Christmas Joy Stories Span Coast to Coast
A collection of heartwarming acts from 1964 includes Rabbi Philip Weinberg filling in as Reno police chief, 80 Hartford volunteers giving Christian staff a Christmas break, and James and Dole Thompson of Louisville celebrating their 7th wedding anniversary with their daughter’s help. Also noted are a Muscatine man charged with intoxication and a concealed weapon, Moose and Eastern Star meetings, and Louis Satchmo Armstrong enjoying Christmas in Tokyo as his wife decorates a tree for him in the hotel suite.
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Associated Press
Louis
Satehzng Armstrong
Tokyo
Noel
Viet Nam
Philip H. Weinberg
Reno
Nev
Elmer Briscoe
Weinberg
Hartford
Conn
James W. Thompson
Dole
Louisville
Yehildren
Thompsons
70th Anniversary Reunion After 28 Years in Siberia
Lithuanian woman Stefanija Rukas reunited with husband and daughter in New York after 28 years of separation. She had been imprisoned by Soviet secret police and spent 15 years in Siberian labor camps. Her daughter Nicole, 26, spoke of happiness and fatigue from a 20 day journey to Hartford, Connecticut. Two Air Force colonels in South Vietnam, Allison Brooks and David Fleming, volunteered for a mission on Christmas Eve and Day, piloting a C103 assault carrier plane Linda, engaging Viet Cong attackers near Tamiales southwest of Saigon in the Mekong Delta for 45 minutes.
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Stefanija “Rukus
New York
Siberian
Nicole
Air Force
South Viet Nam
Allison Brooks
David T. Fleming
Joown
Air Commandos
Linda
Tamailes
Saigon
Mekong Delta
Heiland Family Attends Funeral From California
Wilbert Heiland of Norwalk Edward Heiland of Southgate Ralph Heiland of Manhattan Beach and Mrs Makel Seltzer of La Crescenta traveled to attend the funeral of their father Carl Heiland. Wilbert remains with Raymond Noret in Muscatine and will depart for California Tuesday.
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Wilbert Heiland
Norwalk
Calif
Edward Heiland
Southgate
Ralph Heiland
Manhattan Beach
Makel Seltzer
la Crescenta
Carl Heiland
Raymond Noret
Musgatine
California
Slippery Muscatine Streets Spark Two Crashes
Slippery Muscatine streets caused two Thursday crashes. William James Hanft’s car collided with Ed Zimmerman’s at Grandview avenue and Sampson street at 6:35 p.m., damaging Zimmerman's rear and Hanft’s right front fender. Mannie B. Harter’s vehicle was struck by a truck tractor driven by Bernie A. Brauns on East Mississippi drive at Cedar street at 3:10 p.m., damaging the Harter car’s rear while the tractor suffered no damage.
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Muscatine
William James Hanft
Columbus Dunation
Ed Zimmerman
Wallace Street
Zimmerman
Grandview Avenue
Sampson Street
Zimmer
Man
Hank
Mannie B. Harter
Bernie A. Brauns
East Mississippi Drive
Cedar Street
Harter
Hold Iowan In Ohio On Theft Count
Napoleon Ter rence Eugene Wood 21 of Nashua Iowa was jailed awaiting action on a car theft at gunpoint last Tuesday. Gary Weaver a college student living 10 miles east of here reported Wood entered his home seized keys and threatened him with a rifle. The sheriff’s office found the stolen car abandoned and burned outside the Weaver home.
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Napoleon
Terrence Eugene Wood
Nashua
Iowa
Wood
Gary Weaver
Here
Weaver
Tim
Work on Budget Resumed by LBJ
President Johnson returns to federal budget work after Christmas with his family. Decisions remain on funding for new programs in education and the war on poverty, plus whether to seek raises for civil service and postal workers.
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Johnson City
Tex
Johnson
Yule Gifts Add Days in Appalachia
Whitebang, Kentucky residents received a full meal, warm clothes, and toys as volunteers distributed aid across eastern Kentucky. Rain fell on Christmas Day in Letcher County while firefighters noted drenched volunteers and joyful children. Donations came from Asheboro North Carolina college students, Bloomington Illinois, Garden City Michigan, and Cincinnati sent 2,000 toys. The Salvation Army coordinates the relief effort.
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Whitebang
Stangers
Appalachia
Kentucky
Letcher Coun
Asheboro
N. C
Bloomington
Garden City
Mich
Cincinnati
Salvation Army
Italy Still Left Without A President
In Rome Parliament failed to elect a new president in its 17th vote as Christian Democrats abstentions prevented Nenni from reaching a majority. Nenni, 73, trailed by three votes from the prior round, while Saragat and Nenni remained the strongest contenders. An 18th ballot was scheduled, amid whispered shifts as Leone had withdrawn on Christmas Eve.
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Rome
Italy
Christian Democrats
Pietro ‘Nenri
Nenni
Aldo More
Giuseppe Saragat
Saragat
Antonio Segni
Giovanni Leone
Mercury Near Zero Tonight In Southeast Iowa
Cold weather grips the region with clear skies through Sunday and a near zero dip expected tonight in southeast Iowa. Sunday warms to the lower twenties with temperatures rising after a light snow Christmas Day around Muscatine and statewide snowfall ranging from traces to about five inches in the north. Lows vary from below zero at LeMars to ten above at Davenport as highways remain largely snowpacked and ice patches appear on some routes. Southerly winds Sunday bring warmer air. little change anticipated for Monday.
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Weather Bureau
Mercury
Towa
Muscatine
The
Associated Press
LeMars
Davenport
Seven Die As Car Plunges Into Lake On Christmas Day
In Cumming Georgia a station wagon carrying the Rodgers and Brown families veered off a road, plunged 30 feet into Luke Lanier Lake, killing seven members. John E. Brown, 24, was at the wheel. Billy Rodgers, 20, described the crash as happening too fast.
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Cumming
Rodgers
Brown
John E. Brown
Luke Lanier
Billy Rodgers
Christmas Observance at Yale Commandery and Tragic Drowning Case
De Molay Commandery held Christmas observance at the Masonic temple with 33 members. A fatal water accident near Brown's Bridge Road left a couple and three children dead, with two young swimmers hospitalized. Coroner confirmed drowning. weather forecast noted cold temperatures and 14 inches of snow expected Friday.
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de Molay
Masonic Temple
Harry Throckmorton
Muscatine Journal Description and Publication Details
The Muscatine Journal publishes daily except Sunday and is a member of Lee Enterprises. It is printed at 3028 3rd Street, Muscatine Iowa, and entered as second class mail in Muscatine under the 1879 act. The Associated Press holds exclusive publication rights for local news and AP dispatches.
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Muscatine Journal
Lee Enterprises
3Rd St
Mus
Catine
Iowa
Muscatine
Associated Press
AP News
Subscription Rates for Suburban Daily Newspaper
Karma to subscribers delivered daily by carrier at forty cents. Two week rate and one year by mail within and beyond Muscatine distances vary. Office hours 8 am to 5 pm daily, Saturday 8 am to 1 pm. Special delivery for missed papers maintained until 6 30. Dial 263 2331.
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Che
Carrer
Muscatine
Musestine
Dial
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Smartt
John Smartt
East Second Street
Justice of the Peace
Harvey G. Allbee, Jr
Women of Moose
Ine HieTri
Linda Lumkria
Snow Queen
Electa
Order of Eastern Star
Mrs. Thompson
Mrs. Michael Noel
Long, Beach
Christy Carule
Louis Satchmo Armstrong
Lucile
Hotal Suite
Armstrong
James Thompson
Thompson
James
AP Photofax
AL Sfy
Ohio
LBJ
Oppelt
Electrical Contractors
Wr. J. Oppelt
Mississippi
Santa Claus
American International Pictures Presents
Tommy Kirk
Annette Fonicello
Elsa Lanchester
Harvey Lembeck
Jesse Weite
Jody McCrea
Ben Lesst
Buster Keaton
Dorothy Lamour
Philip Bowen
Lents School
Portland
Ore
Philip
George Bowen
Johnson Creek
Bach
Chalstm
Ms. Rodgers
Amanda Lee
H. G. Pope
Thomas
Brenda Sue
Joyce Ann
Billy Bradford Rodgers
Crafton Brooks
Carroll Christine Rodgers
Linda Brown
Bridge Road
Twomile Creek
Mister Rosewater
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