Muscatine Christmas Decorating Contest Opens Entries Dec 18
Entries received by Tuesday December 18 are eligible for cash prizes in Muscatine Chamber of Commerce sponsored Christmas Home Decorating Contest. All private homes may enter in two categories Religions and Novelty. Grand prize four dollar savings bond second prize twenty five dollar savings bond and four cash runnerups awarded in each class. Judging Friday evening December 21. winners announced Saturday December 22.
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Muscatine Chamber of Commerce
Vocal Music Christmas Event at Muscatine High School
A Christmas program will be presented at 3 pm Sunday in the Muscatine High School auditorium. The event features a vocal music program performed by a local group.
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Muscatine High
School Chorus Groups Sing Under Miss Carole Merrick
Three choirs including Me High School and Community College chorus perform under director Miss Carole Merrick. Admission is by activity tickets with adults 30 cents and children 25 cents.
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Me High Schoo Wane High School Chorus
Community College Chorus
Carole Merrick
Obituary Notice for Margaret G O'Brien 94
Funeral services for Margaret G O'Brien aged 94 were held today at St Mathias church with a solemn requiem mass. Rev Doyle and deacon Rev Voge led the rites. organist Susi Brecht and St Mathias school choir directed by Sister Mary Margarida B Y M. Pallbearers named J R Doughery Harry Casaman Tohn A Dailey Edwin J Weis Earl Stateand Tyan J Klein. Interment at St Marys Cemetery following Muscatine General Hospital death Friday night.
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Margaret G
Garel G. O'Brien
Reid
St. Mathias
Thomas R. Doyle
Louis Flaherty
Peoria
Lid, Voge
Nichols
Susi Brecht
Choi
St. Mathias School
Mary Margarida B.Y.M. Allar
James, Johnson
John Buller
Janes, Wester
Wayne Dusenberry
J. R. Doughery
Harry Casaman
Letts
Tohn A. Dailey
Burlington
Edwin. J. Weis
Earl State
Tyan’ J. Klein
John Filer
Ken Chatfield
O'Brien
Muscatine General Hospital
Riley
St Mary’s Cormetery
Adjutants Skeptical Of Guard Reorganization Plan
Washington told state National Guard commanders a Defense Department plan to drop units and reorganize others into smaller, mobile brigades. Adjutants general, after a Pentagon closed-door briefing with Cyrus R. Vance and Stephen Ailes, voiced no objections but had not yet endorsed a uniform stance. The plan targets 333 guard units and reshapes four guard divisions, affecting units including Iowa-Nebraska A4uh and 03rd Division reserves across Iowa Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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Washington
Cyrus R. Vance
Defense Department
Pentagon
Vance
Stephen Ailes
Department
Iowa-Nebraska National Guard
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Bids Open For Old Muscatine Franklin School Sale
Muscatine Community school district board invites bids for sale of the old Franklin school at 403 Grand View Avenue and four lots on Franklin grounds zoned M-1. Previous bids were rejected and re-advertised. The board may call a special meeting after bids are received and discussed. new classrooms at the college edificios are to be financed by sale proceeds.
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Muscatine
School District Board of Education
Old Franklin School
Grandview
Franklin School
Thelold Franklin
Muscatine Communeity ‘College
Showl
Ea Semap
Wld Ac
Stanley Engineering Company
A. A. Johnson
Johnson
Dean Fry
Muscatine Bridge Traffic Rises in November Report
At the Muscatine Bridge Commission meeting on Monday night, bridge manager H. B. Mlackt McConnaha reported that total vehicular traffic over the Mississippi bridge in November reached 44,328 vehicles, including 39,663 autos and 4,865 trucks, up 1,828 from November 1961. Toll income rose to 16,917.85, with 15,870 directed to debt retirement. The board urged strict adherence to the 20 mph speed limit for public safety, next meeting set for January 7, 1963.
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Mississippi River
Muscatine
H. B. Mlackt McConnaha
Muscatine Bridge
McConnaha
Fifty Lights On Salvation Army Tree Worth Fifty Gifts
Fifty lights were illuminated today on the Salvation Army Tree of Lights at Mulberry and East Second streets. Each light stands for $25 toward the Christmas fund, aiming for a $3,000 goal as donations help the land and relief efforts.
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Salvation Army
Army
East Second Street
New Plan for Apportionment Proposed in Des Moines
Sen Edward Wearin R Red Wearin announces a substitute for the Shaft reapportionment plan. He argues the Shaft plan shifts power away from agriculture and toward urban areas. Wearin, representing Montgomery and Mills counties, favors a 484 member legislature with area and population factors in both houses. The Shaft plan must pass again in 1963 and be approved by voters to take effect.
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Des Moines
Teaders
Edward Wearin
Red
Senate
Barge Cargo Still Moving on Mississippi River
District engineer reports barge traffic for the week with 6 tows moving upstream and 13 tows downstream totaling 8 440 dollars in value. Upstream cargo includes petroleum products while downstream carries 28 600 tons of grain and 3 840 tons of miscellaneous items. Ice thickness 144 102 inches formed above the Dam No 16 pool at Muscatine. Two tows remain upstream headed for Albany and Bettendorf with no expected delays.
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Mississipi
Tong
Harold Aoy
Muscatine
Ddim
Albany
Bettendorf
Murentine Dam
Freight Cars Derailed At Letts
Nine cars of a westbound Rock Island freight derailed at Letts on today’s run. Trains were delayed while officials and a Silvis wrecker maneuvered to clear the wreck. Cause of the derailment had not been learned, and cars did not overturn.
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Rock Island Lines
Luncheon Held Friday for Representative Schwengel
Rep. Fred Schwengel of Iowa's First District will spend Friday in Muscatine meeting constituents. A public luncheon at noon at the Elks club will feature a brief talk by Schwengel. Headquarters in Muscatine will be at the courthouse. No reservations required but appreciated by calling John Schumacher.
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Fred” Schwengel
Jowasongressional
Muscatine
Elks Club
Schwengel
Muscarine
John Schumacher
Union Leader's Widow Testifies in Hoffa Conspiracy Trial
In Nashville, Alice Brenman Peterson testified that Test Fleet Corp. belonged to her and Mrs Hoffa, with profits going to the two women. The defense argued a mistrial motion after a pistol attack on Hoffa, which the judge dismissed as groundless.
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Nashville, Tenn
Test Fleet Corp
James R. Hoffa
Alice
Brenman Peterson
Manchester
Mich
Hoffa
Test Fleet
Gwen Bert Brennan
Detroit
Peterson
Notfa
William E. Diller
Miller
Burley Belt sales centers by state ranked
Lexington Ky w The Burley tobacco sales belt covers eight states with 61 centers. Outside Kentucky and Tennessee only 1A centers are present. Virginia and North Carolina have three each, Indiana two, and West Virginia Ohio and Missouri one each.
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Lexington
Kentucky
Tennessee
Virginia
North Carolina
Idiana
West Virginia
Ohio
Missouri
Kentucky Burley Sales Skyrocket Past Other States
Kentucky burley sales last season totaled 396,652,346 pounds, nearly double the combined total of the seven other burley selling states, which sold 14,011,848 pounds. Lexington, Ky reports Kentucky markets dominated the burley tobacco market.
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Kentucky
Lexington
Christmas Tree Sale Benefits Y Activities
The Y's Men's club restarts its holiday tree sale at 22 West Second Street to raise funds for YMCA programs. Buyers choose Scotch pine or Douglas fir trees in several sizes as the sale operates daily from early morning to late afternoon through Christmas. Proceeds have funded equipment like a projector diving board and gym mats and supported sending boys to summer camp.
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Glen W. Reynolds
Richard A. Shultz
Y's Men's Club
West Second Street
Journal
YMCA
Max Churchil
Tee
Three Vehicles Damaged In Muscatine Traffic Crashes
Two traffic accidents on Muscatine streets Monday afternoon and night damaged at least three vehicles. A 19 year old driver Jack Coulter stopped at a stop sign at West Fourth and Chestnut, colliding with Thomas Doty who was proceeding east on Fourth. Doty’s front end sustained damage. Shirley Beverlin swerved to avoid a vehicle, struck a parked truck, and her car sustained over $100 in damage. The parked truck damage was not reported.
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Muscatine
Fourth
Chestnut Streets
Jack Russell Coulter
Sherman Street
Chestnut
Thomas Edward Doty
Taucus Street
Doty
Shirley Marie Beverlin
Lake Park , Divd
Mulberry Avenue
East Ninth Street
Beverlin
Missing Lead-In Wire Reported At England Home
Police were told Sunday afternoon that about 12 feet of lead-in wire from the aerial to the television set at the John W. England home, 15 Clifford Street, were taken between 10 pm Sunday and Monday noon.
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John W. England
Clifford Street
Pleads Guilty To Shoplifting
Mrs. Jacqueline Lewis pled guilty before Justice Harvey G Allbee Jr to a shoplifting charge. Police said she failed to pay for a pair of baby boots three bones of handkerchiefs and a hair brush at the Woolworth store and was fined $25.
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Jacqueline Lewis
Justice of the Peace
Harvey G. Allbee, Jr
F. W. Woolworth
Remington Roller Comb Promises Close Comfort Shaving
A vintage ad touts a four comb roller system for Remington shavers. It claims twofold comfort by rolling skin away from the head and whiskers up into the blade, improving closeness and protection. The copy emphasizes repeated trials and convincing performance.
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Remington
Car Seat Burned in Fire at Roles Home
Fire damaged the front seat of Charles J. Roles vehicle parked at 209 West Seventh Street early today. Firemen were summoned at 3 53 a m to extinguish the blaze.
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Charles J. Roles
West Seventh Street
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Chamber of Commerce
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Red Ball Engineering Co
West Junior
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