Coralville Reservoir to raise level starting July first
Colonel BR. M. Fry announced Rock Island District will raise Coralville Reservoir from elevation 670 to 680 beginning July 1, keeping 670 February through June to reduce flood risk. The higher pool boosts recreational value while protecting lives and property, with minimum downstream flow requirements maintained. A barge will clear hazards as the pool reaches 680.
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BR. M. Fry
Rock Island District
Coralville Reservoir
Iowa City
Fry
Corps of Engineers
West Liberty Churches Schedule Summer Events
West Liberty churches publish a busy July schedule with Methodist events including choir practices on June 29 and July 6, worship services July 2 and 9, and a First Methodist reception in Burlington. The Presbyterian and St Joseph’s listings note congregational prayer, masses, and synod meetings. the Silver Saddle Club announces its July horse show at the fairgrounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Liberty
A.m
A.m. Seni
Ames
Josepies
Silver Stirrup Saddle Club Inc
Fairgrounds
Saddle Club
Roger Rockafellow
Iowa Mountaineers to Visit Remote Inca Homeland
A group of SUI Mountaineers from 15 states and two foreign countries will travel from Miami to Peru in July for a four to six week expedition in the Cordillera Blanca. Led by Dith Ebert, the party aims to conquer Huascaran and collect high altitude data while camping at base and high camps up to 19,000 feet. The trip begins in Lina then Yangayu, with varying routes into the Andes and into the Amazon basin area, amid primitive conditions and unfamiliar currency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towa City
State University of Iowa
Yanganuco
Peru
Andes
Ecuador
Chile
Miami
Fla
Planeton
Cordillera Blanca
Cordillera de Los Anedes
SUL
Vam
Lorin Lloyd
Ama+zon
Lina
Yungay
Santa Valley
America
Yangay
Yanganweo
Huascaran
Ebert
Pacific Ocean
Past Matrons OES to Meet in Buffalo Prairie
Mrs Vaughn Borulf will host the Past Matrons Club OES Friday in Buffalo Prairie Illinois. Kenneth Ziegler and family Edgington have returned from a week’s vacation with Rufus Elliott family Plant City Florida, former Buffalo Prairie residents. Dr Allen Laymen pastor Monmouth United Presbyterian will speak at the third outdoor vesper service Sunday evening at Norwood, with church youths in charge and Don Shut leading hymn singing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo Prairie
Vaughn Borulf
Kenneth Ziegler
Edgington
Rufus Elliott
Plant City
Fla
Allen
Second United Presbyterian Church
Monmouth
Norwood
Don Shut
Coleman Resigns SUI Publications Director Post
Carrell Coleman, longtime head of publications at The State University of Iowa, will resign at month end to devote full time to Prairie Press publishing. Born in Appanoose County and a Muscatine resident, he joined UI faculty in 1945 teaching typography and directing the typographic lab. He was named director of publications in 1957, supervising design for university and off campus works and leading the mailing service. His Prairie Press titles earned national honors, with multiple books featured among best of year lists and shown abroad, including an exhibit in Moscow in 1959. He plans to continue book design for other publishers from Town City before possibly relocating closer to a major publishing center.
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Cnalive Towan
State University of
SUI
SUS
Coleman
Muscatine
Journal
the Graphic Arts
Moscow
U.S
Prairie Press
Town City
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Muscatine County Mutual Insurance Assn
Sard
Farmers Mutual Reinstrance Co
Grinnell College
Grinnell
L. R. Beatty
Donald Lee
J. W. Hoopes
Glen Shield
Howard Toyne
George Crist
Ane A William, McConnaha
Beatty
Mulscatine County Mutual
Hoopes
Shield, Toyne
Crist
McConnaha
Lee
Hamlet Mutual Fire & Lightning 1 Trnsurance Company
Reynolds
Til
Robert Ketzle
Ketzle
Ham- Tel Mutual
Roger Paul O'Neil
MCA
Town Avenue
Second Street
O'Neil
M&s
Glenn Anderson
Saval Tharp
First Methodist
Burlington
Paul Hahn
West Liberty Saddle Club
Iowa
Pru
Sunkist
Ham
Treet
Duice
Beck
Fisher’s Fiesta
MA Brown
Fisher
MaBnomb
SUI Publications
University
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