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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1976
Page
1
Negotiations continue across multiple Iowa districts with base salaries ranging from $8,600 to $9,800. West Liberty and Lone Tree report progress while Durant and Wapello edge toward settlements. Colsumbus, Wilton, Morning Sun, and L M Community School Districtes report varied progress and final deals, with several already settled last fall.
The Muscatine LRHC discussed the lack of by law provisions for an alternate member and questioned its four year existence. The group also reviewed publishing procedures for bills, approved a nutrition program for 350 meals, and sought HUD approval on kitchen equipment costs and admission policies. Construction on the high rise proceeds with heating and power hookups advancing. A naming committee received 100 to 150 suggestions with publicization planned in the Journal.
The third annual Evening with Dickens featured Christmas dinner and music at the Muscatine Art Center over Saturday and Sunday. Attendees included Dr. Donald E. Waters and Mr. and Mrs. Jack M. Smith in the Sunday line, with carols and readings by Muscatine Community College performers. Christmas menu offered beef broth, roast turkey, potatoes, cranberry dessert, plum pudding, and nuts, sung by the MCC Chamber Singers.
Police report James A. Porter 20 of Wheelersburg Ohio and passenger Thomas M. Jones Wilton were arrested after a stop on Iowa 38 at 12 30 a m. Porter also faces OMVAS and both men are held on bond. A separate theft of 100 dollars and a minor car crash near the Bidwell Robin Road intersection were reported, with Barbara A Brooke mentioning the stop sign damage.
Sheriff reports two traffic incidents in 24 hours. Sunday at 1 08 p m a Davenport girl, Theresa Moorman 17, injured as her car struck an ice patch near Blue Grass and plunged down a county embankment. She was treated at St Luke s Hospe and released. Driver Jefferey Winters 16 of Burlington was involved. Monday at 3 20 p m a Schultz transit truck trailer driven by Lynn Edgerton 34 of Mauston Wisconsin backed into a car driven by John G Jones 71 of Muscatine on Thatcher Road two miles south of Muscatine.
The second in a series of 11 adult farmer classes will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the ag room at Muscatine High School. Topics include Pole Building Construction and Use by Wail Naylor of Hawkeye Lumber and Snow Drift Control by Everett Clover. Free to the public with Hawkeye Lumber Co. serving coffee. In a separate case, Paul E. Haley pled guilty to lascivious acts with a child and requested a deferred sentence. sentencing set for January 3, 1977 after a presentence investigation.
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