Muscatine Bridge Site Chosen and Specs Released
The Muscatine bridge plan favors Cypress Street alignment with a 515-foot main span and 30-foot roadway. Sverdrup and Parcel price the project at 4.23 million dollars not including bond financing. Construction is 27 months after final design with tolls to pay costs until cleared. Cypress alignment favors rail ties and minimal property impact while providing clearance over the navigation channel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highway Commission
Cypress Street
Sverdrup and Parcel
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company
Muscatine
Illinois Department of Highways
Summer art classes begin here June 17
Summer student art classes run Mondays from June 17 to August 5 at the Laura Musser Art Gallery and Museum taught by Mrs. John C Barker of Town City. Grades breakouts. eight lessons for 12 dollars includes most supplies. Contact museum for inquiries and scholarships. call 263-8282.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laura Musser
John C. Barker
Town City
Muscatine School
David Altenbernd
Anthony
New Health Center Area Opens in YMCA Building
The Muscatine YMCA announces the opening of a new health center area including a massage area and sauna bath with infrared lamps. The sauna, redwood and multi level, serves 15 to 18 at once and opens around 9 am daily with varying closing times by weekday. Jerry Paetz will provide massages if requested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
YMCA
Muscatine
Els
Y Addition
Pilot Joins GPC Staff
A new company pilot has joined Grain Processing Corp air services. Charles Nixon, formerly with Straley Flying Service at Clinton, will pilot GPC and Kent Feeds planes from Muscatine Municipal Airport. Nixon, his wife Barbara, and their four children will relocate to Muscatine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grain Processing Corp
Dean Sackman
GPC
Air Services
Charles Nixon
Straley Flying Service
Clinton
Nixon
Kent
Muscatine
Barbara
Muscatine Journal Local News Note and Association Policy
The Muscatine Journal declares Sundays and holidays published by The Muscatine Journal, a member of Lie Enterprises, Incorporated. It notes address and postal details for Muscatine Iowa and states Associated Press rights to local news and AP dispatches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine Journal
Lie Enterprises
3Rd St
Muscatine
Iowa
Associated Prose
Subscription Rates for Muscatine Daily Paper
Rates for daily carrier delivery in Muscatine 2.00 monthly in advance. Other carriers forty tears a weeks. Mail subscriptions: within fifty miles 15.00 per year, towns with carrier service 18.00 per year, over fifty miles 20.00 per year. Office hours 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily, Saturday 8 a.m. to Noon. Special delivery until 6:30 p.m. daily and 4:00 p.m. Saturdays. Dial 263-2431.
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City of Muscatine
Muscatine
Ally
Dial
Two Bids On Power Plant Job
Two bids were opened for the Muscatine power plant superstructure. Fuel Economy Engineering Co. of St. Paul bid 864470 dollars and Power Service Corporation of Minneapolis bid 87600 dollars. Alternatives considered. bids to be awarded at a Friday 5 15 p m meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine
Muscatine Power and Water Board of Trustees
Fuel Economy Engineering Co
St. Paul
James Fuller
Muscatine Water and Power
Iowa Public Service Company
Charles City
Iowa Public Service
Interstate Power
Oelwein
Scout Troops Plan Summer Camp Activities
Hoover District's 15 Scout Troops in Illowa Council will camp at Minnegota and Loud Thunder this summer headed by District Executive Don Tracy. Over 2200 boys will participate, with multiple troops across Muscatine Durant Tipton and other towns camping June through August at Eagle Nest Deer Run Buckskin Tomahawk and Buffalo Pass sites. A special project will open summer camping to over 260 non scout boys in the Illowa region.
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Boy Scouts
Hoover District
Illowa
Minnegota
Loud Thunder
Don Tracy
Hoover
Trinity Episcopal Church
Muscatine
Camp
William Frenth
West Branch
Lion’s Club
Richard Williams
Minneyota
Buffalo Pass
Camp Minnesota
Douglas Reiter
Grace Lutheran Church of
Maurice Moulds
Jefferson School
PTA
Minneyata
McKinley School
Maynard Eckhardt
High Hill
Minnesota
John Briggs
Musserville United Methodist Church of
Tllowa
Plan Group Explores Procedures For Hiring Executive Secretary
Muscatine Plan and Zoning commission met to decide how to hire a new executive secretary. They will consult other city officials to determine which body should advertise the opening. A brief discussion touched on a city plan recommendation to reduce commission members from 11 to about seven, aiming for a lower quorum.
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Muscatine
Youth Plea and Parole in Farm Damages Case
Alan Woodhull Betz 20 of Dev itt Muscatine pleaded guilty to malicious injury to fixtures on Feb 16 and was granted parole of up to 18 months on a six month jail sentence. He was part of youths who damaged James Shepard farm property in Bloomington Township rural Muscatine. He must pay his proportionate damages within a year as ordered by Muscatine County district court. Information filed by County Atty Harvey G Allbee Jr notes Betz broke windows and damaged furniture. parole was recommended.
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Alan Woodhull Betz
Devitt. Muscatine
Betz
James Shepard
Bloomington
Muscatine
Harvey G. Allbee, Jr
Muscatine County
Alibee
Sewer Project Review In Muscatine By HUD Field Rep
Field man John Mennett of the Department of Housing and Urban Development reviewed seven proposed Muscatine sewer programs on Tuesday with city officials. Muscatine seeks federal funds to finance the projects and HUD is expected to decide soon. The city council will then determine which programs, if any, should proceed.
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John Mennett
Chicago
Department of Housing and Urban Development
H.U.D
City of
Muscatine
Mennett
Search Ending In Sorrow Leads To a New Life
Billy Gay, 17, traveled 3.20 miles from Costa Rica to Tallahassee in a quest to find his father, only to learn he had died seven months earlier in Atlanta. Adoptive offers poured in. he accepted a full tuition scholarship from Florida Secretary of State Tom Adams and joined the Florida Interamerican Learning Institute at Tallahassee Junior College. Foster father Rex Toothman says Billy has adjusted and is now part of the family. He hopes to bring his sister to join them when he can pay her plane fare.
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Billy Gay
Billy
Costa Rica
Alanta
Florida
Tom Adams
Florida Interamerican Learning Institute
Tallahassee Junior College
Rex Toothman
Muscatine firm wins low bid for Rock Island work
William S. Robertson of Muscatine submitted the apparent low bid of 6500 to the Rock Island District of the Corps of Engineers for trees and landscaping at the Coralville Reservoir on the Iowa River north of Iowa City. Four other bids ranged 10750 to 14787. government estimate 13950. Eighty trees will be planted at three locations: 32 at the dam site, 16 at Sandy Beach, 32 at Sugar Bottom Public Use Facility. Planting will occur this fall during the normal season.
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Muscatine
William S. Robertson
Rock Island
Corps of Engineers
Coralville
Iowa River
Iowa City
Sandy Beach
Sugar Bottom
Terry Frye Promoted to Sergeant in Air Force Unit
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Frye of 1912 Pinefield Ave report their son Terry Frye has been promoted to sergeant. Lt. Col. Louis E. Weeks notified them by letter. Frye serves as Radar Nav Technician with the 67th Armament Electronics Maintenance Squadron, 97th Bombardment Wing (H) SAC, Blytheville Air Force Base, Arkansas. He entered service in February 1966.
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Scott Frye
Pinefield Ave
Terry
Louis E. Weeks
Sgt
Frye
67Th Armament Electronics
97Th Bombardment Wing
SAC
Blytheville Air Force
Bass
Arkansas
Joan Jarrett
Robert Jarrett
Mann St
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Muscatine, Ta
Journal
John Barker
Key West
Fla
William Henry Nelson
Cuba
U.S. Coast Guard
Nelson
U.S
Federal Bureau of Investigation
United States
The
Muscatine Savings and Loan Association
Kenneth Jehle
West Liberty
Harold Hanson
the Muscatine Journal
Alamogordo
N.J
Marble Canyon
Fred Tower
First Street
West Walker
Tower
California
Walker
TVA
Tennessee River
Sandys
Park Avenue North
Hershey Avenue
Green Street
Musca
Lincon School Pta
Vern Holt
Lynn Pruitt
United Methodist Church of
Nichols
Deer Run
Vincent Ottaway
American Legion
Flint
Kenneth Grunder
Wilton Junction
Buckskin
Uptown
Robert Wagner
Raquel Welch
Godfrey
Penavision Mietrecaior
En Smt
ST Roe
PSR RC Ee
Whitman
Parker Pens
Remington Electric
Westclox
Tallahassee, Fla
Y.W.C.A
Lory Schmelzer
Terry Frye
Keever Aluminuming
Chestnut Street
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Yours
Frostie
Grostie
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