Voters reject $5.1 million school bond in Muscatine
The Muscatine community carried a loud No to a $5.1 million bond package proposed by the school district. The plan would have funded a new four year high school and Washington elementary, moving Central Junior High to the high school and expanding elementary capacity. With an 8.18 mill tax increase, voters delivered a decisive rebuff, leaving the district to reconsider six months later as costs rise and overcrowding persists.
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School District Board of Education
Washington
Central Junior High
Central
Muscatine
Long wait toll marks Muscatine school bond vote
Tuesday’s Muscatine school bond referendum drew a long line at the Central fire station where 2,863 voters from wards 1, 2 and 8 waited up to 90 minutes to cast ballots. Five women handled registrations with no breaks as voters endured shortages and delays fueling calls for separate polling sites.
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Muscatine
Central Fire Station
Preventing future Vietnams by SEATO unity at Bangkok talks
In Bangkok Southeast Asian foreign ministers from Australia New Zealand Thailand Pakistan the Philippines Great Britain and the United States discuss building a regional defense to deter Communist wars of liberation and to ensure the US will back an Asian regional defense if the area aligns against aggression Laos is identified as highly vulnerable while Singapore Hong Kong and North Korea add to regional tension.
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Roscoe
Geoffrey Drummond
Honolulu
United States
SEATO
Bangkok
Australia
New Zealand
Thailami
Pakistan
Philippines
Great Britain
Vietnam
Southeast Asia
South Vietnam
Southeast Asian Treaty Organization
Laos
Suez
Singapore
Japan
Strait of Malacca
North Korea
Asia
South Korea
Questions and Answers for Health and Wellness
A reader asks about pimples and whether to squeeze them, and Dr Thosteson advises keep red bumps untouched but gently release a white head with caution. Other letters request information on Meniere disease, diabetes memorial gifts, and syphilis concerns with answers about testing, transfusions, and prognosis.
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Dr. Thosteson
Muscatine Chamber clarifies Moonlight program meeting
President T H Petersen explains that Mel Lucas spoke to the Muscatine Chamber of Commerce Board on May 16 1969 about the Operation Moonlight program. The board did not approve or disapprove the program but will review its community impact and suggest changes for the public good.
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Muscatine
Wilson
Chamber Board
Chamber of Commerce
T. H. Petersen
Muscatine Chamber OF Commerce
Not junk it’s living history says collector of relics
A New Yorker defends keeping clutter as living history. He cites a string ball, old letters, clothes, and war keepsakes as meaningful mementos. He plans to store his treasures in the countryside, reliving past lives when he retires.
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New York
2 Magazine
Kansas
Pii
Canada
Korea
Uncle Sam
Muscatine Chronicle Roundup of Local Notices
A past week’s Muscatine items include a 75 year ago call for a free musical entertainment at W E Kincaid and Co with piano and organ display. Captain Charles M Robertson visits from air service in the 29 year ago notes. The Anna B Rosenmund funeral was held at George M Wittich Funeral Home. Seven Muscatine Junior College diplomas were awarded at First Presbyterian church. Weed Park pool dressing rooms need a custodian or opening may be delayed. Ten years ago Dr K E B Glidden received the Silver Beaver award from the Buffalo Bill area council in Davenport.
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A. B
W.E Kincaid and Co
Muscatine
George M. Wittich
Milton E. White
Mulford Congressional
Muscatine Junior College
First Presbyterian Church
Jumie Mosher
Jean Miller
Margaret Ann Wagner
Doris Kile
Genevieve Crow
Mary Wilson
Bill Norden
Weed Park Pool
F. M. Ziegler
Muscatine Park
Behal
K. E B. Glidden
Buffalo Bill Area Council
St. John’s Methodist Church
Davenport
Today in History June 4 1969 highlights events
On this date history marks Battle of Midway in 1942 Japan versus United States ending Japan's decisive WWII defeat. 1936 France forms first Socialist government under Leon Blum. 1943 Argentina sees army overthrow Castillo. 1944 Allies occupy Rome. 1946 Juan Peron inaugurated in Argentina. 1961 Kennedy and Khrushchev meet in Vienna. 1963 Haiti clears border zone with Dominican Republic. UN debates in 1963 5 years ago Cambodia Vietnam border security. Public demonstrations banned in Belgrade in 1969 after student clashes.
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Associated Press
U.S
Midway
Japan
France
Leon Blum
Presiden
Ramon §. Castillo
Argentina
Rome
Juan Peron
John F Kennedy
Kita Khrushchev
Vienna
Austria
Haiti
Dominican Republic
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Israel
United Arab Republic
U.N. Security Council
Cambodia
South Vietnam
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
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Brickman
George C. Thosteson, M. D
Meniere
Dia
American Diabetes Association
East 48Th St
N.Y
Charles Wilson
Hal
Boyle
Charles M. Robertson
Nellie Robertson
Robertson
Medical Reserve Corps
The
Air Service of the United States
Anna B. Rosenmund
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