Highway 61 Improvement Pushed to 1963 in Muscatine
Muscatine officials announced highway 61 reconstruction from Washington street to Mulberry avenue will be delayed to 1963. Mayor Robert Bosch cited a letter from C B Anderson Iowa highway commission urban engineer noting funding and right of way issues. The plan includes a Mad creek bridge relocation and new Fifth street span may be built once East Second street work proceeds in 1963.
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Washington Street
Mulberry Avenue
Robert Bosch
C. B. Anderson
Iowa Highway Commission
Mad Creek
Anderson
The
Highway Commission
Design Department
State Commission
Next Mont
Federal Bureau of Public Roads
Hood Wall
East Second Street
Park Avenue
John
Fifth Street
Salvation Army Cadet Aiding Migrant Council in Muscatine
Cadet Milagros Pagan of the Salvation Army arrives in Muscatine to assist the Migrant Council this summer with migratory workers. Pagan, from Puerto Rico, fluent in Spanish and English, trains at the Chicago School for Officers and will be stationed with Capt. Israel Velazquez’s unit until September 3, 1963, with commissioning planned in June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine County
Cadet Pagan
Puerto Rico
Chicago
Salvation Army
Muscatine
Migrant Council
Pagan
Israel Velazque
Velazquez
Youths Nabbed After Breaking Into Riverfront Boats
Three year-old boys accused of delinquency after police found a liquor stash and a transistor radio from two boats moored at the riverfront. Two boys broke in Wednesday, stealing four liquor bottles and the radio. the third confessed after being found intoxicated at a vacant Walnut street house. The radio and liquor were recovered. the radio had been sold for $15. The liquor came from an Iowa City resident’s boat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford Bannote
Walnut Street
Bennett
Iowa City
Offi cers Chosen By Banking Group Conference
Ray Williams of Moline was elected president of the Mississippi Valley Conference of the National Association of Bank Auditors and Comptrollers at Park Lane Country Club. Jim Myers Davenport became vice president, Howard Petersen Rock Island secretary, and Richard Shultz Muscatine treasurer. The session included a 7 p m dinner and business meeting and a 1 p m Pell tournament won by Jim Pulliam Muscatine with a score of 39. About 81 attendees traveled from towns and Illinois counties including Aledo Tipton Rock Island and Davenport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Williams
Moline
Mississippi Valley
National Association of Bank Auditors and Comptrollers
Park Lane Country Club
Jim Myers
Davenport
Howard Petersen
Rock Island
Richard Shultz
Muscatine
Conntetion
Jim Pulliam
Muscatine Terning
Illinois
Kewanee
Burlington
Aledo
Tipton
Radio Club to Conduct Tests This Weekend
Emergency Amateur Radio club to hold annual emergency radio operation drill and field day contest from 3 p.m. Saturday to 3 p.m. Sunday at the rural school near the Cedar River bridge on highway 22. The group will compete with other voice and code stations across the United States to maximize contacts. Portable gasoline powered generators will run the equipment and antenna installations were by Craig Smith William Smalley David Melz and Bernard Flanders with other committees led by Forest Reeves.
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Emergency Amateur Radio Club
Cedar River Bridge
Highway No. 22
U.S
Craig Smith
William Smalley
David Melz
Bernard Flanders
Forest Reeves
Paul Sandy
Charles van Dyke
Ron Brown
William Stpalley
John Wickey
Paul Havercamp
Churchill Talks At JCC Meeting On Leadership Training
Max Churchill spoke on leadership training focusing on letter writing at a Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting held Thursday night at the Civic Center. After discussion the group decided to sell the remodeled JCC home at 1608 Mulberry Avenue as part of the home improvement project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max Churchill
Chamber of Commerce
Civic Center
Mulberry Avenue
JCC
Infection Fatal To Park Buffalo at Weed Park
Old Bossy the Weed Park cow buffalo died Thursday afternoon while veterinarians prepared to treat her hip. Born nine years ago on a northwest Nebraska game refuge, she had been a popular feature for three years. Post-mortem by Dr. J B Gingery found an informal infection present for months. A tranquilizer and lasso were used before the fatal outcome. A young bull, four years old, remains with the exhibit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bossy
Weed Park
Nebraska
Muscatine
J. B. Gingery
Nebraska Game Preserve
Court Rules Mrs Connell Will Receive Hays Home
Meigs Hays who died June 22 1962 at 77 wills the home to his housekeeper Mrs Gertrude Connell after a Muscatine district court hearing Judge M L Sutton filed the opinion finding an implied agreement that Hays would convey the 109 West Sixth Street residence in exchange for Connell serving as housekeeper for fourteen years Connell who later married and contributed toward living there maintained she sacrificed income and food and utilities over the period while the estate’s other heirs were named Chester Hays Hazel Hays Olive Hays Audry Tays Marie Brewer and Chester Hays were defendants in the action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Sixth ‘Street
Meigs Hays
M. L. Sutton
Muscatine District Court
Gertrude Connell
Luton
Muscetine District Court
Connell
Gertrude Palmer
Hays
Sinton
Chester Hays
Hazel Hays
Olive Hays
Audry Tays
Marie Brewer
Pilot Club of Muscatine Outlines Year Plans 1962 63
Pilot Club of Muscatine presented and approved the coming year’s work at a noon luncheon at Hotel Muscatine. Reports summarized scholarships for summer school, thanked Atheneum Club Credit Bureau Central State Bank Muscatine Journal Mae Pople and Kiwanis for project gifts. An invitation from Rock Island Pilot Club to Quad City dinner at East Moline July 13 was read with reservations due by Monday noon. One July Muscatine club meeting only, boat outing planned on July 19 on the Kent Boat.
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Pilot Club of
Pilot Club
Rock Island
Short Hills Country Club
East Moline
Muscatine Club
Police Report Details 147 Arrests Last Month
Muscatine police report 147 arrests for the month ending June 12, led by 2% intoxication and high counts for noise and speeding violations. Officers charged eight with reckless driving and seven with careless driving, with numerous other infractions, while the department collected 1761.25 in motor vehicle violations along with bicycle licenses and metered space rentals.
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Muscatine
Clifford Bennett
Dog
Ron
Thea Police Department
City Paving Program Faces OK On July Fifth
Muscatine council did not approve the 1982 permanent paving plan Thursday but expected it on the July 3 agenda. Aldermen Knott and Wessels finished special assessments. paving would then go to public hearing and bid setting. Traffic changes were proposed including reduced Houser and Lucas streets limits to 25 mph, and 49 to 45 on Lucas west of Houser. Hilton urged a traffic signs study and a truck route on Sampson Street. Radar units for traffic control discussed. Don Hausauer to serve as acting city engineer during Normayle’s departure. Finance committee meeting moved to Monday July 2. Signs and traffic, motorists and children at play noted in 500 block.
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Rogers Knott
John Wessels
Harold Peters
Houser
Lucas Streets
Lucas and
Cedar
Knott
Gerald Powell
Donald Hausauer
Joseph R. Normayle
Pawell
Arnold Sohn Succeeds as DeMolay Head at Mason Temple
Arnold Sohn was installed as master councilor of the DeMolay G. A. Riemke Chapter at the Masonic Temple, with a slate of officers including Tom Graves season councilor and Gary Meersink junior councilor. Additional items note sidewalk bids, alley property, and city planning actions, plus a weather forecast for Iowa with showers possible over the five day period.
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Arnald Sohn
G. A. Riem¢ke
de Molay
Masonics ' Temple
Tom Graves
Gary Meerziink
Ranson Howe
Mike Rogers
Richard Duncan
Ralph Strohm
Richard McCleary
Porter
Tom Schauland
Cralgt
Fred Davis
Sealinel
Edwood Clark Jr
Terry Fahy
Mike Lamp
Ron Cocksheat
Jerry Miller
Terry Frye
Steve Maher
Marion Newman
Mary Diercks
Barbara Schumaker
John Leu
Mix
Leu
C. Re + Gesell
Commission OK On Four Subdivisions With Reservations
Four subdivisions received planning commission approval with conditions. Amy's subdivision at Roscoe and Fulham requires street dedication for a sewer and neighboring property owners. Mike Lofgren's at Broadway and Maiden Lane lacks depicted structures and utilities and was sent to the building and grounds committee. Briar Wood addition, 2.77 acres off Parham between Cedar and Mulberry, was approved with curb and gutter requirements as homes are built, and Myrtle Lane rezoning was expanded. A public hearing on the rezoning will follow, and sanitary sewer service is sought for several nearby residences. Signs directing migrant workers to the state employment office were approved for the vegetable season.
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Plan and Zone Commission
Amy
Roscoe and Fulham
R. M. Meyer, Jr
Mike Lofgren
Broadway
Maiden Lane
Myrtle Lane
Harry Hahn
Terry Mealey
Parham
Cedar Street
Mulberry Avenue
Joly R. Polchew
Cathrine Frost
Betty J. Bruner
Climer Street
City
F Or
Sanitary Sewer Service
Raleigh
Orville Lane
The
Highway Commission
Fae
Ue State Employment Office
Cedar Direct
Chums Reunite in Muscatine After 42 Years
Kenneth Fordham of Alderwood Manor Washington and LeRoy Marberger of Pharr Texas met again in Muscatine this week at the home of Mrs Edna Fordham Kenneths mother, during a visit with his wife and son. Fordham left Muscatine in 1940 to join the navy. Marberger had moved away earlier and stopped in Muscatine after visiting his mother in Clinton.
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Muscatine
Kenneth Fordham
Alderwood Manor
Wash
LeRoy Marberger
Pharr
Tex
Edna Fordham
Bryan Avenue
Kenneth
Douglas
Fordham
Navy
Marberger
Genevieve
Clinton
Woman Struck By Truck After Brakes Lock On Grandview Ave
Mrs Beverly Strouse, 21, of Grandview avenue, suffered contusions and abrasions at 7:40 a.m. when a gravel truck with a brake lock struck her in front of her home. The impact also struck a parked car, causing over $100 damage to both vehicles. A second man, David Wade, 21, of East 1st street, was driving a rock-filled truck owned by George Thompson. The truck veered across the street as Wade applied brakes, knocking down Strouse and striking the Holmes car door and fender. She was transported to Muscatine General Hospital for treatment and release.
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East 1
Seventh Street
George, R. Thompson
West Liberty
Wade
Plan to Rebuild Station At Cedar and Mississippi
Continental Oil Co plans to rebuild the Conoco station at Cedar street and East Mississippi drive. R. E. Carey notes the plan includes two drive openings on Mississippi drive and two on Cedar street. The driveway request was referred to the city engineer and traffic committee with power to act. The program will close the vacation Bible school with an exhibit by 79 children at Seventh Day Adventist church.
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Continental Oil Co
Conoco
Cedar Street
Mississippi Drive
R. E. Carey
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Mulberry Avenue
Tot Accidentally Shot Remains in Poor Condition
A 13 month old child named Konigsmark was accidentally shot in the head by her father while a radio operator for the Highway Patrol, and the bullet entered the forehead. The incident occurred at the family home. the child was hospitalized in Cedar Rapids in poor condition.
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Marion—iHmiberly
Cedar Rapids
David Konigsmark
Highway Patrol
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Salvation Army Cadet Aiding Migrant Council
Banking Group
Radio Club
Churchill
Laurence Harvey
Geraldine Page
Johnny
Tennessee
Walang
Ames” Rila Sec
Ina Merkel
Don Melntie Swoearl Bomez’ Holman
Dale W. Longtin
Jeff
Kenneth McDaniel
Weed
Park Zoo
Mrs. Connell
Caligari
Elizabeth Taylor
Butterfield
John Hilton
South Muscatine
Oregon Street
Siewace Road
Grain Processing’ Corp
Hilton
Sampson Street
Grandview Avenue
Oregon St
Harold
Pat) Finnegan
Oais “Stepor
Arnold Sohn
Locust Street
Frank Anson, Jr
Knott Court
Lucas Street
Wesels
Greenwood Drive
Wessels
West Second Streat i
Finnegan
Park Commission
Reservoir
West Fourth Street
Earl Avenue
Musser Park
Wierstradt
Anson
Cherry Street
Puld Wuiting
Weather Bureau
Itowa
Iowa
Chums United
Dental Repair Service
Bible School
Ral Ralamka
Hal’s
Harding Ross
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