Mezvinsky calls Congress session frustrating at town meeting
About 30 residents meet with 1st District Congressman Ed Mezvinsky at Musser Library to discuss energy jobs and railroads. He criticizes Congress and the President for political gridlock, outlines proposed grain inspection reforms, energy measures, and railroad policy including federal roadbed maintenance and potential nationalization debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allan Winder
Ed Mezvinsky
Musser Library
Mezvinsky
Congress
Earl Butz
Butz
Democratic Woman of Year criticizes President in speech
Area news notes Barbara Jordan, Democratic Woman of the Year, told a Highlander Club fundraiser crowd in Iowa City that Congress cannot override President Ford’s vetoes on key bills. She urged leadership by a president who understands working people, citing 9.2% unemployment as unacceptable. Jordan, a longtime political figure, highlighted her roles on the Judiciary Committee and in Nixon impeachment hearings. Mark Hobart, a Simpson College tenor, was selected for a national opera Apprentice Experience at Des Moines festival. He is a Wilton teacher and Simpson graduate.
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Allan Winder
Iowa City
Texas
Barbara Jordan
National Women’s Democratic Club
Highlander Club
Ed Mezvinsky
Congress
Ford
Mark Hobart
Wilton
John B. Griffiths
Calussa
Simpson College
Indianola
Des Moines Metro
Hobart
Lockman earns 10 year service award at Rock Island base
Larry E. Fetters of 435 Hagerman Drive Muscatine is among 42 Rock Island District Corps of Engineers staff to receive length of service pins for 10 years Fetters one of twenty four Rock Island District employees honored by Col Walter H Johnson Rock Island District Engineer on the Clock Tower Building lawn at Rock Island District headquarters The Corps marks its 200th anniversary
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Larry E. Fetters
Hagerman Drive
Lock and Dam
Muscatine
Rock Island District Corps of Engineers
Walter H. Johnson
Rock Island
Clock Tower
Fetters
Journal adds Oliphant cartoon to opinion page
The Muscatine Journal starts publishing editorial cartoons by Pat Oliphant, a Pulitzer Prize winner who worked at the Denver Post and is now the Washington Star’s editorial cartoonist. His syndicated work reaches over 350 newspapers, while Bill Sanders of the Milwaukee Journal will continue to contribute.
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Muscatine Journal Today
Pat Oliphant
Oliphant
Denver Post
The
Washington Star
Journal
Bill Sanders
Milwaukee Journal
Sigma Delta Chi
Muscatine League of Women Voters to Meet Tuesday
The Muscatine League of Women Voters board will meet at 1 15 p m Tuesday at 1500 Oak Street to set the calendar and program for the coming year. President Sandy Huston says general meetings resume in September and will continue on the second Monday evening each month.
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The
Muscatine League of Women Voters
Oak St
San
Dy Huston
League
Bases Stolen From Kent-Stein Park Prompt Search
Muscatine Park Board reports four bases stolen at Kent Stein Park this weekend. Police are filing a theft report while park superintendent Join White asks leagues to help recover the bases. Several teams may play without bases until they are found.
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Kent-Stein Park
Muscatine Park
Join White
White
Hankins makes dean's list at Hawkeye Institute
Greg Hankins of Rt. 5, son of Mr and Mrs Joe Hankins, is on the spring quarter Dean's List at the Hawkeye Institute of Technology in Waterloo. He is visiting his parents during the quarter break. Hankins won second place in the state wide architectural and constructional drafting contest sponsored by the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America.
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Greg Hankins
Joe Hankins
Rt. 5
Hawkeye Institute
Stanley named coordinating officer by Consulting Engineers Council
The American Consulting Engineers Council in Washington DC announced Richard H. Stanley of Muscatine as coordinating officer and board of trustees representative for the council's international division. Stanley is president of Stanley Consultants, Inc. and currently president-elect of Engineers Council, the national body for independent consulting engineering firms with more than 2900 member firms.
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American Consulting Engineers Council
Washington, D.C
Richard H. Stanley
Muscatine
Stanley
Stanley Consultants, Inc
Hearing set on disposal for dredging
The U S Corps of Engineers will hold a public hearing at 7 p m Tuesday in the Rock Island District conference room on Arsenal Island about dredging material disposal for the nine foot Mississippi River navigation channel. The hearing covers dredging in the Rock Island district from Guttenberg Iowa to Laverton Missouri with 14 to 25 disposal sites annually to prevent disruption of barge traffic.
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U.S. Corps of Engineers
Rock Island District
Arsenal Island
Mississippi River
Guttenberg
Laverton
Mississippi
Rick Order of Moose Honored With Pilgrim Degree
Rick George Edward Rick of 803 Cypress was awarded the Pilgrim Degree of Merit by the Loyal Order of Moose in a Mooseheart ceremony. More than 220 Moose members from the United States Canada and Great Britain received the degree, a honor earned by about one in 5000 Moose Members annually.
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George Edward Rick
Cypress
Loyal Order of Moose
Mooseheart
Tll
Moose Child
Rick
Moose
United States
Canada
Great Britain
Red Oak man arrested here in store incident
Red Oak resident Michael D. Smith, 21, was arrested about 1:10 a.m. at Sun Mart Store No. 12 on a charge of possessing burglary tools with intent to break into a South End grocery. Cash thefts, stolen items, and several automobile incidents are listed, including a Tastee-Freez cash theft and a car wash break-in. Police report multiple incidents and ongoing investigations.
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Red Oak
Michael D. Smith
South End
Northern Gravel Co
Deep Rock
Ninth
Cypress Streets
Alvin Young
Cedar St
Cedar and
Houser Streets
Steven D. Brewer
Rt. 4
Harold W. Loose
Burlington
Loose
Muscatine General Hospital
Mike Brewer
Brewer
Ruth A. Bekker
10Th St
Dennis McClure
W.ard St
W. Third
Cherry Streets
Joe Salazar
Mulbery Ave
Mulberry Avenue
Kevin Hintermeister
Fruitland
Ronald Johnson
Walnut St
Iowa DOT names River Division head James Lightsey
Naval Commander James L. Lightsey is appointed Iowa DOT River Transportation Division head. He will coordinate river transport with other modes, explore efficient waterway use, and aid city river terminal development. Lightsey, 40, born in Atlanta, has Navy and academic credentials and will join the DOT on June 16 after 20 years of service. He is married with two daughters and lives in Norwalk.
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Ames
Boad Rigler
Iowa
Transportation Commission
Preisser
Naval
James L. Lightsey
D.O.T
Lightsey
Atlanta
U.S
Southern Technical Institute
Chamblee, Georgia
U.S. Navy
Florida
Kansas
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey
Calif
Naval War College
Newport
Rhode Island
Iowa State University
Iowa Navy
Norwalk
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USDA
Barbara Jordon
Lockman
Women Voters Board
Silas Brug
Wieners
Don
Consulting Engineers Council
R.H. Stanley
Order of Moose
Monsanto
Wolverine
H. J. Heinz
Keller
Dart
HON Ind
Lee Ent
Pestei Ra Ayy
Charles Bronson
Gene Wikder
Peter Boyle
Mal Brooks
Jeel
Department of Transportation
Evan
Farm Bureau Iinsurance
Farm Bureau Life & Farm Bureau Mutual /Wes
Muscatine CO. Farm Bureau Ins
Robert Scranton
A.M
Ken Hetzler
Lyall Paul
West Liberty
Jack Iske
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