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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1966
Page
20
An 800000 campaign for a new Muscatine YMCA building and 300000 for facilities was revealed at a noon luncheon. YMCA building chairman Fred Hocking cited early gifts totaling 450000 from the Musser Trust and Kent Stein Foundation, with a late-May drive to raise the remaining 350000 and pledges extending over three years.
All-Purpose Room Tunity college notes grants totaling $300 500 to fund a new YMCA building in Muscatine with downtown improvements. The First National Bank of Muscatine officers back the advisory committee. Kent Stein Foundation pledges $150 000 about 19 percent of the project to broaden YMCA facilities and activities for citizens.
Plans for Muscatine's new eight by 140 building with a 25 by 4 foot pool and expanded youth center outline handball, volleyball and basketball courts, sauna bath, gymnastic equipment, and 35 sleeping rooms totaling 36 beds. Construction will tear down the old structure on current site, with parts built over the pool.
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