Play It Safe Around Water
Several events this week stress caution in boating and water sports. A 15 year old Davenport boy died after falling into the Wapsipinicon river while fishing. In Keithsourg a Galesburg couple and guests were thrown overboard when waves swamped their boat but were rescued by a towboat. At Keokuk a 44 year old man fell into the Mississippi when his boat struck a log and sank. a life jacket kept him afloat until rescue. Towboats’ wakes and the need for life jackets are highlighted as prudent safety measures.
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Davenport
Wapsipinicon
Keithsourg
Galesburg
Mississippi
Keokuk
Sales tax gains favor across states and localities
The piece notes broad adoption of sales tax, its revenue impact, and a push from Iowa to raise the state rate while Tennessee and New York City consider local and municipal levies to finance spending, warning that overreliance can exhaust a good policy.
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Iowa House of Representatives
Tennessee
New York City
Wagner
Ridicule and reform spark heated debate over censorship
The piece argues against erasing historical language and cultural references in school materials and literature. It cites Mark Twain and Huck Finn to defend confronting racism, warns against overzealous changes that erase context, and calls for thicker skins and preserved humor in education and public discourse.
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Philadelphia
Basket of Education
Mark Traitt
Muscatine Journal Adopts Seven Cities Policy
The Muscatine Journal lists staff and office details including publisher Harold L. Nelson editor Walter Russell and business manager Robert Sbaudr. It outlines daily and weekly subscription rates, delivery areas within and beyond Muscatine, and service hours with contact numbers for special delivery issues.
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Harold L. Nelson
Walter Russell
Robert Sbaudr
Gilbert Dietz
Edwin Walwer
Margaret Griffith
Mer Gen
Carl Walter
Adv
Adynrtining Representatives
Jann &. Kelly, Inc
Chicago
New York
Detroit
Atlanta
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Daly Journal Igsuiert
Muscatine
Tall Aver Tity
Bam Tod
A Letter Advocates Building Code for Muscatine
A May 4 1963 letter from Muscatine urges adoption of a city building and electrical code. It argues codes ensure safer materials and workmanship, provide inspector oversight, aid home buyers, and may lower fire insurance premiums. cites civic effort and a 40 state precedent.
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Mud Creek
Muscatine
Civic Affairs
Chamber of Commeree
Ralph Cullen
Iowa
Explaining Fallacies to Young Voters in 1960s Debate
Dr. Crane’s clinic discusses common fallacies in political reasoning. It covers either-or claims about private vs government roles, good-vs-bad vs good-vs-better, hasty conclusions from inadequate facts, ad hominem attacks surrounding Kennedy, and arguing to absurdity plus bait-and-switch budgeting tactics in foreign aid debates.
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Kennedy
Guiline
Corman
Noither
Uncle San
Uncle Sam
Sam
Besmith
Pre. Kennedy
Jacquetine
Qualifications For Old-Timer League Recollections
HAL BONLE reflects on nostalgic standards for joining the old timer league, listing past social norms and traits as qualifiers. The piece contrasts aging memory with current uncertainty and cites a New York State survey on teaching method effectiveness.
Prayer fragment asking for guidance to be instruments of change
A devotional prayer fragment quotes Acts 3 6 and asks for given strength to serve and better the world. It invokes gratitude for the church and seeks a kindled spirit to become instruments of good. Amen.
Local history notes from Our Yesterdays column
A retrospective column recalls events from 75 50 and 25 years ago including sermons by Rev J W Powers at the Methodist Church the Jennie Whipple and Kate Kassel operating a packet line a quarantine of the Gordon Ricketts family for smallpox a Letts high school graduating class with the motto Rowing Not Drifting and Maynard L Downey named manager of the Iowa State Employment office In Musser Library a note on April book looting and a Columbus Auction band and mixed chorus earning top contest ratings
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Methodist
J. WH. Powers
Jennie Whipple
Kate Kassel
Robert Thompson
Harry Black
Poximassey R. 5
McNult
F. Walker
Boeing
Gordon Ricketts
Fairport
Stallpox
Letts High School
Betty Ruthenberg
Maynard L. Downey
Iowa State Employment Office
Musser
Opal Tysner
Columbus Aunetion
Godparents for Second Child Ask in Same Way
Reader asks if a couple who already served as godparents can be invited again for a second child. Abby notes that family religion matters for baptism and that continuing roles are common in some families. The letter-writer seeks guidance on whether to ask again.
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Abby
Hamo
Doi
Snow
Promer
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