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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1963
Page
2
The Muscatine YMCA Youth Center plans a new season with social recreation for Muscatine and Hayes Catholic high schools students. It will run weekdays 3:18 to 5 p.m, Wednesdays 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., and Saturdays 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. A yearly membership costs 7% coal and a small fee for evening hours.
A Thursday county zoning public hearing is scheduled at 10 a.m. at the courthouse to discuss a new article mandating detailed preliminary plans utility placement public roads and drainage conforming to lot size terrain and soil. Another article proposes lot size for a second home on plots of 10 or more acres. One individual has said he will attend to object.
A 14 year old boy, Roy A., from East Moline, allegedly boarded a passenger train at Moline on Tuesday without paying. He was taken into custody by police at the Grandview Avenue station in the evening and held until his mother retrieved him.
Gilbert D Jacobs owner of a Vacant Colony lot seeks to enjoin the city and block a 1074 tax assessment in a suit filed on the eve of bids opening. The city council plans to open bids to build a 1720000 project costing about 130000 and raise total expenses to 172000. Jacobs argues improper preliminary procedures and uneven assessment citing Colony drive parcel limits and front footage based valuations. The case raises a legal question over the special benefit basis for real estate assessments in sewer improvements.
Letts Methodist Church will host a family night service Sunday at 7:30 p m. International exchange student Malentin Gu from New Zealand will present picture slides during the program. Mr and Mrs Harry Furnas and Harry Furnas Jr have returned from Spring Valley Minnesota after attending Mrs Maude Meinen’s funeral in Reno Nevada.
The American Legion Post No.27 launches 1964 enrollment drive led by Commander Kenneth Wiley with George Cordwell as chair. The group marks the 45th anniversary of the Legion founded in 1919 and aims to finish most membership by mid October. Veterans who served in World War I World War II or the Korean War may join and pay dues now as Early Birds to aid the Town department’s national bid.
Dick Maeglin of Muscatine writes for Rough Spots the 1960s era insurance trade magazine. His piece titled The Survey Way is the Natural Way appears in the August issue. Maeglin, Drake University graduate, works with the Maeglin Agency with his father in Muscatine. The note contains a separate item about a 1935 model car by Jobintu Rue on Lincoln Ave driven off Monday on Mississippi drive but later found not stolen. Chamberlin family reunion set for Aug 25 at Weed Park with a 1 pm potluck.
Local office manager Cloyce E. Rudolph reports 168 more jobs in Muscatine during June across 66 firms totaling 4 877 employed. Manufacturing led gains while retail fell. July activity remained strong with 283 hires in 1982. End of July 840 seeking work. shortages noted for stenographers and farm hands.
The Knights of Columbus, a Roman Catholic men's group, has allocated $25,000 to help feed and house participants in the August 28 civil rights march here. The funds are earmarked to cover meals lodging and related needs for marchers in the event.
Muscatine county rural schools gear up for the new term with textbooks and work books issued. Jack Harmon, a recent university graduate, will teach sixth to eighth grades at Montpelier 2 trade school. Nellie Eckhardt, moving from Melpine, will oversee upper trades at Olive Branch in Fruitland township, replacing Dorothy Grimm Butcher. Grace Wathan will shield Melpine. Fruitland and Montpelier start August 26. Area Six schools open Tuesday September 3 on central standard time.
Riverside town reports a painter suffered minor injuries after tumbling nearly 80 feet from the Steeple of St Marys Church. Robert Cooper 33 and partner Glenn Rummelhart were preparing to paint when Cooper slipped landing on the roof and slid to ground where two other painters and a bystander team caught him. He was treated for cuts and bruises and held for observation.
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