Local Business Barometer Shows Modest September Gains
Muscatine Journal reports September figures from the Muscatine Chamber of Commerce barometer indicate increased bank deposits credits and total assets. Electric and gas meters rose while water consumption declined. Building permits fell and a winter quarter Farm Operations class at Iowa State University drew several area students. Parking revenue also climbed.
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Muscatine Chamber of Commerce
Iowa State University
Ames
Larry Schroeder
Tonald Esmail
Musgaline
Dave Brown
Paul Hain
Moscow
Eddy Asher
Wapello
Donald Danfeldt
George Schmidt
West Liberty
Neil Glenney
Wilton
Phillip Buffington
Columbus Junctinn
Oway Counties
Tlinois
Tshombe Hears Pope Ask Peace
Congo Premier Moise Tshombe, protected by a heavy police escort in Rome, met Pope Paul VI for a 20 minute audience at the Vatican. The pope urged the Congolese to end warfare and unite for the nation’s good, while Tshombe had arrived from Leopoldville four hours earlier.
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Vatican City
Congo
Moise Tshombe
Vatican
Paul VI
Tshombe
Rome
Papal
Leopoldville
Nobel Prize Accepted by Dr King in Oslo Ceremony
Nobel Prize winner Dr Martin Luther King Jr accepted the Nobel Peace Prize as profound recognition that nonviolence solves oppression and calls for ending violence. In Stockholm, Charles H Townes shared the physics prize with Basov and Prochorov. Townes received half the prize money. In Pittsburgh, 18 blind students visited a downtown department store and met Santa, reading their Christmas lists in braille.
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Oslo
Norway
Marlin Luther King Jr
Stockholm
Sweden
Gunnar Jahn
Nobel Committee
Oslo University
King
Gustav VL Adolf
Dre
Charles H. Townes
Massachusetts Institute’ of Technology
Fhve
Nikolay Basov
Alexander Prochorov
Townes
Pittsburgh
Santa Claus
Pennsylvani School For the
Noman Anderson
Anderson
Schmidhauser Confers With Local Groups At Courthouse
Congress member John Schmidhauser met with Wilson Chamber of Commerce representatives and Hershey Convalescent Home delegates in a 90 minute session at the courthouse this morning. He urged constituents to write to his Washington office, and noted he and his family depart for Washington on December 1. Hershey Convalescent Home seeks federal aid to expand its facilities.
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Grace Meerdink
Hershey Convalescent Home
Hershey Home
Local Muscatine Sailors Promoted in Navy
Jarry W. Martin and William A. Tulling of Muscatine have been promoted to Petty Officer and Class in the U.S. Navy. Martin, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Martin, is aboard the USS Ajax at Sasebo, Japan, with a record of ports visited including Korea and Okinawa. His address is Jerry W. Martin EMFN s9siCat R-3 Division USS Ajax AAF. Halling, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Halling, ships out on the Jonas Ingram at Mayport, Florida, after four months in the Mediterranean with ports in Italy France and Turkey. His address is William A. Malting USS Jonas Ingram C/O F.P.O. New York. Both are 1961 graduates of Muscatine High School and entered service in February 1964.
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Muscatine
Jarry W. Martin
William A. Tulling
U.S. Navy
Jerry W. Martin
William Martin
Sycamore
Ajax
Sasebo
Japan
Korea
Okinawa
EMFN
USS
C/OFPO
San Francisco
Calif
William A. Halling
Vernon Halling
Rt. 2
Jonas Ingram
Mayport
Fla
Vavean
Italy
Trance
Turkey
William A. Malting
U.8s
New York
N.Y
Mustatine High School
Prison Farm Suggested As Fair Site
Des Moines Iowa The state fair board secretary Kenneth Falk told budget hearings a plan to move the Iowa State Fair to the Clive prison farm west of Des Moines. He urged $680000 annually for capital improvements at the current fair grounds if the move is not chosen. The board would not seek funds for new buildings if relocation occurs, and proposed a 536500 annual operating budget. The Clive site would offer easier access and better display of Iowa agricultural and industrial products with less congestion.
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Des Moines
Down Easy Board
Swale
Clive
Harold Hughes
Fair Board
Kenneth Falk
Pulk
Tulk
Iowa
Cosmos Satellites Launch Reported by Tass News Agency
The Soviet Union announced via Tass that its unmanned Cosmos satellite has launched and is functioning normally. The Cosmos series is said to gather outer space data. The mission began on March 16, 1962.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Tass
Outer
Space
Acme Fuel Break-In Discovered
Burglars broke into Acme Fuel and Supply on route 5 south of Muscatine. An employee found the offices disturbed this morning after a night break in. Drawers were opened and papers scattered. No immediate theft amount was known. Sheriff Dick Oppelt investigated the break in.
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Acme
Muscatine
Dick Oppelt
Santa to Meet Local Children Friday at Gas Company
Santa Claus will visit Muscatine this Friday evening from 7 to 9 pm in the gas company office, staying in his big chair to greet children and give each a small gift. The event, sponsored by the Muscatine Chamber of Commerce, runs Friday and Saturday with times listed. attendance expected from local families.
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Santa Claus
How
Santa
Muscatine
Siuscatine Charter of Commerce
Noise Abatement Committee Proposes Radio Parphones Plan
Philadelphia officials report the Mayor's Committee for Noise Abatement proposes using parphones to curb loud radio in public places. The article notes assault charges were filed against three college history professors accused of striking a woman bus passenger who refused to lower her radio.
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Philadelphia
New Address For Maeglin
Mr and Mrs Otto Maeglin 220 Burnside announce their son Jerry has a new address Pvt Jerry Dean Maeglin 2114931 Phi 3008 MCRD San Diego California 92140.
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Otto Maeglin
Burnside
Jerry
Jerry Dean Maeglin
MCRD
San Diego
Calif
Inaugural Plates Allowed With Regular Iowa Plates
Iowa permits use of presidential inauguration plates alongside standard plates with restrictions. Iowa requires front and rear display of regular plates, but lower ear display of special plates is allowed. Plates can be ordered for $10 from the Presidential Inauguration Committee in Washington to fund parade and ceremonies.
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Des Moines
Washington
Dale Miller
Pennsylvania
South Dakota
Towa Publlic Safety Department
Towa
Ether Yowa
Presidential Inaugulation Committee
District of Columbia
Jolyson
Scouts Collect Food Saturday for Needy in City
Scouts from Cub and Boy Scout groups, joined by Jaycees and Chamber of Commerce workers, will collect canned and packaged foods Saturday for Salvation Army Christmas baskets. Gather at 9:30 a.m. at 211 East Second. drivers will cover all city areas collecting items before returning to 22 East Second for sorting and packing.
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Scouts
Boy Scouts
Salvation Army
Chamber of Commerce
Biche Aar
East Second
Jaycees
Stouts
Scons
Ned
Goldwater retreats on GOP leadership rift talks
Eisenhower and Nixon pressed Barry Goldwater to back a broadly based GOP leadership era. They discussed healing a split between moderates and conservatives over Dean Burch’s chairmanship during a private Et hon Waldorf Towers meeting and outlined a mandate rather than a narrow majority.
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New York
GOP
Dean Burch
Chicago
Burch
Eisenhower
Nixon
Goldwater
Visit Brings New Grandson Home In Hobart
Ms Glenn Hermann of Muscatine returns home after a week with her daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs Donald Rehms of 1017 Garfield Hobart Indiana. The Rehms family welcomes a son Erick Charles born November 26.
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Glenn Hermann
Muscatine
Donald Rehms
Garfield St. Hobart
Ind
Rehm
Erick Charles
He Remembered The Volunteer Fire Fighters
In Ebensburg Pa Allen A Barker, once in western Pennsylvania, left Dauntless Volunteer Fire Co a bequest of more than 100000. He owned property in Bradenton Florida and 70 shares of stock in the First National Bank of Ebensburg. Barker was a Florida rancher and financier who died November 26 in a Bradenton nursing home at age 72.
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Ebensburg
Allen A. Barker
Pensylvania
Dauntless Volunteer Fire Co
Barker
Bradenton
Fla
First National Bank of
Edensburg
Baker
Manatee County
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Schmidhauser
Muscatine High’ School
Muscatine Community College
Elwin Waggoner
van Veen’s Nursery
Houser ST
Dial
Maeglin
Wollensak
Norelco & Panasonic
Fail Safe
Columbia
Interstate Circuit
Lang
Anne Ees
Wildren
Rock Istand Armory
Lee
P.O
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