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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1966
Page
4
The Weather Bureau predicts snow tonight for the northern plateaus and Upper Great Lakes, with rain along the northern Pacific coast. Showers are forecast in New England, the lower Great Lakes, Ohio and Tennessee valleys, the southern Atlantic coast and the Gulf coast regions.
DES MOINES AP The 1967 Iowa Legislature will be asked to sell 60 mile an hour speed limit on trucks permitting them to go faster on primary highways but ordering them to slow down on interstate super highways. The bill would raise truck speed from 50 to 60 on primary roads day and night while interstates stay 75 daytime 65 night for all vehicles. The measure leaves car limits unchanged. The Legislative Research Committee headed by Sen John Kibbie rejected other proposals including a blanket 50 mph limit on all gravel roads. A gravel road proposal may be revived.
Ronald Frieden, in the U S Navy, is stationed aboard the U S S LaSalle out of Norfolk Virginia with the carpenters and shipfitters shop in the 6th Amphibious Fleet. He completed a Navy school course in San Francisco on November 2 and had a 20 day leave with his parents. His new address is Ronald F Frieden D C F A 8603220 USS LaSalle LPD 3 FPO New York 09501. Youth for Christ meeting features Thor Aicken at Muscatine Community College Saturday at 7 27 p m. Bob Page of near Mt Pleasant leads the event. all are invited.
Mason City AP reports a wall in a storage area of the American Crystal Sugar Co plant collapsed Thursday night onto three cars. No injuries occurred as the night shift worked nearby. Officials cited pressure from stored sugar as a possible cause.
DES MOINES Iowa safety commissioner says he is reviewing the use of a race code on drivers licenses. An almond black box near the signature holds three digits: 1 for Negro 3 for white and 2 for all others. The Iowa Civil Rights Commission learned of the practice recently and objects to the hidden coding.
The Iowa State Board of Regents avoided a decision on a renewed push for a state funded college in western Iowa. Senator Robert Rigler warned the board that the legislature might act if they fail to take a stand. The regents accepted bids totaling 1,625,000 for additions to the University of Iowa arts building, with 400,000 in federal funds and 600,000 appropriated by the 1965 legislature.
Ronald Brammer a 25 year old Creston man who escaped from the Creston city jail last August 23 was picked up earlier this week and returned to the Anamosa Reformatory He was to have been arraigned Thursday on the charge of escaping from detention but the hearing was cancelled after authorities from Anamosa captured him and brought him back
At the reformatory Brammer, who still had nearly four years to serve on a larceny sentence, was charged with a parole violation.
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