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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1965
Page
4
The Journal reflects on 1965 as a significant year for the community with progress across many fronts. It notes steady employment, planned industrial expansion, general optimism, and hopes for continued gains in 1966 as readers ring in the new year with wishes of happiness and health.
James J. Kilpatrick argues constitutional amendment prospects are dim in 1966 with focus on electoral college reform. He notes history, current winner take all flaws, and Johnson’s call to curb maverick electors, while debate in Congress stalls behind broader issues.
A nostalgic glance recalls a Monday railroad schedule change for Westbound passengers, plus local social notes. Twenty five years ago a son was born to Mr and Mrs Edward Burke at Hershey Hospital named Donald Duane. A prayer service at First Friends church is set for Wednesday evening at Rev W S Kitch’s home. Delores Dywiak and Libby Polsky spend Christmas in Detroit. Ten years ago the Woman's Benefit Association planned a social at Nora Bauquess home to discuss a birthday party.
AP report surveys quirky customs tied to New Year’s Eve and Day 1966. It cites Library of Congress findings on luck superstitions, including thresholds for good or bad fate, hair color luck, and placing money on windowsills. It traces Romans Janus rites, chimney cleaning, and the age-old practice of marking beginnings across Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman cultures.
Dr. Erick Richard F aged 45 an Alcoholics Anonymous member argues resolutions can lift morale and aid sobriety despite initial failures. He cites Dr James William James Abraham Lincoln and James Russell Lowell stressing planning action and aiming high with constructive goals for all ages.
A historical exhortation urges parents to teach children proverbs and Bible verses, live temperately, and join moral clubs. It promotes health through restraint, charity through church and Salvation Army support, and mentoring youth to sustain ideas and faith across generations.
A collage of Dear Abby letters covers personal struggles from nervousness and possible anxiety to social friction at church meetings, teenage affection opinions, and marital conflict. The editorials advise medical consultation, voting on meeting etiquette, and defending parental boundaries amid relationship abuse.
A lighthearted AP column contemplates ways to spend New Year's Eve 1905 without a hangover. It invokes self deprecation and playful options from staying home to calling friends, listening to silly sounds, and pondering the meaning of a bluebird morning, closing with a prayer.
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