Muscatine General Hospital finances and trustees details
A letter to the editor discusses Muscatine General Hospital as a county tax supported facility. It notes the county levies about 0.37 per $1000 of assessed value for 1969 to fund hospital operations and bond payments. The hospital’s bonds total $1.25 million (1952) with 30 year maturity, paid from hospital income and patient services, while the budget is part of the Muscatine county budget. The hospital board has five trustees elected nonpartisan for six-year terms, with specifics on terms, origins, and candidates. Copies of the county financial report are available from the county auditor.
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Sadie
Journal
Muscatine General Hospital
Muscatine General
County Board of Supervisors
Gil Dietz der
Muscatine Journal
Johan Rex
Muscatine County
Hospital Board of Trustees
Muscatine
Vernon Thede
J.C. Bishop
W.G. Eichenhauer
West Liberty
Harold G. Nicolaus
Wilton
F.A. Kirchner
Nichols
Robert L. Roach
Mascaline
Nicolaus
Hichenauer
Roach
Thede and
Kirchner
Navy
John E. Rex
Satchel Paige joins Braves amid pension delay critique
In a Burlington Hawk-Eye analysis editors question the gratitude of black athletes in schools, citing Satchel Paige’s signing with the Atlanta Braves as a case. Paige, possibly 70, may advise the pitching staff and pitch some innings to qualify for a pension, highlighting past exclusion from the majors due to bigotry and the wasted talent of players like Paige.
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Burlington
Hawk-Eye
Peta Aiennia Tanmen
Ulylpic Boalia
Satchel Paige
Atlanta Braves
Paige
Users Pay For Airport Expansion, Billings Editorial
The Gazette argues crowds and modernization demand shared costs with users funding growth. It proposes passenger taxes rising to 8 percent, airfreight taxes, gasoline and jet fuel levies, plus end of federal airport grants with loans offered where private funds fall short. Opposition is expected, but the piece defends user-paid expansion as fair.
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Billings
Mont
Transportation Department
Pork Barrel Highway Bill Draws Heat in Wisconsin Journal
Wisconsin State Journal critiques a $12.3 billion federal highway package as a pork laden compromise. It condemns lobbyist pressure, district favoritism, and routes that threaten Washington DC parks and sanctuaries while noting token billboard removal funds and opposition from cabinet members to veto or limited approval.
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Wisconsin State Journal
Johnson
House-Senate
Washington, D.C
Capitol
Washington City
House
Congress
The Penalty of Avoiding Issues
John Chamberlain argues that without a bombing halt followed by a Vietnam ceasefire, Democrats risk self-destruction over their Vietnam plank. He cites Mayor Sam Yorty and calls for a morally declarative war with shared sacrifice, challenging the Johnson Humphrey administration to avoid hypocrisy and align rhetoric with action.
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John Chamberlain
New York
South Vietnam
Lyndon Johnson
Johnson
Los Angeles
Humphrey
Yorty
White House
Southeast Asia
William Sloane Coffin
Benjamin Spock
Vietnam
Cambodia
Laos
Hanoi
Sam Yorty
China
Soviet
Russia
Johnson-Humphrey
Booster Polio Guidance and Medical Q A Letter
Guidance on polio booster timing for school entry and boosters every five years. Discussion of the oral vaccine's attenuated virus and the need not to fear boosters. Includes patient letters about Paget's disease and chronic headaches with advice to consult a doctor and reference to a booklet "How To Tame Headaches" from Dr Motner.
Warrant filed over nuisance horses in Muscatine questioned
A July 1968 letter to the editor recalls filing a warrant for arrest of a city horsekeeper, notes police delay and lack of hearing notice, mentions a 1958 arrest notice, and questions why no fine or permit refund occurred while horses remained in town. The writer seeks accountability and an answer.
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Muscatine
Twan
Marital Advice and Local Notes From Yesterdays
A collage of retro columns notes dating judgments on marriage, a Muscatine army trainee, a Chicago band victory, a new infantile paralysis case, and radar signs. It recalls a sailor’s training, school music glory, and local traffic enforcement with named families and places in Muscatine and nearby Ashton.
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Portsmouth New Hampshire
Jesse Truitt
Coast
Artillery
Aledo
Elmer Ziegler
Muscatine
Chicago
Today in History recaps major events from 1814 to 1968
On this date in 1814 British troops captured Washington and burned the capitol. Also events include 79 A.D. Mount Vesuvius eruption. Washington entered Philadelphia in 1777. Bragg invaded Kentucky in 1862. Edison applied for a motion picture patent in 1891. Earhart’s solo transcontinental flight in 1932. Vargas’ suicide in 1954. Nottingham violence in 1968. Saigon University closed in 1963. Kaiser died in 196? Five years ago in Vietnam unrest.
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Associated Press
Washington, D.C
Capitol
White House
Braxton Bragg
Kentucky
Thomas A. Edison
Henry J. Kaiser
Daily Prayer and Laff a Day Note
A short religious prayer expresses gratitude to God and asks for guidance through suffering. It invokes Fatherhood of God and Christ and closes with Amen. The segment ends with the tag LAFF-A-DAY suggesting a light or daily feature.
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Christ
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Paget
A.D
Asylum
Boston
Berlin
Dillaways
New Upland Prairie
Ashton Flour and Feed Co
R.B. Huff
B. E. Eversmeyer
City Health
William Herbert Payne
Floyd Payne
Brook Street
Jor Maher
Kine
Stuart
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