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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1966
Page
8
HAL COOPER reports that the famous phrase often linked to Louis XVI was actually uttered by Santa Claus. In a Christmas aftermath vignette a New York family endures a toppled tree and a chaotic lounge. A bank statement and a joke about quote attribution cap the scene.
Promotion notice for Jack Avi Nickerson to Major in the United States Air Force. He resides in Japan with wife Elizabeth and four daughters. A Muscatine High School class of 1947 graduate, he entered service in 1949. Parents are A. A. Nickerson and Mrs. Buffington, with sister Mrs. Wesley Trader. Address listed as Maj and Mrs J A Nickerson APO San Francisco 96323.
Keithsburg Mr and Mrs Frederick G Hoskins plan their 25th wedding anniversary January 8 from 2 to 5 pm at the Keithsburg Christian church. Relations and friends are invited. Frederick Hoskins married Florence Lloyd December 27 1941 at the Christian parsonage in Viola by Rev A O Hargus. Their children James of Muscatine and Jan Marla Vaughn reside at home. Hoskins works for C and NW Railroad Bridge in Keithsburg. Nichols Rev Fred Diefenbacher Mrs Diefenbacher and son have moved to Nichols from Brighton and will attend Sunday School at 9 am and worship at 10 am at the Methodist church. Emma Rice observed her 91st birthday Friday.
Earl Fox of Colorado won the world’s champion liar title of 1966 in Burlington Wisconsin after telling a tale that the food is so bad that salt and pepper keep diners from starving. Honorable mentions went to Stephen Woolstenhulme of Victor Idaho and W R Anderson of Evanston Indiana.
The Associated Press reports widespread cold weather across the United States on the last day of 1966 With rain snow and sleet in many areas southern Florida and the southern tip of Texas were warmest Heavy snow accumulations appeared in southwestern New Mexico and Utah with hazardous driving warnings in Kansas Missouri Illinois and Indiana Snow depth reached up to five inches in parts of New Mexico while other zones saw one to three inches in Utah Nevada and Wyoming Readings included over two inches of rain in Boothville Louisiana and more than an inch in Meridian Mississippi
Four Democratic officials defeated for re election in their first term depart the Statehouse as 1967 ends. On the final working day of the year, Secretary of State Gary Cameron State Auditor Loren Worthington and Secretary of Agriculture Kenneth...
Five other men volunteered to stay aboard the vessel until coast guard cutter Tamaroa reaches the scene, as the rough Atlantic night endangers the craft and crew. AP Wirephoto.
Worthington will become state insurance commissioner by appointment of Gov. Harold Hughes. The Statehouse closes through Monday and four Republican successors take office Tuesday: Melvin D. Synhorst secretary of state, Lloyd R. Smith state auditor, L. B. Liddy secretary of agriculture, and Richard Turner attorney general.
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