Dunker Retiring After 46 Years With Western Union
Ray Dunker ends a long Muscatine career as Western Union Telegraph office manager after 40 years with the company. A former Muscatine mayor and longtime community leader, he recalls starting as a bicycle messenger and notes the shift from dot and dash to automatic transmission. He plans winter warmth in California or Florida with wife Edith, and their three daughters live in town.
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Ray Dunker
Western Union Telegraph Office
Dunker
Muscatine
Army Signal Corps
Western Union
Ray
Mascaline Rosary Clus
American Legion
Edith
Plano
California
Florida
Gerti Dunker
Robert Longfield
Town City
Judy Edwares
Davenport Man Dies in Mississippi River Near Andalusia
Donald L. Dawson, 33, of Davenport, drowned Thursday near the Andalusia boat landing on the Mississippi River after signaling for help while swimming about 60 feet from an 18-foot cabin cruiser. Companions Paul Daymede and Wilma Maier leaped in to assist. Dawson’s body was found about 5 p.m. and taken to Range Mortuary. Wife is the former Marjorie Diehl.
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Andalusia
Donald L. Dawson
Davenport
Mississippi River
Dawson
Rock Island Arsenal
Paul Daymede
Melbourne
Fla
Wilma Maier
Moline
Rock Island
Charles Hollingsworth
Dawson's
Marjorie “Diehl
Frank Diehl
Wapello
Mildred Dichl
Automobile suit seeks damages over 1492 model crash
Loretta Akers files for 250 in Mulcatine district court after her son Benjamin Akers stopped a 1492 model car on highway 6 two miles west of West Liberty around 1 30 a m July 33 1961. Billie Otlu driving the other car allegedly struck the stalled vehicle.
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West Liberty
Mulcatine
Loretta Akers
Benjamin C. Akers
Weigh Bids on Iowa Memorial Union Project
Iowa City bids totaling 3 036 855 to undercut estimates were filed for the Memorial Union expansion. Sioux City firm W A Klinger Inc had the apparent low bid of 1 678 042 for general construction. Total project cost near 4 6 million including architect fees furniture and landscaping. State Board of Regents to award contracts at Des Moines meeting in mid July. Orientation sessions for veterinary medicine students begin with newcomers visiting campus. Gary Lee Bell and parents of 313 West Sixth are among attendees.
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Towa City
Pi— Law
University of Iowa
Lig Memorial Union Building
W. A
Klinger, Inc
Sioux City
State Board of Regents
Des Moines
College of Veterinary Medicine
Iowa State
Gary Lee Bell
James M. Bell
313 West Sixth
War era plant grows into Muscatine industry with 725 workers
Grain Processing Corporation and Kent Feeds, born in World War II to produce grain ethyl alcohol, now employ 725 people in Muscatine with plants expanding to Sioux City and Waterloo. The operation, led by GPC and Kent Feeds, includes a dextrose sugar plant and riboflavin production for major drug companies, plus large livestock and poultry feed operations across seven Midwestern states.
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Grain Processing Corporation of
Muscatine
Gil Dietz
Grain Processing Corporation
Kent Feeds
Gage A. Kent
Si. Stein
GPC
Frank Prochaska
Executivice
Grain Procesing Corporation
Prochaska
Kansas
City
Omaha
Kansas City
Lon
Grain’ Processing Corporation
United States
Parker Davis
Squibb
Lily
Time and Life
Livestock Feeds
Kent Feeds, Inc
Sioux City
Waterloo
Brodinska
Muscatine Muni- Vipal Department
Kent
Ed Bartlett
Bill Last
Bob Disor
Cars Damaged in Collision at East Sixth and Chestnut
Two automobiles were damaged in a collision at 1:40 p m Thursday at the intersection of East Sixth and Chestnut streets. The drivers Carol V McKiddy and Gail Mildred Schaefer escaped injury. The McKiddy car traveled west on Sixth and struck the left side of the Schaefer vehicle, with more than 100 dollars damage to each car.
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East Sixth
Chestnut Streets
Carol V. McKiddy
Teast Second Street
Gail Mildréd
Schaefer
Iawa Avenue
McKiddy
Sixth
Chestnut
Delay Hanging Of Doomed Man In Des Moines
Charles Kelley a 21 year old Minneapolis man has had his scheduled July 18 execution postponed as his defense Moyes asks the Iowa Supreme Court for a rehearing. The high court previously upheld the death sentence and action on the request could come no earlier than July 25.
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Des Moines
Charles Kelley
Moyes
Iowa Supreme Court
Minneapolis
High Court
Thurs-duy
Supreme Court
Army Band Bids Farewell To Sec Stahr At Ft Myer
The U S Army Band honored Secretary Elvis J. Stahr with a 19 gun salute and four ruffles and flourishes at Ft Myer Virginia. A 3rd Infantry battle group paraded in review as Cyrus Vance Lyman Lemniger and George Decker attended. Stahr leaves for Indiana University where his resignation takes effect Saturday.
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Washington
Army
Elvis J. Stahr
Ft. Myer
3Rd Infantry
Stahy
Cyrus Vance
Lyman Lemniger
Joint Chiefs of Staff
George Decker
Army Chief
Stahl
Indiana University
New shelter planned at Holland Land Office museum
Batavia residents will see a model fall out shelter built on the lawn of the Holland Land Office museum in western New York. The 18th century landmark, dating to the 1800s, houses artifacts over 200 years old and will gain a 20th century touch with the exhibit.
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New
Old Batavia
New York
Board of Supervisors
Holland Land Office Museum
Judge orders SSA to reconsider disability claim in irony remark
District Judge Leslie Carr criticizes a doctor for saying Clem Jackson can crochet and knit as he seeks disability benefits. Jackson, a Black laborer, claimed obesity arthritis and high blood pressure to qualify, appealing after denial. The ruling directs another SSA review of his case.
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Chattanooga
Clem Jackson
Social Security Administration
Leslie Carr
Jackson
Temperature At 90 Again Across City Skies Cloudy
Temperatures rose to 90 degrees Thursday afternoon matching a summer high. Forecasts expect similar warmth through Saturday with hazy skies and possible showers and thunderstorms locally heavy. Overnight lows near 69 with daytime highs in the upper 80s on Saturday.
Coin Operated Supermarket Vendor Debuts in Chicago
A coin operated vending machine now serves customers at a Chicago supermarket scale. Frederick L. Schuster of Automatic Canteen says the Super-Vend unit handles radios, cosmetics, jewelry, drugs, hardware, toys, film and sporting goods. It is unattended, accepts money, returns exact change, and delivers merchandise. The core system validates and rejects counterfeit currency.
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Chicago
Frederick L. Schuster
Automatic Canteen
Republicans Name Delegates to County Convention
Delegates met at 10 a.m. for the annual Republican county convention at the courthouse with State Representative Paul Knowles as guest speaker. Delegates elected to the Republican state convention include Richard Drake and many others. Resolutions urged four year terms for state and local officials, civil service merit, tax relief, and party-based city elections in Muscatine.
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Court House
Paul Knowles
Scott County
Kennedy
U. S
Knowles
Richard Drake
Shirley Drake
John Schumacher
Roxie Nichols
David Stanley
Mary Ashton
W . Ejchenaur Allen Elason
Miligent Bunker
Wade Elder
Helen N.chalaus
C. M. Peterson
R. R B. Goad
Lucile Freybler
Leta Day
Garry D. Woodward
Twyla Woodward
Charles Mason
Charles P. Hanley
Iver Brecht
R. K. Stohr
Frances Wesley
Robert B. Jebring
R. W. Watson
Evelyn Schayland
Robert C. Petersen
Harold
Pat" Finnegan
James Dorman
Health Heer
Lindley Hoopes
Raymond Tipton
L. R. Meker
Ivan H. Goddard
John Wack Rigier
Melva Goddard
James van Camp
Helen Grimm
Elmer Jhms
Maynard Vaupel
Wilmot C. Hendrix
Joint Rex
Forest Larmey
Mary Young
Herman A. Wacker
Neva Res
Towa
State Highway Commission
Muscatine
County Board of Supervisors
Bve
Login Street
Premier Reunion For The Reinies Family
The Reinies family reunion will be held Sunday July 8 at Ollie Park in Ollie Ta. Attendees plan a meal featuring bell peppers stuffed and baked with bulleted crumbs in a moderate oven.
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Reinies
Ollie Park
Ollie, Ta
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