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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1972
Page
7
Nighttime fighting reported by military command occurred where Jordan Syria and Israel fronts converge. An Israeli unit returned fire after a bazooka was aimed at troops. no casualties were reported.
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong sappers attacked Nui Ba Den mountain relay station 55 miles northwest of Saigon with rockets mortars and explosives. Four South Vietnamese guards were killed and one wounded. U S casualties none. The attack follows several earlier strikes on U S installations as fighting widens across Vietnam with heavy shelling of Bien Hoa and Da Nang air bases and ongoing house to house fighting north of the city.
Sen Edmund Muskie announced he refused George McGovern’s offer to be the vice presidential candidate. He said the decision was family driven and not political, and offered to help the campaign in other ways. The news came as McGovern weighed a replacement for Thomas Eagleton after psychiatric treatment controversy.
Edward J. Razor, 28, and his friend Ronald Cobb were fishing on the Detroit River when Razor spotted a woman's head 100 feet from shore. He shed his pants and leg brace, swam about 200 feet to reach her, grabbed her by the hair, and pulled both to safety before wearily collapsing 10 feet from shore.
Lucile Kautz Johnson, born and raised in Muscatine, has observed 576 bird species across the world as of July 1972. She made three trips to Mexico and Central America to study rare birds and photographed many. A former Muscatine Junior College history teacher, she led Campfire Girls in New Mexico and held a national role. Her late husband Henry Johnson died in 1956 in Albuquerque.
Gage A Kent 75 a pioneer of the feed industry died at his Muscatine home. Funeral at 1:30 p.m. Monday at First Baptist with Rev. Frank Gillett. Burial Greenwood cemetery. Survived by wife Nancy, two sons James and Harold, siblings and six grandchildren. Kent founded Kent Feeds in Indianola in 1927 later moving to Muscatine after a 1936 plant fire.
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