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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1969
Page
3
In submitting service ads addresses for this column the Journal requests a black and white picture if possible rather than a colored print. Colored pictures hinder engraving for reproduction in the paper.
PFC Ted Way and Brian D. Cummings are serving in Germany and Vietnam with the Army. Way arrived from Fort Lewis and Fort Rucker, now at Montieth, Germany. his family at Muscatine received his address. Cummings, chief computer for D Battery, 1st Bn, 5th Artillery, promoted to Staff Sergeant, serves near the Michelon Rubber Plantation and lists APO SF 96345. Enderle, son of Andrew Enderle, promoted to Army specialist four in Vietnam with the West Airborne Division. In Columbus Junction, 30 women attended the W S C S meeting at the United Methodist Church where Ingrid Januschek spoke on Christmas in Germany following a potluck and charity auction.
YMCA calendar lists daily activities from Monday to Saturday including prep kickball, swim teams, junior tumbling, gym classes, and youth programs. Notable events include Gray and Tri-Gra-Y, flying fish, and Wilton Boy Scouts pool night. Also reports Ina Graham hospitalized and Diet Right club meeting with 68 pounds lost.
Private First Class Curtis D Beeding is awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge near Pleiku Vietnam for sustained ground combat. He is a 1967 Muscatine High School graduate and lives with his family at 126 Brook St Muscatine. Army Specialist John H Ritchart is named Soldier of the Month near Cam Ranh Bay for the U S Army Support Command. he holds a BS from Iowa State University and is married to Pamela Woodstra.
Five area students from Iowa perform in the U of I Oratorio Chorus at the annual Christmas concert tonight at 8 p.m. in the Iowa Memorial Union Main Lounge. Free tickets available at the University Box Office. Performers include Ann Ziskovsky, Debra Baker, Laura Roudybush Williams, Claudia Rickert, and Robert Hudson.
John MacDonald on a Cromarty farm painted his cows with saucer sized reflective spots to shine in car headlamps, aiding visibility if they wander onto the road on dark winter mornings.
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