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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1969
Page
1
Billy Wayne Knight left Muscatine Monday to join December draft quota. He will undergo basic training at Fort Lewis Washington. The Muscatine contingent includes one volunteer and one transfer. Journal photo by Leif Weggen.
Muscatine school board rejected any plan to operate the high schools on split shifts next year. A possible longer day with 7:30 a.m. classes and later afternoon periods could let some students finish earlier. The board will maintain K4-33 organization for 1970-71 while awaiting Dr. Staven's district survey results.
Four Muscatine residents attended the National Association of Manufacturers meeting at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. The article outlines ongoing space and enrollment pressures at Senior High, noting 1260 pupils in grades 10–12 this term, an expected jump to 1370 next fall, and a proposed K-6-3-3 organization for 1970 71 to avoid radical changes like double sessions.
Drama students present the one act No Greater Love by W D Fisher Thursday at 8 PM in the Central Junior High school with free admission. Cast includes Sara Sab bath Pat Pardie Roz Calvert Dan Waterman Steve Hammer and David Lemiesz with the drama coach guiding the production.
Muscatine High School track and football teams will gain new dressing room and shower facilities at Heinz Field after the Muscatine Community School District board awarded a $16,875 contract to Campbell and London for a concrete block building to replace the old quonset. The project will use funds from the school house fund and about $8,000 from this year's general fund. A bid of $103 was accepted for dismantling and removing the old quonset.
Madison school officials report eight contractors requested plans and specifications for the Madison elementary school addition in Muscatine. Bids are to be opened at 1 p.m. December 19. Previous bids were rejected. changes to design aim to fit a $400,000 cost. Financing comes from existing district schoolhouse funds.
Eastern Iowa Community College districts approve a $10 application fee and a $12 annual science laboratory fee for the 1970 71 academic year. The board’s lone split vote backed the fees amid campus debate on how to cover fixed costs and student costs.
The Greater Downtown Muscatine Association moves ahead with a master plan demonstration using about 200 color slides of downtown buildings. HUD official W Lockwood Martling Jr will review the slides in Chicago, with a public meeting slated for February. The association also considers off street parking in the urban renewal area and begins a member recruitment drive.
The Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease club met at the Colberg home on Grand Ave with 10 members. Ivan Davis, AAIT member, led the lesson. The next meeting is January 5 at the Murphy home on Climer. Open to sufferers of chronic bronchitis, emphysema, or asthma and guests.
Dan Helmich a welfare worker for 14 years at the Muscatine County Department of Social Welfare retires January 4 1970 He moved to Muscatine from Cedar Rapids in 1955 and joined the department November 1 of that year.
Leonard Allen Thompson, 65, of 1069 Lucas St., posted a $20 bond on a charge of striking an unattended vehicle in an accident on Lucas Street. His 1969 Chevrolet pickup hit a car owned by Robert Georgeann McClure at 2:35 p.m. Monday. Thompson sustained two bloody mouths in the mishap. A separate hit and run on Third Street and Iowa Avenue involved Randy York of 818 Woodlawn Ave. Also noted were others reporting minor vehicle damage at Muscatine Community College and Spruce Street, plus a train crossing incident with no vehicles present.
Rates listed for Muscatine city delivery seven dollars and nine cents monthly in advance. Other carrier deliveries priced at one seventy five dollars monthly. Motor delivery two dollars monthly. Mail rates: within Muscatine eighteen dollars yearly, outside Muscatine twenty one dollars and nine cents, over fifty miles seventy four dollars and sixty nine cents. Servicemen thirty one dollars and sixty cents yearly. Students thirteen dollars and fifty cents for nine months. Special delivery for missed pavers ends six thirty nine p.m. Holidays Friday and Saturday hours two thirty to four p.m. Dial 463-2711.
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