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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1967
Page
2
The Iowa Department of Public Safety urges safer travel during the holiday shopping period. Fulton stresses motorists should prepare for trips, ensure brakes lights steering and wipers work, and drive defensively as shorter days and more pedestrians raise hazards. He notes December fatalities last year reached 89, urging better habits to reduce deaths.
FCC hearings in Media PA probe WXUR license renewal for Rev Carl McIntire a noted fundamentalist preacher. Witnesses argue stations must offer equal time to liberal and conservative views amid charges of anti Semitic content and anti civil rights bias. The commission weighs if a half hour of virtue requires 30 minutes of sin.
A South Boston Gazette piece warns youth chasing work without a diploma face dull jobs and 13 percent joblessness. It urges finishing high school to unlock better chances and protect the nation’s future.
The Decatur Herald notes that conferences on rail passenger service hinge on whether enough balance exists to cover anticipated checks. Automobile traveling conferees await arrival as discussions proceed.
Washington AP profile notes Lyndon B Johnson learned to curb careless speech over 30 years. He moved from fixed microphones to roaming ones, yielding quicker, cleaner remarks. He now answers with restrained language, while press conferences sometimes yield minimal new information.
Dear Dr Molner weighs hair straighteners' safety for very curly hair, noting individual tolerance varies and recommending cautious trial with any product causing scalp irritation. Also answers on nephritis, coffee sensitivity, asparagus urine odor, and mononucleosis with booklet offers and reader questions policy.
AP essay lists annoyances in modern life including mink cufflinks, dog pajamas, private teen telephones, spite fences, odd canapes like fried Mexican worms, all-purpose credit cards useless for mortgages, permissive nursery schools, miniskirted girls with butterfly decals, doctors with Playboy in waiting rooms, noisy breakfast foods, pushy middle aged bus riders, football fans explaining the game, subtitles read aloud at cinemas, aging politicians not yet statesmen, wisecracking critics, abstract modern paintings, cakes without chocolate icing, talking parakeets with limited vocabulary, stock salesmen on the ground floor pitch, go go dancers, biker groups, Beatles imitators, mocking comedians, and sunglasses wearers in restaurants. End with the refrain that enough is enough.
A column recalls past local items from 100 to 25 years ago. The steamer Pearl wintered at the port. Washburns visited Washington to see relatives. Cliftford and Sons’ art temple drew 100 plus visitors. 1918 Iowa lodge officers elected with Charles E. Fox as head. 1923 local youths Jerry Hilton and Mearl Danfeldt enlisted in Navy and Army. Dr Barry Anson to speak to West End Fortnightly club. Open house at Church of Christ after a Harding College chorus concert later this evening.
On this date in history notable events include Britain declaring war on Finland Romania and Hungary in 1941. Other items mention Martin Van Buren born in 1782 Mozart death in 1781 Jackson re election in 1832 Polk gold discovery in 1848 Utah ratifying the 21st Amendment ending Prohibition in 1933 Calcutta daylight attack in 1943 Dulles noting Soviet lead in missiles ten years ago unemployment rising to 5.8 percent and Eisenhower surgery announced last year.
The text presents a prayer drawing on Jeremiah 24 3 and RSV wording expressing gratitude for God's goodness. It seeks divine closeness through love devotion and prayer in Jesus Christ. The piece frames a communal blessing and supplication for spiritual fruitfulness and remnant restoration.
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