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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1963
Page
2
Jim Tierney of Tierney Jewelry spoke to the Magcatine Kiwanis on diamonds. He explained facets, color, clarity, cutting, and carat weight, using slides and specimens. Attendees included Bret Trent of Sun Mart Park Ave and H. B. Mason of Kirksville, Mo.
Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman called for a comprehensive unified and organized national agricultural policy, criticizing patchwork old programs. He forecast 1963 improvements in agriculture with cash receipts rising slightly on stronger livestock and livestock product marketings.
The White House disclosed President Kennedy's back pain is not serious and requires no special treatment. Pierre Salinger said there is nothing unusual in his care and the discomfort likely began to flare last weekend, with a slight limp noted in recent days.
Voters in Boone Story and Washington counties face ballots today on liquor by the drink under the reverse local option provision of the new Towatiquer law. Indications pointed to heavy turnout in the first election held under the provision.
City officials announce the suspension of a plan to add about 40 parking spaces on the south side of Mississippi Drive as part of the Highway 61 widening project. The decision cites railroad right of way complications and 1963 1964 costs estimated at around 30 dollars per space, with state funding covering widening, resurfacing, and traffic channeling. The map from the highway commission shows much of the area on railroad property, complicating city plans to acquire it.
Police searched for the source after 24 new women s blouses were found in the rear yard of Mrs Mary E Satterthwaite 308 East Ninth street. Eighteen remained in original packages while six had been opened.
Oakville Linda Wiese a SUI student and teacher at Muscatine Migrant School spoke Sunday at the Oakville Young People's meeting attended by about forty youths and hostesses Gail Kant and Lillian Lehnert. More guests included Mrs Frances Bass and others. A Youth for Christ Rally is set for Saturday at Oak Street Junior High with films to be shown. The M Y F picnic is planned for Sunday at Burk ing ton Crapo Park.
The Weather Bureau predicts occasional showers and thunderstorms through Wednesday as activity develops along the western border and moves eastward. Little temperature change is expected in the southeast town with freezing conditions possible at night and mild warmup by Wednesday. Highs reached 79 Monday, then fell to around 60 overnight. noon was 70 under cloudy skies.
A midnight explosion, likely dynamite, cratered a field 200 yards from Henri Morleith's home as she prepares to enter the University of South Carolina next month by court order. No injuries. window damage to Dr H D Monteith's home. Mrs Monteith calls it cowardly and says her daughter's plans remain unchanged. Deputies chased a late model car speeding over 100 mph toward U S Highway 1. Officers attempted to alert Fairfield County officials but two police cars intercepted the vehicle eventually.
Rockwell City district court schedules a hearing for September 5 to consider a request by Mr and Mrs Clifford E Rinehart of Manson to set aside their son Michael Tim Rinehart 11 year old, guilty plea and retry by jury on murder charges.
City Council will meet at 5 to authorize signing of a contract with Gjellefald Associates Inc for the lateral sanitary sewer program in City. Gjellefald’s bid of 144,220.60 was accepted last week. Construction will map later this week. Nine areas will receive eight and ten inch laterals across more than three miles. Area Six district school on Mulberry block will be served. Work is set to start soon with a December 1 completion target.
Former President Eisenhower joins Senate sponsors of the limited nuclear test ban and urges an anti aggression reservation. He argues the United States must reserve the right to decide weaponry and timing in any armed aggression endangering vital interests, in a letter to Sen. Fulbright.
Eight-year-old George Knapp, son of Mr and Mrs Roscoe Knapp, fractured both bones in his right arm after falling from a Grandview park slide. He received medical care and is convalescing at home. His father Rosco Knapp is hospitalized at Mercy hospital In Town City with neck injury from a farm accident. Atty Gen Evan Hultman ruled the county school board cannot rent classroom space from a parochial school.
The Labor Department reports July living costs rose one half of one percent to a record high for the second straight month. The consumer price index reached 107.1 with the 1857-59 base of 100, about 15 percent above a year earlier, driven by higher food housing medical care and tobacco prices. A plane crash near Walballa injures Klan leader Robert M. Shelton and kills pilot Alvin D. Sisk as they head to Washington for a civil rights march.
Bills filed in Congress propose extending the Mustaine Bridge Commission’s authorization for the Mississippi river bridge project. The amendments would require starting construction within three years and completing within five years from enactment, with no change to commissioner terms or bridge life and no federal funds involved.
A board of inquiry from Saivia Kan is in session at Offutt Air Force Base weighing evidence to determine the cause of the August 19 bomber collision that cost three lives.
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