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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1973
Page
4
Dear Abby advises Hung that jury service is a civic duty and warns against husbands pressuring wives to dodge it. The column notes the moral point of honoring civic responsibilities and contrasts it with a spouse’s tyranny. A second reader asks about a dinner invitation involving shoe slippers in Japan and Abby explains personal customs.
Barbara Musgrove Elliott of Muscatine receives a $100 scholarship from the Omicron Chapter of Della Kappa Gamma, a national honorary for women teachers. She attends Muscatine Community College planning a home economics major and resides with husband Jerry and five daughters Monica and Melisa.
Clorita L Sloan of New Boston and Brian P Kenny of Grayslake Ill have set June 30 for their wedding. The ceremony begins at 4 pm at United Methodist church in New Boston with reception to follow. Parents are Mrs Orla Sloan and the late Mitton Sloan of New Boston and Mrs Reginald Kenny and Reginald Kenny of Chicago. The bride elect graduated Westmer High School and Southern Illinois University Carbondale with a dental hygiene degree and works for Warren E Petty DDS in Benson. Kenny earned an AA in Law Enforcement and a BA in Administration of Justice at Southern Telling University and works with Lt Police Services ICRR in Chicago.
Amanda Jones, new Miss USA, says liberation means personal fulfillment and that women can pursue any career. She notes fulfillment as wife and mother is valid if that suits the individual, speaking at a Sunday news conference in New York.
Four women attended the 53rd annual meeting of the Iowa federation of Business and Profession Women club in Des Moines May 18 to 20 at the Hotel Savery. Muscatine delegates Ruth Webb Ramona Richter Margaret Heerd and Cathy Johnson attended.
Muscatine Garden club and Floral Arts garden club members travel to Ames on Wednesday for the Federated Garden Clubs of Town spring conference. It marks the federation's first spring gathering and launches a new emphasis and activity year with a two day program of meetings workshops luncheons and award presentations led by Professor.
A miscel laneous bridal shower was held Thursday in the Conesville Fire Station community room honoring Patricia Roush. The event featured pink and green decor and gifts. Patricia Roush, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Roush, Conesville, will marry Douglas Cross, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Cross, Wapello, at 8 p.m. May 26 at the Conesville United Methodist Church.
Pythian Sisters Muscatine Temple No 163 met recently and urged members to turn in love gifts at the June 19 meeting for the Kinderline Fund. Each member was asked to bring a favorite sandwich for refreshments. Delia Weier snauser, mother of the temple, received a Mother’s Day gift. Inez Lange hosted the social hour. Past Chiefs club set a May 29 gathering at Virginia Jens’s home.
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