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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1962
Page
7
Registration remains open for the annual Learn to Swim school starting June 11 at Weed Park pool and running through July 9. Morning classes are organized by location with Muscatine attendees meeting on Tuesday Thursday Saturday and others on Monday Wednesday Friday.
Leonard K. Hagensen of Jehovahs Witnesses in southeast Iowa and northeast Missouri will visit the local congregation June 5-10 to give instruction and demonstrations. A public talk at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 10 at Kingdom Hall, 922 Hancock Street, will discuss In This the World's Last Generation. Also scheduled in June at Clinton is Angelo C. Manera Jr. district supervisor who will speak Who will Rule the World, as members from Muscatine and other congregations attend.
Red Cross swimming lessons for Letts area children start June 11 and run three times a week through July 9 at Muscatine. No lessons July. Mrs. Paul Quigley will drive the bus from Letts, picking Fruitland children at the Fruitland store by 7:20 a.m. Letts children meet at the school house at 7:25 a.m. Mise Havel Thompson, chair man, requests enrollment cards returned soon. Twenty cents per lesson or $2.40 for the course.
Rev Alvin Hirsch, longtime Mulford Evangelical Free church pastor, resigns after six years. He will give his final sermon on Sunday June 10 and has accepted the pastorate at Lone Hill Baptist church in San Jose California. During his tenure the church bought land for a new building, aligned with the Evangelical Free Church of America, and Hirsch led the choir and radio program work at WMBI Chicago. His family will be honored at a farewell fellowship on Wednesday June 68 at the church.
The forecast for Iowa shows average highs in the 70s and lows in the 60s with normal values. It will start cool and warm into the middle of the period as rain chances rise. Rainfall totals vary from 0.5 to 0.75 inches north to around 0.74 to 1 inch, with several inches possible in the south from showers and thunderstorms.
Oakville plans to expand the Oakville Methodist church with additional Sunday school rooms. The Quarterly Conference voted 17 to 4 to accept the plans and the congregation 37 to 7 in favor. A seven year financial plan was approved, with details on a new entryway, sidewalk, heating, lighting, and a revised basement use. Architect Arthur Christensen outlined drawings and showed film aids to the group. Dr Hahn, district superintendent, closed the conference with prayer.
Golden Rule Class will meet Monday evening June 4 at the church at 8 pm. Mr and Mrs L Windman and Mrs Irma Eden will supervise lunch and entertainment. Ice cream and beverages provided. others asked to bring cake or strawberries. Several local residents attended recent gatherings and family events nearby in the Bloomington Spangler area.
Columbus Junction and Concord township Farm Bureau Women plan a Tuesday picnic at Lake Odessa with a polka dinner. VFW Auxiliary hosts a rummage sale Saturday June 2 at the Post home. The first band concert of the year is set for Wednesday evening in downtown Columbus Junction. A primary election occurs Monday in the Columbus Community building downstairs. Cotter voting in the Cotter school basement. Red Cross swimming registration due by Saturday June 2, with cards returned to Muscatine. registration through Mrs. Connie Lewis at Stacy Funeral Home. Uniform freshening of cows gains favor among Grade A dairymen, noted by Donald E. Voelker of Iowa State University.
Marie Fry principal of Wilton Elementary School received a bachelor of arts degree from Marycrest College Davenport. Commencement was held at St Ambrose open air theatre with St Ambrose College. Fry pursued evening extension classes while teaching and leading the school since 1955. Family attended ceremony and crowd present at Wilson Community High. Donna Grings received Better American Citizenship Award from the Iowa Bar Association. Lin da Walther graduation at Sigourney honored by uncle and aunt Clarence and Mrs Waller.
Premier Khrushchev outlined a U.N. sponsored international trade plan designed to counter a Western European Common Market alliance. He called for a global conference to form a non-discriminatory world trade organization, while denouncing the European bloc as imperialist. The speech occurred at Mali leader Keita’s friendship rally.
Observers note rising concern over a fast growing economic community despite Khrushchev's warnings that the Common Market threatens the Soviet bloc. The article discusses aims to harness liberated countries for imperialist economies and keep them in bondage.
Durant residents will advance clocks one hour on Saturday night to begin daylight time on Sunday June 3. The period runs until August 26 aligning with the new school year.
Deeds recorded show transfers in Muscatine involving multiple parcels in Park Place and Center additions. Transactions include Raymond H Perkins and Pearl E Perkins to Elmer Reichert. Mabel Reichert. John C Frizzell to Nell Dusbar. Feryl F Kent and Anna S Kent to William and Darlene Oeter. Sean K Carroll and others to William O and Darlene Oeter. William and Ed Deter to Darwin L Ind Sharon jk Ballenger, covering lots 24-21 and 47-34 in Park Place and various others in block 33 and block 14.
After washing and draining, stack three or four beans and slice into 1 inch diagonal lengths. Cutting several beans at once speeds prep and preserves uniform pieces.
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