Two Lives to Help Through Volunteer Service
The Voluntary Action Center requests volunteers to read to the visually impaired, deliver flowers or TV service, teach crafts, or entertain at nursing homes. Assist Braille transcription, transportation for medical visits, meals, and library deliveries. call 263-9959 or visit Trinity Episcopal Church office for details.
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Voluntary Action Center
VAC
Trinity Episcopal Church
Second & Walnut
Fulbright Receives Honorary Knightship From Queen Elizabeth III
In London the Foreign Office announced that former Senator J W Fulbright has been made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his role in founding the Fulbright Scholarships. The award honors his work fostering British American relations and international understanding. The news came Monday amid a weather forecast predicting showers southeast Thursday, with highs in the mid to upper 80s and lows in the mid to upper 60s.
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London
J. W. Fulbright
Foreign Office
United States
Fulbright
Order of the British Empire
Tavern order revived targets beer permit renewals in Muscatine
Muscatine City Council revived a 1969 order requiring Class B beer permit holders to renew 40 days before expiration. The move, supported by mayor and city administrator, would trigger council review of renewals and inspections by police fire and building departments. one alderman opposed 30 day notice, and no enforcement date was set.
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Muscatine
Charles W. Coates
Ronald Hansen
John H. Duncan
5Th Ward
Larry D. Kemp
Board of Health
Police
Fire
Jack Roelle
Coates
Robert McFadden
McFadden
Harold H. Vischer Sr
3Rd Ward
Vischer
Patrick Hopewell
4Th Ward
Stan's Place
Park Ave
Roelle
William Angell
Army Band to appear in Muscatine 4th of July parade
The 34th Army Band Iowa National Guard will join the Muscatine parade at 10 a.m. Friday as part of summer training. The unit will stay in Iowa for public events at Veterans hospitals and the Iowa Old Soldiers Home and will give a concert at Camp Dodge.
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34Th Army Band
Iowa National Guard
Muscatine
Iowa
Iowa Old Soldiers Home
Camp Dodge
Bike Riders Train for Iowa RAGBRAI III Event
The YMCA Bike Club in Muscatine plans a 60 mile training ride to Iowa City on Saturday and a Sunday loop to Atalissa Moscow and Wilton departing 12 30 p m. They join RAGBRAI III August 3 9 with transport for riders bicycles and baggage to Hawarden and back. Registration ends July 7 at the YMCA main desk and all riders are welcome.
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Iowa City
Iowa
Atalissa
Moscow
Wilton
YMCA
Register
Iowa-Iii
Hawarden
Muscatine
Annexed area joins Muscatine city services today
Muscatine formally extends city services to a seven square mile annexation north and west of the current limits. About 40,000 dollars in the 1975 76 budget funds police fire and street work.
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Muscatine
Annexation
Charles W. Coates
Carl Tiecke
Plan and Zoning Commission
Iowa Supreme Court
Two men jailed in Muscatine truck larceny case
One 19 year old, Thomas M. Snyder of 210 Lynn St Muscatine and Bob L. Harris 22 Route 2 Muscatine were arrested in Louisa and Muscatine counties for larceny of a motor vehicle. They allegedly stole a truck owned by Eldon Estabrook found abandoned with wiring cut and battery missing on Sand Run Hill Lake Odessa.
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Wapello
Louisa County
Lynn St
Muscatine
Muscatine County
Bob L. Harris
Route 2
Local Theft Reported At Multiple Addresses
Randy Hurlbut reports the theft of 50 dollars in cash and a 100 dollar coin collection from his Walnut Street home. Entrance may have been gained by a pushed window. A 32 fishing rod and a .22 rifle valued at 50 were missing from Danny's Sales and Service on East Second. Nancy J. Young reports 10 gallons of gasoline worth 5 dollars stolen from a can parked at the riverfront. One accident logged at W Mississippi Drive and Chestnut Street at 12:20 p.m. involving drivers Thomas Wafer and James Johnson.
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Randy Hurlbut
Walnut St
Danny
Nancy J. Young
Dillaway St
River Front
Mississippi Dr
Chestnut St
Thomas C. Wafer
Davenport
James A. Johnson
7Th St
Considine Hurt In Balloon Mishap
Reno based report says columnist Bob Considine was treated for back injuries after a hot air balloon race near Lake Tahoe. The balloon tangled in a tree and slammed into an embankment caused his injuries. he was released from Washoe Medical Center and sent home Monday.
Two charges after mishap near Muscatine
Onecimo Calderon age 19 of 807 Marquette St. was arrested around 5:45 a.m. Sunday by Muscatine County deputies on charges of failing to control his vehicle and violation of instructional permit after a one car crash at the New Era blacktop near the U S Highway 61 intersection. He was uninjured. Another crash occurred at 3 a.m. Sunday on Iowa 22 six miles east of Muscatine when Effrain Cardoza 1321 BE 2nd St. apparently drifted into a ditch after falling asleep at the wheel.
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Muscatine
Onecimo Calderon
Marquette St
Muscatine County
Calderon
Effrain V. Cardoza
2Nd St
Iowa 22
Revenue sharing grants total 179500 for Muscatine and county
Gov. Robert Ray signed a package boosting state revenue sharing 80 percent, sending about 9 million annually to Iowa cities and towns for fiscal 1976 and 1977. Payments are population based with no uses restricted, and all 940 municipalities receive funds. Top city allocations include Des Moines 871252 and Cedar Rapids 478625.
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Muscatine
Robert Ray
Ray
Iowa
Canoeists begin 2550 mile Mississippi trip to Gulf
Writer Ralph Hagberg and photographer Dennis Caneff start a two thousand five hundred fifty mile trek from Itasca State Park to New Orleans. St. Cloud State College instructors undertake a human study supported by area groups to raise funds for handicapped furnishings and equipment at the St. Cloud YMCA. They pledge money per mile and expect to paddle through the summer toward the Gulf of Mexico.
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Mississippi River
New Orleans
Ralph Hagberg
Dennis Caneff
St. Cloud State College
Minn
Itasca State Park
St. Cloud Area
St. Cloud
Muscatine
Caneff
Hagberg
Gulf of Mexico
Mezvinsky to be guest at July 7 Chamber breakfast
Rep Ed Mezvinsky of Iowa will speak at a public breakfast on July 7 at 8 a.m. in the Hotel Muscatine. The event is sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce public affairs committee and open to the public by reservation with reservations accepted until noon July 3.
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Ed Mezvinsky
Iowa
Hotel
Muscatine
The
Chamber of Commerce
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NRF
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Liz Smith
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Richard J. Hines
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