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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1975
Page
1
The Muscatine YMCA announces a two week holiday operating plan starting today led by Bill Welty. The schedule lists pool and gym times for Dec 23 through Jan 4, including swim team sessions, open swim, senior and grade school open times, family swim, and special holiday closures.
Virginia DePatie of Clinton is hired by Great River Bend Area Agency on Aging as a bicentennial worker. She will coordinate projects for senior citizens in Muscatine Clinton and Scott counties with clubs and committees. DePatie is active in Clinton County Historical Society AAARP and RSVP and serves on the advisory council to social service. Ten workers like her are hired in the program sponsored by the Iowa Commission on the Aging.
The Muscatine Journal announces daily publication Monday through Saturday with noon editions, excluding Sundays and holidays. Subscription rates vary by delivery method and distance from Muscatine, ranging from $1 per week to $24 per year, with motor carrier, mail, and student options and advance payment terms.
Everett Colbert of Muscatine has been elected president of the Illowa Health Systems Agency to lead officers until the agency becomes operational on April 1. The bi state agency will be overseen by the Illowa Health Planning Council until then, with a six and a half hour Davenport meeting naming 30 board members from 147 nominations. A public meeting in Rock Island and Davenport area libraries invites verbal and written comments before the Jan 19 submission to HEW.
The Pentagon freezes civilian hiring and promotions affecting over 2,000 positions in the secretary of defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff offices as part of anticipated personnel reductions in the next fiscal year. The Defense Supply Agency also imposes a freeze. other services are expected to follow. The White House budget office proposes cutting civilian payroll by 48,000 and military strength by about 37,000 for next year, with total defense program around 110 billion dollars. Ford boosts the total by 2.6 billion after urging from Hall, Rumsfeld, and the Joint Chiefs. Final figures awaiting final budget form, likely to Congress late January.
Eighth grade Franklin Junior High pupils in Cedar Rapids face restitution for stealing beer steins necklaces and antiques during a curio shop field trip to the Amana Colonies. Two dozen students admitted theft and a $100 contribution to Amana Society tourism bureau was asked.
New York AP Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis begins earning 200 dollars weekly as a consultant for Viking Press. She helps bring the book A Special Destiny to the firm, tied to a planned exhibit on 18th century women. Viking President Tom Gainzburg credits her involvement as essential to the project.
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