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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1952
Page
7
The bulletin lists high season honors from the Tuesday Night League. Bil Ledwig posted 535 in the Mens High Series while Donna Secrist led Ladies with 486. Notables include Ludwig 200 game, Leta Frost 175 game, Pinsplitters 1626 team series, and Lucky Strikes 617 high team game.
Two games close the YMCA Sunday School league tonight at 6 30. Evangelical versus Baptists play at Jefferson Street while Presbyterians meet Methodists at Iowa Avenue. Preliminary games may precede the playoffs among Sunday school kittenball teams.
Fight results list several bouts with city locations and outcomes. Georgie Araujo and Johnny Consalves drew in Providence and Oakland respectively. Eddie Compo outpointed Teddy Davis in New Haven. Danny Giovanelli stopped Gene Takach in Trenton. Jimmy Mariner outpointed Chuck Foster in Omaha.
Davenport firm Walsh Construction Co. awarded a 9.4 million dollar army contract to manufacture bombs at Portland Missouri. The company has leased a building in the city for the project.
W. H. Wim Keating a well known Mercer county ill farmer died suddenly at Cokato Minnesota while en route home from a vacation trip. Cause of death was a heart ailment. He was accompanied by his wife and the body will be returned to Muscatine. Funeral arrangements will be announced later and George M. Wittich Funeral Home will handle services.
Marilyn Reddick an 18 year old from Hamilton Ontario won the Miss Canada title on Monday night. She receives a thousand dollar scholarship a trip to the Miss America contest in Atlantic City and a trip to London for the coronation next June.
Mrs. Elizabeth Svoboda is named to receive the estate of her husband Frank Svoboda a Drury township farmer who died August 1. The will dated September 16, 1946 designates son Clarence Svoboda as executor. Real estate valued at 3780 dollars and personal property estimated at 25000 dollars are listed.
The will of 70 year old Miss Mabel Harriet James names her employer Robert S. Butler head of Butler Real Estate Co as sole heir. Miss James died last April after more than four decades as cashier at the firm.
Katherine Towle, a colonel and director of the women Marines, will retire to become dean of women at the University of California. The piece notes 2,600 women Marines, six-week boot camp, and opportunities through service for education and careers, while addressing perceptions of women in uniform and equality with male officers.
Brown and Jones families gather at Lone Tree Park for an annual reunion. Attendees include multiple Littrell, Reid, Smith, and Miller families with guests from Columbus Junction, Williamsburg, and Washington. The Marshalls hosted after noon, marking Adna Miller and Shirley Jean's visit and a 25th wedding anniversary observance.
Partly clouded skies and higher temperatures are forecast for Muscatine and nearby areas tonight and Wednesday with a chance of thundershowers on Wednesday. Today’s high reached 75 with readings up to 80s. winds and conditions imply a Wednesday high near 85 to 87 degrees. Overnight temps did not fall below 60.
The Hays family reunion at Musser Park gathered 152 people for a basket lunch and informal afternoon. Prizes went to Sarah France as oldest woman and Albert Hays as oldest man, with Andrew Hume the youngest and the Leiningers honored for longest distance. The 1953 gathering is planned for the second Sunday in August at Musser Park.
Funeral services for John Robert Hazelwood who died in a motor accident near West Liberty were conducted at 2 p m Monday at Geo M Wittich Funeral Home. Rev A A Buntenbach of Glad Tidings Church led the service with organist Herbert Grebing. Burial followed in Greenwood cemetery with flower attendants Mylene Walton Jane Hoopes and Mrs Paul Hammann and pallbearers Ronald Hazen Jimmy Johnson Richard Knight Donald Brown Danny Keller and Virgil Hull.
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