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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1966
Page
1
Chief John Big Tree, the Iroquois elder who lent his likeness to the 1913 Buffalo nickel, shows a reporter his long nose and asserts a 104 year age with a birth certificate. He travels to Nashville to aid a bank promotion and lives with his wife in Syracuse, New York.
London reports 74 year old Maron Hart of Washington DC flew solo across the Atlantic in a single engine Beechcraft Bonanza. She said the trip was a holiday rather than a record attempt and noted she originally planned to travel with a female companion who could not join. Hart previously crossed with a woman co-pilot in 1953.
A Milwaukee Marine, Lance Cpl. Robert W. Monday, 19, mailed a late Valentine card, two letters, and a fatigue cap inside his helmet liner. In a Viet Cong ambush his helmet stopped a machine gun round. he ducked, found no blood, and saw a hole in his helmet, with the card and cap credited for deflecting the bullet.
The Public Health Service reports foreign students in the United States gained about 16 tons during a year living with American families. Highlights include Tamara Margaretli of Forli Italy adding 25 pounds and Nora Champen of Piura Peru gaining 25 pounds. The nationwide survey, covering 6,672 adults, notes Americans weighed five pounds more than Canadians and 10 to 15 pounds more than Britons, with ages 18 to 79 represented.
Sioux City junior high pupils inspire a five cent stamp to honor U S servicemen in Vietnam. Postmaster General approves the idea after widespread student lobbying and billboards in Sioux City and Washington. Design to honor U S service with the slogan American Servicemen We Appreciate You, unveiling in coming weeks, stamp issuance this fall.
Washington AP Surgeon General William H. Stewart of the Public Health Service predicts a relatively low influenza incidence this winter. He urges high risk groups to vaccinate after Sept 1 and before mid December, and particularly recommends vaccination for persons over 45 and especially those over 65. Recommendations come from the advisory committee on immunization practices, reaffirming guidance for chronically ill and older adults.
Muscatine Community district gains eight grade districts, boosting staffing for September. Despite openings for three high school instructors, overall teacher recruitment remains tight across Iowa with reports of 27 vacancies in western regions and 30 in the east. Montpelier No 2 Area Six and Fruitland Township districts attached to Muscatine, transferring high school students from tuition arrangements.
Janet Frahm, Ottumwa's first and only woman mail carrier, sorts mail at night and dreams of starting pre medical studies at the University of Iowa this fall. A Ottumwa High School graduate, she works in a summer program as the sole girl among eight boys at the Ottumwa Post Offices. Her remark about work is that she hopes next year there will be two girls so she has someone to talk with.
Pasadena AP reports Surveyor 1 may have received the command shut up please as NASA ends its pictures run. Jet Propulsion Laboratory notes Surveyor 1 has no off switch and could interfere with Surveyor 2’s mission planned for September. If needed, Surveyor 1 would be ordered to turn its antenna away from earth to stop transmissions after this month’s sunrise.
A Muscatine article highlights several Sunday and Sabbath school teachers across churches. Mrs Hugh Willants oversees the First Presbyterian kindergarten department with about 40 children aged four to six. Ronald Seifer teaches fourth grade boys at Mulford Evangelical Free Church alongside a Junior Department with roughly 50 students. Mrs Aage Christensen leads a Young Adult class at The Church of the Nazarene for ages from just out of high school to 45. Martin F Wiedemann, a Sabbath School teacher, runs the Senior Citizen class at Seventh Day Adventist Church, with about 12 attendees aged 50 to 75.
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