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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1966
Page
2
A revived old wart remedy tale describes locating a rotten spunk water stump at midnight and performing a ritual to cure warts as told by Mark Twain in Tom Sawyer. The text notes unknown success but cites a revival of traditional wart remedies in medical circles.
Dean James Lopez and eleven MCC faculty returned from the American Association of Junior Colleges convention in St. Louis attended by over 1000 junior college administrators and instructors from the US and Canada. Paul F. Lorenz urged technical competence and hard work as a major nation-wide goal for junior colleges in forums on teacher effectiveness federal legislation student services and new curriculums.
The Muscatine Journal published daily except Sunday by The Muscatine Journal and member of Lee Enterprises, incorporated at 301 F Third Street Muscatine Iowa. Notice credits Associated Press for local news and AP dispatches.
Rates for subscribers delivered by carrier in Muavae city are $2.00 per month in advance. Delivery by carrier outside Muscatine is 40 cents a week. Mail subscriptions within fifty miles of Muscatine are $12.00 per year, and over fifty miles are $18.00. All subscriptions must be prepaid. Office hours are 8 am to 5 pm daily, Saturday 8 am to 1 pm. Special delivery remains in effect until 6:30.
In police court Judge Duane Goodken fined Cecil Brown and Vernon Ralph Boehme for disturbing the peace and intoxication after a Friday night fracas at Mac's Tap. Officers arrested the pair. one officer was kicked. Brown of 107 Roscoe avenue and Boehme of 414 East Fifth street were ordered to pay fines and costs.
George McOuat seeks to set aside a $64.94 default judgment from a justice court in Muscatine. He says he was served Jan. 17 by Krieger Motor Co and paid $6.10 costs on Feb. 3 after his bank account was frozen. He asserts he was sued under the wrong name McQuat and had no chance to appear before the Feb. 4 default judgment. a March 14 district court hearing was set.
Evelyn Freeman of Utica joined 17 other ice fishermen adrift after a two mile ice sheet broke on Anchor Bay in Lake St Clair. The 46 year old refused a helicopter rescue until her box of perch was retrieved by airmen from Selfridge Air Force Base who rescued the group and the catch.
Marine Lance Corporal J D Elshoff of Fruitland is in special forces training at Camp LeJeune North Carolina His address lists 1 Cpl J D Elshoff 2090828/25335711 RECON Co Force Troops Camp LeJeune NC 28542
Local lodge and club schedules fill Muscatine week with varied events. Dr. Sam Kessinger speaks at Rotary Ladies Night. Kiwanis discuss Team Work In Research. EVOP methods featured at a Muscatine YMCA program and Moose Lodge dinner. Grain Processing Corp uses EVOP to boost production yields.
Muscatine Community College presents Thieves' Carnival in the college auditorium March 24 25 and 26 at 8 p m. The farce blends crime impersonation fraud and deceit with humorous twists as a wealthy dowager staging illusions traps thieves in a web of disguises and misadventures.
The 1966 Boy Scout Exposition participation chairman Harry McKee reports fourteen Hoover District scout units including Tipton and Durant will participate. Exposition expands at the National Guard armory with greater involvement than past years. The event runs April 22 with a kickoff meeting set for Saturday March 19 at i.
LIVONIA Michigan AP A suburban mother explains her rose and black license plates arise from an unusual incident her son aged three caused by hiding objects in a kitchen broiler The roast overheated emitting odd odors and changing the plate colors as a safety concern and plea for police understanding
William Fahy, business manager of The Muscatine Journal, among 31 management representatives at a University of Iowa conference on management skills. The event, first in a spring four day series ending April 16, is sponsored by the Center for Labor and Management. Tickets available at the civic center with 25 percent sales commission as incentive.
The Lady Elks announce a potluck at 1 p.m. on Thursday March 10. Officers will provide rolls and coffee. Games will start at 10 a.m.
Community families are invited to a Family Mission Festival at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Durant on Sunday March 20 at 2 p.m. Rev E B Meyer former missionary and now pastor of Grace Lutheran Muscatine will speak with slides from British Guiana. Special Loft Choir music and a fellowship hour with cookies, hosts listed, and a program of Meyer’s career details.
Dr F Gentile a Fordham University chemistry professor will address the Wilneis Iowa Section of the American Chemical Society at 8 p.m. Monday March 14 at St Ambrose College Davenport. The talk titled Diacetamide as a Ligand covers preparation and spectral properties of complexes with idiacetamide and various alkalis alkaline earth and transition metals. He earned B S from City College of New York 1943 M S from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn 1948 and Ph D from the University of Texas 1955.
Mrs. Gertrude Houdek Lane and her brother Raymond Houdek of Fort Myers Florida depart April 1 for a six week journey visiting Hawaii the Philippines and Japan. They are Muscatine natives and cousins of Carl F. Houdek of 1013 East Eighth Street. The voyage out will be by air and they will return by ship to the United States.
Burlington resident 66 year old Harry Hillman died Friday when a car he was jack lifting slipped off the jack and crushed him beneath the vehicle. Police treated the incident as a fatal workplace accident and continued to investigate the scene.
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