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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1966
Page
4
Three fires in Seventy Six township within days prompt speculation on arson. A hay shed home and bale yard burned, followed by a barn fire with livestock. Investigations underway. officials warn arson cannot be ruled out in the series of blazes. Iowa records show 122 arson cases in 340 fires in 1964, suggesting arson is not rare.
In 1960 the Senate approved a Freedom Academy bill by voice vote but the House blocked it over anti-Communist fears. Despite bipartisan senate interest, Fulbright's gatekeeping stalled floor action. A private Freedom Studies Center near Boston, Virginia, with multiple sponsors, plans to counter psycho political warfare, run by the Institute for American Strategy, with a cross‑party advisory board including Dodd Mundt and Proxmire.
A collage of notes: Prof Taylor ends a writing term and invites new students at Realing's Hall, the McMillion Opera Company arrives with snow in the forecast, church groups meet with social and needlework activities, local school districts elect directors, Mrs Mary Whitman dies at 91, and Mena Council Pocahontas plans a March session with a dedicated refreshment and entertainment crew.
Congress approved a bill to add 43 federal judgeships in states and appellate circuits with severe backlogs. The plan, likely to be supported by President Johnson, includes four temporary seats on the Fourth Circuit in the South. It aims to modernize a system seen as slow to adapt to a growing population and rising civil rights litigation.
Dr Duane Hulse recalls a lively anecdote about Dr William Stidger at Allegheny College. A freshman year expulsion and a dramatic poultry prank disrupted an Audubon Society lecture, leading to probation and reflection on steering youth toward outstanding futures.
A tale recounts teen pranks painting pews with colorless glue in a chapel setting, expulsion follow, and later praise for redirected potential. It cites Dr Stidger and Dr Crane noting how disturbed youths might reform into productive citizens, amid comparisons to historical figures and calls for counseling.
A reader wonders about a so called good-by gift given by a husband to his secretary as he relocates to San Francisco. Abby explains the term fits a severance or appreciation gift, not a farewell to someone staying. The column also covers marital separations and family reactions to divorce notices.
Framingham mass novelist Noah Gordon says a new era has begun for Jews in America. He notes a surge of Jewish writers and describes his bestseller The Rabbi as a personal coming of age story seeking a mature Jewish faith. The interview covers intermarriage prejudice and the book’s portrayal of rabbis.
A brief prayer cites Hebrews 4 15 RSV praising Jesus as sympathetic to weakness. It asks for discernment between right and wrong and readiness to heed a Christian conscience in every emergency through the Savior’s help.
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