Muscatine Plans Downtown Growth and Parking Strategy
Muscatine’s Comprehensive Plan draft outlines downtown changes to guide future development. It discusses keeping the core street framework, shifting truck traffic, and boosting parking to about 3,000 spaces by 1975 and 3,800 by 1985, with two 60,000 sq ft department stores and extensive retail rehabilitation.
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Muscatine
Stan
Central Business District
Mississippi Drive
Mulberry Avenue
Fifth Street
Second Street
City to Drill 2 More New Wells for Water
Muscatine municipal light and water board approved two gravel packed water wells for the south well field at a budgeted 36000 dollars. No. 14 yields good water while No. 13 is high in manganese and may supply cooling water for a new 66 kV power plant. Planned flushing of mains from hydrant to hydrant may run 11 pm to 5 am. A local fire destroyed the Todd home at 1914 McClellan. 21 month old Anthony Todd is involved in corrected age reporting.
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Muscatine
James Fuller
Fuller
Anthony Todd
Harold Todd
Todd
McClellan
Art Guild Names Officers Elected At Muscatine Meeting
The Muscatine Civic Art Guild elected Don Kempf as president Willard Martin as vice president Vedla Holliday as secretary and Ardel Holstorf as treasurer Tuesday evening Faye Grunder won first in the monthly contest with Stacy Nelson second The next contest subject is A Winter Scene Members are urged to bring assemblage materials to next Tuesday at 7 30 p m Cherry Street studio
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Muscatine
Subscription rates for Muscatine paper listed
Rates include daily carrier delivery in Muscatine at 2.00 per month in advance. Other carrier areas priced at 0.40 per week. Mail rates: within 50 miles 15.00 per year, towns with carrier service 18.00, over 50 miles 20.00. All mail subscriptions payable in advance. Office hours and special delivery details provided.
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City of Muscatine
Muscatine
Dial
Murder Trial of Weih Set for February 19 in Muscatine
Dal e Lee Weih, accused of the August 1966 slaying of George Marion Smith of Davenport, is tentatively set for February 19 in Muscatine County district court. He has been jailed since being restored to reason after Anamosa psychiatric rulings, with defense to present a murder trial on the first degree charge while addressing sanity within the proceedings.
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Dale Lee Weih
George Marion Smith
Davenport
Muscatine County
Weih
Department of Criminally Insane
Anamosa
Atty
Martin McCarthy
Wesh
Werner Hollander
McCarthy
Rafael Solis
Town Supreme Court
Weihh
Central State Bank promotes two staff as year tops records
Central State Bank reports a record year with deposits at 27 million, mortgage loans up 31 percent, and commercial loans up 34 percent. Merle Foster named Assistant Cashier and Floyd Amos elected Comptroller. Key officers reelected include S. G. Stein, Robert S. Jackson, John B. Rigler, and L. D. Krueger among others.
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John B. Rigler
Central State Bank
Te Bank
Tuesye Merle Foster
Floyd Amos
S. G. Stein
Robert S. Jackson
L. D. Krueger
L. J. Horst
J. W. Wallis
Ann Havemann
Harold B. Maurer
Donald C. Martin
George A. Lohman
Marilynn J. Pilgrim
Rigler
Muscatine
G. Stein
R. $. Jackson
FR. E. Reuling
V. D. Nietzel
G. Stein, IV
Mark S. Collier
Robert L. Roach
C. M. Stanley
Robert W. Toborg
James H. Kent
Muscatine Plan Reelects Root and Hears Zoning Item
Muscatine Plan and Zoning commission meets Tuesday reelecting Margaret Root as chair and naming Donald Ablf as vice chair. A 94 lot tract near Parham Cedar and Mulberry is referred to the ordinance committee for reassessment after previous council referral. The Muscatine City Teachers Association hosts a public meeting at the Civic Center on Tuesday January 16 at 4 pm to discuss local education issues.
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Margaret Root
Muscatine Plan and
Muscatine City
One Cent Stamp Costs Two Dollars in Waterloo
In Waterloo, a single one cent stamp costs two dollars when bought from a $2 book containing 32 six cent stamps and eight one cent stamps. The odd pricing forces customers to purchase the book to obtain the needed penny stamp.
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Waterloo
Town
Utility Worker Pay Increase Is Approved
The Muscatine municipal electric and water department trustees approved a new union wage agreement retroactive to December 24, 1967. The pact covers 65 to 70 hourly employees with a 9 percent raise, setting an electric lineman rate at 3.95 per hour and comparing favorably with peers in nearby utilities.
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Umion
Muscatine
James Fuller
Iowa-Illinois Electric Co
Cedar Falls
Eastern Town Light and Power Cooperative
Ames
NEA Candidate George Fischer Speaks Monday
Muscatine City Education Association hosts an Invitational Educational Community Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Monday in Hotel Muscatine with NEA presidential candidate George Fischer. Over 20 teachers and guests expected. Fischer sits on NEA executive committee and has run for president at Seattle 194 at Miami Beach 1966. Iowa NEA presidents include James Enns 1857, William Beardshear 1902, Agnes Samuelson 1936.
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Muscatine City
Fischer
National Organization
N.E.A
Seattle
Miami Beach
Towa State Education Association
Towa Association of
Iowa
James Enns
William Beardshear
Agnes Samuelson
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