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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1965
Page
4
The Mustazine Journal is listed as a member of the Associated Prova and uses six worldwide news, Wirephoto, and feature services for its reporting.
Community decor brings joy but police report a weekend surge of vandalism and theft of holiday displays. Up to 500 bulbs, three wreaths and four large candles were stolen, dampening the season for many residents.
Iowa Attorney General bans metal studded tires under a state law prohibiting metal projections from wheels. Minnesota and other Midwest states permit them. An Iowa state senator with such tires invites arrest to test the issue, urging clarity on safety and legality.
A nationwide conservational shift grows from California to the East as the Land Conservation Act gains traction. The piece highlights past neglect of lakes and air, suburban sprawl, and waste, while noting rising interest in open-space planning and beautification programs. Karl J Besler hails the act as opening a new vista for action.
A century ago entries report a zero degree snow day and notable social events in Muscatine. Notices include a masquerade ball at the skating rink with admission 25 cents, church society meetings, and community Christmas visits by Santa Claus through the weekend.
Washington AP Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. sits in a third floor office writing 2,000 to 4,000 words daily for A Thousand Days. He discusses influences from his father, Parkman, Beard, Adams, Niebuhr and Tolstoy, and his approach to recent history, including poetry by Yeats and Whitman to sharpen language.
About 980 high school students in Dumont New Jersey wrapped 150000 Christmas packages for American servicemen in South Vietnam. The New Jersey American Legion sponsors the drive and has raised $100000 to fund the project.
A family in West Orange North West details how Roxie the beagle, aged one, gave birth to a litter while in temporary guardianship by Judy’s children. The first puppy arrived at 4 p.m., others at half-hour intervals, with Roxie caring tenderly, licking and cuddling each pup as she moved them gently into place.
The piece describes Roxie the dog protecting her puppies and turning from an introvert to an extrovert, unlike Belle who once ruled the roost. It also notes robins defending fledglings and soldiers risking their lives for fallen comrades, emphasizing selflessness in danger.
A readers’ letter column discusses the challenges waitresses face with separate checks. Critics accuse waitresses of mind reading and unfairly assuming who pays. A Houston correspondent shares lessons from experience about who actually pays in group meals.
HAL BOYLE shares brisk reflections on diverse topics from U.S. Indian population growth to a century of nursing duties, college finances, weekend safety, and light quips. Notes on a potato of history, a missile test camera, and Potomac etymology mix humor with social snapshot.
A devotional prayer asks divine light to reveal wrong directions and guide believers toward Jesus as the guiding star. It frames spiritual navigation as a journey led by faith and prayer, invoking the Our Father and Christ as compass. The passage blends biblical reference from Revelation with a plea for illumination and direction.
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