More Than 800 Expected For Jehovah's Witnesses Assembly
More than 800 people are expected in Muscatine August 28 to 30 for the Around The World With Jehovah's Witnesses Circuit Assembly. Delegates will come from Town and Missouri to attend sessions at Muscatine High School with housing sought for attendees. Sorting sleeping quarters, Kingdom Hall hosts may be contacted at 263-0083. The Watchtower Society schedules 580 conventions this year to serve delegates nationwide. The opening session starts August 28 with baptism discourse and water immersion. A two hour color film Proclaiming Ever lasting Good News Around the World is set for 7:40 p.m. Saturday. Harry Good will speak at 3:00 p.m. Sunday on Waving Up to the Urgency of Our Times. Final session ends Sunday at 6:00 p.m.
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Muscatine
Jehovah's Witnesses Circuit Assembly
Town
Missouri
Muscatine High
Jehovah Witnesses
Converstion
Kingdom Hall
Jehovah's Witnesses
Hancock
Watchtower Society
Harry
Good
Mervin Shafer
Tawny Rale
Shafer
False Statement Leads to $60 Fine for Wilbur Mosley
Wilbur Mosley, class of 1932, was arrested for making false statements to receive unemployment compensation. He was fined $60 plus costs by Justice Harvey G. Allbee Jr. for allegedly collecting $106 illegally in February and March 1963.
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Wilbur Mosley
Lincoln Bird
Justice of the Peace
Harvey G. Allbee, Jr
Mosley
Muscatine Jaycees Return From Fort Madison Board Meet
Muscatine Junior Chamber delegates led by John Moore returned home after attending the August board meeting in Fort Madison. The group toured the town penitentiary and heard Gov. Harold Hughes speak after a noon lunch in the prison cafeteria. Wives toured Nauvoo Illinois while forums addressed five questions. The group adopted a plan to raise 1 million dollars for the Terry McCann fund to help send Olympic team members to Tokyo.
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Muscatine
Fort Madison
Chamber” of Commerce
Merle Strouse
Carl Sachs
Don Klebe
Wayne Gacyet
John Moore
Dick Marr
Don LaRue
May Churchill
Jaycees
Tokyo
Towa City
Maquoketa
Mt Vernon
Cooler Air Sparks Rain Across Iowa State
Skies were clear today as cooler air moves in from the north. The Weather Bureau forecasts scattered showers to spread across the state tonight and continue into Tuesday, with western and central Iowa seeing about half an inch and eastern parts up to an inch of rain. Temperatures range from the mid 70s to low 80s with a cooler trend expected through the week.
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Towa
mid-Eds
Iowa
Driver Receives 55 Days in Jail in High Speed Chase
Muscatine police pursued a high speed chase to Wapello before stopping the 194 model car two miles north of there. Driver Jerry Lee Herbert, 18, Bloomfield, was sentenced to 85 days in jail in lieu of fines totaling 185 dollars plus costs. He also received 30 days for reckless driving 15 for speeding seven for failure to yield to an emergency vehicle and three for no license. Owner Pearl Garmon Jr Batavia Iowa was fined 10 dollars plus costs for allowing an unauthorized person to drive and 10 dollars plus tests for intoxication. Herbert labeled a parole violator by police.
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Justice of the Peace Court
Wapello
Muscatine
Jerry Lee Herbert
Bloomfield
Justice of the Peace
Harvey Gillbee, Jr
Pearl Garmon, Jr
Batavia
Towa
Herbert
Highway 61
Advantages of Big New Elevator Told
Clair Towne of Hogenson Manufacturing told the Rotary Club about a new reinforced concrete grain elevator under construction for McKee Feed and Grain Co. in Muscatine. The 120 foot structure holds 235000 bushels, uses continuous pour forms, and speeds grain handling to four hours to load barges and 42000 bushels per hour into the elevator with 200 tons of reinforcing steel and 90 tons of structural steel.
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Clair Towne
Hogenson Manufacturing Co
Minneapolis
Towne
McKee Feed and Grain Co
Muscatine
Training As Drum Major Returns From Camp
Ron Campbell, a senior at Muscatine High School and drum major, returned home after attending a weeklong drum major camp at Syracuse Indiana. He was among 369 drum majors from the United States receiving instruction in signaling field charting marching fundamentals leadership development and precision routines under leading directors. Campbell is the son of Mr and Mrs Melvin Campbell of 1101 Haut Ninth Street.
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Ron Campbell
Smith-Walbridge
Syracuse
Ind
United States
Campbell
Muscatine
Melvin Campbell
Haut, Ninth Street
One Objector Heard When Board Adopts 1965 Budget
Muscatine county supervisors adopt the 1965 budget with total expenditures capped at 2.545 million dollars and tax funds set at 1.1819 million. One objector spoke, Robert McKenna representing the Natural Gas Pipeline Company, arguing unencumbered balances for 1965 were understated. The board adjusted the soldier's relief balance and reduced the nat fund tax asking, with final tax rates pending property assessments and valuations.
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Board’ of Supervisors
Muscatine
Robert McKenna
Natural Gas Pipeline’ Company
of America
Soldier's Relief
Nat Fund
Area Six Schools Begin Hot Lunch Program and Opening Schedule
Area Six rural schools including Avea Six Community district start hot lunch service on Sept. 3 with meals at 9 to 1:30 and 7 to 8 p.m. Book exchanges will occur at Mulberry and Colorado Six schools. A full schedule of teacher meetings and preterm work is planned around Aug. 31 to Sept. 2, with holidays and vacations listed through spring.
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Muscatine County
Avea
Frank Ralston
Area Six
Mothers of Mulberry
Colorado Six
Montepelier
Pruitland
Sheool
Lincholn
Arpi
Avni A
Fine Driver After Auto Hits Pole
Howard D. Noll, 33, of Henderson Illinois, paid a five dollar fine in Police court after his 1987 model car struck a telephone pole in the 00 block of East Lith Street. He was charged with failure to have control of his vehicle. The pole was loosened but not broken. Two other drivers, Cutie Lee Winegard, 16, and Rudy Alan Reed, 22, were involved in a collision at East Eighth and Cypress streets. Damages were to the left front of Winegard and right front of Reed. A charge against Charles A. James, 27, for leaving the scene was dismissed. A third incident saw James’s car hit a levee wall on Mississippi Drives Mulberry Avenue, damaging lawns and shrubs as well as an additional brake failure led to a rollover on West Eighth Street.
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Howard D. Noll
North Henderson
Ill
East Lith Street
Mulberry Avenue
Noll
Cutie Lee Winegard
Fletcher Avenue
Rudy Alan Reed
Route 1
Delta
East Eighth
Cypress Streets
Winegard
Eighth
Reed
Cypress
Duane Goedken
Charles A. James
East Sixth Street
Mississippi
Larry Hudson
Lawn Avenue
West
Eighth Street
County Board Supports Sewer Link To City Line
The board of supervisors approved a resolution backing a sanitary sewer line to connect the county home with Muscatine's new system. The proposed 2,225 foot county run would connect with existing lines at Cwlar and Houser streets, to be funded by property owners, with a city public hearing planned.
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Board of Supervisors
Burial Insurance Sold by Mail Ad Offers Easy Coverage
Old line policy claims burial insurance qualification for $1.00 note. Targeted to ages 40 to 90, no medical exam, no agent calls. Send name, address, and year of birth to Central Security Life Insurance Co., Dept. M221, Fort Worth, Texas.
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OLD Line Legal Reserve Life Insurance
Central Security Life Insurance Co
Dept
West Rosedale
Fort, Worth
Texas
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Laurel’ Building
Ralston
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Town City
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