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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1966
Page
16
Washington AP reports November industrial production fell for the second time in three months. The Fed index slid to 158.3 percent of the 1957-59 average, three tenths below October, with accompanying slower personal income growth and weaker retail and wholesale price trends likely easing tax rise fears.
Workmen at the Paul Danner home in Illinois City found a spike buck weighing about 100 pounds trapped in the basement Monday morning. After several failed capture attempts, the deer was lashed and removed and released. The deer season had just ended the day before.
Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey head of the Selective Service System criticizes the volunteer army concept at a National Press Club luncheon. He calls the volunteer approach overdone and warns against mercenary forces, insisting the country must defend itself and reject alternatives especially during wartime.
A new Historic Swinging Bridge sign, 200 feet long, lights day and night, greets east and westbound Highway 92 traffic. Financed by the Columbus Community club and placed by Jack Cecil. Future work includes rock paving, brace repair, and area fire risk reduction after snow. Joint effort by the Tourism committee, Jaycees, and city.
Rev Walter Westerfelt of Grandview Community Church outlines services for Sunday December 18 including Sunday school at 10 and worship at 11 The Night of the Incarnation and evening service at 7 30 Also Wednesday December 21 Christian program The Miracle of Christmas at 7 30 Lone Tree Aid Society met at Mrs Elfrieda Berk home with 12 members and 2 guests a Christmas dinner and gift exchange were held January meeting to be announced Paul Beik is a patient at Muscatine General Hospital following surgery on Wednesday
Guthrie Center residents face Post Office relocation after Dec 31 as Dean Paulsen challenges a 10 year lease on his building. He refuses a 20 month extension while U S Rep John Hansen had said a new post office would be built, arguing no new facility is needed.
Muscatine Iowa December 15 1966 area postal authorities inspect a brick post office building erected in 1956 at a cost around 24000. Owner Phu Pausen reports a 10 year lease on a leave rent basis and says an official from St Louis indicated the government could condemn the property to seize it as a federal building, to which he replied go right ahead.
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