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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1964
Page
2
Cyril C. Van Acker of 2018 Sampson Street keeps city hall floors spotless and trims the hedge along the front walks. Part of the hedge reportedly died after ice melting salt was used on winter sidewalks, according to a Journal Photo caption.
A noon hour delay on Aoex Island Lines freight train halted downtown crossings for forty minutes. Mayor Robert Bosch notified police at 12 25 p m that Iowa avenue was blocked as several offices and stores reported employees unable to pass.
Sen Jack Miller Iowa urged the Senate Rules Committee to pursue a full investigation of the Bobby Baker case. He urged calling all senators before the committee to reveal any financial dealings with the former secretary to the Democratic majority, while noting no accusations against any senator yet.
Victor Lee reported thefts in Muscatine involving two batteries from a digger at Howard and Jackson and another on a tractor at Jefferson and McKinley. Gasoline was taken from the digger and a second digger on First Avenue. A broken windshield and missing instrument panel were reported from a pickup on Schilter Street.
Minds laws section, American Chemical society, will have a dinner meeting Friday evening at Geneva Golf and Country Club. Dr. Robert Samp of University hospitals Madison Wis will speak on This Wonderful World of Hadacol, Krebiozen, Honegar and Neutralite. Wives of society members will be guests. social hour at 5 10 p.m. followed by dinner at 6 30. Jack Garbutt in charge of reservations. musical entertainment will be.
Members of DeNolay Commandery No. 1 Knights Templar conferred several degrees on a class of candidates on Wednesday. Recipients included Myles Beitz Max Cramley Robert Hahn L D Krueger Herman Lord Bill Lang Walter McGillivary Charles Opelt Clarence Raub W Floyd Scott George Springhorn and Clair York.
The Sweetland 4-H club met at New Era gym for a monthly session. A softball report was given and plans were made to start practice on May 17 at Weed Park. Members vote to buy equipment and schedule a club tour for Saturday July 11. A plant food demonstration was presented by Steve Connor.
Muscatine residents are invited to a 3 30 p m lawn concert by the Muscatine high school band on the Ninth street side of the school lawn. The free event includes coffee and desserts, a band uniform fund collection, and guest conductors and performers from town. Charles Kreeb directs a 70 piece band with plans for 15 plus townspeople to participate.
Des Moines County officials await a ruling on whether to reprint or adjust ballots for the June 1 primary due to errors. Auditor Frank Hampton cites about 20,000 ballots and notes Attorney General Evan Hultman has ruled county supervisors will be elected to four-year terms. Hampton seeks guidance on how to proceed without altering already mailed absentee ballots.
Circle K club at Muscatine Community College seeks trees to plant for campus landscaping. Local businesses are asked to donate or order trees from nurseries. planting will be done by nurseries per a college plan. Donors may choose from many varieties including Maple, Birch, Locust, Red Bud, and more, with two flowering plum trees and Mountain Ash already contributed by local sponsors.
DeWayne Rogers of Mineral Michigan sustained a jagged wrist wound in his county jail cell. Deputies say a tourniquet stopped bleeding after four stitches and he was returned to jail. His preliminary hearing on the OMVI charge is set for next Monday.
William Flanagan, 40, a district sales representative for Ford Motor Co., of Des Moines, was killed Wednesday night in a collision between his car and a truck on Highway 189 about eight miles north of Fort Dodge.
The YMCA program concluded with 61 boys selling 8045 boxes of Y cookies. They earned 395.52 dollars to apply toward summer camping, plus an equal amount for YMCA World Service. Top sellers Rickey Koepping Richard Bohling and Rodney Oxley earned over 20 dollars each. Terry Franklin James Herrig and Arnold Hart earned 15 dollars or more.
The Reverend Franklin Clark Fry will deliver opening remarks at the Festive Synodical Vesper Rally May 17 in Centennial Hall Augustana College Rock Island Illinois. The three day convention of the Town Synod of the church will feature Fry on church and world missions today. The event follows the 1962 Detroit constituting convention forming the Lutheran Church in America through merger of four bodies. Attendees include Roy Gauger and Rev. E B Meyer from Grace Lutheran Muscatine. Omitted names from Kern day tag sale reports in Wednesday Journal editions noted.
The new Kennedy $75 savings bond goes on sale May 1, part of a nationwide campaign to July 4. Postmaster John H. Hendriks chairs county sales. Robert L. Roach, a WWI-era leader, acted as seller. The bond costs $56.25 and reaches redemption in seven years nine months, bearing Kennedy’s inaugural line.
Two licenses are suspended in the Letts and Wapello area. Raymond Lyle Dickey, 21, Route 2, Wapello, received his suspension April 30 for speeding. James Merlin Larson, 21, Route 1, Letts, received his on May 1 for a serious traffic violation.
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