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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1964
Page
1
Muscatine moves closer to its first outlying retail center after an 8 to 1 vote by the plan and zoning commission to recommend rezoning to the city council. The project on a 30 acre tract north of Colorado Street faces a council hurdle before construction can start next April.
The United Fund of Muscatine announced a 1965 total of 110,364.22, beating the 108,000 goal as 16 agencies share in the drive. Campaign chair Max Churchill noted some 500 volunteers across division chairs including George Shepley and Rod Drake, with funds earmarked for administration and an emergency reserve to end the year.
A presidential commission urged a national assault on heart disease cancer and strokes proposing a network of 540 new treatment centers. The plan aims to tackle the three leading killers with coordinated nationwide facilities and research efforts.
Railroads filed a petition in U S District Court to stop a planned wage dispute walkout by three shop unions representing about 58 000 workers slated for 6 am Tuesday December 15. Judge Joseph Sam Perry set a hearing on the request for a temporary restraining order and a permanent injunction to bar a strike picketing or interference with train movement.
Waterloo report states 20 year old Robert Funk of Tripoli died at Waterloo hospital from injuries sustained in a war-track crash Tuesday night. Weather clearing tonight with mid 20s low, then partly cloudy and warmer Thursday with highs near 38 to 42.
Ned Willis led a 28 page report finding no improper conduct by Iowa highway commissioners though four of five had business with road contractors. The Interim Committee accepted the report and will review recommendations to be ready before the General Assembly.
Premier Alexei Kosygin announced a 500 million ruble cut in the Soviet military budget for 1965 and urged major powers to follow suit. He addressed the Supreme Soviet, calling the move a definite step toward reducing international tension and urging further reductions by big nations.
In Vietnam, government forces recaptured a hill at An Lao, while fighting flared at two dozen other sites in central Vietnam. An American infantry officer was killed in Phu Yen Province, raising total U S combat deaths to twenty in recent years. About 13,800 Americans have died wounded in the war, with roughly 95 deaths from related causes listed. The An Lao Valley endured a hard three day action.
The Senate Rules Committee delayed a public hearing as members debated pursuing new leads in the Bobby Baker case. Hugh Alexander said the panel would rule on the investigation’s future as a hearing on Baker’s bank records and a witness accusing him of a political payoff was postponed. Comptroller James Saxon was questioned about a federal charter for Redwood National Bank. Edward Hugler would testify on Baker and Reynolds bank records. Reynolds had said he acted as bag man for a $25,000 flow to the 1900 Democratic fund from Matthew H. McCloskey. Clark Weatherman’s car struck a bridge railing near Ocheyedan.
The board heard a recommendation to install 22 new 460 cradle fluorescent lights in 1965 on Mississippi Drive between Linn Street and Mulberry Avenue to complete the downtown lighting system. The plan, part of a three year program estimated at 40,210, includes replacing 206 old incandescent fixtures and adding new poles and lights for the East Second Street lot, with bids to be opened January 12 for a line truck.
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced that talks with President Johnson produced clear objectives for forming a NATO nuclear weapons force and guiding Allied consultation. He said the U.S. plan for a jointly owned and mixed-manned nuclear surface fleet could go forward, with West Germany as a central member and France potentially interested in the broadened approach.
Grand jurors to serve during 1865 in Muscatine county were drawn Tuesday in district court. Names listed include Leo J. Furlong Sev enity Six township W J Jasper son Walter Grossklaus Dorothy Potter Lorrene Hendriks Jamies Sywassink Clarence Egel Dorothy Hermann Montpelier John W Miller and others from Moscow GoMf Craton Wapsinindnoc.
Atlanta police and FBI chased an armed man after a bank robbery attempt at Citizens & Southern in northwest Atlanta. A hostage was briefly held, a car crash occurred, and Susan Engle, a bank teller, was released. The suspect, Keith Donald Moore, was captured with a pistol in custody.
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