Muscatine Lodges and Clubs Plan Abbreviated Summer Schedule
As summer nears end Muscatine lodges and clubs keep an abbreviated slate of events. Lodge 304 Elks hosts a family picnic at Ludman's Grove with free rides for children. FE Rivisto visits Muscatine Rotary to speak on coaching philosophy. Kiwanis Ladies Night spurs minstrels practice for Holiday Escapades. Other groups schedule third degree work and regular meetings. Bar C Ranch rodeo opens at League Field with two performances after a single show tonight.
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Muscatine
Muscatine Lodge
BPO Elks
Ludman’s Grove
Highway 22
FE. Rivisto
East Moline
Muscatine Kiwanis Club
Kiwanis Minstrels
Minstrels
Stan Fiese
Iowa Lodge
Aerie
Fraternal Order of Eagles and Laurent Council
Knights of Columbus
Edward H. Bitter
American Legion
Post
Gion
Wyoming Lodge 76
Pythias
Washington OKs Utility Franchise in Washington Iowa
Voters in Washington Iowa approve a 25 year franchise for Iowa Southern Utilities Company. Electric service wins 953 to 280 while gas service approval is 955 to 277. Company offered 25000 dollars for a street lighting upgrade replacing an old system with 14 years remaining.
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Washington
Iowa Southern Ulities Company
Iowa
Iowa Southern Electric Service
Big Events On Tap For Lodge And Club Calendar
Community events for next week listed by the Muscatine Chamber of Commerce include a Bar B Q Picnic at the Muscatine airport with 400 to 600 pilots, a Democratic fish fry at Ro Car ranch with Herschel Loveless as speaker, Elks lodge family picnic, fairs at West Liberty, a Newcomers luncheon, 7:30 p m meetings of the Painting and Decorating Contractors of America and the Volunteer Air Reserve Training squadron, and a Veterans of Foreign Wars bar B Ranch day program at League field.
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Muscatine
Site changes for Safe Driving Contest at Iowa State Fair
The state Safe Driving Contest moves from the fairgrounds to east Walnut Street Des Moines near the State House. The Tractor Rodeo remains on the fairgrounds. The festival, once part of the Farm Bureau Sports Festival at Ames, was canceled due to farm labor shortages. The Safe Driving Contest starts 8:30 a.m. Monday Aug 25, at the new site. the Tractor Rodeo runs Aug 23 near the horse barns. A girls division and queen selection will be part of the Tractor Rodeo.
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State House
East Walnut Street
Des Moines
State Farm Bureau
Ames
Fairgrounds
Bloomington DJ Broadcasts Blood Donation Live
Bloomington disc jockey Marc Williams of WTTS encouraged blood donation by giving a live on air tour of the process. He accompanied the donors and medical staff, sharing the steps and comments as the procedure proceeded.
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Bloomington
Ind
Marc Williams
WTTS
Fan Tan tips from a St Paul correspondent
A St Paul correspondent offers guidance on fan tan a family card game. Explains building up and down from the four sevens with four players best, dealing, play sequence, and ending with the winner who clears all cards. Highlights strategies to unload end cards and track opponents’ end cards to minimize losses.
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St. Paul
Missing Water At Estherville Plant Sought
Studies by Stanley Engineering of Muscatine found 134,577,300 gallons pumped from Estherville Indiana plant during November December and January while only 53,100,000 gallons were metered. City officials cite meter deterioration from mineralized water and sand as a major cause of under registration.
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Estherville
Stanley Engineering Company
Muscatine
Associated Press
Tobin Packing Company
Hancher to Head 1953 Scout Drive in Iowa
Dr. Virgil M. Hancher, president of the State University of Iowa, is named chairman of the 1953 statewide Boy Scout fund drive. The Newton campaign head Fred Maytag leads efforts as it opens October 21 with a goal of 179000 dollars, Iowa first to organize a coordinated state-wide collection.
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Newton
Virgil M. Hancher
State University of Iowa
Fred Maytag
Iowa
National Educational Television Workshop Opens At Ames
Forty one representatives from 23 states and Puerto Rico attend the first National Educational Television workshop at Iowa State College. The event runs Sunday through next Saturday with sponsors Iowa State, the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, and the Joint Committee on Educational Television. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Paul A. Walker will speak Monday, and ISU President Dr. Charles E. Finley will address a banquet August 23. Seven television experts serve as consultants.
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Ames
Puerto Rico
Iowa State College
National Association of Educational Broadcasters
Joint Committee On Educational Television
Federal Communications Commission
Paul A. Walker
Charles £. Finley
Walker
Rudy Bretz
CBS Television Network
James Butts
Kwwl-Tv
Waterloo
Ila
Paul C. Reed
Walter Emery
Seymour Krieger
Joint
Committee On Educational Television
William B. Levenson
Cleveland
Ohio
Harold Engel
WHA
University of Wisconsin
James Miles
Peach Pastry Rectangles with Whipped Cream Topping
A simple dessert for a crowd of guests. Individual pastry rectangles are filled with peach slices and finished with sweetened whipped cream for a luscious finish.
Palace Slide of 1940s Film Schedules
Listings show Palace theater offerings with Barbara Stanwyck and Paul Douglas in Clash By Night on Sunday to Wednesday, Pete Smith Short Cartoon, Metro News on Thursday and Friday featuring Robert Alda Janis Paige and James Gleason in Two Gals and a Guy, Gene Barry Lydia Clarke Michael Moore in The Atomic City, plus Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in Jumping Jacks starting Saturday.
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Palace
Barbara Stanwyck
Paul Douglas
Pete Smith
Cartoon
Metro News
Robert Alda
Janis Paige
James Gleason
Gene Barry
Lydia Clarke
Michael Moore
Dean Martin and
Jerry Lewis
Farmers Favor Hog Supports in Wallaces Magazine Poll
Des Moines report shows 71 percent of farmers backed government hog price supports at 17 dollars per hundredweight. 23 percent preferred market freedom, 6 percent undecided. Of supporters, 48 percent favored government purchase and storage to prop prices, 38 percent endorsed a difference payment when market price falls to 17 dollars.
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Des Moines
Wallaces
Iowa Homestead
Magaine
Fair Days Honor Politicos and Farm Groups at Iowa State Fair
Des Moines reports Iowa State Fair will feature special days honoring Flying Farmers 4-H and FFA youths and legislature members. Youngsters admitted free with a free grandstand show on Children’s Days. State and national officials attend an Aug 27 State Day luncheon and Aug 23 Press and Radio Day luncheon. Flying Farmer Day Aug 25 and GI Farm Family Day Aug 26. 4-H and FFA Day Aug 29.
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Des Moines
4-H
FFA
Iowa
L. B. Cunningham
Fair Ground
Crickets Swarm Across Chicago and Suburbs
Millions of crickets swarmed over Chicago and northern Illinois towns on Friday with heavy activity in southern Chicago and nearby suburbs. Joliet and Peoria residents reported widespread infestations and stores ran low on insect repellant as the invasion affected downtown Peoria.
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Chicago
Illinois
Joliet
Peoria
Park Bench to Be Dedicated to Baruch
Bernard Baruch, financier noted for business conferences on park benches, departed Friday for California where a bench and plaque will be dedicated in his honor on Baruch's 82nd birthday Tuesday near Dyersville California.
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New York
Bernard Baruch
California
Baruch
Dyersville
Calif
Four-H and Farm Bureau Activities at West Liberty Fair
Four-H clubs from Muscatine county shift to West Liberty Fair events. Farm Bureau township women set up booths Monday with women's division judging Tuesday. Four-H girls exhibits judged Tuesday. demonstration teams Wednesday from 8:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. followed by a 3:00 p.m. style review. Demonstration schedule lists teams with times from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and late 1:00 p.m. entries.
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Muscatine County
West Liberty Fair
Farm Bureau Township
Byron Best
Wilma Jean Windman
Movie Version Of Famous Broadway Hit Is Coming
Two Gals and a Guy adapts the Broadway hit Same Time Next Week opening at the Palace as a co feature. Robert Alda and Janis Paige lead the TV couple with Jimmy Gleason Lionel Stander and Arnold Stang in support. The second feature The Atomic City stars Michael Moore Gene Barry and Lydia Clarke in a spy thriller with timely atomic plot.
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Milton Berle
Palace Theatre
Robert Alda
Janis Paige
Alda
Jimmy Gleason
Lionel Stander
Arnold Stang
Small Businesses Freed of Controls
Des Moines reports that many small manufacturing firms earning no more than 25000 annually are exempt from price control. Items affected include hand and garden tools cutlery wooden ware brooms brushes jewelry notions and other small or part time products. The change eases record keeping and compliance burdens for OPS and relief for tiny producers.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Housh
Clash By Night tops Palace screen billing
Barbara Stanwyck Paul Douglas Robert Ryan and Marilyn Monroe lead the cast in Clash by Night opening Sunday at the Palace. The drama centers on a woman's love triangle set in a quiet California fishing village with tension beneath tranquil waters. Monroe rises to the publicity surrounding her role.
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Barbara Stanwyck
Paul Douglas
Robert Ryan
Marilyn Monroe
the Palace
California
Miss Monroe
Italians Prolific in Belgium Coal Mines
The Belgian labor minister reports 51 thousand of Belgiums 160,000 coal miners are Italians. Foreign workers total 72,081 with Poles 8,287 and others: Dutch 3,036 Germans 2,092 French 1,356 Ukrainians 1,320 and North Africans 1,092.
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Belgium
Brussels
Polio Drive Chairman Dies of Polio in Oswego
Syracuse reports Thomas B. Turner Jr. 31 chairman of the 1952 polio fund drive in Oswego died of bulbar polio in a local hospital.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Oswego
Thomas B. Turner Jr
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