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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1962
Page
2
Mr and Mrs J W Myers were called to Hartford City after word Mrs Marion Copper died on Christmas Day. The family funeral arrangements are to be announced. authorities provided no further details.
A fragmentary note warns that arriving moments after a scene starts may miss context. It reads as a brief caption or aside from a scrambling page, offering a glimpse rather than a full explanation. No clear names places or events are given.
The State Highway Commission reported highways in the Keosauna Fort Madison and Burlington regions were 25 to 0 percent show packed and icy. Roads statewide were near normal except where towns and cities faced partial snow packs.
Police report a 1958 model car registered to Alina Marie Doty of 1187 Lucas street left Lucas street and Fleicher avenue at 2 am Tuesday, veering east then right into a tree. The front end sustained damage. The driver was Thomas Edward Doty, 16, of the same address.
Police arrested Lewis McKoone at 1190 Lincol Boulevard after reports of a hose extending from a car window. The incident occurred at 6:45 pm Monday with the man charged for intoxication and ordered to pay fines and costs.
The towboat Tri Cities, escorting two barges of petroleum products, passed upstream past Muscatine Sunday evening and was locked at Dam No 16 at 4 a.m. Christmas day with two empty barges, lock master Harold Ary reported today.
Gordon McLean of Muscatine, former Muscatine high school band director, guides Boone high school’s 92‑piece band to Pasadena California for the Tournament of Roses parade. Fundraising raised over 22 000 dollars with contributions from local firms and multiple events. The group will perform at Disneyland and in Los Angeles before the parade.
Two cars collided at 10 30 am today at Mulberry avenue and East Fifth street causing damages in the hundreds and bruising one driver. Henry K Stegner 40 of 322 Spruce street was charged with running a red light and paid five dollars plus costs in Police court. Siegnér driving south on Mulberry struck Willem F Schmoldt 67 of 712 Fulham avenue on the right side. Schmoldt sought a physician for bruises and was traveling west on Pitt street. The front ends of both vehicles were severely damaged.
A Christmas gift of an electric saw caused confusion as Donald R. Curry of 2020 Brocks Avenue stated the tool was taken from his place around noon on Tuesday. The Muscatine Kiwanis Club held a noon luncheon at the Elks Club where Douglas Randieman reviewed Kiwanis events and International Convention slides. Next week's meeting is scheduled for Wednesday noon. An act of vandalism followed when a muskrat and its trap were hurled through a Lincoln school window on Christmas Day, reported by Fred Lange, the public schools building superintendent.
The Joan A. Biedm family of Hastings Nebr spent Christmas Day with her parents in Cranson Me and Mrs Ralph Bloom. First Christmas gifts were the wise men gifts gold frankincense and myrrh. Gift giving traces back to pre Christian times and Saturnalia in ancient Rome.
A $979.05 damage suit was filed in Muscatine district court by Andrew and Norma Wetendorf against owner Kenneth Phillips. The couple allege a fire at their home at 606 East Fourth Street on December 15, 1961, caused smoke water and property damage. They claim frozen water pipes and an ensuing blaze damaged the first and second floor walls before firefighters extinguished the fire.
Longshoremen strike enters fourth day with about 6 000 workers idle from Maine to Texas. Some ships proceed to dock while picket boats sail only if vessels idle. The Liberian freighter Glenview sits at Charleston harbor with three million pounds of perishable cargo. South Carolina soybeans and potatoes await delivery amid union resistance. Other vessels idle from Searsport to Brownsville as the strike disrupts port activity.
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