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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1964
Page
6
Iowa ends 1964 with a national high 836 highway fatalities, 108 above 1958, as Christmas weekend adds 14 deaths. Nationally 571 deaths noted. The piece links holiday travel risk to higher hazards and urges New Year resolutions to improve traffic safety in 1965, calling for individual driver effort and stronger patrol presence.
Marguerite Higgins surveys Cairo and Washington as Gamal Abdel Nasser denounces the United States with defiant rhetoric. The piece questions U.S. aid policy toward Egypt and similar regimes, arguing for reassessment amid arms shipments to Congo rebels and diplomatic friction. The column notes public anger, library burnings, and the broader struggle of Western influence in Africa and Asia.
A column recalls past dates with market note 7 cents apples and state territorial size. It lists Sidney Kramer son of the late Justice G F Kramer of Davenport and death of G F Kramer at Mercy Hospital Davenport from malignant diphtheria on Christmas Day. Also mentions Rosa Koeppen and Harry Rexroth wedding, and 5 years ago David Hess appointed court reporter by Judge Scott to fill Stackhouse vacancy. Funeral for Roberta Beukenhorst noted plus First Presbyterian choir rehearsal and Hershey Nurses Alumnae activity.
Washington analysis notes President Johnson diverges from past leaders by skipping formal press conferences in favor of sudden White House or ranch briefings. The piece highlights the lack of questions, selective access, and the ambiguity of off the record and background remarks, contrasting with Roosevelt Kennedy and Eisenhower practices.
A writer recalls taking short story courses at Northwestern where Bernard DeVoto taught using the Case Method. The writer notes DeVoto showed drafts versus final versions, offered concrete editorial reasoning, and contrasted this with a professor who had never sold a story, preferring to act as a proofreader while the narrator earned tuition with published pieces.
A reader asks how to handle resentment toward a grandmother living with her family and a mother who worries about relatives pressuring her daughter for free hairdos. Abby urges bitterness control and open discussion with parents. A second letter asks how to avoid relatives pressuring a beauty operator daughter for discounted services and suggests telling callers to contact Susan after work.
Prayer fragment thanks God for His Word and Son Jesus Christ. It cites the claim I am before Abraham was born and asks for guidance in a rapidly changing world. Amen.
New York columnist Hal Boyle notes the post Christmas week as a period of collective drift and spiritual numbness. He describes pedestrians, shoppers, and postmen weighed down by excess and fatigue, calling it the great letdown that follows Christmas before January renewal. Expectations rise again with New Year resolutions and a rekindled belief in Santa Claus.
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