Century of Service Links Army Corps to Local Progress
An open house marks the Rock Island district U S Army Corps of Engineers centennial from Saturday to August 28 with facilities at Lock and Dam No 16 in Muscatine and No 17 in New Boston highlighted. The corps built the nine foot Mississippi channel and operates locks and dams enabling river transport, levees protect flood-prone farmland, and recent dredging aids channel work. The service aided Muscatine Island floods in 1965 with a flank levee, earning local gratitude and continuing valuable regional projects.
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Hearing Doxiadis On Pollution Across Shoreline And City
John Chamberlain notes the Aspen Institute talk by Dr Constantinos Doxiadis on earth defilement and contrasts it with Long Island Sound pollution. He recalls cleaner rivers and shellfish from decades ago, warns of future pollution fears from bridge plans, and cites Connecticut political fallout amid a GOP governor bid with a pollution photo.
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John Chamberlain
Aspen
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Constantinos Doxiadis
Aspen Institute For Humanistic Studies
Long Island Sound
Dr. Doxiadis
Connecticut River
Connecticut
Long Island
New Haven
New England
Greece
Athens
Aegean
Atlantic
Shelter Island
Suffolk County
Rhode Island
New York City
New York
Massachusetts
Martha's Vineyard
Clayton Gengras
Rumor On Bank Robbery Arrest Near Clinton
A century ago rumors circulated that the Camanche Bank robbers were captured after a fierce stand on Beaver Island in the Mississippi River near Clinton but the report’s accuracy remains unverified.
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Beaver Island
Mississippi River
Clinton
Pr. W. C. Kulp
Davenport
J. S. Kulp
Soviet Is Accused of Betrayal In Chinese Communist Communique
Washington AP reports that a Chinese Communist Party communique praised economic gains while denying errors. It criticized the Soviet Union as betraying communism and hinted at future moves, with Mao praised and others denigrated. The piece notes the harsh tone and hints of disunity within the world Communist movement.
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Dr Crane's Harry O and the teen age facts debate
Dr Crane, a 22 year old college professor, discusses juvenile crime trends citing newspaper accounts. He argues most teens are sound and will become good citizens while noting the psychology department head adapted a psychology textbook with 21 chapters on careers and social topics.
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Harry O
Crane
Chapter XVII wins the students choice in Worry Clinic study
A Worry Clinic experiment in a Michigan private college asked 21 late teen students to write 500 words on why their top chapter mattered. Chapter XVII, not Chapter VI as expected, won first place with TM% of votes, while Chapter XVI discusses religion and health. The professor notes a surprising hunger for religious idealism among teens and relays his boosted morale.
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Dr. Crane
Michigan
Dear Abby columns on wills weddings and honesty
A reader asks about security in a widow husband’s will and inheritance, while Abby advises the widowed husband may leave everything to his children and suggests discussing a will. Additional letters touch on a child’s view of lying, and a would be bride asks about a church wedding with mother’s approval. Abby endorses a church wedding if the financial burden is borne by the couple and predicts the mother may relent. Another note offers career guidance as motivational yeast.
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Abby
Altho
Justices of the Peace
Mom
Columnist's Mail Bag From New York AP
A collection of curious facts and quips about modern life from the New York AP column. Statistics on rattlesnakes education smoking census words spoken by women and other tidbits reflect a skeptical view of a fast changing era.
The Daily Prayer Gather the Wheat Not Weeds
A short prayer seeks divine help to be wheat for the barn and not weeds to be burned. It asks for faithfulness to the end, forgiveness in Jesus name, echoing the Matthew 13:38 imagery. The versified request ties to RSV phrasing about gathering the weeds first and binding them for burning while gathering the wheat for the barn.
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