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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1952
Page
2
The Muscatine county board of review opened its 1952 sessions at the courthouse this week and recessed at 4 p.m. today. It will not meet again until 10 a.m. Tuesday.
County Assessor John Graham says eight townships and five towns have been reviewed for personal property and new buildings. The board will begin reviewing the remaining six townships and one town on Tuesday morning in the Memorial room on the courthouse first floor.
A man listed as Porto Rican No. 1 Right was fined $10 and costs for intoxication in Justice of the Peace Robert H. Wilson's court after arrest at 100 block Iowa avenue. Police could not identify his name. Another Muscatine man, Mark Bowles, also fined $10 and costs for a similar charge after being arrested at Hershey avenue and Green street.
Cpl. Thomas H. Marten, son of Mr and Mrs Henry Marten of 1423 Cedar St, graduated third in his class of 97 at the NCO school in Munich. John Roth, son of Mr and Mrs J M Roth, was named personnel chairman for the Veishea Engineering Open House at Iowa State College with the 1952 festival set for May 15-17. Francis X. Avesing, 22, is among Saint Louis University spring enrollees majoring in sociology. William E. Ostrander has a new military address routed through APO 147. Members of the community note Mother’s Day and Family Week observances at First Presbyterian Church.
A 16 year old Muscatine youth was arrested at 11 27 p m Wednesday on a break ing and entering charge and turned over to the probation officer for juvenile court. He allegedly broke into a garage at 705 Monroe street and took a pair of field glasses from a car. The youth had a prior 1950 larceny of a motor vehicle charge.
A group of Iowa managing editors at a spring meeting of the Iowa Associated Press Managing Editors Association conducted an informal straw poll. The majority favored Dwight D. Eisenhower for president and William S. Beardsley for a third Iowa term as governor, with Taft and Evans each ahead in other views.
Robert Gene Ford 19 of Avon drowned when a homemade boat with an outboard motor capsized in eight feet of water at a gravel pit between Avon and Carlisle near the Polk Warren county line. His companion James Goodhue 21 of Carlisle swam to shore.
Local hospitals announce a birth at Hershey Hospital a son born to Mr and Mrs David Jones Jr of 704 Lombard Street.
Voting to extend Muscatine’s Iowa Electric Co natural gas franchise for 25 years was underway with light turnout. At 1 p.m. polls reported 180 votes at Central fire station 123 at Home Society Mulberry 65 at Franklin school South Muscatine and light turnout at Cherry street fire station. Polls opened at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m.
Iowa Insurance Commissioner Charles R. Fischer says insurers expect higher rates for personal injury and property damage liability. He notes executives expect pleas for increased rates to be inevitable due to losses rising over the past year.
Butter prices steady with mixed scores. wholesale buying prices mostly unchanged. Poultry steady to firm. fryers up a penny per pound. heavy hens 23 to 25 cents, light hens 20 to 21 cents, ducklings 29 cents. Receipts listed for butter, eggs, and live poultry.
Chicago cash grain prices show wheat and soybeans unavailable. Corn prices range No 2 yellow at about 1.854 to 1.864 dollars per bushel, No 3 around 1.79 to 1.84, No 5 about 1.70 to 1.7944, with samples 1.37 to 1.54. Oats quot ed for No 1 through No 3 heavy white, barley nominal, field seeds red clover and timothy priced.
Am Home Products 36 percent Am Rad and St 16 percent Am Smelting 417 percent Am Tel and Tel 1544s Am Tobacco 5642 Anaconda 43 percent Armour and Co 10 percent Atchison 7942 Bendix Aviation 47 percent Beth Steel 48 percent Boeing Airplane 48 percent Case 26 percent Chrysler 7542 Con Edison 35 percent Corn Products 68 percent Curtiss-Wright 7 Deere and Co 64 percent Dupont 83 percent
More than 200 boys and men attended a YMCA pow wow Wednesday night organized by the religious work committee to strengthen ties between business sponsors of free memberships and youth using them. The program featured motion pictures, talks on YMCA activities, and group recreation. Elzo Sarchett chaired the committee, with Jim Kremer and B L Gallaher presenting, Harold Freese leading songs.
In Chicago on May 8 potatoes show arrivals at 14 on track 15 with total U S ship ments not available. Supplies are very light and trading is limited, hindering price and market formation on track and street sales.
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