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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1968
Page
2
Helena Independent Record cites Hanoi accusing peace demonstrators of aiding the Viet Cong. Ho Chi Minh’s government says protests, draft-card burnings, and campus actions weaken US resolve and back communists. Writer condemns student protesters as aiding an enemy.
A column critiques fashion models as underfed, urging better nutrition at home while linking global hunger to domestic care. It contrasts thin models with hollow cheeks and pinched faces, then shifts to a critique of a governor who tries to rule with unilateral power, pressuring the legislature over a service tax and school aid bill.
The Muscatine Comprehensive Plan details for Old Town South End West Hill Mulberry and East Hill outline school moves park expansions and housing code enforcement. It calls for Washington St and Central Junior High relocations new playgrounds riverfront access and phased development over 25 years with a test of code enforcement in 1968.
A Muscatine letter to the editor critiques a editorial on a proposed student Vietnam trip. The writer defends using public funds and questions the use of the terms junket and silly while urging a nuanced view of the complex situation.
James Kilpatrick reviews Jeanne Chall’s contributive study Learning to Read The Great Debate highlighting Chall’s Harvard background Carnegie funding and her challenge to look say methods. The piece notes 80 percent of U S children exposed to look say since the 1930s and cites California tests showing weak reading skills while phonics gains emerge.
An entry on a neighbor's lawn mowing task highlights Iowa's new sales tax rules as a child must collect a 3 percent tax for service and report earnings. The piece questions practicality and fairness, noting reliance on an honor system and potential anger from the employer. The author laments the complexity and urges reconsideration.
An elderly man named Rob Shaw fell headlong at the bottom of a stairs leading to the mayor's office this morning. He was found insensible with severe bruising but not life threatening.
A compact history list notes events on January 13 across years: James Oglethorpe routes to Georgia in 1733, Rouen captured in 1819, Vancouver Island acquired in 1848, Stephen Foster’s death in 1864, Stanton ouster fight in 1868, Scientific American ad for a radio set in 1906, Soviet doctors plot claim in 1953, East German China rush, Togolese coup death of Olympio, Mekong Delta base in 1965. A Bible verse and prayer follow.
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