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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1968
Page
1
Earl Jones receives the first annual Service to Mankind award presented Thursday by the Sertoma club. GEM awards honor 12 new Muscatine Sertoma members for meeting participation and involvement such as greeter duties and committee attendance.
Earl Jones of Muscatine received the Service to Mankind award at the Muscatine Sertoma club's first annual awards banquet held at Sunset Inn. Jones is noted for extensive community service including roles in Cub Scouts PTA Hayes High School and St Mathias church. A fundraising broom sale downtown Muscatine on April 19 and 20 supports aid for speech and hearing handicaps.
Kiwanis club will sponsor a community dinner at 6 30 p m on April 4 at Hotel Muscatine honoring Muscatine High Hayes Catholic and Muscatine Community College players. Ray Christensen will give the keynote Seventeen Years to Play by Play. About 175 attendees expected. tickets from I H Peterson 243 6421. advance reservations urged.
Muscatine County members of the 165th Artillery Iowa National Guard will train at Camp Ripley Minnesota July 13 28 for their annual active field duty. Gen Junior F Miller announced the training schedule noting units will be spread through the summer to keep some in Iowa. The Iowa Military Academy at Camp Dodge June 9 23 will host cadets and noncommissioned officers from across the state. Other members of the 185th Artillery hail from Davenport and Clinton areas.
Four Muscatine men returned from Ames after a meeting with Iowa Highway Commission officials on traffic matters. City Engineer William McElwee reported two conclusions: rapid selection and construction of a new Mississippi River bridge, and city and county to contract with a traffic engineering firm for an urban traffic study to specify Muscatine traffic assignments. The study, requested a year ago, aimed to begin within two years.
Cub Pack 116 held its monthly meeting in the school gym Thursday eve ning. A film, Mr Charlie McCarthy was shown. Awards were given to many cubs including Mark Campbell Kirk Dye Larry Kleist Donald Hank Tom Hotle Todd Duncan Mike Hagens Randy Hopkins Jerry Honts Myron Meyn Howard Calloway Tom Sturms Wade Terrill Tim Wejershouser Allen Cooney Steve Essex Tim Gow webele Danny Gray Doug Heuer Jim Hollingsworth Cloyce Job Randy Leuth Mark MacLennan Gary Mulinix Donald Noah Steve Tomasson John Veatch Jim Wilex Larry Schildt Randy Schubick Claude Seyffert Robert Young Kenneth Strong Ted Ziebarth and more as listed. A Navy sailor was home on leave from USS America. later, Mrs Moffett spoke at First Methodist and a driver license revocation was announced. a brief outage occurred downtown. a missionary speaker was booked for First Baptist Fathers and Sons event with reservations due.
The Muscatine Community College Chorus to perform at high schools Lone Tree Columbus Junction Wapello L and M Durant West Branch and Bennett on April 2 and 4 with The Boys Quartet Girls Sex tet and Shades of Song. They will sing at banquets and events in upcoming weeks and plan a Chicago trip April 24 to see Golden Boy. Shades of Song hosts a car wash March 30 at Central State Bank parking lot 12 to 5 p.m. Proceeds fund their singing activities.
William Henning was elected president of the Public Health Nursing Association board for the coming year at a Thursday night meeting. Other officers named include Ronald Conkling as vice president Mrs Gerhard Koch as secretary and James Pulliam as secretary A committee including Harvey Allbee Jr Pulliam and Ellamae Ratcliff was named to confer with Muscatine county supervisors about a proposal to oversee nursing services outside Muscatine city limits.
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A Muscatine lawyer, A Buell, will head the Muscatine County campaign for gubernatorial candidate Robert D. Ray, Republican. Ray, a former National Republican Chairman, resigned to run. Buell, 33, is a grain firm lawyer and Estherville KILR owner. Ray has Iowa political roots and law firm ties.
Muscatine Development Corporation plans an annual dues membership drive starting April 23 to replace periodic fund campaigns. The group began in 1958 with a $130,000 community effort for operating costs and Progries Park acquisition, followed by a 1963 fund drive of about $71,000. George Shepley named Carl Yohn chair of the annual dinner committee, with James Fuller, Wendell Day, Richard Cracker, M.R. Morgan and Margaret Tobias serving.
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