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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1962
Page
2
Youngsters from Muscatine and surrounding towns enroll in the annual Red Cross swim school at Weed Park. A 15 member faculty, led by Nancy Butts, teaches swimming and junior and senior life saving through June and July with classes split by ability. Bus transportation is provided. daylight saving time schedules vary by route and name initials.
J B Schwegler spoke at the Rotary luncheon sharing experiences from serving as a wall guard at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison. He compared prison practices with other facilities and noted several differences in prisoner handling methods. George Volger, back from the Rotary International convention in Los Angeles, gave a brief recap of convention activities.
Members of the RPM club of the Chamber of Commerce will fold their monthly meeting at 6 30 p m Tuesday aboard the Kent Feeds boat Wendell Day is chairman of the club The National Legislative affairs committee chaired by William Spiath will meet at 7 30 a m Tuesday at the Hotel Muscatine coffee shop
The Supreme Court directed a lower federal court in New York to reconsider a suit by New Yorkers challenging the constitutionality of legislative apportionment. The earlier three-judge court had dismissed the suit alleging the Senate and Assembly were inadequately apportioned against metropolitan citizens.
Avan B. Shepard Jr. is named as the nations first son in space and receives an honorary master of arts degree from Dartmouth College on Sunday in Hanover New Hampshire.
Muscatine High School class of 1937 held a reunion Saturday evening at the Elks lodge with 135 attending. Dr. John L. Parks presided, Virgil Ross spoke, and memorial tributes were given by Ernest Beatty. Superintendent A A Johnson received a silver gift for 25 years as superintendent.
Kent Feeds held its annual Ladies Day at Geneva Golf and Country Club with sales staff and wives from the Midwest. A morning coffee at the Schafenaghers’ home preceded a noon banquet where new members were welcomed and long-serving employees honored.
Muscatine Rockets chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association plans another Midwest Fly-In in 1963. John Linder, Muscatine airport manager and chapter president, recalls last year’s rain nearly drowning out the event and notes cooperation from local businesses, the airport commission, and the city in awarding 36 trophies and several plaques. The 1983 version is tentatively set for the first week in June, with Quad-Cities chapter of Viola joining Muscatine in 1962.
Six men in Moscow were fined by Justice Leslie Steiner for life jacket and extinguisher violations and improper boat registration. Bert Kiene and Harold Buch of Davenport paid fines for registration issues, Alfred Hartley and Jerry Adkins faced charges for excessive hooks and fishing without a license. Arrests occurred over the weekend on the Cedar River.
Russell editor and Gil Dietz news editor represented The Muscatine Journal at the Lee Newspaper Editors second annual workshop in Madison Wisconsin. Attendees from Iowa Missouri Wisconsin Nebraska and Montana joined sessions on news and editorial problems. Emmett Dedman of the Chicago Sun-Times led a discussion on The News Shape of Tomorrow. Other topics covered personnel public relations photography policy and promotions.
Muscatine Muscatine Chapter of the United World Federalists held its annual picnic Sunday at Weed Park lagoon shelter. Hosts were Mr. and Mrs. James Tracy. Invocation by Rev. Edwin Frohardt. business meeting led by Mrs. A. H. Dunton. Reports covered the UWF assembly in Philadelphia with Norman Cousins and James Wadsworth as speakers.
An old fashioned notice promotes Grimm Drug Store at 130 East 2nd Street with emphasis on accurate prescriptions and professional service. It highlights Whitman candies and DuBarry cosmetics, Father's Day gift ideas, and a Household Hint advising odor removal in bottles with water and dry mustard solution left to stand before rinsing.
Clack Zierensorn of Forest Park Illinois, formerly Muscatine Iowa, sings with the Billy Graham chorus at the evangelistic services at McCormick Place on Chicago's lake front. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Joe Ziegenhorn of 131 Middle Road.
Roberts, House, Wa Jcast Fifth Street Muscatine will join about 400 young volunteers forming a domestic peace corps this summer under the United Presbyterian Church. Over 250 volunteers work in low income interracial city missions, including day camps in San Francisco and church outreach. Bob will serve at Christoper House in Chicago, three miles from the loop, leaving June 13 and returning August 17. He will plan recreation for school age children and accompany trips to farms beaches museums parks and forest preserves to explore the churchs role and efforts.
Skies, mostly fair this morning, are forecast to turn partly cloudy through Tuesday by the Weather Bureau. Low tonight near 60, with highs around 75 to 80. Sunday’s high was 83, low 63, and downtown thermometers read 1076 by noon. Rain Sunday totaled about 0.14 inch. Temperatures predicted to average near normal over the five days, with cooler weather around Wednesday and possible showers and thunderstorms. Precipitation expected between 0.5 and 2 inches across the period.
City records office urges male property owners to sign homestead and military exemption applications before July 1. Three weeks remain to file, with annual renewal required for credits and exemptions at City Hall.
Iowa Ninety Nines chapter held a June meeting at Sunset Inn Muscatine drawing pilots from Ottumwa Des Moines Ames and Marion and their families Weather kept some from attending Hostesses were Mrs John B Rigier Muscatine and Mrs Evelyn L Bissara Davenport Amelia Earhart helped found Ninety Nines in 1929
Failure to yield right of way charged against William Dean Denham after he drove his spears out of No. 3 alley and struck Arnold Amon Schmitt’s northbound car at Cedar street. Denham posted a $15 bond but did not appear in police court. Police report over $100 damage to Schmitt’s worth car. lesser damage suggested to Denham’s 1951 model Scare.
Donrad Wayne Yeo, 19, Oska toosa, was committed to the county jail for 43 days after failing to pay a $30 fine in Muscatine district court on an OMVI charge. Judge Matthew Westvale ordered the detention. Yeo had been given 69 days to raise the fine plus $18.30 costs imposed earlier by Judge M. L. Sutton. Jerry Arunur Stader, Durant, arrested May 9 for a second OMVI offense, pleaded not guilty before Judge Westvale as police saw Stader driving the wrong way on Third Street in the business district.
Second Lieutenant Clarence R Secrist of the Town Army National Guard Company 394 Engineer Battalion Moscatine will study at the Engineer Officer Orientation Course at the Army Engineer School Fort Belvoir Virginia. The two month program runs from June 18 to August 18.
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