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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1967
Page
29
A 1967 flood control project for the Muscatine Louisa drainage district No 13 advances toward complete protection. One third completed by year end includes a new pumping station and a flank levee. Emergency levee work from 1965 aided high Mississippi conditions and drainage flow.
A lengthy May permits list records numerous remodeling and new construction jobs across multiple addresses including 1025 Orchard 306 Lake Park Blvd and 1818 Douglas with costs from 100 to 19 200 dollars. The report also describes a 1969 flood control improvement by Sorasin Construction Co for a 1 25 mile flank levee project along the Mississippi river near Louisa county with a 1 090 401 80 bid and a three pump pumping station to be built at a 44 by 62 foot steel building set 2 000 feet upstream of the levee. Completion slated for September 1969 with pumping equipment ready earlier.
The review notes Rev. J Paul Stevens assuming the First Evangelical United Brethren church role, a large barn fire at Jim VanCamp farm, and Mississippi River bridge financing legislation sent to the Iowa governor. It mentions a $107,350 golf course contract to Midwest Irrigation, promotion of Howard E McKinley by H J Heinz, record rainfall flooding evacuations, a Collinsville boy killed in Wapello, Mad Creek levee repairs, Gary L Wheeler receiving the Purple Heart, and levee plan changes affecting flank levee and Port Louisa pumping station with flood-protection implications.
J W Merrill will speak at the noonday luncheon Wednesday at Hotel Muscatine. He will discuss agriculture as it is today in this country. Fishing and hunting licenses for the 1957 and 1958 seasons have been received at the county recorder office.
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