One Candidate Files for Muscatine School Board
One candidate for Muscatine Community School District board of directors has filed nomination papers. John D. Barger, 704 Climer, seeks reelection and currently serves on the band. J. Robert Lewis, a longtime director and former president, will not seek reelection. Filing deadline is 12 noon Friday, Aug. 30. Election set for Sept. 9 with two directors to be named.
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Muscatine Community School District
John D. Barger
Climer
J. Robert Lewis
Lewis
Iiime
Prijday
Two Admit Muscatine Burglaries
John Charles Hall and Albert Lee Foster, both 28, confessed to burglaries at Air Lumber Co and the Park Avenue Sun Mart in Muscatine. They also admitted five burglaries across Nebraska Minnesota Iowa and Illinois. Tools were seized from their car and about $50 in stamps and money orders were missing from a postal substation.
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Alton
Air Lumber Co
Park Avenue
Sun Mart
John
Charles ’ Hall
Albert Lee Foster
Clifford Bennett
Bennett
Hetner
Alton Ehigt
Werp
Heter
Nebraska
Minnesota
Iowa
Illinois
Aisale
Highway 1
Muscatine
Hil Lum- 1
Hefner
Hall
Foster
Hennett
Carver Pump promotes Babcock to top post at Muscatine firm
Willis Babcock of Wilton is named executive vice president and general manager of Carver Pump Company in Muscatine. Roy J. Carver remains president. Babcock joined Carver Pump in 1939 after transferring from Aurora, Illinois as vice president in charge of engineering.
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Willis Babcock
Wilton
Carver Pump Company of
Muscatine
Roy J. Carver
Babcock
Carver Pump
Aurora
Hayes High Records Record Enrollment At Hayes Catholic High
Hayes Catholic High reports 180 term registrations with 97 boys and 83 girls. Principal Rev. F. J. Lenoch notes this is a new record, up 27 students from last year, and announces a holiday schedule Friday with classes resuming full schedule on Tuesday September 3.
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Hayes Catholic High School
F. J. Lenoch
Iclude
Lenoch
Hayes
Hayes High
Predict Fair Weather Here Predict Fair Weather Here
Fale and mild weather is pre dicted for the remaining days of August. Clear and cooler weather was predicted for tonight and Friday in southeast Iowa, with minimum temperatures, tonight bus to dip into the upper 50s. Top tempera tures Friday were expected to be near 89, Muscatine experienced an 87 degree temperature Wednesday, with a drop to 61 recorded dur ing the night. At noon today the mercury was at 80. Minimum readings at other places In Iowa varied from 30 at Spencer to 63 at Council Blutis and Lamoni.
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Iowa
Muscatine
Spencer
Council Blutis
Lamoni
Brewer Aboard USS Enterprise During Mediterranean Deployment
Brewer Gecuician s mate first class son of Mr and Mrs Donald L Brewer of 2199 Breese Ave Muscatine serves aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS Enterprise which visited Barcelona during a six month Sixth Fleet deployment in the Mediterranean with calls at Naples Genoa Havre Cannes and other ports. The Enterprise is expected to return soon to Norfolk Virginia. Also noted is the revocation of Joe Doneal Barker’s license for 60 days on August 2 for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated per the state department of public safety.
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Lester 1. Brewar
Gecuician
USS
Donald. L. Brewer
Breese Ave
Muscatine
Enterprise
Barcelona
Spain
Sixth Fleet
Joe Doneal Barker
Wilton
State Department
al Mublic
Rabbi Nodel Urges Public Education as Civic Keystone
Rabbi Junng J. Nodel of St. Louis, Missouri addressed Muscatine public school teachers and rural guests, urging education as a path to a strong society. He warned of lax morals, home-school gaps, and the danger of overemphasizing science at the expense of humanities, calling for Bible study replaced by the Bill of Rights, Constitution, and Declaration of Independence to shape an informed citizenry.
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St. Louis
Muscatine
Nodel
Lus
Nodeliso
J Brown
U. S
Supervisors Approve Trailer Park Special Permit and Rezoning
The board approved a special permit to convert farm land into a mobile home park and rezoned 23.5 acres on Highway 61 from agriculture to residential north of Flat Creek. Ripley plans two trailer park areas with lagoon sewage, 700 feet frontage on 112 North South Road, and 3,320 feet east-west. A future commercial parcel south of the park is mapped, with water supply confirmed. McMahan objected by letter to the Ripley permit. The Pine Mill school grounds were slated for rezoning from agriculture to residential, to be converted into housing.
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Board of Supervisors
AL Agriculture
D. Ripley
Tawnland Fartheast
Flat Inn Point
Ripley
Highway 61
Flat
Harold J. Belknap
Albert Kemper
Pine Mill
Girl Injured In Accident Involving Two Cars
Hazel J. Siwailes, 2, of 506 East Eighth Street, was injured and treated at a physician's office after a two car collision at 12 08 p m at Mulberry Avenue and East Fifth Street. Police said she rode in her brother Orlandos car south on Mulberry when it collided with a car driven by Philip E Caparoon of 407 West Sixth Street going west on Fifth. Vehicles were moved by service trucks.
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Iss Hazel J. Siwailes
East Eighth Street
Eday
Mulberry Avenue
East Fifth Street
Orlano
Mulberry
Philip .E. Caparoon
West Sixth Street
Caparoon
Fifth
Four Hurt In Mishap In Muscatine Alley Collision
A Muscatine woman Marjorie Ann Cooney and her three children were treated at Muscatine General Hospital for minor injuries after a 1 10 pm accident in an alley between Williams Street and Bast Firth. All were discharged. Kevin aged 7 sustained facial cuts, Lyle 5 an injured arm and shoulder, Karen 8 minor glass cuts, and Jon Begg Sr. had slight facial scratches. The other driver Mrs Robert J Wilson of 108 Canon Ave was not injured.
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Muscatine
Muscatine General Hospital
Marjorie Ann Cooney
Jon Begg Sr
Kevin Cooney
Lyle Cooney
Karen Cooney
Robert J. Wilson
Canon Ave
Williams St
Bast Firth
Brus in Morocco Navy man shares new address
Theodore Richard Brus CTSN now stationed at Port Lyautey Morocco Africa. Son of Mr and Mrs R J Brus 715 East Tihal Muscatine a 1938 Muscatine High School grad entered Navy February and graduated Bainbridge Maryland fiancee Miss Joan Frick of Stockton. New address Box 53 Navy N M F P O New York NY.
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Theodore Richard Brus
CTSN
Port Lyautey
Morocco
Africa
Brus
R. J. Brus
East Tihal
Muscatine
Muscatine High School
Navy
U. S. Naval Training Center
Bainbridge
Maryland
Joan Frick
Stockton
Theodore’ Richard
USNC
Navy Nm
New York
Explorer Post 127 Elects New Officers
Explorer Post 137 of the First Methodist church elected officers to serve another year. James Hoffman was reelected president, Steve Ralston vice president, Jack Lane quartermaster, Tom Hammer secretary, Kevin Gleaves treasurer, and Harold Reeves and Art Bardwell cabinet representatives. Fourteen members made a canoe trip on the Illinois-Mississippi canal from Wyanet to Colona last weekend.
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First Methodist Church
James Hoffman
Steve Ralston
Jack Lane
Tom Hammer
Kevin Gleaves
Harold Reeves
Art Bardwell
Ilinois-Misssip
Wyanet
Colone
Water Use Reaches New High at Muscatine Plant
Water use in Muscatine hit a new daily peak of 12,400,000 gallons, topping the previous record by 1,394,000 gallons set on August 21, 1862. Analysts attribute the rise to heavy industrial demand at the pumping plant.
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Muscatine
Read Money Going Other Places In Iowa Highways
Des Moines report from the Iowa Petroleum Committee states that about 38 percent of motorists taxes for highways over seven years funded nonroad projects. Executive secretary Robert C. Philips says Iowa motorists paid over 411 million dollars in highway taxes since the interstate program began, while only about 256 million was placed into the Highway Trust Fund. He adds motorists now face a higher federal gasoline tax than before the program and questions continued tax rates with 40 percent of national funds withheld from the highway program.
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Des Moines
Iowa Petroleum Committee
Phillips
Court Term Opens Tuesday With Judge Janssen Presiding
Court term opens Tuesday with Judge Arthur F. Janssen of Maquoketa presiding. Members of the bar will meet the judge in the morning to prepare the case docket. Those in the jury panel seeking to be excused report to the court on Wednesday, Sept. 4.
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Arthur F. Janssen
Maquoketa
Glatstein Files Petition of Bankruptcy in Des Moines
A bankruptcy petition was filed in Federal Court by Harry Robert Glatstein owner of Glatstein Stores a Muscatine based furnishings business. He lists debts of 21112 dollars and assets of 33039 dollars.
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Des Moines
Harry Robert Glatstein
Glatstein Stores
Muscatine
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Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Aldeen Davis
Catherine Miller
Washington
Carver Pump Promotion
Brewer
Scafe
TIRS
Second Waller
R. J. McMahan
Explorer
Alcoa Aluminum
Figg Aluminum Inc
Dial
Mulberry Ave
Eastman Kodachrome
Eastman Kodacolor
Kodak Vericrome
West Second Street
Auknewat
Paul Newman
Man
Gningia
Bouglas
Patricia Neal
Brandon Cwilde
H. Glatstein
Rodgers & Hammeoste
Hilltop Drive-In
Falsat
DARIN
George Montgomery
Tony Curtis
Suzanne Pleshetye
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