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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1966
Page
4
Muscatine residents will be called upon later this month to support a campaign for 350000 to finance a new YMCA building. The project totals 800000 with 300000 from the Musser Trust Fund and 150000 from the Kent Stein Foundation.
John Chamberlain skewers U S arrogance in foreign policy as he mocks Fulbright's critique of power. The piece cites Vietnam, Berlin, Korea, Yalta, and UN policy while lampooning White House, Rusk, and Gallup polls. Strong names include Fulbright, Clay, De Gaulle, Rusk, Goldberg, and Bismarck in a provocative literary take.
A compact recap of century-spanning item fragments notes jokes from Our Yesterdays, a military kiss joke, dinner party costs, Davenport notes, dress goods bargains, a button plant expansion in New Hampshire with five workers, four new cutting machines, a vocal and instrumental program at the senior high school fieldhouse with about 350 musicians under Max Risinger and Harold Freeze, a building permit for Ella Schreurs in Oak Street 400 block, Fred C. Vetter's serious Bellevue hospital condition, and a Mothers club Mother and Daughter tea at Mulford Congregational church with about 100 attendees.
Washington AP reports that scholar Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr and Senator J. W. Fulbright critique President Johnson's handling of foreign affairs. Schlesinger accuses Johnson of leadership lacking and gullibility toward State and Defense positions, while Fulbright warns against equating power with virtue and urges humility in U.S. influence abroad.
Norma L. a 17 year old high school senior asks Dr Crane why boys don’t pursue more dates. The article counsels readers to become social detectives, praising “tooting the horn” by complimenting others rather than boasting about one’s own advantages.
A dating columnist outlines how excessive self praise harms dating outcomes. The subject Norma learns to shift focus to compliments, promising three sincere remarks on a future date to improve appeal. The piece promotes mutual praise, suggesting horns of approval boost romance.
Connecticut mother questions proper spending for a 1st year girl’s corsage while facing class expectations and a boy’s social ties. Abby urges focus on good character, not material pressure, and to avoid enforcing hardship on the family. A separate letter warns about guests bringing a disruptive child to a wedding and suggests clear boundaries with friends.
The HAL BOYLE AP column lists quirky trivia and curiosities: economic loss from traffic accidents in early 1966 mounted to 1.738 million dollars for January–February, 40 million Americans with athlete's foot, George Washington’s playful vanity with lockets and mirrors, de Gaulle’s cheese quip, an octopus with three hearts, Caesars Palace Las Vegas with a Brutus bouncer and Cleopatra staff, 18 million Americans over 65 spending 26 billion yearly on dancing and wheelchairs, a numeric riddle about Ben and Bill, 30 objects orbiting Earth, a golf ball speed of 185 mph, and rat incisor growth. It closes with a note that captive zoo animals tend to live longer.
A short devotional requests guidance from God to read and use the Bible as a daily life guide. The prayer asks for strength to turn to Scripture at all times and ends with an Amen through Jesus Christ.
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