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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1952
Page
2
West Liberty Chamber of Commerce plans a May business meeting at Globe cafe with a 6 pm dinner. Music department from West Liberty schools will present a program. Plans for 30 by 10 foot lighted Welcome signs are approved, with erection expected in about two weeks.
Ancient Egyptian mummies reveal widespread paradontitis or pyorrhea in preserved bodies, indicating common dental disease in antiquity and suggesting health conditions in burial-era populations.
Death occurred Friday at Gifford Illinois. Funeral services were held Tuesday at 10 a.m. at Geo M Wittich Funeral Home. The Rev Fred Ferris of First Baptist Church officiated. Mrs Leroy Thomas and Mrs George Holliday provided music. Pallbearers were Rex Young Fay Young Ray Lewis Kenneth Robert and Paul Maylone. Burial followed in Klein Cemetery.
Funeral services for Raymond B. Dora of 117 Sherman Street, who died Tuesday from injuries sustained in an accident, will be held at 2 30 p m Friday at the local church.
Raymond B Dora son of Thomas and Flora Dora born Muscatine August 22 1904 spent life in Muscatine. He married Irene Pease in Houston Texas December 31 1925. He was a United Brethren church member and Hess Rides partner. Burial at Greenwood cemetery. Viewing this evening. Survived by wife parents and two sisters Mrs Bessie Methany and Miss Florence Dora all of Muscatine.
Muscatine police report nearly $350 in damage from a three car collision at 4:50 p m on Park avenue south of Washington street. Drivers were Harry Owen Carpenter 1158 New Hampshire street Harry Brown Jr Burlington and Paul Richard Schumacher 1494 Washington street. The first two cars stopped for a signal and were hit from behind by the third car. Carpenter sustained about $40 damage while Brown and Schumacher each faced about $150 in damage.
Nighttime insect counts drop to about one fifth during the full moon compared with the new moon darkness. Researchers note light from the moon reduces insect abundance and alters nocturnal behavior.
Muscatine native H. Young and Rock Island’s J. J. McShane received life memberships in the American Society of Civil Engineers at a Muscatine Tri-Cities joint banquet at Lane Golf and Country club. The event featured brief business talks, officer announcements, and a sewer construction film by Art Ladehoff.
Rural eighth graders visiting Muscatine high school will attend an orientation and get-acquainted day at 1 15 p m in the high school social room. They will learn about procedures and register for the fall. Freshmen must take English and may choose algebra or mathematics with science or Latin and one of homemaking farm shops printing or general shops. Agriculture students must take farm shops. The required subjects support college prep industrial arts commercial and Smith Hughes agriculture.
Students and faculty of Muscatine Catholic High School will join a May Crowning ceremony on Thursday honoring the Blessed Virgin. A rosary procession starts at 3 p.m with Beverly Kurriger crowning the Blessed Virgin statue at the grotto on St. Mathias grounds. Attendants are Vada Zybarth and Kathleen Yerington.
Muscatine lodge 304 BPO Elks announce a membership fish fry at 6 30 p m Friday May 23 Reservations due by May 21 Paid-up membership card guarantees a place. out of town members may reserve by mail.
M A Pope manager of the Muscatine exchange of the Northwestern Bell Telephone Co spoke at the Muscatine Y s Men s club meeting at the YMCA. He outlined services and local operations and future plans and presented a short film The Telephone in Action. Jack Weier Shauser was program chairman. The next meeting will be a ladies night at Grant Graham s home.
Moisture can widen the gap between rotor and inserts in the distributor block, making starting difficult on cold mornings. Proper gap adjustment reduces moisture-related hesitation.
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