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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1962
Page
12
Administration leaders voice assurance that tax cuts are needed to boost purchasing, production, employment, and investment. President Kennedy urges a large enough cut to spur growth while Luther Hodges backs reducing corporate rates from 52 to 47 percent as a psychological factor. Rep. Mills signals likely influence on tax legislation.
Citizens urged to nominate a Muscatine resident for the Good Government Award. Fill the blank in Tuesday's Muscatine Journal and send to the Civic Center JOC chairman before January. Eligibility limited to Muscatine residents with winner announced in January.
Robert Franklin Williams, former Monroe NC NAACP head, escaped to Cuba a year ago. He broadcasts for Radio Free Dixie and appears on Cuban TV urging resistance to what he calls Yankee oppression. He praises Castro and accuses U S racism, while other Americans join him in Cuba and support pro Castro activities.
The Muscatine Journal announces Associated Press news service details, staff roles, and advertising contacts. It lists daily delivery options, subscription rates for in town and distant mail, and office hours, with pricing set at forty cents per week and ten to eighteen dollars yearly depending on distance.
The piece surveys 1963 as a year of stark contrasts with Cuban missile crisis tension, Vietnam warfare, and civil rights upheaval in Mississippi, alongside space milestones and political volatility. It notes Kennedy’s decisive stance on missiles, Nixon’s political decline, stock market jitters, and ongoing disarmament stalemates, while hinting at potential post Cuba rapprochement and cautious global realism.
Rita, a 16 year old girl, asks Dr Crane if her feelings show peculiarity or abnormality. The piece explains a moral magnetism analogous to iron filings responding to a magnet, with unselfishness and love drawing people toward divinity as Billy Graham and Harold Roberts move audiences, concluding with Rita feeling a lump in her throat at divine pull.
In Phoenix savings manager Bob Weaver recalls inspecting an attic before a move and finding a purple wooden fish school a disheveled Santa a cracked fishbowl two handfuls of plastic banks and a barometer predicting rain. In Columbus Ohio Chiggers are mites larval forms. repellents used as directed prevent bites.
Enoch Light, dubbed Ambassador of Jazz and head of a major recording firm, recalls a turbulent career from Broadway pit to independent label founder. He built a million-dollar company, later sold to ABC-Paramount, and believes success comes from hard work, integrity, and relentless effort despite past hardship. Police arrest follows a clairvoyancy claim.
A fragmentary religious note quotes Jesus saying I am the light of the world and prays for the Holy Spirit to fill minds and hearts with Christ's light through Redeemer's name Amen.
A collage of short notes from 75 to 10 years ago shows pork packing at City Market opposite the old post office with steady supply promises of spare ribs and tenderloins. A wolf hunt and a grand riverbank shooting match for birds are noted, along with health board concerns over moving contagious patients between townships and the fate of a city house. A Salvation Army canned goods drive is planned for December with theater shows featuring admission by donation. Police report 112 arrests in a month ending December 15, many for intoxication, reckless driving, and investigations. home lighting show entries sponsored by The Journal and the Junior Chamber of Commerce close.
A collage of Dear Abby letters covers relationship woes and common questions. A woman discovers a lover’s unmailed note to a schoolteacher, Abby advises against warning the other woman and urges ending the affair. A reader complains about public toothpick use, and a 14-year-old asks about dating a 19-year-old, with Abby urging the teen to heed parental guidance and avoid sneaking out.
A printed cryptogram explains how letters stand for others in a quote. It presents a sample decoding method using single letters and word length as clues. The fragment lists portions of the quote and attribution to Henry 1061 and a royal figure.
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