Moose party treats 472 children at Muscatine lodge
Muscatine Lodge No. 388 Loyal Order of Moose hosted its annual children’s Christmas party with 472 youngsters attending. Larry Campbell and his Puppets on Parade entertained. Each child received a sack of candy nuts and fruit and met Santa. Fred Kramer helped as Santa’s assistant. The event was run by the lodge entertainment committee led by Paul Colberg. Women of the Moose packed the candy. Each child also got a ticket to a Saturday Christmas theater at the Uptown at 10 am.
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Muscatine Lodge No
Loyal Order of Moose
Larry Campbell
Davenport
Campbell
United States
Santa Claus
Fred Kramer
Santa
Lodge
Paul Colberg
Women of the Moose
Uptown
Dred
Moose Hall
Army
Tree of Lights
Kiwanis Club
Tod
Salvation Army
East Second Street
Salvation Army Gives Baskets to 230 Families
The Salvation Army distributed about 30 food baskets to needy families as part of its Christmas activities. On Saturday the group will host several hur e.
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Salvation Army
Signal Change Approved by Muscatine Board for Downtown Lights
Muscatine light and water board favors a council plan to shift downtown traffic lights to flash red and amber from 2 to 6 am once signal equipment changes are done. The council plans to publish an ordinance legalizing the operation and approves removing two Mulberry avenue meters to ease traffic into Fourth Street.
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Muscatine
Mulberry Avenue
Firemen to Operate City Ambulance On Call Basis
Alderman Harold Sade moved Thurs day night for ambulance duty to be handled on a virial basis by two firemen. Lyndon Fisher noted over months one fireman drove, police dispatched one or two officers. Fire Chief Alex Bender objected citing personnel shortage. Police will continue investigations on warrant calls per Chief Clifford Bennett.
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Harold, Sade
Lyndon Fisher
Fnr
Alex Bender
Clifford Bennett
Mad Creek Plans Advance With City for Repairs
Col Richard L Ken nessy, district engineer, told city council that 6000 cubic yards of material from Hemx company property will be used for Mad Creek repairs, more than the 3000 previously requested, with additional undetermined fill from the north side of Hershey avenue between Grover and Fond streets. The corps aims to complete right of way needs below the East Second bridge to enable bid letting, as part of a $38,000 sewer line replacement project below Second Street requiring $13,000 from the city, and to repair the broken footwall above Second Street and straighten the west bank up to 150 feet beyond Fifth Street Bridge, a plan once hoped to be finished before the 1952 Spring Road season.
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Uld Colps
HW. d. Hemx Company
Hershey Avenue
Grover
Fond Streets
Mad Creek
Richard L. Kennessy
Righteof
East Second Aboot Bridge
Dune M
Ily
Corps of Ene Sineers
Second” Street
Second Street
West Bank
Fifth Street
Corps
Mel Freese Promoted To Captain In Iowa Guard
Mel R Freese of 14st Dewitt Street Muscatine is promoted from First Lieutenant to Captain by Maj General Junior F Miller Iowa adjutant general He serves with Headquarters 234th Engineer Battalion Cedar Rapids A daughter Cheri Lynn born December 21 in Waterloo to Mr and Mrs Thomas Varney Mrs Varney is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Joly Maxwell of 3812 Cedar Street The baby has three brothers
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Dewitt Street
Muscatine
Iowa Army National Guard
Junior F. Miller
Iowa
Freese
234Th Engineer
Cedar
Rapids
Cheri Lynn
Waterloo
Thomas Varney
Varney
Joly Maxwell
Cedar Street
City Burns Ordinance Tabled and Other Council Actions
The council tabled a proposed ordinance to ban burning rubbish and leaves at night and near structures, with hours set to curb smoke. several aldermen opposed. An ordinance to raise retirement age for department heads was held for new council action after Jan 1. The council approved easements for Houser Street trunk sewer and hired an assistant planner. subdivision plans for Roscoe Avenue and Park Place were discussed with conditions. A waste truck crane was purchased for 12,200 and bids for equipment were opened.
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Besson
Harold Sadel
Arthur Bunn
Lyndon Fisher
Harold
Pat) Finnegan
Branney Engineering Company
Houser Street
Joseph R
Normoyle
Roscoe Avenue
Iowa’ Business’ Exchange
H.R. Perkins
Park Place Addition
Westwood Lanes
Allen Street
Sargent
Hanestram-Hubly Tractor Company
Cedar Rapids
Council approves sale of two city properties
The city council voted to sell two parcels as part of its final session. Ida Johnson residence on East Mississippi Drive to Frank Schmidt for 20500 dollars and a Hillcrest Avenue block between James Place and Oakland Drive to Robert E Olson and Robert J Hangon for 2000 dollars or 1000 each. Alderman Earl Jones urged Hill Crest vacation for potential Helix area development while Harold Finnegan pressed the 32000 figure. Demolition firm J W Lowe and Sons will remove and salvage railway stations on Mississippi Drive, with proceeds shared as agreed.
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Ida Johnson
East Mississippi Drive
Frank ©. Schmidt
Hillcrest Avenue
James Place
Oakland Drive
Robert E. Olson
Sherman Astreat
Robert J. Hangon
Earl Jones
Jone
Robert D. Bosch
J. W. Lowe and Sons
Bill
Jim
Mississippi Drive
East Second Street
Odd Fellows Hall
Katanga Given Dec 27 To Honor Unity Pact
Premier Cyrille Adoula warned Katanga to honor Moise Tshombe's unity pact by next Wednesday or face energetic action. Tshombe said ratification by Katanga's Cabinet and Assembly cannot occur for at least 19 days. Both Congo and Belgian quarters expect U.N. enforcement, possibly by force.
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Leopoldville
The
Congo
Cyrille Adowla
Katanga
Moise Tshombe
Priday
Jeader
Tshombe
Elisabethville
U. N
Adoula
Pardon for Former Labor Leader Warren K Billings
Warren K Billings a former labor leader in San Francisco was pardoned after serving 23 years of a life sentence for the 1916 bombing that killed ten and wounded forty during a Spanish American War veterans parade in San Francisco He accepts the outcome as unjust but bears no bitterness at age 68 and says he remains free of the bitterness.
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San Francisco
Warren K. Billings
Billings
Thomas J. Mooney
Scouts Plan Annual City Election in Muscatine
Boy Scouts of Muscatine plan their annual look at municipal government from February 2 to 8. Chairmen Keith Hultquist and Marion Nawysz asked aldermen for council help to use the council chamber on Feb. 2 and to visit city departments and attend a council meeting. Washington R. Kennedy announced the FBI notes on Soviet party members. The Justice Department will act next month regarding US Communist party members. A Dec. 1 deadline passed with no registrations under the Internal Security Act. Disturbance case: Harry Hidlebaugh arrested at 4:10 a.m. for causing a disturbance at 110134 Oregon Street. continuance granted until Dec. 30 in Police court before Judge William Weltons.
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Boy Scouts of
Washington R
Justice Department
Communist Party
Robert F. Kennedy
FBI
Soviet Union
Harry Hidlebaugh
Oregon Street
William Weltons
Three Cars Damaged In Mishaps
Three cars were damaged in two traffic accidents on Muscatine streets Thursday. Helen Morrisey of 113 West Sixth Street collided with Richard Stoneking of Columbus Junction on Cedar Street at 3 40 p m. The Stoneking car and Morrisey car suffered front end and right side damage respectively over 100 dollars. Passenger Anta Korte, 70, also of 113 West Sixth Street, sustained a head bump. Donald Samuelson of Fairfield, 21, driven a 1962 convertible, struck a stopped vehicle on Mississippi Drive, damaging the grill bumper and radiator. the identity of the stopped car was not learned.
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Muscatine
Helen Gertrude Morrissey
West Sixth Street
Fiést
East Sixth Street
Richard Stone King
Columbus
Ion
Cedar
Stoneking
Anta Korte
Morrissey
Donald Eugene Samuelson
Fairfield
Mississippi Drive
Visits Jail Man Held on Check Charge
Rollo Dopler was jailed on a Muscatine County false check charge after visiting his brother at Johnson County jail. He had been sought since a $63 bad check cashed at Park Avenue Sun Mart with a misspelled signature. Dopler appeared before Justice Harv e y Auber Jr and is bound over to district court in $1,000 bail. Sheriff Dick Oppelt and Assistant Chief Joe Maher returned him from Iowa City.
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Rollo Dopler
Burlington
Town City
Johnson County
Muscatine County
Dopler
Park Avenue Sun Mart
Muscatine
Dopier
Justice of the Peace
Harvey Auber, Jr
Iowa City
Dick Oppelt
Joe Maher
Miriam Circle Hostess Meeting at Hocke Home
Sixteen members of the Miriam Circle of the First Methodist met at Mrs. Lyle Hocke's home in Cedar Thursday. Reports on visitations were given, devotions led by Mrs. Minnie McKinney, and Bernice Hahn taught a Christmas lesson. Social committee chaired by Walter Russell included Jessie Melillip and others. Next meeting set for January 18 at Miss Helen Bamford's home.
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Miriam
First ‘Methodist Ebuted
Lyle Hocke
Cedar
Bernard Malin
Minnie McKinney
Bernice Hahn
Walter Russell
Chaiman
Jessie Melillip
Robert Longhurst
Vivian Reinier
Helen Bamford
Business Barometer Up Again Here for October
The October Business Barometer, issued by the Chamber of Commerce, shows higher activity across banks, utilities, and construction. Key figures include bank debits of 2 742 261 dollars and permits issued totaling 54 with construction value of 46 923.50, plus increases in electric and water usage and toll revenue.
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ABC
Chanber of Commerce
Muscatine County
Christmas Cantata At Grace Lutheran Church
The Nativity a Christmas cantata by James A. Dosher will be presented at Grace Lutheran Church at seven Sunday evening December 24. A chorus of more than seventy voices from three church choirs directs the cantata with soloists Betty Logel Lois Eisner Rev C Gesell Jerry Lange Terrill Young Wm Fahy Jack McConnaha and a quartet Betty Hoffman Freda Kindler Glen Monson and Wm Fahy.
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James A. Dosher
Grace Lutheran Church
Shirley’ Jean Drake
Wri
Betty Swadner
Bethlehem
Betty Logel
Lois Eisner
Rev. C. Gesell
Jerry Lange
Terrill Young
Wm. Fahy
Jack McC
Boys Caught After Break-In At McKee Ford Grain
Two youths, H and 13, admitted breaking and entering the McKee Ford and Grain company in the 700 block of East Second Street Thursday night. Police caught them after a report of a window being open at 9:08 pm. They will be turned over to juvenile authorities.
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McKee Ford and Grain Company
East Second Street
Clifford Bennett
Jerry Kingery
Tom
Price
Bonnet
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H. Philip Auffrey
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