City plans 33 cement blocks paving for cross town route
A brochure distributed to aldermen outlines a $365,976.20 plan to lay 33 blocks of Portland cement concrete streets in a cross-town route from North Park to West Eighth Street via Clay Leroy Roscoe. The project, part of a larger 1965 program, includes drainage and land acquisition, with the city funding about half from state road taxes and the rest via special assessments.
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North Park Avenue
West Eighth Street
Clay Street
Leroy Street
Roscoe
Isett Avenue
Bidwell Road
Mulberry Avenue
Cedar Street
Roscoe Avenue
Whicher Street
Cherry Street
Eighth Street
Park
Roscow Avenue
Fulham Avenue
Eighth
Four Leroy St Residents Seek Cross Town Alternate
Four Leroy Street residents urge a crosstown route alternative to reduce traffic on a 74 home street. Bruce Sturdevant and two engineers pressed the minor thoroughfare designation and warned of rising property-value effects from heavy traffic. The group backs a plan to shift vehicles away from Mulberry Cedar and Eighth street corridors, with city officials noting right of way purchases and traffic carriers to ease congestion.
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Leroy Street
Leroy
William McElwee
Finance Committee
Bruce Sturdevant
Sturdevant
Allen Dunton
Paul Lehnert
Harold Lemkau
Presstown
Arthur Howe
Mulberry Avenue
Cedar Streets
Car owner seeks 2975 dollars for wrecked Pontiac loss
Gary Dean Clester of Muscatine district court seeks 2975 dollars for damages and exemplary damages after alleging John Kurland of Kurland's Wrecking and Used Cars removed Clester's 1953 four door Pontiac late in February 1965 and converted it to his own use. The car was seven years old and without a motor but the remaining body was valued at 475 dollars.
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Muscatine
Gary Dean Clester
John Kurland
Kurland
Closter
Fly-in Planned at Muscatine Airport June 13
Official opening of Muscatine Aviation Corporation under Glenn Heller will be noted at Muscatine Municipal airport June 13. A drive in breakfast runs 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Scores of aircraft are expected to fly in for the event with a display of new Piper aircraft.
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Muscatine Aviation Corporation
Glenn Heller
Muscatine Municipal
Onen
Piper
Muscatine Area Students To Receive Iowa Degrees
Local area students graduating from the University of Iowa June 4 at 9 30 a.m. in the Field House include Muscatine residents with B A and B B A degrees in fields such as Engineering Education General Science History English and more Also listed are graduates from nearby towns with degrees in Speech Dramatic Art Chemistry Sociology Anthropology and Social Work among others
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Muscatine Area
Iowa
University of Iowa
Muscatine
Richard Conway
Clinton St
Elmer Breckenfelder
W. Ltd
St. M.S
Jane Asthaller
St. B.S
Larry Meyer
Sycamore St
James Stuart
Iowa Ave
Sherry Hermley
Cranston
Robert Foley
Rodney Jensen
Nichols
Marvin Ceynar
Marianne Earnhardt
Stockton
Shirley Brus
West Liberty
James Akers
Margaret McCown
W. Maxson Ave
Community College to Graduate 96 Saturday
Ninety six sophomores will graduate at Muscatine Community College in a single ceremony at 8:00 p.m. in the high school auditorium. Dean James Laper notes the 35 year tradition. Speakers include Carol Bunn Steve Boulton and Dave Battenhagen on the theme A Straight Shaft Runs True.
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Muscatine’s
Community College
James Laper
Carol Bunn
Steve Boulton
Dave Battenhagen
Linda Hudnal
Jan Roberts
Tom Powell
Edwin Frohardt
Boys Leave Lutheran Homes Crash in Waterloo
Two boys aged 13 and 14 who escaped from Lutheran Homes were involved in a minor car crash in a Waterloo residential district at 2 a.m. The 1963 model car, stolen from Mrs. Don Martin of Bartlett Street, was registered to her. Authorities said the youths were from Waterloo and Davenport and were placed in juvenile custody after medical aid. The incident helped explain a separate auto theft in Muscatine days earlier.
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Waterloo
Davenport
Mira
Locust
West Mullan Streets
Don Martin
Bartlett Street
Muscatine
Martin
Boy Injured In Collision With Auto On Green Street
Jeffrey Evans nine, son of Ronald and Mrs. Evans, 322 Green Street, is nursing a broken right collarbone after running into a downhill car on Green Street near Hershey Avenue. Talmadge Crews, 44, of 1005 Oregon, drove the vehicle south toward Hershey Avenue. He was taken to Muscatine General Hospital before being returned home. The report accompanies other Muscatine district court clerk office figures detailing May fund handling, marriage licenses, and divorced decrees.
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Jeffrey Evans
Ronald Evans
Green Street
Price
Muscatine General Hospital
Hershey Avenue
Talmadge Crews
Oregon Street
Muscatine
Florence. Hetzler
Ordain L A Stumme Jr Sunday at Zion Lutheran
Lawrence A Stumme Jr sails into ministry at Zion Lutheran Muscatine with ordination on Sunday June 6 at 10 30 a m His father Rev L A Stumme Sr presiding and Rev Louis Sagert delivering the sermon Others include Rev John Quamn Rev eight C Hafermann Dr Luther P Stumme and John Stumme The candidate a son of Rev and Mrs L A Stumme Sr resides at 920 Newell Ave Muscatine He is a Wartburg College and Wartburg Seminary alumnus and will serve at Redeemer Lutheran Dayton Ohio with installation planned for late June
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Lawrence A. Stumme, Sr
American Luthéran C
Zion Lutheran Church
Muscatine
Stumme
L. A. Stumme
Muscatine Lutheran
Louis Sagert
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Independence
Iowa
John Quamn
C. Hafermann
Muscatine Lutheran Homes
Newell Ave
Mr. Stumme
Ottumwa
Holy Family Lutheran Church
Chicago
Ilinois
Zion Lutheran School
Wartburg College
Waverly
Wartburg Seminary
Dubuque
Paul Radloff
Ralph Radloff
Parolee Tied to Mulberry Grocery Robbery
Lusius Lee Williams Jr., 19, paroled February in Muscatine district court from auto theft, was arrested Tuesday night for allegedly rifling a cash register at a Mulberry Avenue grocery. Bond set at $1,000 by Justice Harald Hanson. Police said Williams and his brother entered Edwards grocery at 9:30 p.m. May 28, the brother allegedly opened the register and stole money. Williams reportedly received $30. Williams had been sentenced to up to 10 years at Anamosa Reformatory on a prior auto larceny charge and was under probation supervision. No further arrests planned.
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Muscatine District Court
Lusius Lee Williams, Jr
West Fulham Avenue
Mulberry Avenue
Williams
West Fourth
Locust Street
Edwards
Lucius
Tacing Williams, Jr
Anemosa Reformatory
Fenton Barnard
Mrs Krieger Undergoes Foot Surgery In Ottumwa
Mrs Mery Lee Krieger, former Muscatine resident and vocal instructor at Sigourney High, had foot surgery Tuesday at St Josephs hospital Ottumwa. A transplant was made to a small bone crushed last fall in an automobile accident. It is hoped to save the use of the foot.
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Mery Lee Krieger
Muscatine
Sigourney High School
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Ottumwa
Two Men Fined for Delinquency of a Minor Girl
Two men aged 20 were arrested Tuesday morning on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a 14 year old girl. They were fined later by Justice Harold Hanson, $50 and costs each. Names: Jerome P. Steinbaugh of 301 Iowa avenue and Cassandra Ann Holloway of 209 East Fifth street.
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Justice For the Peace
Harold Hanson
Jerome P. Steinbaugh
Iowa Avenue
Cassandra Ann Holloway
East Fifth Street
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