Robbery at Sun Mart Store in Muscatine Strikes $1,000 Loss
About 8 p.m. Wednesday a heavyset armed robber entered Sun Mart Store at 807 Grandview Ave Muscatine, demanded cash, struck clerk Steve Slack, and emptied registers before fleeing in a car with a shotgun in reserve. Separate robbery occurred earlier near 6 p.m. at National Food Store Rock Island. Police continue investigation.
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Sun Mart
Grandview Avenue
Muscatine
Rock Island
National Food Store
S8th
Steve Slack
Slack
Ruth Ann Hoffman
Donna Curtis
Kay Ruckert
Grant Announced for Head Start in Iowa Counties
A federal grant of 78373 funds preschool training for children from low income families in Cedar, Louisa, and Muscatine counties. Summer Head Start will be run by Town East Central Train Office of Economic Opportunity in Muscatine. The program covers 275 children over two months with 28 aides and offers medical dental social and psychological services. Atlantic City sets convention records for 1967 with 576 conventions and 469568 attendees, up from 526 and 296360 in 1966.
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Cedar
Louisa
Muscatine
Office of Economic Opportunity
Unlawful hunting light fines levied in Moscow township
Two Muscatine men Ernnest Metzger 39 of 908 Webster Street and Everett Rickheim 18 of 915 East Seventh Street were fined 150 dollars and costs each in district court for using an artificial light while hunting on November 22 in Moscow township. They pled guilty Wednesday with payment due by May 3. failure to pay will require serving the fine in county jail at 5 dollars per day. The Muscatine Journal notes a separate library records browse at Public Library Muscatine offering about 65 records for two week loans, spanning classical to folk and listing artists such as Montoya Crosby Boone Rodzinski Pennario Fiedler Menuhin Stern Rubinstein among others.
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Muscatine
Ernnest
Calvin Metzger
Webster Street
Everett W. Rickheim
E. 7Th Street
Moscow Township
Public Library
P-M. Muster Public Library
Musgatine
Carlos Montoya
Bing Crosby
Richard Boone
Arthur Rodzinski
Leonard Pennario
Arthur Fiedler
Yehudi Menuhin
Isaac Stern
Arthur Rubinstein
Subscription rates for Muscatine daily paper
Delivered daily by carrier in Muscatine city 2.00 per month in advance. Others by carrier 0.40 weekly. Mail within fifty miles 15.00 yearly. Mail within towns with carrier service 18.00 yearly. Mail beyond 50 miles 20.00 yearly. All mail subscriptions in advance. Office hours 9 to 5 daily, 9 to noon Saturdays. Special missed paper delivery 6:30 p.m. daily and 4:00 p.m. Saturdays. Dial 263-2331.
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City of Muscatine
Muscatine
Tilly Miles
Stony Muscatine
Dial
Cedar River landowners sue for damages in Muscatine County
Several owners of riverfront property in Moscow and Goshen townships seek $91,000 from the county over flood damage after the Cedar River overflowed following a relocated County Road W embankment. Plaintiffs cite inadequate culverts and depreciation of their properties as factors, naming Glen and Laura Phelps, Earl and Ramona Denkman, Carl and Lucille Beatty, Hilbert and Marilyn Neubergall, and Raymond Frenzel.
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Cedar River
Moscow
Goshen
Muscatine County
Glen
Laura Phelps
Earl
Ramona Denkman
Carl
Lucille Beatty
Hilbert
Marilyn Nebergall
Raymond Frenzel
Corregidor And Bataan Reunion Set
Members of the Iowa Chapter of the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidors will hold their annual Spring reunion April 20-21 in Des Moines. Fred Galardi of Muscatine says the event is open to all former servicemen and civilians who were on Bataan and Corregidor at the start of World War II. Galardi, a Schmarje Tool Co. supervisor, served in the Army when Bataan fell in April 1942 and spent three and a half years in Japanese prison camps.
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Iowa
Bataan
Des Moines
Galardi
CBMC Meets Here Monday
The Christian Business Men's Committee will convene Monday at 6 30 p m at the Dog n Suds with Clayton Brown a Chicago banker as speaker. Reservations contact Jack Delveau or Eldon Davis and members plan for May Ladies night.
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Christian Business Men's Committee
Dog ’N Suds
Clayton Brown
Chicago
Jack Delveau
Eldon Davis
Week winner at Sheridan Church and Mulford Evangelical Free Church
Mrs. N. J. Schmidt won at 10 Sheridan Church while Mulford Evangelical Free Church at 2400 Hershey also produced a winner. Both events highlight community church activities and local prize gives.
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N. J. Schmidt
Sheridan Church
Mulford Evangelical Free Church
Hershey
Patrolman Grady Receives Police Recruit School Certificate
Calvin Skip Grady of Muscatine Police Department received a certificate of completion after attending a Davenport police recruit school from January 2 to February 7. Instructor Clyde Heckerman led the program covering public relations laws testimony fingerprinting narcotics juvenile procedures firearms federal laws and medical self help. Grady has served since January 1967 and was sent by the Muscatine City Council.
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Muscatine
Calvin
Skip” Grady
Daven
Davenport
Clyde Heckerman
Grady
Glenn Axel
Variety of New Books at Public Library
A wide range of non fiction titles added this week covering ESP the Smithsonian Institute the Peace Corps Etiquette Computer Programming Aptitude Tests and how to write fiction. Biographies feature Alexander the Great W C Fields and Red Barber.
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Public Library
Smithsonian Institute
Peace Corps
Alexander the Great
W. C. Fields
Red Barber
MacKinlay Kantor
Louis Heller
Supreme Court
Tanner
Marcus Bach
Alan Paton
Kohl
Rezoning Hearings Tonight on 94-lot R3A Garden Apartment Plan
Tonight at 7 in Muscatine city council chambers a hearing will review a 94-lot tract bounded by Bartlett Street Mulberry Avenue and Parham Avenue proposed for R-3-A garden apartment zoning. The area includes residential lots Muscatine General Hospital Laura Musser Art Gallery and Museum and other properties now zoned R2 single family. Petitions by Roy Kantz and Brossart and Lucas Contractors proceed after Plan and Zoning Commission recommended approval. A 6:45 hearing precedes on a separate petition to rezone east of Park Avenue shopping center from R-1 to R-S-A garden apartments by Mr and Mrs Ralph Stark.
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Muscatine City
Bartlett Street
Mulberry Avenue
Parham Avenue
Muscatine General Hospital
Laura Musser
Muscatine
Tax Bills Ready in Muscatine City and Township
Muscatine residents can pick up city property tax bills at the County Treasurer's Office, while township bills are handled by the County Auditor's staff and expected next week. Many taxpayers face higher bills due to reappraisals, though some properties unchanged. The city levy is 98.494 mills, similar to last year, with delays prompting an extension of the first half tax penalty deadline into late June.
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Treasurer's Office
City of
Muscatine
Loran Goddard
John Rex
Goddard
World Traveler Mrs Moffett to speak at Muscatine College
Mrs. Robert Lee Moffett of Des Moines, a noted writer lecturer and traveler, speaks at 8 p m Wednesday March 27 at Muscatine Community College in observance of Human Rights Year. She will discuss Focus in a tottering world and the coming civilization. Public invited.
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Robert Lee Moffett
Des Moines
Muscatine Community College
United Nations
Moffett
Robert Putman
Pinefield
League of Nations
Geneva
Switzerland
League
San Francisco
Guest Speaker at First Assembly of God Church
Rev. Stanton E. Johnson, superintendent of the Iowa District of the Assemblies of God, will speak in morning worship at the First Assembly of God Church, 314, on Sunday March 24. Johnson is a North Central Bible College graduate with further study at McPhail School of Music, and has pastored in South Dakota and Iowa, serving as Youth and Sunday Director in both districts.
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Stanton E. Johnson
Assembly of God
Rev. Johnson
Iowa
Assemblies of God
Des Moines
North Central Bible College
Minneapolis
Minnesota
McPhail School of Music
South Dakota
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