Muscatine seeks bids for city paving program 1964
The Muscatine Journal reports bids due at 7 p.m. from three to five contractors for the citys 90 000 permanent paving project part of a larger plan. Special assessments cover Main Street from Grandview to Mill and West Fifth from Broadway to Cherry. The city will cover Park Avenue Heal Ef and Finefield avenues from Devitt to Logan. The Muscatine Levee Commission will take bids August 5 for Riverside park street improvements including 17 500 square yards of inch half asphalt extending east from Cedar new park area and along the river channel perimeter.
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Sutpart
Main Street
Grandview Avenue
Logan Street
Muscatine
Riverside Park
Cedar
New Park
Two Women Hit In Muscatine Traffic Crashes
Two women suffered injuries described as not serious and four vehicles were damaged in two Muscatine crashes on Wednesday. Mrs Virgetta Johnson, 18, was shaken and treated at Muscatine General Hospital. Mrs Ida Louise Dun ker, 24, received bruises after her car on Breese avenue struck a truck backed from a driveway by Buddy Krise, 17. Krise was charged with failure to yield and denied the charge. case continued for trial. A second crash on East Mississippi drive near Walnut Street involved Ralph Jameson and David K. Johnson, with damage to the Johnson car and the nearby vehicle.
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Hotel Muscatine
Long Liquor Store
Mississippi Drive
Second Street
Iowa Avenue
Journal
Muscatine
Virgetta Johnson
Oak Street
Muscaline General Hospital
Ida Louise. Dunker
Route 2
Daunker
Krise
Ralph E. Jameson
Route 1
East Mississippi Drive
Walnut Street
David K. Johnson
Bar Association appoints two to 1964-85 committees
Raymond Tipton and David M. Manley of Muscatine are named to 1964-85 committee posts with the Iowa State Bar Association. Tipton will join the inheritance tax committee and Stanley will join the corporation and business law committee. Announced today by Howard M. Remley of Anamosa. A right mid-section of Jameson’s truck was damaged as he tried to enter a service station driveway.
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Raymond Tipton
David M. Manley
Muscatine
Towa State Bar Association
Tipton
Stanley
Corporation
Howard M. Remley
Anamosa
The
Bar Association
Jameson
Salina
Heinz Tomato Processing Season Starts Tuesday
Heinz Co. will begin its 1964 tomato processing season Tuesday at the Muscatine plant. Agricultural manager Roy Ford says favorable weather points to a large crop with high quality. Tomatoes from Iowa and Illinois will be processed into ketchup, with chili sauce later. The plant will add staff as receipts increase and pickle processing also reports excellent quality.
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Heinz Co
Muscatine
Roy Ford
Ford
Iowa
Henry
Kara
Little Hope For Change In Sultry Weather
Temperatures stayed hot with no sign of a swing toward cooler days. Weather Bureau offered no relief and forecast top temperatures to rise further by Friday. Muscatine logged the warmest night of the year at 7 degrees, while Wednesday's afternoon high reached 93, just one degree shy of the year’s best. Sioux City reported 12 degree readings on Wednesday afternoon.
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Weather Bureau
Muscatine
Aternoon
Sioux City
Muscatine Girls Attend Summer Camp For Twirlers
Muscatine high school girls Cherry Hurlbut and Mary Kaufmann joined the Smith-Walbridge Twirling Camp in Syracuse Indiana during July. They attend daily classes in dance baton flag twirling and marching led by national instructors, with related courses in cheerleading drum major band and majorette work.
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Cherry Hurlbut
Wilden Hurlbut
Park Drive
Mary Kaufmann
Robert Kaufmann
Washington
Smith - Walbridge
Syracuse
Indiana
Muscatine High School
Muscatine
Smith-Walbridge
Wildan Hurlbul
Alderman Tillie to Move Outside Muscatine City Limits
Dr John E Tillie Muscatine alderman for the Second ward will move to a rural route 2 property near Richmonds crossing on highway 38 about a mile north of the highway 61 junction as the Tillies relocate from 2753 Houser street with their two sons after three years in Muscatine authorities consider the council seat vacant when they move next month and the matter hinges on the city legal department ruling.
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John E. Tillie
Muscatine
Tillie
Houser Street
Richmond
Highway 38
Highway 61
Letts
Siderman
Tillies
Two Telephone Promotions Named In Keokuk News
Northwestern Bell promotes H H Loewenstein to central office foreman and Duane Keough to service supervisor. Loewenstein, Keokuk native and WWII veteran, once worked in Minneapolis and Keokuk, with ties to Lee County mental health and CWA. Keough, Kiwanian active in chamber, began in Town Falls 51 and came from Burlington before 1968.
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Telephone Company
H.H. Loewenstein
Keofuk
Duane Keough
H. 5. Peters
Loewenstein
Byrd H. Lang
Des Moines
Keough
G. J. Williams
Omaha
Keokuk
South Pacific
Signal Corps
Northwestern Bell
Minneapolis
Lee County Mental Health
Bard
American Legion
Trades and Labor Assembly
Communications Workers of America
Kiwanis
Chamber of Commerce
Falls
Burlington
Vote on Muscatine County Conservation Board Referendum
Petitions with 470 signatures seek a Muscatine County Conservation Board election to be held next November. A 1960 defeat in similar returns shows a simple majority needed. If approved, a five-member board would be appointed, with a mill tax levy possible, to manage parks, pools, and recreation facilities and to coordinate with county and state agencies.
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Muscatine County
Muscatine County Conservation Board
Mervin Shafer
Sim
Shafer
County Board of Supervisors
Conservation Department
Commission
Muscatine Pedestrian Record Earns Safety Citation
Muscatine held seven years without a pedestrian fatality until a 1964 incident ended the streak. The American Automobile Association awarded a safety citation to the city, praising its pedestrians and drivers amid increased traffic. Dan McCarthy of the Motor Club of Iowa cited school, city, and police efforts in the local safety program.
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Jack Raclle
Dan McCarthy
The
Motor Club of
Iowa
Muscatine
Journal
American Automobile Association
Motor Club of Iowa
McCarthy
Iown Avenue
Second Street
East Third Street
60 Day Term Here on False Check Charge
Cecil James Womack, 19, Springfield Ma., received a 60 day jail term after pleading guilty to issuing a false check in Muscatine district court. He has been in custody since June 12 after a $20 local bank check cashed at Sun Mart Park Avenue with his girlfriend presenting it. Sheriff Oppelt noted a jail break attempt around 3 am July 2 by Womack and Harald W. Sturms, 20, Muscatine, who were captured about 18 hours later by city police.
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Cecil James Womack
Springfield
Muscatine District Court
Womack
Park Avenue
Sun Mart
Dick Oppelt
Harald W
Butch) Sturms
Muscatine
Hospital Note on Effie Marquardt in City Hospital
Mrs Effie Marquardt of 3214 Mulberry is listed as a patient in the Department of Ophthalmology Room 265 at University Hospital in Lows City. The notice records her hospital status without additional details about diagnosis or treatment.
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Effie Marquardt
Mulberry
Department of Opthamology
University Hospital
Lows Gity
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Iowa Finance CO
Invane
Oregon Street
Oregon
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SAT
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