Family burned out of home gets help for Christmas
A Muscatine woman Mrs Audrey Blalock and her three children lost most possessions in a midweek fire at 25 Fairview Avenue believed started near the first floor furnace. The family, scattered among relatives, will spend Christmas with friends and are aided by donations from Muscatine High School, HON Industries employees, and local supporters including a Milan residence. A van from HON Industries transported collected gifts to the family.
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Muscatine
Fairview Avenue
Fairview
Audrey Blalock
Paul Roberts
Muscatine High School
Deborah Roberts
Brenda
Steve Thompson
HON Industries
Duane
Hoad
the Blalock
Milan
Insurance man provides meals for poor kids
Morlon Waber an insurance executive runs Food for Thought delivering breakfasts to 550 pupils daily in Philadelphia since 1968 starting with Drew Elementary. He used $1,000 of his own money and later $10,000 from about 200 friends to fund the program aiding mainly Negro students.
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Morlon Waber
Food For
Waber
Drew
West Philadelphia
Miriam
Lighting winners named in 15th annual outdoor contest in six districts
Winners in the 15th annual outdoor Christmas lighting contest sponsored by Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative were announced by F. E Fair, with total prizes of 360 dollars. Divided into religious and non religious categories across six judging districts, the winners include Cle tus Beckman Sperry and Del bert Dotson Wapello in religious categories and J A W McCarty Sperry and Earl McGill Mascalline in non religious, among others.
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Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative
F. E Fair
The
Rural Electric
Engineering award goes to T King Muscatine senior wins $100 scholarship
Terry King a Muscatine High School senior son of Mr and Mrs Robert King 617 Climer Street won a local engineering scholarship of 100 sponsored by the Muscatine Iowa Engineering Society chapter. The winner advances to the NSPE national scholarship contest with a total value of 3000 and 71 per year to an accredited school of choice. Terry ranks 21st of 370 in his class and plans chemical engineering at Iowa State or MIT.
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Terry King
Muscatine
Robert King
Climer Street
Iowa Engineering Society
Terry
National Society of Professional Engineers
NSPE
L-M
Wilton Junction
West Liberty
Erry
School of Chemical Engineering
Iowa State University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Journal
Jan Griesembrock
Insurance Man
Philadelphia
Walter
Titus
William H. Jansen
Muscatine Ship and Guidant
Musca Engineering
Iscal
Jan Griesenbrock
Cletus Beckman
Sperry
William Ribered
Burlington
J. A. W. McCarty
Kenneth Baird
Wapellé
Fred L. Kelly
Kenneth Bruer
William Staats
Delbert Dotson
Wapello
Earl McGill
Mascaline
Don Stein
Fred Store
Fred J. Kucera
Riverside
Wilfred McCreedy
Ainswarit
Warren Carpenter
Lone Tree
Gene Lackender
Iowa City
P. C. Walters
Edwin Horn
Edgar Selwarizendruber
Max
Nebergall
Tipton
Roy Creek, Jr
Wayne Wolf
Robert A Reichart
West Branch
Trobert Armstrong
Carl Kruckenberg
London
Tie
Marion Barnhart
Nichols
Richard Weiss
Atalissa
Gerald Grimm
Fred P. Owen
Earl Petersen
Gale Nelson
T. King
Tina aLine
Jonathan
Florida
Hamm
Nabisco
Uilberg
U.S.D.A
Doi
S&h
SRE
Stan
Pillsbury Biscuits
Pleasmor Saltine
Chece Boc
Sun Mart
Sea Oleo Cem Ab Ea
4Th and Mulberry
Downtown
Park Avenue
Northside
Grandview Ave
Southside
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