Iowa Highway Plan Expands Muscatine Links in Five Year Build
The Iowa State Highway Commission announced a five year program to rebuild Highway 38 from Muscatine to Wilton at 1.56 million dollars in 1970. The project will add a 24 foot road with 10 foot shoulders and address a dangerous hill and curve near Muscatine. statewide, more than 600 million will fund road construction with 202.5 million for interstate work and 425.4 million for primary highways. The 710 mile interstate system is 70 percent complete with all mileage due by end of 1971. Over 208 million is slated to widen bridges and pavements under 20 feet. By 1968 rural primary road 18 foot pavement totals about 1,600 miles. 169 miles were widened in 1967, leaving under 500 miles by period end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine
Iowa State Highway Commission
Wilton
Iowa
Is Peace Coming to Africa in the 1960s
The piece analyzes Africa’s regional tensions amid UN actions against Rhodesia South Africa and Portugal in Angola and Mozambique. It notes Nigeria’s civil war, Congo mercenaries, and rising Black Power influences, while highlighting Kenya Tanzania Uganda economic union and shifting East African trade policies, plus Guinea and Ivory Coast prisoner exchanges amid old feuds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
Rhodesia
South Africa
Angola
Mozambique
Nigeria
Congo
Stokely Carmichael
Rap Brown
United States
Transkei
Zululand
Kenya
Tanzania
Uganda
Nyerere
Kenyatta
Guinea
Ivory Coast
Houphouet-Boigny
Zambezi
Lingpopo
Southwest Africa
Ian Smith
Salisbury
Africa calm amid shifting alliances and half measures
A survey notes a easing of bloody civil campaigns and a thaw in black white relations across Africa. It cites Rhodesia Mozambique and Angola as partially stabilized while South Africa negotiates mixed sports and a potential path to separate freedoms. Congo remains an open question.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malawi
Hastings Banda
Pretoria
Botswana
Lesotho
Swaziland
South Africa
Vorster
Transkei
Ovambos
Southwest Africa
New York
Supreme Court Avoids War Thicket By Noyd Case
AP report notes the Supreme Court recently avoided ruling on Vietnam war legality by declining to hear Captain Dale E. Noyd's court martial for refusing to train pilots. The piece outlines historical court reluctance to challenge presidential military decisions, cites justices Douglas and Stewart urging confrontation, and recalls landmark wartime cases up to 1944 on Japanese internment and wartime powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barry Schweid
Washington
Supreme Cewt
Dale E. Noyd
Noyd
Congress
William ©. Douglas
Potter Stewart
Stewart
Douglas
Vietnam
Supreme Court
New York State
Joseph Story
Salmon P. Chase
High Court
U.S
West Coast
Hearing aids and stapedectomy bring dramatic ear gains
A reader shares lifelong hearing loss from childhood infection corrected by stapedectomy, reporting rapid improvement after surgery and a return to work. The doctor explains that modern ear surgery and aids offer real gains, with some sounds magnified and others restored by fixing the ear’s moving bones.
Letters to the editor defend high school wrestling
A Bettendorf school trainer argues against banning wrestling amid safety fears. He cites weight cutting, personal health, and character building, noting 252 Iowa schools wrestle scholastically and urging enforcement of rules over sport bans to protect youths. He emphasizes discipline, self reliance, and sport’s value over imagined harms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Terry
Towa
Iowa
College
A.A.U
Muscatine Levee Funds Aid Southern Boundary
Muscatine spends the $10,000 it raised for levee improvements to extend to the city’s southern boundaries, aiming to counter high water threats next spring. Also notes past anniversaries and local residents’ activities as part of a chronology segment.
Prayer for Christmas Joy in Our Father’s Name
A brief prayer inviting God to make Christ real in Christmas joy so all around may sense His presence and come to know Him as Savior and Lord. Amen.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Muscatine Area
John Chamberlain
The
Small Society
Taiwan
China
Tomorow
Counse
Brickmdoe
Bran
Hugo L. Black
Felix Frankfurter
Entre Nous
Ator
Joseph G. Molner
M.D
R.G
Dr. Mother
T.y. T
Mr. A
Mr. B
T.B.C
Dr. Molner
Qayman
Dan Meador
Bettendorf
UNI
Bettendorf's
American Red Cross
Harvey G. Allbee
Virgil O. Green
Otis Green
HLA
U.S.N. Hospital
Great Lakes
Ill
Muriel Hammer
A. Hammer
Mulberry Ave
Chicago
Milwaukee
Pvt
Ronald Dean McGowan
Ft. Hood
Texas
Schwabach
Germany
the Daily Prayer
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!