Ice study on Mississippi River aims to keep channels open
The U S Corps of Engineers Rock Island District coordinates a comprehensive ice study with aerial surveys of pools including Pool No 26 above Muscatine. Data from Alaska and Great Lakes districts will be incorporated as researchers assess ice formation, jams and how to maintain 12 month navigation on the Mississippi River with possible ice breaker designs and updated lock gate equipment.
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U. S. Corps of Engineers
Rock Island
Gil Dietzed
Howard B Collman
Tri-State Aero Engineering Co
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Great Lakes District
Mississip
Horse Island
Buffalo
Credit Island
Davenport
Muscatine
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Mississippi
Coast Guard
Mississippi River
Pipsqueak Rule in U N and Censorship Folly
Two essays discuss UN voting fairness with Barbados joining the General Assembly and the weight of small nations. The second piece condemns book censorship around Death of a President, noting widespread exposure of passages and the futility of suppressing knowledge of major events.
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Pipsqueak
U.N
Helena
United Nations
General Assembly
Barbados
United State
Britain
Pipsqueaks
Burlington
The Guessing Game From LaCrosse Tribune
Economists say tax hikes should have come a year ago during boom times. The bloom is off the boom, the President faces a tougher Congress in 67, and a $10 billion budget cut is not anticipated to close the income gap. The deficit remains a guessing game amid White House silence.
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LaCrosse Tribune
Vietnam
Congress
White House
Too Slow in Coming at Cal Universities
Rochester Post-Bulletin discusses why higher education institutions should run themselves rather than yield to student and faculty protests. The piece criticizes permissiveness at Berkeley and urges a crackdown at Cal and other universities to restore order and discipline.
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Rochester Post-Bulletin
University of California At Berkeley
Cal
Philosophy of Plenty and Roads Before Space
Commentary argues Americans benefit from a free market food system from farm to table. It questions a $3.3 billion cut to the Interstate program versus sustaining space efforts, urging completion of highways over a moon landing rush.
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Philosophy of Plenty
Erom Fort Dodge Messenger
Austin Daily Herald
Johnson
Our Yesterdays and Local Notices Recap
A compact 16 year old post office notice states holiday closure tomorrow with noon reopening, no paper issuance, and telegraph office hours. Community items note Kappa Delta winners Frances Nietzel and Catherine Lichbke at Mrs. Robert Nietzel’s Grandview home with music and games. Also listed: 25 year old Sunshine club officers and draft board reminders, Nichols church party with gift exchange, and 10 years ago Muscatine County selects coroner Ralph Figg to replace retiring Dr. Odell.
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Kappa Delta Sorority
Robert Nietzel
Grandview Age
Frances Nietzel
Catherine Lichbke
Lottie Steinfurt
Sunshine Club
the Royal
Neighbors of America
Stella McElroy
Jennie Tillie
Elmer Laysen
Muscatine County
Selective Service Board
Hershey
Nichols
Wilma Mills
Ralph N. Figg
Muscatine
J. H. Odell
Eisenhower proposals on term limits for judges and lawmakers
The piece reviews President Eisenhower Digest proposals to limit federal judges to 20 years and Congress members to 12 years, plus rotating retirements. It argues such limits could strengthen checks and balances, improve renewal, and curb lifelong tenure and seniority-driven power in the legislature.
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James J. Kilpatrick
Washington
Eisenhower
Ske
Reader's Digest
Chicago
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Supreme Court
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Senate
Hamilton
Prince
Marshall
Warren
Jefferson
Seminaries urged clergymen to use plain speech
Dr. Crane's Paul G. is praised as brilliant yet handicapped by long sentences. The Official Board chair argues for simpler language in sermons to reach a rural audience, citing Jesus who used plain words and urged followers to do likewise. He warns against using words that only professors understand.
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Paul G
Dr. Crane
Jesus
The Worry Clinic and the Sermon on the Mount
A fragment argues Jesus used simple words, warned against long prayers, and promoted brief, direct communication. It mocks clergy for lengthy public prayers and claims Jesus was an early applied psychologist and advertiser based on a college text reference.
Dear Abby Columns on Family Struggles and Faith in Language
Readers discuss an unhappy teen daughter seeking help, a mother seeking guidance, and a debate on fidelity and money in marriage. Abby advises waiting, offering options via a psychiatrist and family doctor, while critics fault grammar and language use in her column.
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Abby
Modern nun in South Africa links cloistered and lay life
Sister Margundis Hollerback, a member of Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary, works in Constantia near Cape Town. Born in Heidelberg Germany, she joined in 1952 and studied at Cape Town University. She teaches, runs a hostel for young girls, and conducts weekend courses, living in the world while taking vows of poverty chastity and obedience.
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Robert H. Stevenson
Port Elizabeth
South Africa
Margundis Hollerback
Institute of
the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary
National Council of the Catholic Women’s League
Margundis
Heidelberg
Germany
Cape Town University
Constantia
Cape Town
DAILY 4 ACROSS WORD-PARK BIBLE VERSE PRAYER CARD
A compact word puzzle page combines a 4 across and down clue grid with Bible verse framing. It folds in a devotional prayer appealing to readers to reflect on eternal life through Christ Jesus, closing with a blessing for the year ahead.
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God
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