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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1952
Page
1
Muscatine voters and organizers kick off the 1952 Fourth of July events with an 8 p.m. start at Weed Park featuring the Miss Freedom Flame beauty contest and a water show. J. William Mark Jr. announces two more beauty contestants as plans proceed for one of the biggest local celebrations.
The Muscatine Journal will not publish on Friday July 4, observing Independence Day. Staff will cover events and report them in Saturday’s issue. the office will be closed all day Friday.
The Muscatine Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsors a beauty pageant with 17 entrants led by Mary Kautz and Beverly Plowman. The winner will reign over July Fourth festivities and ride on the Jaycee parade float. Civil Defense volunteers assist traffic control with Muscatine police. Tonight features a water show and judging in gowns and swimsuits at 8:30. Friday's grand parade at 10:30 includes nearly 60 entries, with a 1 PM Weed Park program and Columbus Junction band concert to follow.
Gov. William S. Beardsley and U. S. Sen. Rourke B. Hickenlooper will address the Republican state convention in Des Moines on July 25. James S. Schramm disclosed the main speakers and said Charles Van Werden would serve as temporary convention chairman. The meeting will name Iowa electors and select candidates for lieutenant governor and the commerce commission with new state central committee members chosen at district caucuses.
West Milton New York Mr and Mrs Anthony Young found their general store left unlocked on a day trip. On return they discovered money in small piles on the counter and in the cash register. Customers who had shopped had left correct change and paid in full.
A schedule of tonight and Friday events includes Miss Freedom Flame beauty contest and water show at Weed Park at 8 p m. A dog show and obedience trial at Heinzfield from 10 a m to 7 30 p m Friday. Grand parade downtown, Columbus Junction band concert and town activities at Weed Park with multiple sports races and water events. Venetian parade fireworks at river front and Muscatine high school concert also on the river front. Port City Rides operates midway on Sycamore Street blocks 100 and 200 all day Friday.
Pittsburgh reports that several smaller steel firms joined the six major companies in Cleveland to oppose the CIO United Steelworkers demand for compulsory union shop. The group vows workers must be allowed to work regardless of union membership as a strike threatens to continue since June 2. The big six are U. S. Steel Bethlehem Republic Jones & Laughlin Youngstown Sheet & Tube Inland. The union has reached deals with more than 39 small firms offering a modified union shop with a window for joining or withdrawing within 20 to 30 days.
President Truman told Congress that the United Nations made it possible to check Kremlin expansion and prevent a World War II style conflict. He warned that go it alone advocates would invite war, stressing peace depends on international justice through the UN and submitted the annual U S report on relations with the organization.
The Senate Public Works committee approved a House backed bill to widen the Iowa Illinois Memorial bridge over the Mississippi between Bettendorf and Moline. The measure advances to the Senate floor for debate and action.
Mechanicsville reports a highway department crew raising the shoulders of Highway 30 after Dr E H Littig of Mechanicsville urged the governor’s office that the bad shoulder condition contributed to a spate of recent traffic collisions.
Sen. Charles W. Tobey age 72 and Mrs. Lillian Crompton about 63 are announced as engaged to marry in Concord New Hampshire. The couple plans a future wedding as Tobey continues his Senate service.
The Associated Press reports across Iowa on Fourth of July events with Eisenhower and Kefauver campaigning in Boone Denison Jefferson Ames Cedar Falls Cedar Rapids and other cities. Fireworks parades beauty contests picnics and sports mark the day as towns host massed bands water fights rodeos and boat rides.
Russians stationed in Washington will join Americans for the Independence Day weekend at Woodland Beach Maryland and nearby resorts. Soviet diplomats and families have rented cottages along the South River and Chesapeake Bay. State Department rules limit travel to within 25 miles or require special permission, but officials are allowing travel to these resorts with no restrictions.
In Franklin town a 13 year old boy admitted firing a rifle that killed his mother, 34 year old Sylvia Habersteger, who was found in the kitchen after four shots struck her in the back of the head. Deputy sheriffs said the boy cited losing his head after being scolded as the trigger event. The rifle was a Christmas gift.
Temperatures ranged from 71 to the low eighties with 58 expected tonight as a cool front moved through Iowa. The Weather Bureau predicted mostly fair conditions for Friday and a warmer weekend with highs in the eighties to nineties statewide.
Leroy O. Spear of Waverly Iowa was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for three counts of impersonating a federal officer after posing as an Air Force colonel and borrowing money from people he had contacted in Omaha Nebraska.
Waterloo man Charles L. Pickens, 31, died when his motorcycle struck a train at the Dunham place crossing and was dragged under box cars pulled by a switch engine. The engine was moving about 10 mph. It marked Waterloo’s fifth crossing fatality and eighth traffic death of the year.
Des Moines reports the Iowa Safety department warns traffic will peak over the long weekend with an estimated eight deaths and 250 injuries from highway accidents. State officials urge patience and caution and promote the slogan Drive for your life this Fourth of July weekend.
A Greyhound bus bound for Winnipeg rear-ends a semi-trailer about 14 miles south of the city. Eight people are killed and twenty injured as the bus body shears open in the impact. Rescue teams work through the night to reach trapped passengers and remove the final body at dawn.
Three Chicago priests visiting Berlin were seized at the frontier between the American sector and the Soviet zone. After about 30 hours in custody they were handed over to American officers in Karlshorst East Berlin. They had traveled to Berlin for a one day sightseeing trip using a borrowed car with a German interpreter.
The battle between Taft and Eisenhower forces over 13 Louisiana delegates intensified before the Republican national committee. Taft supporters held practical control, threatening the Eisenhower faction's chances for a favorable seating vote at next week's nominating convention. Eisenhower backers accused Taft tactics in Texas Georgia and other states while continuing their push. Dwight Eisenhower gained 2 of 15 Louisiana votes in the convention. Taft secured the remaining 13.
Taft campaign aides clash with 23 Republican governors who urged barring contested delegations from voting on other contests. Taft aides say the move misunderstands parliamentary rules and could wreck the convention. The dispute follows Utah and California governors backing Taft and Eisenhower contenders preparing to contest Louisiana.
GOP platform committee plans a blistering critique of Truman Roosevelt policies both foreign and domestic. Senator Millikin of Colorado says the committee will draw a sharp line between supporters of the present administration and its critics. Dulles and Eisenhower aides influence a draft plank signaling a major shift in foreign policy.
Dwight Eisenhower announced he will attend the GOP national convention in Chicago to push for clean, fair proceedings. He spoke from a departing special train in Denver and said delegates could see him openly at the Blackstone hotel headquarters without appointments. He emphasized defeating corruption and ensuring the party leads with honest, responsible conduct.
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