Delays Hit Muscatine Interstate Bridge Project
The Muscatine Bridge Commission faces repeated delays on the new highway bridge over the Mississippi at Cypress Street. State officials debate financing and takeover, while commission leader Norbert Beckey urges dissolution and transfer to state control to accelerate construction amid safety concerns and calls for cooperation.
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Muscatine
Muscatine Bridge Commission
Iowa
Iowa State Highway Commission
Highway Commission
Bridge Commission
Norbert F. Beckey
Cypress Street
State Highway Commission
Derby Thompson
Burlington
Beckey
Attorney General's Office
Iowa Highway Commission
Mitchell's wife stirs trouble over Nixon era strategy
Washington observers discuss Martha Mitchell's sharp remarks about her husband Attorney General John Mitchell and the alleged southern strategy. The debate centers on Kevin Phillips, author of The Emerging Republican Majority, and his influence on GOP plans to win in border states and expanding suburban counties around industrial cities.
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Washington
John Mitchell
Martha
Petrograd
Mitchell
Department of Justice
Nixon
Middle West
Kevin Phillips
New York Times
South
Spire Agnew
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Vermont
New Hampshire
Republicans Claim National Strategy Beats Parochial Plan
The piece argues the Republican national strategy outperformed the Democrats parochial turn by focusing on pivotal states and regions, winning in the Midwest and New Jersey while avoiding the Deep South. It notes New York City mayoral results and Kevin Phillips’s suggestions for cross-appeal in New York State. The author suggests liberals object to the South being a villain and credits Republicans with replacing Democrats as the national party.
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John Mitchell
Kevin Phillips
New Jersey
Northeast
Deep South
Texas
New York City
New York State
John Marchi
Mario Procaccina
John Lindsay
Mr. Phillips
Mitchell
South
Mason-Dixon Line
Parole for a guilty south in voting rights clash
A U S House vote narrowly favors parole for the South under a new voting rights bill. The debate centers on extending the 1965 act and the balance between liberty and protecting Black voter rights. The author argues the 1965 act, while flawed, boosted Black registration. Senate passage of parole would require further Southern compliance.
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House
Senate
William McCulloch
Ohio
Walter Flowers
Alabama
Congress
When throat irritation resists two ENT guesses
A reader with two ENT doctors finding tonsils unlikely and a stubborn cough seeks Dr Thosteson’s counsel. The doctor cautions diagnosis by elimination, lists possibilities such as post nasal drip smoking allergy fumes or nerves, and urges a renewed consult to pursue a correct cause. The piece notes readers may send questions to the column.
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Thesteson
Ents
White hair no longer key to executive suite progress
AP analysis by John Cunniffe notes a shift in corporate leadership norms as many firms drop the requirement of white hair for top roles. The average age of officers has fallen due to rapid mobility, with turnover rising to 76 percent or more since 1961, driven by a knowledge driven, mobicentric era that prizes information over seniority.
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John Cunnife
NEW York
Eugene Jennings
Michigan State University
Jennings
Yesterday and decades ago in Muscatine history
A brisk look back through time notes pork and grain trade activity, local shop mentions, and obituaries. Emma Shields of Muscatine dies at 812 Sycamore Street after 11:30 AM. Sergeant Jakie Moran, 22, killed in Germany in late November 1944. Seventy six Township hosts silver anniversary party for Mr and Mrs B J Sywassink. Bannah Carlson, 52, dies in Buffalo Prairie after a heart attack. Dr David Berger retires Feb 1 from University of Dubuque Theological Seminary faculty.
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Emma Shields
Muscatine
Sycamore SL
Jakie Pau Moran
Germany
Gladys Moran
Orange St
B. J. Sywassink
Seventy Six Township
Bannah
Carlson
Boyd Thirtyacre
Buffalo Prairie
David ¥. Berger
First Presbyterian Church of
Today in History December 18 1969 Highlights
On this date 1865 the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery was adopted. George Washington was buried at Mount Vernon in 1799. In 1923 the United States rejected a Soviet recognition request. In 1928 the Kellogg Briand Antavar Treaty was approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Associated Press
U.S
George Washington
Mount Vernon
United States
Soviet Union
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Notable 1930s 40s World Events Across Leaders
In 1935 Eduard Beneš became president of Czechoslovakia. In 1941 Roosevelt created a Pearl Harbor inquiry committee. In 1963 African students rioted in Moscow Red Square over racial discrimination. Eisenhower prepared to depart Tunisia for Toulon to meet de Gaulle. Johnson outlined a feasible canal project in Central America or Colombia. Ky criticized critics in the United States while warning against supposed friends.
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Eduard Benes
Czechoslovakia
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Pearl Harbor
Moscow
Red Square
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tunisia
Des Moines
Toulon
France
de Gaulle
Paris
Lyndon B. Johnson
United States
Central America
Colombia
Nguyen Cao Ky
South Vietnam
Prayer Excerpt From Daily Devotional
The text presents a brief prayer asking God to help believers act in Jesus name and be witnesses daily. It cites Luke 3 4 6 and closes with Amen, reflecting a devout moment within a faith practice.
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Jesus Christ
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