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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1964
Page
2
The Muscatine High bridge tolls totaled 210,781.80 for the fiscal year ending May 31, with 87,267 vehicles and 18,022.40 revenue in May. Disbursements reached 18,876.03, including 11,236.50 on a partial contract. The committee discussed a possible new bridge site at Cedar Street and future meetings.
A banquet at Sunset Inn honored Muscatine High School's 114th graduating class with 38 attending the 80 year reunion and 26 class members. Guests traveled from several states. Netty Kemble, a former teacher since 1914, attended as special guest. Favors bore MHS 18141964. a film shown by Wayne Tooman was provided by Prudential Life.
Vandals broke two office windows at Schmarje Taal Co., 409 Pine Street, last night after eight windows were damaged in an adjacent factory the night before. Police were notified. The item mixes unrelated reminiscences about 1914 and 1964 with historical nods to Ford and economic shifts.
Beatrice I Reed, 45, drove a Pine Street station wagon north and collided with a small English car driven by Terry R Schafer, 17, of Wilton, at 2 15 p m Monday. The crash damaged the station wagon and the smaller car.
The Muscatine county board on Monday reappointed retired police officer Charles G. Fish of 609 Pine Street to a three year term on the county soldiers relief commission.
The W. F. Hathaway Reunion gathered Sunday at Box Car Ranch with 3 members present. A basket dinner was served at 1:00 p.m. The afternoon was spent informally. Attendees included numerous Hathaways and spouses from Davenport to Milwaukee, with the next segment planned for June 8, 1985 at the Louis Gerdts home in Atalissa.
Police report Donald L Reynolds living at S134 East Fifth Street or 61244 East 10th Street was charged with failure to control after his 1951 car struck the rear of Morris C McCallister’s 1954 vehicle on Chinoy near Angle Street. The Stewart reunion June 7 in Davenport lists numerous attendees and notes a 1965 date for the next gathering. A Muscatine tuberculosis and health association board meeting is set for 7:30 Wednesday at the Civic Center with Louise Woods of Burlington attending.
The Muscatine school board approved a bid of 2671 to paint the auditorium with two coats marking the first decoration in fifteen years. J L Duffield Muscatine bid 2116 for one coat and the board accepted alternate two, while other bids for roof repair and a skylight build-up roof were examined.
Three young men pleaded guilty to petty larceny on Monday afternoon for taking gasoline from a barrel at Myrton Eppesly place Route 9 River Road. They were arraigned before Justice Harvey G. Allee Jr. Virgil Nichols Jr 22 of 1913 Breese Street Gary Dean Clester 19 of 504 Fears Street and Edwin Milder 19 of 1421 Grand Avenue were fined 20 dollars plus 45 dollars costs or five days in county jail. Nichols paid the fine. Lew was arrested on Monday.
Eastern Star unit number 32 held a June 8 meeting at the Masonic Temple with Richard Parish installed as Worthy Patron for the year. Social committee listed, initiation planned, funds due July 1. No July August meetings announced. In separate items, Wallace ins was released on bond after failing to appear, and Leo Costas was arrested for assault with bond set for a later hearing.
Clarence P. Hays of Muscatine retired Monday after 41 years with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Rock Island district. He joined as a dredgehand in 1923, served as engineer and laborer, moved to Lock and Dam No. 16 in 1940, became a lock hand in 1942, and led a shift of lockmen from July 1955 until retirement.
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