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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1968
Page
2
The Wall Street Journal estimates grocers lose 240 million dollars yearly from bad checks as 70 percent of checks cleared in retail. Stores face cash shortages higher costs and worthless checks while supermarkets bear about 40 percent of bounced items. Some retailers screen writers or stop taking checks to curb losses.
The piece profiles Camp Pendleton, its public-spirited generals, and the lives of Marines and their families. It notes General Lewis Fields, the “people’s general,” who champions an on-base commissary for wives and children, the Sterling Homes community in Oceanside, and the daily realities of young Marines training and supporting families while serving in Vietnam-era America.
Hal Borland reflects on modern life’s pace, noting leisure time shrinks despite shorter work hours. He laments loss of simple pleasures like evening meals and twilight moments when fireflies and stars appeared, inviting reflection on memory and slowing down.
A fragmented clippings note a radio program from University of Northern Iowa discussing middle age and medical progress extending lifespans beyond seventy. It questions who reaches a hundred and cites humorous domestic quips about aging, with assorted local newspaper fragments suggesting humorous observations on appearance.
The Johnson administration aims to end the tax exemption on state and local industrial development bonds as part of broad reform. Treasury officials say eliminating the exemption would curb a subsidy that allows cheaper financing for plant expansion, potentially raising municipal borrowing costs and tax receipts. The plan, tied to a larger tax overhaul, would repeal the 1954 exemption for bonds issued after March 15 and is expected to take at least a year to pass Congress.
Intermittent claudication stems from reduced leg blood supply from artery hardening. Slow walking, shorter distances, and specific leg exercises may ease cramps. In some cases dilating meds or surgery to bypass obstructions help. Also address underlying circulation and consult a doctor for tailored advice.
A trio of letters praise school assembly programs at Central Junior High and thank teachers for organizing them. They praise church life and home guidance for teens, urge lighter teen drinking rules, and commend Summer Life and Senior League baseball volunteers and the women’s auxiliary for supporting youth sports.
Our Yesterdays notes farmers sowing wheat to take advantage of fine weather, while 28 years ago two Muscatine men faced wartime danger as one returned safe from a Japanese POW camp and another was reported missing in action in Tunisia. Florence Hetzter, ten years ago, announced her candidacy for district court clerk at the June primary.
Historic notes mark key dates including the U S Navy founding in 1740s, Napoleon’s proxy marriage in 1810, Montgomery’s Confederate constitution in 1861, Sherman’s Fayetteville move in 1865, Taft burial in 1930, F D R lend lease in 1941, MacArthur departure from Bataan in 1942, SEA treaty promises ten years prior, JFK unemployment as top issue five years prior, Stalin’s daughter Svetlana arriving in 1967.
A religious excerpt presents a line from Matthew 21 29 about initial refusal then repentance. It follows with a prayer addressing Our Father in heaven asking forgiveness for sins of omission and commission and inward cleansing in Jesus name amen.
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