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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1965
Page
14
A house fire damaged a rented residence at 193 Sherman Street early Monday afternoon, forcing Mr Wayne Kelley his wife and their four children to seek shelter elsewhere. Their 9 year old son Wayne was among the injured or displaced.
The economy shows its best six months in memory, with production and personal income rising and the GNP forecast to top 660 billion. Despite dock strikes, steel talks, weather and natural disasters, broad growth continues, with May employment at 72 million and personal income at a high annual rate. Retail sales lead the gains as optimists and pessimists split on outlook. Sonic booms near Offutt AFB to accompany three months of supersonic bomber flights over a 40 mile Iowa strip.
The Wilton American Legion Auxiliary Past Presidents club met at Shirley Wacker’s home on Thursday evening June 24. Members drew Secret Pals for the year and planned a project to send cards to service men. A card was sent to Dallas Sterner at Hawker Nursing Home in West Liberty. Isola Wacker, recently ill, sent greetings. Next meeting date later. July 22 at Frances Kelley’s Muscatine home. Three new members joined: Johanna Jutte Nellie Griffith Mae Sterner.
Columbus Junction reports the annual Men's Bowling Association meeting set for tonight in the Peoples National Bank Community Room. Also noted are church services at United Presbyterian during July and August, a Sunday school at 9:30, and thirty new members joining the church. Local personals include Hubert Sunderman and William Jenkins traveling or serving away, with others visiting relatives in Colorado and Indiana. A SAG spokesman mentions high altitude flights and weak booths in a corridor near Winterset to Springfield with crossovers near St. Louis.
Descendants of Alle and Lena Miller gathered at the Royal Neighbors hall for a family reunion with a picnic lunch. Attendees included the Miller and Liming families from multiple states, plus visitors from Cedar Rapids and Muscatine, who are staying on a west coast trip. Kimberly Sue, daughter of Tor Rock, was born June 25 at Muscatine General Hospital. Marylin Ericson of Lansing returned home after visiting the Foster family. Dannie Schlimmer and family moved to the Arnold home on Highway Six.
The National Society for the Prevention of Blindness reports more than 1,350,000 Americans aged over 40 have glaucoma and about half are unaware of their condition.
Toastmasters at Mascaline club held a meeting with David Stanley winning the prepared speaker’s award for Trouble under the golden dome. Other winners and participants included Ralph Cullen, Gil Dietz, Max Churchill, C. E. Gillespie, Clare Patterson, David Horney, Larry Douglas, William Spieth, and others in various speaking and critic roles. Community notes recount Conesville Musical Sunday at Grace United Church of Christ with local choirs and soloists, a Sunday School picnic, and multiple social visits across Muscatine, Columbus Junction, Nichols, and Davenport areas, plus military family updates and convalescence news.
After two days at Mercy Hospital in Town City he returned home with eye injuries from anhydrous ammonia. Mrs. Elsie Babbitt hosted house guests including Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Lucas of Galesburg for Saturday supper at Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fromer’s home in Muscatine.
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