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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1963
Page
2
Residents of the Hershey convalescent home were guests at a Sunday lawn party hosted by the Pilot club of Muscatine. Members served cakes and punch.
Reflector strips for bicycles are available in Muscatine through the local VFW post. Strips can be picked up at the police station, YEW club rooms on Mulberry Avenue downtown, L and M Pure Oil station at 1014 Park Avenue East Hill, and Jim's DNS at 1153 Lucas for West Hill.
Be Mob Service located at 513 Grandview Ave serves South End residents. VFW club rooms open from 9 20 am until midnight Monday Tuesday and Friday full day Thursday and Saturday and closed on Wednesday.
The 12 year old Hixenbaugh, son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Hixenbaugh of Chariton, drowned Sunday in a lake at Lake View Golf and Country Club. The body was recovered but attempts to revive him failed.
The Pilot Club of Muscatine announces a summer project “Leadership Through Service” entertaining 73 residents at Benjamin Hershey Memorial Hospital. Esther Stohr leads the committee. tea cakes and punch were served as Mary Ann Tutt provided background organ music. The group previews improvements at the home during a brief tour led by Grace Meerdinky, nurse superintendent, highlighting ongoing service among executives and professional women.
The post office will close for a holiday on Thursday July 4. There will be no city or rural mail delivery. Special delivery and permit mail will be delivered within the city limits. Substitutes will work incoming and outgoing mail and place mail in boxes. All contact stations will be closed for the holiday.
June entered weather records as hot and dry with 0.34 inch rain, far below the normal 4.40 inches. Temperatures ranged 48 to 98, averaging 75.1, marking the driest June since 1938 and one of the driest on record with 12 days at 90 degrees or higher.
Rogey Lande of the Junior Chamber of Commerce announced plans for Muscatine Independence Day celebrations. Janet Bishop will serve as parade marshal and a horse show will be held at Weed Park near the Colorado Street entrance. Tennis finals, a weed park carnival, and a forty piece Muscatine Band concert will follow, with fireworks over Weed Park after dark and a teenage dance Friday evening. The Muscatine County Emergency Rescue Unit will be on duty, and Jaycees sponsor the events for local citizens.
Marlin Schauland assumed the presidency of the Muscatine Rotary Club for the coming year, receiving the gavel from George Volger who served the past year. Officers named include Paul Switzer as vice president Roger Lande secretary Herbert Leu treasurer Rich ard Melson and Joe Gillespie as directors. The report also notes Carl P. Miller of Los Angeles records the proceedings and mentions Rotary International president-elect. The Rev B I Hageman gave a patriotic talk titled Declaration of Freedom stressing individual responsibility under a republican government and the Founding Fathers' work on the Declaration of Independence.
Des Moines reports Gov. Hughes today administered oaths of office to two controversial appointees, Robert Barry of Danbury and Corbin Crawford of Ainsworth, as members of the Highway Commission and Board of Control. The ceremony occurred at the Statehouse with the governor presiding.
Muscatine will observe the nationwide Freedom Ring on July 4 with bells tolling for four minutes starting at 12 noon. Local groups including the Muscatine County Bar Association Pilot Club junior high schools and churches back the project. Mayor Robert D. Bosch proclaimed July 4 as ring freedom day urging all bells to sound in celebration of independence.
Report describes eggs thrown at a car carrying Rev. Martin Luther King Jr as he arrived at a Harlem church to address a Negro congregation. He was not hit but booed by several of about 500 people gathered outside Salem Methodist Church warning signs and tense scene noted.
A government forecast highlights thousands of sought after roles in computing and data processing. It urges willing individuals to train quickly and prepare for interviews, promising strong prospects for IBM programmers and related fields.
Members of the Muscatine Moose lodge joined the Towa Mississippi Valley Moose Legion District 137 gathering in Iowa City. District peers from Clinton DeWitt Davenport Iowa City Maquoketa and Tipton attended. John Alexander of Muscatine was installed as East Moose with Pilgrim Miles Winn of Iowa City leading the ceremony.
Hanover New Hampshire Dart mouth College opened its doors to women undergraduates for the first time during the eight week summer term. Officials reported 148 women students and 153 men registered.
Burris of Maquoketa after six-year term on the State Liquor Control Commission says he may join a distillery staff. He was succeeded today by State Sen. Waller E. Ede. Details are sparse as the transition unfolds.
Eleven month old Creig Rowe of Port Orchard Washington choked while eating a cookie at a Osage family reunion Sunday night. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Allen Rowe of Port Orchard and visiting Mr and Mrs Rey Rowe of Osage.
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