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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1963
Page
2
In Muscatine the Christmas lighting contest sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce awarded first place in the novelty division to the Allan C. Hahn home at 932 Hancock. The display features a nativity scene and colorful lights.
Over 80 relatives attended the open house Sunday for Mr and Mrs Frank Foster at 616 Pine Street celebrating 50 years of marriage. The event was hosted by their daughter at 319 West Fifth Street with a buffet dinner and program. The First Methodist church youth group serenaded with Christmas carols. This marked the fourth golden anniversary in the Foster family with prior 61st, 50th, and 50th anniversaries noted for relatives in 1938 1961 1962.
A gas line in a space heater broke outside a building causing escaping gas to ignite. Firemen were alerted at 6:29 p m by the Grandview avenue site and at Mulberry avenue between Second and Third streets a car's rear engine area was damaged by fire. They also responded to a Sherwin Williams store damage to an event light.
Mrs. Robert Marshall of 408 West Tih has returned from Iowa City where she was a patient at the State University of Iowa hospital.
Grand Mound tavern Grandma s was burglarized early Friday. Two Muscatine women were held in Clinton for involvement. Additional youths faced charges in Muscatine and DeWitt as police traced a stolen 1957 station wagon and other stolen property. Byers and Massey fled after a Davenport taxi ride, with Natt and Stropes also implicated. Nott bound over for car larceny. bond set at 5000.
Three Hayes High School students, Bob Jones Will Webber and Mary Alice McGowan, who won a county tuberculosis and health association contest, spoke at the Rotary club lunch about different aspects of tuberculosis education for the community.
City officials announced free parking Tuesday to aid last minute shoppers. Meters will not be checked and no overtime parking tickets will be written, allowing shoppers to park at their leisure.
Robert Rowe, 43, Muscaline, was bound over to district court after waiving a preliminary hearing. He admitted taking three payroll checks from Heeatutlig Manufacturing Co and cashing them at three taverns while drinking. Bond set at $5,000.
Police report two Saturday collisions involving skidding cars. Larry Bivens 27 of 513 Adams Street drove south on First Avenue and struck Richard Dusenberry 1607 First Avenue, damaging fronts. Earlier Margaret Boysel 39 of 1207 Mangas Street slid into Larry Tomlin 24 of 612 Adams Street on Fillmore Street destroying left fender and door.
Mr and Mrs Lyle Davidson will spend the Christmas holiday with their daughter and husband Mr and Mrs Don Volkens and family in Shelby Iowa.
Nomination period runs until June 6 with five judges to select the winner. Past winner was L. B. McKee in 1963. Eligible voters are Muscatine residents with past or present elective or appointive public service at local, county, state, or national levels. The award honors direct government improvement work, not general charity or community service.
Mr and Mrs James R Williams and family from Little Rock Arkansas are spending the holidays with Mrs Williams parents Mr and Mrs Everett Lloyd Route 3 They are former Muscatine residents and the visit centers on family time during the holiday period.
The state department of public safety suspended the driver's license of Gary Lee Estabrook, 17, of 10d Nebraska Street, for days on December 3 after a speeding incident.
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