Muscatine teachers reach $6100 base with 4 by 4 index
Muscatine Community School District and Muscatine City Teachers Association reached a salary agreement Tuesday boosting the starting salary for a bachelor’s degree to 6100 and adopting a four by four index providing four percent annual raises. The package, pending teachers’ vote, increases overall instructional costs to about 2,193,663 for 1968-69 and raises top steps for MA holders to 11,041.
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Muscatine
Muscatine Community
Muscatine City
William Fahy
Fahy
Myles Beitz
John Tivie
Ronald Sturms
Responsible Family Life Education Is Termed Important Need in Schools
A Keokuk mother speaks at McKinley P T A on teaching Family Life Education in schools as part of core subjects. Annie Gross of Lee County Planned Parenthood urges calling it Family Life Education, starting in kindergarten and continuing through high school, with honest, factual instruction and parent involvement.
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Richard Barry
McKinley School
P.T.A
Kenneth Huber
Annia Gross
Lee County Planned Parenthood Association
Gross
Keokuk
McKinley
Annie Gross
Sub Station Contract Awarded In City Power Expansion
The municipal light and water board of trustees awarded the installation contract for new Oregon St Colorado St and Isett Avenue electric sub stations to Cassler Electric Co of Sioux City. Valves for the power plant expansion went to Rockwell Manufacturing Melrose Park Ill for 11967 90 and Crane Supply Co Davenport for 1. A single bid on another valve schedule was rejected as higher than the estimate. Trustees later viewed slides on the expansion project.
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Oregon St
Colorado St
Isett Avenue
Cassler Electric Co
Sioux City
Municipal Light and Water Board of Trustees
Rockwell Manufacturing
Melrose Park
Ill
Crane Supply Co
Davenport
Migrating Robins Advance With Thaw Driven Pace
Migrating robins often move up to 40 miles daily to keep pace with thaws and reach their preferred food source earthworms as soils warm.
No Flood Danger Predicted for Muscatine Area
The Moline weather bureau issued an advisory stating no flood danger for Muscatine. Snow cover indicates a mostly snow free basin except minor pockets in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. River rises depend on precipitation next month, with crest estimates near 8.5 feet if normal four week conditions hold.
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Muscatine
Moline Weather Bureau
Upper
Mississippi
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Hip Hippie Hooray at Muscatine High School
The Village Players of Muscatine High present the three act comedy Hip Hippie Hooray in the high school auditorium Friday and Saturday at 8 p m. Suzy Stevens opens a free restaurant in Haight Ashbury to find her missing brother amid humorous clashes between hippies and squares. She must judge the merits of both worlds in a debate with her brother.
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Village Players
Muscatine High School
Suzy Stevens
Haight-Ashbury
Bailey elected president of Distillers Feed Research Council
Dr. T. A. Bailey of 918 Cedar was elected today as president of the Distillers Feed Research Council at its 23rd annual meeting in Cincinnati Ohio. He succeeds Dr. S. L. Adams of New York City as chairman of the research unit. Bailey is vice president of Grain Processing Corporation of Muscatine.
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T. A. Bailey
Distillers Feed Research Council
Cincinnati
Ohio
Bailey
Grain Processing Corporation of
Muscatine
Conservation Speech Contest Here Thursday
The Muscatine County Soil Conservation District Ladies Auxiliary will hold its annual speech contest Thursday at Central Junior High Iowa Avenue entrance. The theme is Soil Our Legacy. Seventeen entries have been received with more expected. Contest begins at 7:30 p.m. and may start earlier due to the large entry pool. The public is invited.
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Muscatine County
Soil Conservation District Ladies Auxiliary
Central Junior High
Iowa Ave
Soil
FBI Agent Presents Program To Muscatine Kiwanis
FBI special agent Harold W. Brueggeman spoke to the Muscatine Kiwanis Tuesday about the FBI as the Justice Department investigative arm. He highlighted the Washington crime lab, the 200,000 annual examinations, the national academy training 200 yearly rising to 1,200, and the national crime information center with a nationwide computer network. The FBI’s capacity to assist local agencies and the 3,500 fugitives captured last year were noted.
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Harold W. Brueggeman
Cedar Raiphs
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Muscatine
Brueggeman
National Crime Information Center
Kilburn Kidney Transplant Is Successful
A kidney transplant on Alan Kilburn, 27, at Mary's Hospital Rochester Minnesota from his brother Wayne Kilburn, 26, was reported successful. Both men are from Muscatine and children of Mrs. Maxine Marshall. The kidney began functioning immediately and both men are in hospital rooms 221 and 419 on the ward.
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Alan Kilburn
Mary’s Hospital
Rochester
Minn
Wayne Kilburn
Muscatine
Maxine Marshall
Alan
Wayne
New Non Fiction Books Available At City Library
City Library adds numerous non fiction best sellers this week led by Report From Iron Mountain and Tolstoy by Troyat. Biographies include Nicholas and Alexandra Massie and Rick En Banker an WWI ace. China works appear by Suyin Fair and Han. Art volumes cover Durer Picasso Louvre and color design Graves. Psalms 51 100 anchors Anchor Bible Series. Reserve system to set aside unavailable titles.
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Iron Mountain
Lewin
United States
Nicholas and
Alexandra
Massie
Tolstoy
Troyat
Rickenbacker
China
Peking
Marcuse
Han Suyin
People’s Middle Haka
USA
Fair
Lamont Cranston
Jack Armstrong
Harmon
Shuster
Iowa
Durer
Picasso
Paris Museum
Louvre
Graves
Christmas Seal Sale Is Short in Muscatine County
The Muscatine County Tuberculosis and Health Association executive board met Tuesday evening at Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. The group discussed the coming year's budget and planned the spring meeting for April 22. The Christmas Seal goal was not met and contributions will still be accepted.
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Muscatine County
Tuberculosis and‘ Health Association
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
Public Talk On Sacraments Here Thursday
The Knights of Columbus sponsor the fourth in a series on adult education. The 8 p.m. Thursday talk at Hayes Catholic high school features Rev. James Grubb of St Anthony's Davenport on Are We celebrating the Sacraments well. Father Grubb, ordained June 4 1955, has served at St Anthony's since 1965 and sits on the Priest's Senate for the Davenport Deanery.
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Knights of Columbus
Hayes
Catholic High School
James Grubb
St.Anthony's Church of
Davenport
Father Grubb
St. Anthony’s
Muscatine
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