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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1961
Page
1
Snow blanketed the area slowing traffic and delighting youngsters with sleds. In Muscatine an inch lay on the ground as crews mobilized snow removal on primary roads and county highways. Weather officials warned of continued accumulation up to seven inches with visibility down and slick streets.
The Town Highway Patrol issued this morning’s road conditions across districts 11 through 14. District 11 Marengo sees light snow east with highways 25 to 75 percent snow packed and ice covered, light to moderate snow west, and snow and ice on other routes. District 12 Maquoketa reports light snow with snow packed highways in spots. District 13 Mount Pleasant notes light snow with routes 75 to 100 percent snow packed. District 14 Ottumwa reports light snow northeast with normal to snow packed highways in spots and one percent snow packed south.
Rep AL Ullman of Oregon suffered the loss of part of his left leg in a freak accident near Stephens City Virginia on a Friday. Doctors amputated the leg at Winchester Memorial Hospital after the door opened suddenly during travel on Virginia 277. Ullman was thrown from the car when the door slammed into a ditch as he attempted to close it.
Orville Freeman addressed a 6000 strong crowd at the National Farmers Organization convention closing session. He urged parity for farmers and warned of unemployment if gains stopped. NFC president Gren Staley of Rea Missouri was elected to a sixth term by acclamation amid multiple standing ovations. Freeman criticized an unnamed farm group head over disputed figures.
Dale Hall's contract as football coach at the United States Military Academy was terminated today, effective immediately.
The Associated Press reports a traffic death tied to the season’s first snowfall near Hernard. Loras J. Driscoll, 20, of near Cascade, died when his car hit an icy spot on Highway ISL, skidded off the road, and was crushed when the vehicle overturned.
Snow extended from the southwest across Iowa with tolls at Clarinda and over five inches at Boone. Temperatures ranged from the mid 20s to mid 30s as a Canadian air push threatened a cold wave by Sunday morning. Downtown Muscatine read 30 at 11 am while other towns reported 24 to 28. The season’s first snow occurred ten days earlier than last year’s Dec 19 event.
A blaze from a ninth floor trash chute at Hartford Hospital Friday swept a corridor in blaze, killing fifteen people. Over one hundred were wounded or displaced as flames turned gleaming hallways into charred debris. Fifteen patients, five visitors and four hostel staff members are among the dead. The survivors include two who had come to visit spouses.
Obituary notices for Lester Goode of Columbus Junction 64 died after a Mercy Hospital stay with survivors including widow two daughters and four brothers. Pearl Atkins of West Liberty service details and survivors. Bertress Albert Biddle 87 former Muscatine resident died at Grigg Nursing Home. William F Grigg of Wapello died in a farm accident on a soy bean combine. Mrs Bessie Mac Workman of Carthage Missouri funeral details. Notices note correction of a Friday error in service date for Mrs Workman.
Miami reporters note Mate Mike Ivanov, 27, awaiting transfer to New York for a bayonet massacre, allegedly killed his brother in law’s family in Mineola. He reportedly swallowed a spoon in jail, doctors study N rays to assess surgery need. FBI had identified him after migrant arrest near Marathon.
El Caribe reports in principle agreement between opposition and government representatives on a formula to resolve the nation’s political crisis. The paper did not disclose details of the proposed formula or the parties’ concessions.
Chicago lawyer James L Fox argues turkey growers lack a greater right to set prices than employers have to set wage costs. Speaking for turkeys northeastern South Dakota growers, Fox cites the economy of labor and market forces. Another turkey man, E McConnell of Winchester Kentucky, contrasts retail turkey prices with dog food costs in the discussion.
Local report notes turkeys stolen from a service station on East Everything and Cypress streets as part of a larger discussion before a U S Department of Agriculture examiner on proposed marketing orders. Witnesses discuss overproduction, low prices, and grocers viewing Wickey turkeys as a profitable item. Fox and McDonell support federal action to regulate the turkey industry.
Fidel Castro denounces Panama and Colombia in a late night televised speech. He challenges severing diplomatic ties with the Cuban regime and defends U.S. restraint policy while blasting President Kennedy's planned Venezuelan trip. He singles out regional governments as traitors and accomplices of the Yankee empire.
Premier Khrushchev told delegates the Soviet Union built 50 and 100 megaton bombs to hang over Western powers like the sword of Damocles. He warned they would use such weapons if a new war starts, claiming Western nations lack bombs in that range. He mocked Western pleas for an internationally controlled corridor to West Berlin and said the Soviet Union has changed, not reverting to old tactics.
West Liberty high school band under Arthur Schulz presents a Sunday 3 p.m. concert in the high school auditorium featuring Christmas Suite by Harold L Walters two chorales Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee Beautiful Saviour Panis Angelicus Christmas Festival Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson and three marches including one dedicated to the United States Army Band.
Ronald Stump plans to appeal Judge C Edswin Moore's denial of a new trial in the murder conviction of Michael Daly, 22, of Des Moines. A sentencing was set for Monday at 9 a.m. Bond of 50 000 was not met, keeping Stump jailed after motions by Riley McManus were overruled.
In central Japan the 1,654 pound bell for peace and friendship was cast as thanks for Iowa aid after a 1959 wphoot. It is headed to Des Moines Iowa as a symbol of mutual goodwill between Japan and Iowa.
A Panamanian freighter named Combined One sank in a storm in the South China Sea west of Ladd Reef near Spratly Island, 650 miles southwest of Manila. The 1,722 ton ship carried logs from Singapore to Hong Kong. Five survivors were rescued and two bodies recovered. no additional survivors sighted as 13 merchant ships and the Epping Forest aided in search.
Torrential rains slowed U.N. and Katanga forces near Elisabethville, Congo, interrupting five days of battle on the capital’s outskirts. At Leopoldville, U.N. said Swedish jets damaged the Katanga radio facility and ground troops dispersed Katanga gendarmes around the Elisabethville transmitter.
Muscatine County volunteers organize a 1960 CROP canvass with three collection points and local farmers urged to donate corn or cash. Sites include James Shepard farm east of Highway 61 33 junction, Lester Cornell farm south of Alalia on county road W, and Robert Harbaugh farm east of Legler corner. Donations support a county goal of 2509 dollars in corn value with shellers donated.
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