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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1967
Page
7
Salina hunter William Swisher fired at a covey of quail and missed. As he reaimed for a second shot he found a quail wriggling under his foot, the only quail he bagged all day.
Montgomery police hold a television set found on Paul John Johnson’s cafe doorstep after a mysterious woman hinted weeks earlier. Johnson says he does not know her and has not seen her since she bought coffee. If unclaimed, the set will be returned to him.
Nero, a Dalmatian and firehouse mascot at Fire Station 30 in Los Angeles, keeps a running bakery tab. When Jack Watson visits at 14th Street and Central Avenue, Nero dashes out for a doughnut and the firemen pay the 40 to 50 cent weekly bill.
A Baltimore police report says 20 year old George Stubbs walked into the station and placed a bundle of $5 bills on the sergeant's desk saying he found it in an alley. The money likely came from a bank withdrawal and could be his if the loser does not come forward.
In Houston a medical note reports that ear nose and throat doctors asked the American Medical Association to rename their field. The AMA House of Delegates voted to call them the section on otorhinolaryngology to replace the lengthy phrase section on laryngology otology and rhinology.
A Seattle cyclist was stopped for not wearing a helmet under a 1967 law. The rider argued the law requires a strapped chin helmet but does not specify placement. The officer did not issue a ticket. The helmet was strapped firmly to the cyclist's leg.
Kenneth L Koehler who recently moved to town and another Kenneth L Koehler who has lived here awhile share the middle name Leroy and a father named Fred. Each has four children and one uncle named John. Both families settled years ago in the Ga Tena Illinois area. They doubt they are related.
Veslemoy Thor sen Laahne of Norway returns to West Liberty for a month visiting her American host family seven years after studying there as an American Field Service student. She speaks several languages, worked in Oslo, became an airline hostess, and now lives in Tonsberg with her husband, planning future travels and continued ties to the United States. She called the trip wonderful and said she would definitely return, possibly with her husband. The visit included an open house in the Car ey home and speaking to local groups.
MOLINE IL AP A federal mediator said negotiations between the United Auto Workers and Deere Co. were called off Friday as progress toward a settlement stalled. The UAW has been on strike since Nov. 17 with the contract expiring Oct. 1. The stalled talks leave the labor dispute unresolved.
American B52s dropped 150000 pounds of bombs over the demilitarized zone to blunt new North Vietnamese thrusts after a second day of fighting below the DMZ. The strikes hit suspected concentrations four miles northeast of Con Thien near a Marine outpost, following a raid near Gio Linh and Friday’s shelling of a Marine amphibious tractor column.
Talks on a major rail dispute collapsed in London as 36,500 locomotive engineers and firemen walkout to impose a work to rule. Union opposes caboose removal and rear cab placement on diesels, arguing safety risk. the rival National Union of Railwaymen represents brakemen.
In San Diego California Governor Ronald Reagan faced a crowd of about 30 University of California students who jeered and displayed a North Vietnamese flag as he passed by. Reagan reprimanded them saying free speech does not justify such acts and urged regents to consider stronger campus enforcement. He criticized appeasement of troublemakers and urged regents to study legislation giving chancellors more authority to handle disturbances. Meanwhile fighting flared near Dak To and Con Thien with reports of Communist casualties and mortars, rockets, and an American death and several injuries during the three hour barrage.
Denver reports 17 year old Darren Dar ry Stemple severely burned in a July gasoline fire at a Rawlins Wyoming service station took his first step Friday. His doctors expect he may be home for Christmas as he strengthens and undergoes skin grafts aided by an experimental drug sulfamyion to combat infection. He was flown to Presbyterian Medical Center in Denver after the accident.
In Los Angeles the Robert Holt Family hid for eight months in a Dominguez district home. Deputies found Ella Holt, 66, dead in an upstairs room likely two to four weeks. Authorities list natural causes. Robert Holt and Joyce Holt, plus relatives, faced charges for keeping children from school.
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