Downtown Muscatine group moves on revitalization plan
The Greater Downtown Muscatine Association steps up efforts to recruit members and revitalize the downtown. HUD official W Martling Lockwood Jr. will advise on restoration using existing buildings with paint and imagination. A color slide project will illustrate a before and after plan. Public presentation in February planned.
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W. Martling Lockwood Jr
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Martling
Muscatine
Greater Downtown
Greater Downtown Muscatine Association
Stalin's ghost haunts Kremlin in new soviet drift
Washington analysis reports Brezhnev Kosygin leadership reviving Stalinesque repression to crush dissent and curb freedom of speech. Khrushchev's legacy erased in a new official history while Solzhenitsyn faces expulsion threats. Cultural exchanges and academic access are shrinking, signaling a closure of liberal potential and a return to autocratic control.
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Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Stalin
Vladimir Lenin
Red Square
Kremlin
Soviet Communist Party
Russia
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Writers Union
Boris
Governor forms panel to address Iowa drug problem
Gov. Robert D. Ray announced a gold plated committee of about 15 state officials to create an information and education program on drug effects. The effort follows a White House conference and aims to reach not just law enforcement but educate the public and youth with fact over fear.
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Des Moines
Robert D. Ray
Iowa
States
Ray
Crime Commission
Max Milo Mills
Jack Callahan
Ue Iona Law Enforcement Academy
Law Enforcement
Callahan
Controlling cholesterol and heart health guidance
Final notes on lowering cholesterol stress that exercise aids cholesterol reduction, moderation of weight, and heredity and diabetes influence risk. Encourages quitting smoking, managing worry, regular tests for diabetes, and reading Dr Thosteson’s booklet. Includes reader Q and A about gum swallowing and Bartholin cysts, and warns about ulcers and hidden bleeding signals.
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Sveys
Thosteson
Editor Letter Debates Nigeria Biafra Secession Peace Claim
A reader rebukes John Chamberlain for supporting Biafra's sovereignty and warns that secession delays peace. The letter argues that neither war nor secession solves conflicts, urging the U.S. to press Nigeria and Eastern Nigeria to negotiate to end bloodshed without taking sides.
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Korea
Vietnam
Lincoln
U.S
Mr. Chamberlain
Nigeria
Eastern
Biafra
Cabbies aren t the same
New York cabbies are described as less knowledgeable, less talkative, and slower at giving directions amid changing habits. Drivers admit new, younger peers struggle with routing and conversation. Passengers often hear fragmented chatter while trying to ignore the fare.
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New York
New York City
Autograph price, Kiwanis hints, and civic notes
Vintage notes recount Victor Hugo autograph price at five dollars and a half price offer for signatures. Muscatine reflects on coal needs amid harsh weather. Kiwanis leaders attend Chicago school of instruction. A newborn in Bellevue hospital. City warns snow and ice must be cleared within 24 hours. Building permits total seventy four thousand five hundred twenty in November.
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Victor Hugo
John Hancock
Hacker's
Muscatine
Justice Courts
Boyd Jordan
Leland Horst
Lect
Kiwanis Club
Kiwanis International
Chicago
Clifford Bennett
East Sixth Street
Bellevue Hospital
Today in History highlights from December 10
AP retrospective notes events on this date including the end of the Spanish American War in 1898, Mississippi statehood in 1817, Wyoming women’s voting rights in 1869, Mona Lisa recovery in 1913, early Pacific War losses, UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, MLK Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, De Gaulle pledge era, Rome riots tied to a Congo visit, Soviet military spending record, and other noted items.
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Associated Press
Mississippi
Union
Wyoming
Louvre Museum
Paris
United Nations General Assembly
Martin Luther King Jr
Charles de Gaulle
France
Rome
Aly
Moise ‘’Shombe
Congo
Soviet Union
Prayer for Presence and Fellowship with Christ
A devotional prayer urges openness to the presence of Christ at all times. It asks for the Holy Spirit to help seize opportunities to live in fellowship with Him, noting He will never abandon believers.
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Christ
Lord God
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