Pine Creek Bridge Replacement At Wild Cat Den Park
The state plans a new cement and steel Pine Creek bridge on a relocated road in Wild Cat Den State Park this year. Bids are due at Ames by 9 am April 2 for the project. The existing near the Dune Creek mill footbridge will remain. The old bridge is narrow and its approaches create sharp curves. The new crossing will span Pine Creek on a re aligned route.
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Wild Cat den State Park
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Dune Creek
Bridge Relocation Advances Near Park in Muscatine County
The highway commission designs a 28 foot wide, 150 foot long continuous T beam bridge to replace the old crossing near the park. Construction includes 275 cubic yards concrete and over 145 thousand pounds of steel with about 5,000 cubic yards of earth moved. The project relocates the right turn to streamline access to Highway 22 and builds a new camp area in the park’s southwest.
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Muscatine Jaycees Win Member Contest
Muscatine's Junior Chamber of Commerce defeated Davenport Jaycees in a membership drive with 49 new members to Davenport's 41. Davenport will supply refreshments for Muscatine's meeting at 7 30 PM Thursday at the National Guard Armory, where six new board members will be elected.
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Attends Course At General Motors Center Chicago
Ambrose Hermann of Muscatine was returned from a two day school on electronics at the General Motors training center in Chicago.
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Muscatine
General Motors Training Center
Chicago
Steel Truck Driver Faces OMNICharge
State Patrol found Roy Albert Best asleep in the cab of a semitrailer loaded with steel stalled on Highway 638 west of Wilton at 1 36 am. He faced a preliminary hearing on operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and was bound over to district court. He pleaded guilty earlier for stopping a vehicle on the traveled portion and was fined five dollars plus costs.
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Charges Fellow Station Holdup Near Turner
Canton 4H verry, 22, Clinton, was charged with armed robbery with aggravation in a $105 Derby Oil Co. service station holdup on March 12. Detectives said the youth admitted the crime after being sentenced to 30 days in jail on a contributing to the delinquency of a minor charge.
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Derby Oil Co
John D Moore for State Jaycee District VP
John D. Moore of Muscatine seeks District F State Vice President of the Iowa Jaycees at the Tipton district meeting Saturday. As Muscatine Jaycees president and former officer and project chair, he helped drive membership growth, hosted events, won SPOKE honors, and served in multiple state and national Jaycee roles while employed at Stanley Engineering as assistant to the office group head.
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Halt Tow Injures Crewman and Dispatches to Hospital
A crew member from the towboat Emily Jean was taken to Muscatine General Hospital at 4 a.m. with a back injury after falling from one barge downstream from Muscatine. Robert Everts of Memphis, Tennessee, 30, was listed in fair condition. The incident occurred as the tow headed upstream with a coal cargo, near the McKee Feed and Grain dock where the George M. Wittich ambulance transported the injured man.
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Muscatine General Hospital
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Memphis
Tenn
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McKee
Deny Deal to Free Cardinal Mindzenty
U S officials deny a Hungarian spokesman's claim that Vatican and Hungary are negotiating Mindzenty's freedom. The denial follows reports from Rome and European capitals that discussions aimed at ending the cardinal's exile in the U S legation in Budapest are underway.
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Budapest
Miracles Are Many and Creation Book Debated
New York clergymen challenge miracles as central to faith. Rev Theodore Parker Ferris argues extraordinary acts by Jesus resemble those by others and cites biblical figures. Rev Trophine Moulren discusses origin of the world in Creation, promoting reason’s progress.
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Hawthorn
Muscatine TB and Health Association Elects Leaders
Roger Lande elected president and Dr Vincent Graettinger vice president at the Muscatine County Tuberculosis and Health Association annual dinner at Park Lane Country Club. Sixty plus attendees heard Dr Wayne Yoder of Ames discuss tuberculosis in animals and progress in eradication efforts since 1918.
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Muscatine
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Wayne Yoder
Ames
Yoder
Gret Barrington
William W. Coder
Paul Satterthwaite
Governor Warns Mechanicsville Is In Distress
Iowa Governor Harold Hughes declares Mechanicsville in distress as paving delays stretch over a year and a half. Legislature urged to pass emergency action or legalize the project while court battles continue. Streets only a third passable, hindering police fire and ambulance protection with sewer dangers noted.
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Harold Hughes
Mechanicsville
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