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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1955
Page
5
Commissioner Ford Frick warned all major league clubs not to misuse the disabled list to juggle player limits. He said the list is for players injured or disabled for 30 days and not a method to control the 25 man roster, noting several clubs had been flagged as rotators.
Chicago hosts a full field for the Arlington Handicap racing for 100 added with 16 entries from across the country. High Gun heads King Ranch, Social Outcast and Mister Black lead Hasty House Farm in the mile and three sixteenths turf event as top jockeys and Willie Shoemaker drive Mister Black.
Reichardt, former all-Big Ten fullback at the University of Iowa, quits with the Green Bay Packers. He plans to return to Des Moines to run a sports store, having trained for the 1955 season after a 1952 Packers season and Air Force service. The native Iowa City athlete was 1951 Big Ten MVP on a last-place Hawkeyes team.
Australia needs one more win to seal the American zone Davis Cup tie against Canada in Montreal. Lew Head and Rex Hartwig to face Bob Bedard and Don Fontana in the doubles as Ken Rosewall and Hartwig Hartwig defeated Bedard and Main to push the Aussies to a 2-0 lead.
Art Andrews of Iowa City Iowa reached the semifinals in junior singles at the National Junior and Boys Tennis Tournament in Kalamazoo Michigan. He also advanced in the junior doubles with Crawford Henry of Atlanta as top seeds while Andrews, seeded fifth, upset top seed Mike Green.
The newly organized Wilton Junior Chamber of Commerce held its first regular meeting at the REA building on Thursday. Committees were named for Active membership and Patrol, with Derwood Keith as publicity chairman. Postmaster George Hook awarded rural mail carriers Harlan Beinke and Donald E. Anderson for seven years of safe driving.
Final rites were held for Mrs. Emma Stephens, 73, who died Wednesday evening at Muscatine county hospital. The service occurred at 2 p.m. at the Fairbanks Home for Funerals with pallbearers John Carlson, Richard Gray, Ray Zeidler, William Freese, Werner Axel, and Harry Tiecke. Burial followed in Greenwood Cemetery.
Mrs. Kenneth Westfall, 26, of Lone Tree was diagnosed with polio and taken to University Hospital in Iowa City late Thursday afternoon. The Westfall family lives seven miles southwest of Lone Tree and includes two sons. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lewis of Lone Tree.
Grandson Ronald Koskins has enlisted in the Navy and is undergoing boat training at the Great Lakes Training Center. Mrs. Mable Ready from Studio City Calif visits relatives in Iowa after her uncle Samuel Bassett’s death. Mrs. John Nelson learns Darrell Robinson and wife welcomed a son in San Antonio Texas. Funeral attended for Harry Leveson in Olin Iowa. Rev John Keller attends National Town and Country Conference in Indiana. Richard Shaw enters Veterans Hospital in Iowa City for observation.
A Wilton book club met at Mrs. Margaret Faler’s home with Mrs. Mildred Birchard assisting. Edith Grunder read poems and Maureen Peeks reviewed “My One Hundred Children” by Bernard Bain. No August meeting. September at Mrs. Phyllis Hougham’s home. Several guests attended including Violet Witmer and Irene Atkinson. Refreshments served. Also notes claim many high school graduates do not attend college per the U.S. Office of Education.
Eden is announced to take a new post with Western Electric. The notice sits among local society items detailing transfers, travels, and visits involving families such as the Laseks Benells Bowser Hartsock Todd and other area residents across Minnesota Iowa Wisconsin and Illinois during July and nearby dates.
Hayden Aviation Co plans to produce two Ford Trimotors weekly with first flight aimed for next April. Project manager Cooper says the redesigned planes will keep the slab-sided three-engine form but receive updates including 450 horsepower Pratt-Whitney engines and a large cargo door for jeep transport. The original first flew in 1928 and could operate from 1,000 to 1,500 feet runways.
An essay contrasts gendered daily rhythms, arguing morning is a masculine time and evening is a woman's hour. It describes men awakening to a brisk, energetic start and women catering to family duties before rest, noting weather and time shape behavior and memory. The piece observes parks filled with elderly men at dawn and few elderly women abroad then.
Fuller and Lloyd Crumley serve as co chairs for the Letts Centen nial Celebration planning the 100th anniversary events in Louisa county. Key committee heads include Hildebrand treasurer Furnas historians Tomfield Allen Ball horse show Wells Jordan Wilson Miller and others coordinating advertising program finance antique equipment and concessions.
Mosaics statues and bas reliefs from the ancient world unearthed during Rome subway construction have been used to decorate several subway stations. The artifacts include mosaics and reliefs showcasing ancient Roman and Greek themes. Authorities recovered the pieces during excavation and arranged public displays within station concourses.
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