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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1969
Page
4
A Washington Iowa Evening Journal humor column reflects on changing slang from the hippie era. The piece lists old and new meanings for terms like groovy pot and beatnik phrases, noting the linguistic shift and ends with the author’s farewell and the date September 30, 1969.
Abigail Van Buren offers several letters about domestic housing honesty and relationships. A landlady disputes a single room rental after a couple moves in and a professor’s private life is questioned. Other readers share warnings about wedding rings and a widowed electrician’s fatal accident. Abby advises practical responses and urges reflection on respect and safety.
Dublin Community Center welcomed more than 200 people during a weekend open house with coffee cookies and doughnuts served on both afternoons.
The Card-Pac program, a five year old Iowa initiative asking students to answer questions on personal traits such as study habits, is being dropped due to loss of federal funds. Assistant Superintendent W. T. Edgren said it will not continue in the 1969 70 school year.
A column by L. M. Boyd features a Cleveland wife divorcing after six years to pursue art, aided by her savings from a daily dime given by her husband. The piece intertwines quirky anecdotes on crime, markets, rabbits, botanicals, and gender wage gaps, ending with reader questions to Boyd.
The Rev. Robert G. Johnson, associate secretary for missionary recruitment for the American Baptist Foreign Mission Societies, will speak at 7:30 p.m. October 2 at the First Baptist Church in Wellman. He recently returned from Burma where he served as a Baptist missionary since 1946, focusing on translating the Bible into Haka Chin, revising about 450 hymns, and supervising the construction of a stone church seating one thousand that was dedicated in April 1966. He also taught at the Chin Bible School and previously led the Zomi Baptist School as teacher and principal.
In a regional contract bridge play, Bill Flannery uses an artificial two diamond bid to reveal hand shape and point count. Partner responds two no trump, leading to Blackwood inquiries and a grand slam in four notrump with South showing 4-5-4-0 distribution and two red suits.
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