Drowns While Swimming Near Davenport
Lee Woods 22 of Rock Island Illinois drowned Monday night while swimming with friends at Harrah's Lake west of Davenport. A lifeguard recovered the body shortly after Woods sank. Mount Pleasant services were held Tuesday for Harlan C. Foster 89 former Iowa state representative and senator. Foster died Sunday in Mount Pleasant hospital. He served in the Iowa House from 1936 to 1942 and in the Senate from 1942 to 1950. A Hastings Nebraska native he moved to Henry County in 1891 and worked as a teacher and farmer before settling in Henry County.
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Lee Woods
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Mount Pleasant
Harlan C. Foster
Iowa
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Iowa House of Representatives
Iowa Senate
Hastings
Neb
Henry County
Cedar Rapids boy drowns on sandbar in Cedar River
AP report from Cedar Rapids states 13 year old Dale Medlan drowned Monday while playing on a sandbar at Seminole Valley Park. Four other youths were swept from the sandbar but reached shore. Medlan's body was recovered about 100 yards away roughly 30 minutes later.
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Cedar Rapids
Dale Medlan
Cedar River
Medlan
Seminole Valley Park
Weed control issues rise after soggy Iowa week
Iowa officials report weed control lagging in northern areas due to two months of wet fields as topsoil moisture shows 7 percent surplus and 43 percent adequate across the state. Weather and moisture shape weed problems for farmers.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Jail sanitation report cites 258 improvements at Polk County jail
AP reports Polk County Jail in Des Moines has cells covered with dried filth and debris and encrusted tables. Health officer David R. Schomburg released a 258 recommendation plan covering 34 areas, focusing on housekeeping like vacuuming, wall washing, and fixing lights for Sheriff Dick Clemens to implement.
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DES Moines
Polk County
David R. Schomburg
Sheriff’s Office
Dick Clemens
Bonds ruling bars using IRBs for recreation facilities
Des Moines AP reports the Town Attorney General's office says industrial revenue bonds cannot finance recreational facilities. The opinion, sought by Rep. Jack Woods and Rep. LaVern Harvey, notes Altoona plans to issue such bonds for a recreational facility, despite prior allowances for retail projects.
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Des Moines
Jack Woods
D-Des Moines
LaVern Harvey
R-Bettendorf
Altoona
John Beamer
Muscatine High School Class of 1925 Reunites on 50th Anniversary
Attendees at the Muscatine High School 50 year reunion include numerous alumni from the class of 1925. In the front row are Ann Havemann Ethel Rhone Allbee Erma Orris Rebelsky Lolah Morse Whister Hazel Rittenhouse Kugar Molly Glatstein Krugsten Pauline Smith Wheelery Eleanor Vanatta Crow Pearl Hank Craft Wilma Baker Boshart Edna Belle Shepard Van Nice. Second row features Wallace Nyweide Robert F. Mark Harvey Allbee Ruth Snider Wagner Hazel Brei Spieth Dorothea Dankert Gilmore Gladys Sissel Thompson Margaret McFadden Furlong Kenneth Schreurs Cecil J. Hopkins John H. Cross Forrest Beckmann Virgil Bloom Anna Rosenberg Stein Beulah McGinnis Healey Robert W. Fairbanks Charles H. Kautz. Third row shows Ernest Andrew Johnson Vaughn Hershey Omri Bum Taylor Robert Strajack Clarence Harper Norman E. Daniels Robert H. Hahn Edward Diercks Harry Hahn school board Wm Kistler Lindley Hoopes.
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Muscatine High School
Front
Ann Havemann
Ethel Rhone Allbee
Erma Orris Rebelsky
Lolah Morse Whister
Hazel Rittenhouse Kugar
Molly Glatstein Krugsten
Pauline
Elks Lodge
Iowa
Idaho
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Pennsylvania
Maine
Florida
Pauline Woodbery
Clarence Harper
Dorothea Gilmore
Vaughn Hershey
Thelma Strajack
Norman Daniels
Harvey Allbee Sr
West Junior High Swing Choir
Robert Danner
MHS
Buffalo Prairie
Ill
American Floral Art School
Chicago
Wilton teacher Keith dismissal hearing proceeds in court
Testimony centered on Keith's termination amid board doubts and ISEA ties. Wilton High School principal Edward Lh. Williams denied prior unfavorable evaluations and supported contract renewal while questions about board motives and trust farm duties arose.
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Edward Lh. Williams
Wilton High School
Williams
William Hilton
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Iowa State Educational Association
ISEA
Hilton
Wilton
Teacher's Association
Éducation Association
ISHA
Bartley
Robert K. Stohr
Stohr
Park board to open Weed Park zoo Wednesday evenings
Muscatine Park Commission voted to open Weed Park zoo free to the public 5 pm to 9 pm each Wednesday and free weekday hours 10 am to pm with charges on Saturdays Sundays and holidays. Off duty policemen will patrol parks. A citizens advisory committee will study Slough uses. Power and Water Park planning contract includes eight community meetings. Zoo canned goods price raised to 30 cents. KWPC radio may broadcast from Weed Park after the July 4 parade. Deed transfer to Elwood A Jr and Sondra K Clark by Charlotte M Worts and others.
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Weed Park Zoo
Muscatine Slough
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Weed Park
Bright elected Iowa Water Pollution Control Association president
Kenneth M. Bright of Stanley Consultants was elected president of the Iowa Water Pollution Control Association at its 57th annual meeting in Waterloo on June 20. The group, with 400 plus members, ties to the Water Pollution Control Federation and counts municipal and industrial leaders among its ranks. Bright, project manager in Stanley Consultants’ project division, has served since 1948 after graduating from the University of Town.
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Stanley Consultants, Inc
Muscatine
Iowa Water Pollution Control Association
Waterloo
Iowa
Iowa Association
Water Pollution Control Federation
United States
Stanley Consultants
Bright
Midwest
University of Town
Cycle Club Visits Illinois Towns on Weekend Ride
YMCA Bike Club riders visited New Boston Joy and Illinois City on a roughly 60 mile trip Saturday with a longer 80 mile ride to Iowa City planned for next week. Bicyclists should bring ten speed bikes. a 25 cent support vehicle fee applies. Meet 7 45 a m at the YMCA. bicycle club meeting Thursday June 26 at 7 30 p m at the YMCA invited all riders. Seven Muscatine area students earn spring dean’s list at Scott Community College Davenport Ronald Horton Jack Etter Michael Seidel Thelma Monroe Nick Nietzel Betty Wright Stan Reinemund
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New Boston
Joy
Ilinois City
Ymca Bike Club
Iowa City
YMCA
Bicycle Club
Muscatine Area
Scott Community College
Davenport
Muscatine
Ronald Horton
Jack Etter
Michael Seidel
Thelma Monroe
Nick Nietzel
Betty Wright
Stan Reinemund
Wilton
Chittick Named Resident Assistant at University of Iowa
Valerie Chittick of Muscatine will serve as a resident assistant in a University of Iowa residence hall for 1975 76. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Russell D Chittick. A total of 87 new RAs will live with students across nine U I residence halls with each hall divided into housing units housing about 60 students and one RA per unit.
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Valerie Chittick
Russell D. Chittick
Muscatine
University of Iowa
U of I
Escape foiled in Indianola jail third floor cell
Warren County sheriff's deputies credit a vigilant radio dispatcher with thwarting a second escape attempt by Gregory E. Jones. The Ottumwa man, 21, awaiting sentencing for second degree murder in the Norwalk fatal shooting, crawled through a ceiling hole and tried to break a skylight Sunday night before deputies and a guard intervene. Jones had escaped from Indianola jail on March 16 and was at large from Polk County Jail since March 7 after his arrest in the slaying.
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Indianola
Warren County
Polk County
Muscatine High School class of 1926 reunion held at Elks Lodge
Forty members of Muscatine High School Class of 1926, 50 years out, gathered at the Elks Lodge with 74 attendees from Iowa and eight other states. Prizes went to Pauline Woodbery for longest distance, Clarence Harper for most children, Dorothea Gilmore for most descendants, Vaughn Hershey for least hair, and Thelma Strajack for fewest wrinkles. समारोह included invocations, school song, and a program on Muscatine then and now.
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Gertrude Braun
Elwood A. Jr
Sondra K. Clark
Terrace Heights
Cycle Club
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Vanessa Redgrae
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