Voters Shun Party Labels In Muscatine Primary System
Muscatine city records show 1 249 Republicans 158 Democrats among 9 766 registered voters 14 4 percent affiliated in primaries. Nonpartisan municipal elections and limited precinct registration dampen turnout as Iowa requires reports to the secretary of state.
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Florence Mason
Muscatine
Iowa
Keith Schultz
Des Moines
Harold Hughes
Marshalltown
Keokuk
Dubuque
Mason
Leach Family Returns to Norfolk Assignment
Marvin Wayne Leach, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Leach of Rt. 3 Muscatine, left Sunday for Norfolk Virginia to serve a two year term after a year and a half in the Navy reserves studying communications in Davenport. No permanent address received.
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Marvin Wayne Leach
Dwight Leach
Rt. 3
Muscatine
Norfolk
Navy
Davenport
Mad Creek Repair Work Awarded to Buchanan Brothers
The Rock Island district of the corps of engineers awarded Buchanan Brothers Construction Co. of Kansas City Kan. a 34080 contract to lease two crawler draglines four dump trucks two crawler end loaders and one crawler tractor with bulldozer. Work covers removing silt flood debris repairing rock riprap levee sections and regrading levee fill along the Mad Creek flood protection project from the mouth to north of Sixth Street.
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Rock Island
Corps of Engineers Today
Buchanan Brothers Construction Company
Kansas City
Kan
Mad Creek
Sixth Street
Fifth Street
Library Use Drops in July at P M Musser
Public library activity faded in July as heat kept patrons away. Circulation fell to 8,929, down 2,111 from July 1965, with 127 new borrowers and 23 removals for a total 1,429. Adult nonfiction was 40 percent. 76 adult and 31 juvenile books added. total volumes 57,814 after 522 withdrawals. Three Louisa County Association for Retarded Children members joined a four county Montrose meeting to discuss federal funds for Southeast Iowa facilities. a November follow up planned.
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P. M. Musser Public Library
Louisa County Association For
Montrose
Henry
Des Moines
Lee
Louisa
Richard Herlein
Bill Slater
Bess Jones
Iowa
French West Indies Students Begin Midwest Visit
Six students from the French West Indies begin a U.S. State Department student exchange tour in the Midwest. They travel with interpreter James F. Khawly, speak English, and are accompanied by profiles of Anastasie Bourquin, Jacques Gerard Dupont, William Brivan, Christian Benoit Rhinan, Marie Bernadette Saljeron, and Yolene de Vassoigne, all making their first trip to the United States. The group includes Cayenne and Fort de France natives with studies in Lycees and collaborations with La Flamme high school cooperative.
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Muscatine
el Salvador
French West Indies
James F. Khawly
Miami
Fla
U. S. State Department
Khawly
Yolene de Vassoigne
Marie Bernadette Salleron
Martinque
William Brivan
Guadeloupe
Anastasie Bourquin
French Guiana
Jacques Gerard Dupont
Christian Benoit Rhinan
United States
U.S. State Department
North America
Cayenne
Lycee Fe
Six Eboue
Surinam
la Fere
France
Lycee Gerville- Reache
Barbados
Canada
Saint-Claude
Lycee Bimbridge
Trinidad
Thorn
Trois Rivieres
Guade- Houpe
Muscatine Journal Local News Rights Statement
The Muscatine Journal prints daily except Sundays and holidays, a Lee Enterprises member, at 301 E Grand St Muscatine Iowa 52761. It is a second class matter entered in Muscatine post office under act of March 1979. AP holds exclusive rights to local news and AP dispatches.
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Muscatine Journal
Lee Enterprises
E Gral St
Muscatine
Iawa
Java
Associated Press
AP News
Subscriptions Rates for Muscatine News Delivery
Subscription rates listed include delivered by carrier within Muscatine at per month in advance and daily by carrier outside Muscatine at forty cents a week. Mail subscriptions: within fifty miles of Muscatine twelve dollars a year, over fifty miles twenty dollars a year. Office hours eight am to five pm daily, Saturday eight am to one pm. Special delivery for missed papers runs until six thirty. Contact 264-2341.
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City of
Muscat
Muscatine
Afl
Weather to Stay Pleasant and Warmer on Wednesday
Sunny skies and pleasant temperatures prevail across Iowa with cooler readings than Monday. Highs today ranged from the upper 70s to lower 90s in various cities, with overnight lows mainly in 58 to 60. Tonight should be milder in the southeast, then Wednesday warms to upper 70s northeast to mid 80s southwest.
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Towa
Mason City
Waterloo
Des Moines
Davenport
Spencer
Davyenport
Sheriff's Men Seek Grave Of Child Dead Since 1838
Muscatine county sheriff department staff search for the grave of Nancy M. Shelley infant daughter of pioneer settlers who died in 1838. Deputy Sheriff Bob Miller reports progress and seeks burial location details from local residents.
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Sheriff's Men
Muscatine County
Union Hits LBJ Bid In Airline Strike Settlement
Washington AP report on President Johnson stepping into airline strike talks, later seen as a political miss as Machinist Union rejects terms. Congress and White House weigh impact on labor bids and cost of living. Nearby, a grave marker for a child found along a rural road in central Montpelier township prompts a sheriff appeal for public help to locate the grave.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
White House
Oliver Heads Rodeo Prize Money List
Oliver heads the Rodeo Cowboys Association standings with $23,894 in all events and $15,827 in calf roping, moving toward a fourth straight all-around title. Other leaders include Marty Wood in saddle bronc with $11,953, Paul Mayo in bare back bronc with $16,485, Bob Wegner in bull riding with $12,430, Wait Linderman in steer wrestling with $13,564, Ken Luman in team roping with $8,058, and Olin Young in steer roping with $3,585.
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Oliver
Denver
Dean Oliver
Boise
Idaho
Rodeo Cowboys Association
Marty Wood
Bowness
Alia
Paul Mayo
Grimwell
Town
Bob Wegner
Auburn
Wash
Wait Linderman
Belfry
Mont
Ken Luman
Merced
Calif
Olin Young
Peralta
N.M
Army Reserve Meeting Postponed to 8 PM Tonight
Local Army Reserve unit postpones tonight's gathering from 7 to 8 p.m. Channel 6 TV airs a 6 30 program featuring film scenes of Co A 495th Engineer Battalion at summer camp Camp McCoy Wisconsin.
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Army Reserve Tonight
Channel 6 TV
Co. A
495Th Engineer Battalion
Camp McCoy
Wisc
Goods Missing From Car At Park Avenue Coin Wash
Minnie Harter of route 2 told police Monday night that about $8 worth of household articles were stolen from her car parked at a Park avenue coin wash.
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Charles Weggen
Breese Avenue
Minnie Harter
Route 2
Park Avenue
Curtail Court During August in Muscatine District
Muscatine district court sessions will run on an abbreviated August schedule. Judge R K Stohr has left for a month in Boulder Colorado. Judge M L Sutton of Clinton will preside the first two Tuesdays and Thursdays. Judge Arthur F Janssen will handle the remaining Tuesdays and Thursdays through August 25. Court opens at 2 p.m. on those days.
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Muscatine District
R. K. Stohr
Boulder
Colo
M. L. Sutton
Clinton
Arthur F. Janssen
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