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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1967
Page
1
The Muscatine Chamber of Commerce announced plans for the annual Christmas Home Decorating Contest open to city residents with prizes in Religious and Novelty categories. Grand prize is a $50 savings bond, second prize $25, and four $5 runner ups in each category. Entries due by December 13. judging December 15. winners announced December 18.
Boxes have been placed at First National Bank Central State Bank and the Muscatine Journal for Christmas cards to be donated to the Circle K club of Muscatine Community College for mailing to servicemen overseas. Circle K announced earlier the boxes were placed and apologized for the delay. The club asks for signed Christmas cards in unsealed envelopes with 5 cent stamps. Members will address and send the cards to local servicemen overseas.
The Muscatine Journal published daily except Sundays and holidays by The Muscatine Journal. It is a Lee Enterprises property, located at 261 E 3rd St Muscatine Iowa 52761. It is entered as second class matter in Muscatine post office under act of March 1279. The Associated Press holds exclusive rights to local news and AP dispatches.
Subscription rates listed for Muscatine city delivery at 208 per month in advance. Non Muscatine carrier delivery forty cents per two weeks. One year by mail within 50 miles 15.00. One year by mail in towns with early service 18.00. One year by mail over 50 miles 20.00. All subscriptions payable in advance. Office hours and special delivery times noted. Dial 263 ES 330.
Naval Reservists from Muscatine Durant and Tipton will be honored by Rear Admiral William H. Longley at ceremonies Monday night at Davenport Naval Reserve Training Center. Commendation certificates for perfect drill attendance go to Gerald H. Powell and Robert L. Kaas. Edwin L. Skladzien will receive a Naval Reserve Meritorious Service medal as Longley first appears publicly since his promotion. The event includes a ceremonial inspection of three Naval Reserve units comprising about 205 enlisted men and 4 officers.
The Cub Scout Pack 116 met at Lincoln School on Thursday with Den 5 presenting the opening and closing ceremonies. Bobcat pins were awarded to Mike Symmonds Wade Terrill Robert Young Jo Allen Aswegan Doug Heuer Jerry Hants Eddie McCleary Myron Meyn Marcus Montagna Jim Schildt Larry Schildt Randy Hopkins Billy Cook Allen Cooney Doug Hudspeth and Kirk Dye. Mike Frye earned his Webelo badge while Tom Sturms and Todd Duncan received silver arrows. A paper drive is planned for Saturday Dec 9 at 8:30 am and nuts will be sold before Christmas. The next pack meeting is Dec 21 and the next committee meeting is Dec 14 at 7 pm.
Harvey G. Allbee Sr of Muscatine is among 12 Iowa Masons to be honoured Saturday in Des Moines. At the Scottish Rite cathedral they will be coronetted as inspectors general honorary of the thirty third degree. Henry C. Shull of Sioux City will preside at a banquet after the ceremony. Frank R. Lewis and Edgar Meier of Davenport are also honored.
Acting Postmaster Walter Conway announced extended hours for the Muscatine post office during the Christmas season. The schedule includes early openings 8 a m to 5 or 5 30 p m on December 9 through 12 and 13 14 15 with 8 a m to 5 30 p m, extended to 6 p m on December 16, and 8 a m to 9 50 p m on December 18, followed by 8 a m to 5 p m on December 19 and 21, 8 a m to 5 p m on December sw23, and a noon close on December 23.
A Saturday measles clinic for children ages 1 to 15 will be held at Central Junior High School in Muscatine from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sponsored by the Muscatine County Medical Society and the State Health Department, a 50 cent donation per child is requested but no one will be turned away. The vaccine will be administered by air jet guns, described as relatively painless.
Pvt. TeStrake and wife Sue are visiting his parents at 1105 Newell Avenue. He completed a Ft. Knox radio course on November 24, receiving the honor graduate and outstanding soldier awards and a promotion to private first class. He departs Dec. 10 for Ft. Dix and then Germany for 18 months. Sue plans to join him there next summer.
Two performances of The Land of the Dragon for children and adults will be staged Saturday at Muscatine High School auditorium at 10 a.m. and 7 36 p.m. Eldon Benedict directs with a large cast including Jade Pure Sue Terrill Road Wanderer John Henderson and many others. Tickets at the door. audience welcome.
Russell Pohlmann waited from 7 30 a m Thursday to 8 30 a m Friday to draw Muscatine County car plate No 1 for 1968 He also drew No 1 truck plate No 1 travel trailer plate and other first plates awarded to local residents including Morris Howell Elwood Wherry Richard Schwarz and Gordon Messegier Names and addresses of several applicants are listed with plate numbers and winners for cars trailers and other vehicle categories
November weather at Muscatine was cooler and drier than normal. Temperatures varied from 65 to 15 degrees with a mean of 37.6, about 2 degrees below the 39.5 normal. Precipitation reached 1.58 inches, about 0.5 inch under the 2.10 normal, with six days of trace snow and 9 partly cloudy along 12 cloudy days. For 1965, temperatures ranged 74 to 16 and total precipitation was 0.76 inches.
Dr Gerald Miller a Muscatine native and associate professor of communication at Michigan State University East Lansing joins 18 other experts from England West Germany and the United States to broadcast lectures on communication research to East Germany and East Berlin this year through RIAS Berlin. His talk Communication and Persuasion will be translated into German and read by a REAL commentator. Miller is the son of Raymond A Miller of Muscatine Route 2. He earned a BA MA and PhD from Iowa in 1957 1956 and 1961 and joined MSU in 1962.
Mr and Mrs L K Cole 106 Dillaway Street have learned their son Archay L C Cole has arrived at the Air Force base at U Tapao Thailand after a 20 day leave in Muscatine He is an air condi ...
AIC Jay L. Cole will be assigned for a year at the base. His new address is 4258 FMS Box 4357 APO San Francisco California 96330.
Des Moines Iowa AP reports Lois Duus a 20 year old Des Moines Register and Tribune secretary had her hand caught in a typewriter Thursday. A repairman freed her by removing parts of the machine after frantic tugging failed.
Mr and Mrs Walter Askam of 1309 Smalley announce their son Keith D Askam SP 4 US 54925248 HHC 303rd AR BN APO San Francisco California 96266 is stationed in Vietnam with a new address.
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