Voting Places for Special Election Tuesday in Muscatine County
Muscatine voters will choose the Shaff plan for state assembly reapportionment at 7 AM to 8 PM in Muscatine city wards and 8 AM to 8 PM in 14 county precincts outside the city. Listed polling sites cover Cherry Street Art Center to Wilton Town Hall and many township halls. The Muscatine Journal will publish results Tuesday night as counts are tallied.
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Johnson Confers On Economic and Defense Matters at White House
President Johnson holds sessions with Robert McNamara, Luther Hodges, and Kermit Gordon on economic and defense issues. He drafts a letter to defense contractors on cost cuts and outlines upcoming visits by Braden, Leen, and Douglas-Home. Whitney Young meets the president as Oppenheimer earns the Fermi Award, sparking security concerns.
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Temperature Drops to 15 Degrees Across Region
Cold spell grips the area with temperatures falling to 15 degrees and lows near the season’s minimum. By noon today most places were below freezing, while the Weather Bureau forecast a slight warmup in southeastern Iowa on Tuesday with highs around 86 to 4b. The Decembers’ first day saw a high of 35 and a noon reading of 30, with Mason City at 21 and Davenport also reporting low readings as part of a statewide cold front.
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Associated Press
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Wherrys Get Low Number Vehicle License Plates
The Muscatine county license office began selling 164 plates at 8:30 p.m. with many residents pursuing low numbers. Elwood Wherry earned No 701 for the year and additional top numbers for his other vehicles. Several neighbors followed, including George Opel and Clarence Curry, while Morris Howell and Ambrose Hermann received first motorcycle and trailer numbers. Wherry already holds No 1 plates for his car, boat trailer, and truck for 1963. He waited at the courthouse Sunday into the evening to secure the top numbers.
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East 10Th Street
Willam H. Campbell
Grandview Avenue
Donald C. Bridges
Park Avenue
Clarence Curry
Maple Avenue
Clarence F. Tice
Lake Park Blvd
Andy
Eugene Myers
Walnut Street
Wherry
Lawrence L. Spright
Pond Street
Cecil, Newcomb
Earl L. Spright
Morris Howell
Woodlawn Avenue
Ambrose P. F
Iowa Traffic Toll Rises With Thanksgiving Deaths
A Thanksgiving holiday toll in Iowa rose with two teen drivers killed when their car overturned on Highway 60 about 10 miles north of Centerville. Wendell James Hoffman 19 of near Centerville and Richard Lowell Sales VI of rural Mystic died after their vehicle crashed. Sales died en route after an ambulance collision in Albia, with no other injuries reported. Maddaleno 17 of near Centerville drove at the time and escaped injury while a twin of Hoffman, Robert, also rode in the car.
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Virginia Court Upholds County Right to Close Schools
Virginia Supreme Court rules Prince Edward County could shut its public schools to avoid racial integration. Majority says localities decide operating or not, while Chief Justice Eggleston dissents, urging state Legislature to fund education. Case linked to federal civil rights rulings, with 1959 school closures and private white schools forming in response.
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Venezuelan voters defy terrorism to set turnout records
In Caracas, Raul Leoni leads unofficial returns amid death threats from pro Castro militants. About 86 percent of eligible Venezuelans, roughly four million people, cast ballots as police and troops faced gun battles with terrorists, with one officer killed and his wife wounded.
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Final Arguments Over Shaff Plan Under Way
Voters prepare for a close state election on the Shaff plan for legislative reapportionment. Supporters say it balances rural and urban representation while opponents warn cities may still be outvoted. The measure would reduce the House to 99 members and increase the Senate to 38, with districts based on roughly one fifty-eighth of the population.
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Liquor Sales Banned During Tuesday Election Hours
Des Moines reports that liquor by the drink cannot be sold during polls hours Tuesday as residents vote on the Shaff reapportionment plan. Homer Adcock, chair of the State Liquor Control Commission, cited an attorney general ruling that the election prohibits sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages while polls are open. The Shaff plan debate centers on Senate control and rural counties, with opponents arguing the 58 senatorial districts would still favor rural influence in the Senate.
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Burns Fatal to Rose Hill Man
Walter A. Whittaker Sr of Rose Hill died in a hospital Sunday from burns suffered at his farm home Saturday when kerosene used to light a coal stove exploded. Officials said the blast caused fatal injuries to the elderly man in the rural accident.
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Rose Hill
Farn
Key Railroad Union Seeks 25 Percent Wage Boost
Cleveland report on the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen demanding a 25 percent wage increase, supplemental pensions, and company-paid coverage. Arbitration recommendations bite into jobs. failure to negotiate could return the dispute to Congress. Leading figures argue wage adjustments are overdue despite claims of industry prosperity.
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Youths Held To Face Auto Theft Charge
Two youths aged 13 and 16 were arrested in Wapello by Sheriff Ralph McDowell for auto theft of a Muscatine car reported stolen minutes earlier. John Francis Puckett, 16, of 416 East Seventh Street, and Dennis Gray, 16, of 1009 East Third Street, were charged with mobile larceny.
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Close: Friend of Kennedy Dies in Fall
Miami Fla Grant Stockdale former U S ambassador to Ireland and friend of President Kennedy fell from the 13th floor of the DuPont Building landing on a fifth floor ledge police terming it an apparent death by own action Stockdale 48 a Miami real estate executive his office on the 18th floor served as administrative assistant to Sen George Smathers 1946 48 and in the Florida Legislature 1948 50 Kennedy named him ambassador to Ireland
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Cartoonist James Hatlo Dies of Heart Attack
Carmel California cartoonist James Hatlo aged 63 of King Features died Sunday from a heart attack. Hatlo was known for his humorous panels and long career in syndicated cartoons.
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Jimmy) Hatlo
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