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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1965
Page
2
Leonard Ott and Ingrid travel from Muscatine to New York for the world’s fair via highways 92 and 6, after highway officials barred Interstate 80. Ingrid, newlywed, learns of American cowboys amid movie watching in Germany.
The Muscatine board of education met for nearly five hours to approve a new school calendar, discuss portable classrooms, and hire several teachers. They approved dates including Labor Day holidays, Thanksgiving break, Christmas vacation, and a shortened spring vacation with total 180 student days. The district also pursued portable classrooms from Scheetz Building Equipment and Mobile Classrooms for West Junior High and Muscatine Community College, with negotiations led by district officials and attorney.
Larry Coulter, 14, Muscatine, attends a two week Iowa Elks summer camp near Central City at Cedar Rapids YMCA grounds. Exalted Ruler Ronald Lemkau and youth activities chair Don Hecht accompany him. transportation provided after camp. Sue Ann Umlandt and parents attend orientation at Iowa State University as she plans home economics study and Breuniversity fall entry.
Iowa City boy four sustains head injuries from a falling table at the Simpson home on Houser Street. He required about 100 stitches after the table tipped while a weight pressed his forehead. The incident occurred with an electric saw not in use. University Hospital treated the boy.
Ingrid Buchmann 29 of Lake Forest Illinois marries Leonard Olt 2 at St Mathews Lutheran Lake Zurich and they ride by horse to the New York World's Fair honeymoon trip planned to last about eight weeks sleeping outdoors and dining at restaurants. They left Muscatine Monday hoping to reach the fair by spring. The couple met at horse events in Illinois after moving from Germany in 1958. Leonard trains horses at Lucky Seven farm Mundelein while Ingrid housesits and loves cowboys. They plan to tell grandchildren of 1965 cross country trek to see West exhibits before moon landing.
Gail Davidge daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter Davidge of 2008 Newell Avenue received the Phi Kappa Phi bookplate award at University of Missouri Rolla honors day. A geology junior with a 3.0 average she earned the honor while on the dean's list all four semesters at Rolla.
David Gunderson son of Mr and Mrs Stanley L Gunderson joins his brother Paul as a medical student at Cornell University Medical College in New York City. Paul earned a bachelor of science with honors June 7 from Wheaton College and is a member of the scholastic honor society. A Muscatine high school graduate, he will begin a four year program with a university scholarship. Paul previously graduated from Woodstock Community High School and Wheaton College. Paul is a second year medical student at Cornell with a summer study scholarship for tropical diseases in a Presbyterian Mission hospital in Brazil. He also holds a full tuition scholarship for next year at Cornell.
Congressman Johnny Schmidhauser will speak at a banquet June 26 at Hotel Muscatine to mark the city open house at the new municipal wastewater treatment plant west of Grandview avenue. Alderman John Hilton says 124 invitations were issued for the event. Open house for the public runs Saturday and Sunday, June 26 and 27, from 2 to 9 p.m. Guests include contractors, government officials, and business representatives involved in the sewage disposal project.
Ronald LeRoy Chapman aged 21 of 511 East Fifth Street was fined $25 and $5 costs by Justice Harold Hanson after police arrested him for carrying a concealed weapon in his car. The revolver fired Sunday night wounding Mrs Nancy Sturms near her home. she said her three-year-old daughter found the gun. Mrs Sturms was treated at Muscatine General Hospital. bullet remained unfound by x rays.
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