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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1968
Page
2
The Muscatine Journal’s year end issue highlights Muscatine as a City on the Grow. It notes progress in private civic and municipal efforts, urban renewal plans, and a push for downtown revitalization with new buildings remodelings and more off street parking. Citizens are urged to unite for continued growth.
New York column notes Los Angeles Mayor Yorty cites named Communists behind campus unrest and a 1967 Johnson visit protest. It questions legal risk of libel suits, compares to McCarthy, and urges a broader federal inquiry into Student for a Democratic Society and radical activism. It cites Hoover, UCLA philosopher Kalish, and various ideological figures while warning against overreach.
Johnson aides urge mutual short-term sacrifices and voluntary guidelines for wage and price restraint. Cabinet panel proposes raising 3.2 to just under 5 percent for 1969 wages while keeping prices near 1968 levels, with business absorbing the first 1 percent. Nixon administration not consulted. future policy uncertain.
A New York AP column surveys odds and ends from mailbag lore. It notes that one tenth of people are left handed, lists famous lefties like Alexander the Great and Leonardo da Vinci, and highlights trivia on smoking, brain cells, nerves, and milk shelf life. It includes quotes, bits of folklore, and maxims such as Napoleon's remark on brute force versus durable change.
A reader asks why the body shrinks with age and explains stress incontinence. Dr Thosteson discusses aging effects, weight loss, muscle tone, bladder changes, and recommends gynecologist or urologist assessment. Additional notes cover rectal polyps, gout treatments with indomethacin and probenecid, and request for health booklets.
The article notes Joan McLain appeared before Major Klein for violating a city ordinance by driving a team recklessly through Second Street. She was fined three dollars plus costs. It also recaps a sequence of past items from 75, 30, 15, and 10 years ago, including local notices and sports tidbits.
On this day in history, events include the 1853 Gadsden Purchase, Rudyard Kipling's 1865 birth, the 1935 destruction of a Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia, and WWI era torpedoing of Aragon. Also noted are Hitler's will publicized in 1935, postwar notes to the Soviet Union for a united Germany, Pope Paul VI meeting with Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras, and a 196? truce extension in South Vietnam.
The text presents a Christmas prayer asking God to make observance of Christmas Christian and to transform pagan culture into a Christian civilization through Christ teachings, spirit, and power. It reflects a devotional plea for spiritual change.
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