Marriage license and court records list local, ages shown
District court items include a marriage license for Alvin Lavern Davis Jr. and Robin Eileen Dipple, ages 16 and 17 from Muscatine and Montpelier respectively, plus other court actions. Municipal court notes cite overtime parking ticket failure by Frank Gillett and a delinquency contribution case dismissed for Frank Hunter. The morning report lists hospital admissions and discharges, including individuals from Muscatine and Wilton Junction, with a section noting a birth to Kerry W. Figg and Mary Duffield, former Muscatine residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R.K. Stohr
Alvin Lavern Davis, Jr
Muscatine
Robin Eileen Dipple
Montpelier
Joseph Raymond Schaapveld
Patricia Joan Pinna
Harold Richard Pagel
Betty Jean Wrightman
Wilton Junction
Frank Gillett
Robert Petersen
Barry Ave
Frank Hunter
Journal
Daily
Joaquin
Edward Ratkins
Arthur Mewes
Della Eliott
Mary Mickey
Angela Howsard
Roger Parkhurst
Gale McClean
Wilton
Deanna Ostrander
Evans St
Eldon Johnson
Logan St
Mary Cullen
9Th St
William ‘. Newell
Letts
Gertrude Hawkins
W. 3Rd St
Wayne Burns
Lester Walker
Roselawn Ave
Charles Fulton
Spring St
Borne
Kerry W. Figg
Northwest Sath Ct
Des Moiess
Figg
Mary Duffield
James Duffield
Myrtle Lane
Paul Figg
Orange
Four Night Courses Slated at MCC
The Muscatine Community College Community Services Division offers four evening courses starting Wednesday. Registration is by phone at 263-8250 extension 26 or at the first class. Courses cover Monday modern office procedures, Tuesday typing, Wednesday operating a small business, and Thursday speed reading at listed times and rooms with a ten dollar fee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Community Services Division
Muscatine Community College
Midway Circle marks 60th anniversary at ISU party
Midway Circle celebrated its 60th anniversary with a Thursday afternoon party in the ISU Courtesy Room. Tea committee members Mary Jan Scheihing and Jackie McConahay organized a centerpiece with low flowers and a candelabra, with a yard stick holder gift showing the club’s history from the old schoolhouse to bridal and baby showers. Committee members were Pauline Hamiston Irene Cowles and Lena Small. The next meeting will host the Christmas party at ISU in December.
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Wapello
ISU
Mary Jan Scheihing
Jackie McConahay
Pauline Hamiston
Irene Cowles
Lena Small
Christmas Open House at Laura Musser Gallery
The Muscatine County Museum and Vine Arts Association announce a Christmas open house at 7 40 pm Saturday Dec 11 at the Laura Musser Art Gallery and Museum 1914 Mulberry Ave. The event features a preview reception and exhibition by Miss Pally Rueling University of Minnesota art faculty, plus displays of antique toys iron banks antique children furniture miniature steel tools crafted by Richard Kintzle Davenport and a Victorian period sitting room. Refreshments will be served.
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Muscatine
Richard Kintzle
Davenport
Iowa State fans seek quick route to two games
ISU fans plan a tight schedule on December 13 to attend both the Sun Bowl in El Paso at 11 a.m. and the basketball game against the University of Iowa in Ames at 7:20 p.m. Alumni organizer Arnold Gaarde said a fan group may fly from El Paso to Des Moines and take a bus to Hilton Coliseum, aiming to reach the arena by tip-off.
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Ames
Lowd
Iowa State University
Iowa State
el Paso
Tex
University of Iown
Arnold Gaarde
ISU
Des Moines
Hilton Coliseum
Boot Hill Bowl Collision of Northwest Oklahoma and Dakota State
In Dodge City both Northwest Oklahoma and Dakota State face off in the Boot Hill Bowl with 7 3 records. The game pits the teams in a regional clash at the venue tonight for a postseason showdown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dodge City
Kan
Oklahoma
Dakota State
S.C
Hospital volunteers named for the week at Muscatine General
Muscatine General hospital lists volunteers for the coming week. Sunday features Minnie Romann and Mabel Terry. Monday includes Don Gray and Eugene Leyb, among many. Tuesday lists Clark Crouse and Norbert Beckey with numerous others. Wednesday shows Merle Young and Sheldon Neeld, plus additional helpers. Thursday highlights Robert Rohwer and Walter Russell, with more names. Friday includes George Sheppley and Arthur Dal among the volunteers. Saturday closes with Alice Nyenhuis and Elmer Potter plus several others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine General Hospital
Minnie Romann
Mabel Terry
Don Gray
Eugene Leyb
Claude Harris
Doug Coder
Richard Macginn
Elmer Quandt
Mary Young
Don Ziegenhorn
John McNeal
Ron Grady
Clifford Bower
Peter Umlanat
Robert Sapp
Clark Crouse
Norbert Beckey
Grace Crull
Glen Holstorf
Daryl Wittmer
den Lange
Irving Heerd
Arthur Hetzler
Edgar Kemper
Robert Lewis
JoAnn Bloom
Ronald Eggenburg
Joan Phillips
Cleo Shockey
Harriet Bauerbach
Merle Young
Sheldon Neeld
Arthur Umlandt
Paul Welk
Leo Gros
George Kruse
Viola Hoffman
Robert Day
Kenneth Kright
Eva Miller
Kay Wilson
Obituaries and Funeral Services From Morning Sun Area
Funeral notices for Ida H Miller Doris Shuger Benjamin Reiman Irma Morris Jesse Ross and Willard Deal list services set for 2 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. in Omaha Wilton Oakville West Liberty Morning Sun and Washington with burial at Calvary Elm Grove Parsons Elmwood and other local cemeteries. Surviving relatives and listed affiliations reflect era local families and community churches.
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Ida H. Miller
John A. Gentleman
Harry
Jean) Dolphin
Omaha
Nebr
John R
Marilyn) ‘Thompson
San Jose
Calif
David C. Miller
Novato
Ruth Robinson
Sabula
Harriet Barrett
Ft. Collins
Cole
Harry Dolphin
The
Muscatine Journal
Benjamin Reiman
Oakville
Dudgeon- McCulley
Parsons Cemetery
Reiman
Burlington Memorial Hospital
Joseph and
Cathryn Rosenberg Reiman
Mackinaw
Ruby Malcom
Kathleen Brunimeyer
Galesburg
Sophia Schori
Indiana
Irma Morris
West Liberty
Morris
Jesse Ross
Robert Winter
Jesse C. Ross
Centenary Methodist Church
Mr. Ross
Morning Sun
Pierce Funeral Home
Elmwood Cemetery
Jasper
Melinda (Ross) Ross
Henry County
Alice Maxson
Morning Sun Centenary Methodist Church
Ross Fara
Morning Sur
John
Grays Lake
Ill
Willard Deal
Washington
Fanera
4Th Ave
Jones Funeral Home
Elm Grove Cemetery
Deal
Veterans Hospital
Towa City
Scott sheriff calls for help to curb burglaries
Scott County Sheriff William Strout asks county residents to report suspicious vehicles and people to slow a surge in burglaries. He notes 68 rural burglaries since last June, doubling from the prior year, and says limited manpower requires community cooperation to build a backlog of vehicle types and license numbers for arrests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport Town
Scott County
William Strout
Strout
Co operatives back rural water system drive in Iowa
The Iowa Association of Electric Co operatives endorsed developing rural water systems to attract industry and improve rural living. The resolution passed at the annual meeting cites better health services for rural areas. Carrina Wright, 8, of Anthon was named queen to represent Iowa in a national rural electric co op pageant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Association of Electric Co-operatives
Carrina Wright
Anthon
Towa
Durant Christmas lighting contest invites residents to enter
The Durant Municipal Electric Plant will sponsor a Christmas lighting contest with two categories religious display and novelty lighting. Two cash prizes will be awarded in each category. Judging runs from December 17 to 24. Residents may enter by submitting their names in writing before December 17.
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Durant Durant
Durant
Festival of Christmas music planned by Presbyterian choir
The First United Presbyterian chancel choir under William B. Garcia will present a December festival of Christmas music at Sunday services. The program features Saint-Saens Christmas Oratorio on December 12 with University of Iowa School of Music soloists Lillian Shallenberg Diane Beard Sippy David Livingston and Franklin Hankey. A mini concert precedes the service at 10 am on December 12 and December 19, with preludes by Praetorius Dawson and Pergolesi, plus Bach Shaw Williams works later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First United Presbyterian Church
William B. Garcia
Camille Saint-Saems
University of Iowa School of Music
Iowa
Lillian Shallenberg
Diane Beard Sippy
David Livingston
Franklin Hankey
Praetorius
Mary
William Dawson
Pergoless
Bach
Shaw
Williams
Gustav Holst
Robert Nathaniel Dett
Linda Smith
Janet Ogden
Miss Smith
Lee Smith
Muscatine
Manhattan School of Music
New York City
Wesley Snodgrass
Jonn Fishburn
Clark Ogden
The
Presbyterian Church
Probation groups urge state aid for youth services in Iowa
Iowa probation officers urged state support for local services for juvenile offenders at the Iowa Crime Commission conference. A local probation subsidy would reimburse communities for non institutional care and treatment, funding counseling psychiatric and medical care. Other resolutions sought restricting access to juvenile records, banning branding of delinquents for non criminal acts, allowing out of state placement, and closing or destroying inactive juvenile records when turning 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Crime Commission
Carl Erickson
Seattle
Wash
Christmas Symbols program by Sweetland WSCS group
The Sweetland Women’s Society of Christian Service met in church parlors Wednesday afternoon for the monthly program Christmas Symbols led by Mrs. Gordon Day with piano by Mrs. Marvin Hetzler. Various members assisted, reports were given, appreciation cards read, and donations approved totaling 60 dollars to district homes, 25 to COCA Muscatine, and 5 to the local church budget. Committee appointments for Jan 13 were made, Africa study set for Jan 5, and lunch served after. The meeting closed with meditation. A separate note announced a chamber group meeting for national legislative affairs at Kathy’s Restaurant led by chairman J. B. Schumaeler.
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Terry Sywassink
Gale McClean
Mae Phelps
Edgar Kemper
COCA
Muscaline
Pointzellas
Glenney
Sweetland
United Methodist Men’s
Vearl Connor
Merle Glenney
Vernon Shepard
Clifford TeStrake
Ray Shoppa
Clarence Kis
Oren Coram
George Reynolds
Henry Rohlf Jr
Africa
WSCS
Weldon Martz
Verle Sylvassink
Clifford Burr
Kathy's
J.B. Schumaeler
Christmas Seals raise over six thousand in Muscatine County
Muscatine County Christmas Seal collections total 6074.75 with city and town totals listed. City of Muscatine leads at 4181.30 of 6331.15, while several towns report smaller but growing contributions. Organizers urge more gifts to fight TB, emphysema, and respiratory diseases.
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Muscatine County
Conesville
Nichols
West Liberty
Wilton
Bloomington
Cedar
Fruitland
Fulton
Goshen
Lake
Montpelier
Moscow
City of Muscatine
Orone
Pile
Sweetland
Wapsie
Wayne Wetzel
Ronald, McGowan
Muscatine
Elty Christmas Seal
Iowa
Guardian appointed to halt abortions in New York
In New York a Roman Catholic law professor, opposed to the liberalized abortion law, was named legal guardian for an unborn child to stop an abortion. Judge Holtzman set a hearing for Tuesday as guardianship aims to let fetuses assert constitutional rights in court. The case challenges state law up to six months and marks a rare, unprecedented action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Robert M. Byrne
State Supreme Court
Lester Holtzman
Holtzman
Burn
Queens Hospital
Thomas J. Ford
Byrn
Fordham University
Ford
Iowa Electric Nuclear Plant Construction Continues
Cedar Rapids The Atomic Energy Commission said construction at the Duane Arnold Energy Center near Palo may proceed while NEPA environmental review is under way. Arnold, Iowa Electric’s CEO, said the action keeps the schedule on target as the 530 megawatt plant nears fuel loading planned for June 1973 and commercial operation in December 1973. About 1,300 workers are employed, civil work is 70 percent done, and overall progress is 40 percent complete with a $168 million cost.
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Cedar Rapids
Atomic Energy Commission
Duane Arnold’ Energy Center
Palo
AEC
NEPA
Duane Arnold
AEG
Arnold
Iowa Electric
Central Town
Corn Belt Power Cooperatives
Duane Arnold Energy Center
Fort Dodge youth killed by family car incident
Five-year-old Jeffery W. Dugan of Fort Dodge died Friday night after being run over three times by his mother's running car. Authorities said the mother left Jeffery alone in the vehicle with the motor running and in parking gear. Police believe he may have accidentally shifted to reverse causing the car to roll and circle the street as he panicked.
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Fort Dodge
Jeffery W. Dugan
Susan Linder
Jeffery
Avery
Ask 3.5 million from a railroad in court suit
Patrick Burke, 20, of Bloomington Prairie, Minn., filed in U S District Court here a personal injury suit seeking 3.5 million from the Milwaukee Road after a Waterville Iowa railroad yard accident November 1. Burke was paralyzed when a 12 4 ton steel beam fell from a railroad car and struck him on the back while he worked on a bridge. He has been hospitalized in Rochester since the incident. His attorney says the paralysis is permanent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis, Minn
Milwaukee Road
U.S
Waterville
Iowa
Patrick Burke
Blooming Praiie
Minn
Burke
Sast
Rochester
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Shugee
John K
Sadie) Shuger
Wilton Presbyterian Church
Ukena
Shuger
Maurer St
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
Grifith Funeral
Oakdale Cemetery
Keswick
James
Rosemarie Morrison
Chicago
John K. Shuger
Alice Mahannah
Miami
Fia
Scott
Presbyterian Church Choir
Mary Ellen Lambert
Richard Stanley
Sweetland Wscs Group
Atalissa
Guardian
Iowa Electric Nuclear
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