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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1952
Page
4
An electronic calculator used to issue city payrolls produced wrong sums after being moved, causing a clerk to catch a $9,999 water main inspector check and a $2.47 full week pay, prompting officials to rerun results without the machine.
Council Bluffs finished with the flood crisis and faces a sandbag dilemma. Unfilled bags dry stored. wet bags were dried and baled for storage. Filled bags cost more to recycle than new ones, so many will stay on the levee until after the June river rise, then be disposed of or left to decay along the river.
Washington reports Georgia Senator Richard B. Russell enjoys broad Florida support from Senators Holland and Smathers, six congressmen, and Gov. Fuller Warren while Kefauver gains hope from Russell’s campaign dynamics. Florida delegates to Chicago split between Dixiecrats and regular Democrats, with a push to unify before ballots.
A compact puzzle listing numerous food and meat related clues across varied hints. Includes references to cured meat calf meat various periods and measures with scattered entries like desertion and digestion hints. The page reads as a crossword style grid filled with wordplay and partial definitions.
Daily one year by mail inside first and second terms costs $9.00 with advance payment required. Outside areas follow similar terms. Office hours run 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Special delivery for missed papers ends at 6:30 p.m. Second class matter filed at Muscatine Iowa post office under the March 1879 act.
The Associated Press retains exclusive rights to republication of all local news in this newspaper and AP news dispatches. Readers are reminded that AP material is protected and may not be copied without authorization.
A Des Moines news and business office is located at the 18 Shops Building. The listing notes steady activity and ongoing operations in the area with no reported closures or changes in staff.
Washington columnist Ray Tucker lauds Ellis Arnall for moving “chitlings” and other humble pork cuts onto official price ceilings. He ridicules bureaucratic snobbery and argues price controls show OPS overreach and misunderstand everyday eating habits across the nation.
A location about 50 rods south of Lone Tree’s town plat for a new schoolhouse provokes grievance from residents who want the school on the town plat. An appeal has been filed to the county superintendent.
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