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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1967
Page
49
Grandview Community Church completed remodeling this year with new pews, carpeting, pulpit, and a Communion table making the interior among the area’s most modern. Rev. Walter Westerfelt serves as pastor of the church.
Oakville Volunteer Fire Department names Russell Timmerman as fire chief in November. He succeeds Ronald Thornton, chief since the department moved to its new location in 1966. A new 26 foot Alexis Fire Equipment Company truck, delivered in August, features an 800 gallon tank and a 1,009 gallon folding tank. The meeting room was remodeled with insulation, paneling, and an outside stairway. The volunteer roster lists many members including Timmerman, Sutcliffe, Gerst family, Wykert, Campbell, Davis, Charbonneaux, Kramer, Murray, Grooms, Gates, Reeding, and Timmerman. Eight emergency telephones were installed this year.
Otto Wendling was reelected mayor of Wilton on November 7 without opposition. Incumbent councilman John Collins also won reelection, with Wilbert Petersen and W. R. Rabedeaux elected as other councilmen. Mary Ford, incumbent treasurer, received 247 votes. Herbert Moeller captured a six year term on the park board with 214 votes. incumbent park commissioner Edward Moylan did not seek reelection.
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