder were the Sunday dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Edwin Knepp. Sonja Boyd, daughter of the J D Boyds, went to Iowa Cn Monday where she has enrolled in the School of Nursing at Mercy Hospital.
Local listings show a Tuesday schedule featuring Truth or Mod Squad Take a Thief That’s Life at 6 and 7 pm, followed by Jack LaLanne and various soap operas and game segments. News at 6 and 10 anchors the lineup with Red Skelton and Doris Day comedy and drama films interwoven through the evening.
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