Odor complaints swirl as Muscatine plant fouls Grandview area
Residents voice frustration over a strong sewage odor drifting from Muscatine’s wastewater plant near Grandview Avenue and Musser Street. Superintendent Frank Gross cites chemical treatment and river levels as factors, with pumping delays from Papoose Creek intensifying the smell. Community calls for action. Also notes Delta Queen cruise plans and Great River Days events in August, including pageant, concerts, and parades, with a plea to support local festivities.
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Musser Street
Frank Gross
Gross
Papoose Creek
St. Paul
Get Rid of Chaplains From the Burlington mawk-eye
The author argues chaplains should not be military, proposing civilian clergy serve soldiers without military pay or discipline. He questions church state separation, advocates funding by church members, and criticizes military blessing of clergy as part of war. The piece calls for disbanding the chaplain corps yet maintains need for spiritual support on battlefields.
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Burlington
Red Cross
YMCA
USO
Cearly
Bread Aroma Tied to a Specific Chem Compound
USDA researchers isolated 1 4 5 6 tetrahydro-2 acetopyridine as the key odor in fresh bread. The compound fades quickly in air but derivatives are more stable, and spraying week old bread with a derivative can restore the aroma. Scientific American notes potential commercial applications to boost bread marketability.
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Iowa City Press-Citizen
U. S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Scientific American
Fewer Foreign Junkets From the Rocky Mountain News
Taxpayers wary of government funded travel note 1967 had the fewest congressional junkets in three years. Congressional Quarterly reports 206 members made 306 international trips in 1967, down from 243 members with 337 trips in 1966 and 233 members with 310 trips in 1965. With conventions and elections ahead, junketing may fall again, and Pent Johnson urged limiting foreign travels.
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Congress
Congressional Quarterly
Washington
United States
Pent Johnson
Law by Computer From Beaver Dam Daily Citizen
A Beaver Dam Wisconsin newspaper discusses a New York lawsuit revealing the limits of computer aided legal research. It notes that despite advances in memory banks Teletype links and automated citations cannot replace human judgment and the need for traditional case law work.
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Daily Citizen
New York
Supreme Court
Canada Keeps its Cool Amid Postal Strike
Roughly 24 000 letter carriers and clerks walked out on July 18 in Canada, with no immediate contract in sight. Wages run about 110 a week for clerks and 105 for carriers as Ottawa defers resolution, while private couriers rise and mail flows slow from St Johns to the Yukon. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau tours the Arctic, signaling a calm national mood despite strikes and rising living costs. A possible U S annexation thought lingers in American eyes.
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United States
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Ottawa
Arci
Baffin Bay
Grise Fiord
North Pole
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Beaufort Sea
Trudeau
Quebec
Montreal
Sunscreen and sun lamp tanning guidance from Dr. Dear Mother
Stay at home sun lamp users should not fear lotion but should use sun screen formulations if exposed for longer periods. Proper short sessions of 15 to 20 minutes under a lamp, gradually building exposure, protect the skin while avoiding burning. Prefer limited sun or lamp time, accumulate tan slowly, and beware of leathery skin and cancer risk from overexposure.
Letters Editor Defends SDS and Its Programs
A university reader rebutts the July editorial "By Any Other Name" criticizing Students for a Democratic Society. The letter argues SDS matured after 1962 with The Port Huron Statement guiding aims and community action through ERAP, praising civil rights work and voter drives while condemning biased press coverage.
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Students Against Democracy
SDS
University of Iowa
Rutgers College
New York
League For Industrial Democracy
Port Huron
Tom Hayden
Paul Jacobs
Saul Landau
New Radicals
ADA
Labor Movement
Sur
Economic Research and Action Project
ERAP
United Auto Workers
Newark
Cleveland
South
Rock Island to Moline horse railway planned
A horse railway between Rock Island and Moline is to be constructed and start operation by the first of next October. The item reflects early 20th century transport plans and local civic development in Muscatine area society notes.
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Rock Island
Moline
Jason Wrestley
Muscatine
Pershing
M. C. Wiessby
Bridgeman Street
A. D. Steffenson
Wilbur C. Ziegler
Today in History Matches Milestones From 1780 to 1963
On August 3 dates span Benedict Arnold gaining command at West Point in 1780 Suez under British occupation in 1881 Calvin Coolidge sworn in at Plymouth Rock in 1923 Nazi protests in northern Italian cities in 1943 West Point cadets cheating scandal in 1951 Nautilus first undersea North Pole crossing in 1970s Rusk in Moscow for a nuclear test ban in the atmosphere underwater and outer space
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Benedict Arnold
West Point
N.Y
Suez
Calvin Coolidge
Plymouth
Milan
Genoa
Italy
U.S. Military Academy
U.S
North Pole
Dean Rusk
Moscow
Prayer Excerpt Fosters Faithful Church Duty
A devotional prayer asks for the Holy Spirit to reveal the task given by God and for believers to be faithful in Christian duties so the church can spread eternal life in every heart through Jesus.
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Jesus
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