City Observes Memorial Day in Muscatine
Muscatine prepares for Memorial Day observances starting Sunday with services at Grace Lutheran church and continuing Monday with ceremonies at city cemeteries and Riverside park. The day is a city holiday with schools offices stores and post office services adjusted. Memorial addresses and salutes are planned with Judge Matthew Westrate delivering at Greenwood cemetery.
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Muscatine
Grace Lutheran Church
Greenwood Cemetery
Matthew Westrate
Riverside Park
Response Good On Petitions Of Federalists
Ninety percent of those interviewed sign petitions for a stronger United Nations as a step to world peace, led by United World Federalists sponsors. Workers will press downtown today and through Tuesday, with the Farm Bureau handling rural districts. A kickoff dinner drew sixty five attendees with speakers J. B. Tracy and others.
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United Nations
United World Federalists
Farm Bureau
UWF
J. B. Tracy
Claude Cooper
K. E. Wilcox
Forrest Larmer
Vernon Lear
C. M. Stanley
Russian Babies Learn No First
Conversation between Jakob Malik of the Soviet Union and New York Herald Tribune reporter Peter Kihss highlights linguistic jokes about da and nyet. Malik notes the USSR favors nyet while Kihss says the US teaches babies da.
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Lake Success
Soviet
Russia
Jakob A. Malik
New York Herald Tribune
Peter Kihss
Malik
Kihss
Khiss
United States
Marriage Announcement for Miss Knippenberg and Edgar Rogier
The forthcoming marriage of Miss June Marie Knippenberg of Minneapolis to Edgar Robert Rogier of Minneapolis is announced. The ceremony is planned for 7 p.m. Saturday June 12 at Hennepin Avenue Methodist Church Groveland and Lyndale Avenue South Minneapolis. Miss Knippenberg formerly worked as a children's librarian at the P M Musser Library and moved from Muscatine in June 1945 to join the University of Minnesota library system.
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June Marie Knippenberg
Minneapolis
Minn
Victor M. Knippenberg
Edgar Robert Rogier
Hennepin Avenue Methodist Church
Groveland
Lyndale Avenue
South
Miss Knippenberg
P. M. Musser
Muscatine
Library
The
University of Minnesota
Marjorie Putman Seeks Divorce in District Court
Marjorie J. Putman, 76, of Rock Island township, filed for divorce from Glen H. Putman in district court on Friday. They married July 31, 1947, and separated December 10. She cites cruelty and asks to resume her maiden name.
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Marjorie J. Putman
Glen H. Putman
Rock Island
Lone Tree Junior Kittenball Team Prepares For Hills Clash
Lone Tree merchants organize a junior kittenball team directed by Harold Owen to open the season Sunday against Hills. Coach Stanford Miller leads 22 players sponsored by 18 local businessmen with 18 uniforms bearing sponsor names. Starting lineup includes Evan Watkinson and others. a second game is set for June 6 with Jowe Supiy of Iowa City.
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Lone Tree
Harold Owen
Hills
Stanford Miller
Marner and Adams
Harrys Hume Oil Co
Feiner and Marner
Shellady Grocery
Baumer and
Younes Eden
Evan Watkinson
Robert Kendal
Jack McClean
James Ronar
Richard Stonebarger
Rona Wichand
Eldon Westfary
Gerald Forbes
Joe Young
Bob Sherbourne
Neil Adams
Calvin Lavely
Clyde Lenz
Billy Stock
Tom Stonebarger
Frank Kaalberg
Harold Forbes
Keith Forbes
Charles Mullinix
Donald Attig
Robert Kem
Jowe Supiy
Iowa City
Brockway Receives $300 Fine and License Suspension
Judge Matthew Westrate in district court fined Ronald H. Brockway Wapelio $300 plus costs after he pleaded guilty to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. The court suspended his driver's license for 30 days. Brockway was arrested by Muscatine police in the 700 block of West Front Street early Tuesday.
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Matthew Westrate
Ronald H. Brockway Wapelio
Brockway
Muscatine
West Front Street
Memorial Day notices and local happenings in Muscatine
Raymond Yoder of Ottumwa is recovering at home after a March crash on highway 61 near Muscatine that fractured his pelvis. Memorial Day office hours and a string of local meetings, hospital updates, travel plans of residents, and marriage licenses are listed among the day’s notes for Muscatine and nearby areas.
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Raymond Yoder
Ottumwa
Muscatine
Riley Funeral Home
Yoder
M. F. Moorhead
Memphis Tenn
Calvin Moorhead
Moorhead
Donald Moorhead
Alexandria
Office of Internal Revenue
Wesley Engle
Brighton
Grace Chapman
Pine Street
Civil Service Commission
City Council
Florence Mason
City Recorder
Sidney Bowen
Dickie
Port Huron
Mich
Bowen
Leonard Bowen
Mulberry Avenue
Bowens
San Francisco
Virginia Boldt
Dillaway
Gray Hospital
Muscatine County
Fourth of July Committee
Orchard Avenue
Des Moines
Iowa
Philadelphia
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Stassen
GOP
Pittsburgh
Sacramento
Johnston
William Morrison
Iowa City
George Hatfield
Fruitland
Hatfield
Clair Emons
Park Place
Veterans Hospital
Emons
Bellevue Hospital
Home-O-Nize Co
East Third Street
East Seventh Street
Elmer Walker
Albert Martin
Sycamore Street
Women's Relief Corps
Grace Lutheran
Slight Change In Weather In Muscatine
Muscatine today shows its 14th straight day of clear weather with a forecast of slight changes. Sunday is partly cloudy with little temperature change. highs 66 to 72, current afternoon near 70. Friday's high reached 79, state high 84 at Burlington. overnight low 46. Light showers expected in northwest Iowa Friday night.
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Muscatine
Burlington
Associated Press
Owa
District Court finds payment settled in Smith v Iowa Cemetery Co
Judge Matthew Westrate finds Shannon Smith paid $95 on a sales contract with Iowa Cemetery Company owner of Muscatine county Memorial cemetery and Joan L Nelson, its president. Defendants absolved from further liability. Parties share court costs equally.
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Matthew Westrate
Shannon Smith
Iowa Cemetery Company
Muscatine County Memorial Cemetery
Joan L. Nelson
Maxwell Ordered to Clarinda State Hospital
Des Moines report states that Mrs. Doris V. Maxwell, held for the ax slaying of her invalid husband William on May 17, was found insane by a district court jury. The State Board of Control ordered she be sent to the Clarinda state hospital for the insane, and Sheriff Howard C. Reppert said he would transport her there Monday.
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Des Moines
State Board of Control
Doris V. Maxwell
Clarinda State Hospital
Maxwell
William
Howard C. Reppert
Grace Lutheran Church to Attend Memorial Day Service
A Grace Lutheran congregation will gather Sunday morning for a service and will also participate in the Memorial Day service Monday morning at Greenwood Cemetery.
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Grace Lutheran Church
Greenwood Cemetery
Funeral Rites for Carolyn K Brownfield
Funeral services for Carolyn K Brownfield aged seven were held at 2 p.m. Friday at Geo M Wittich Funeral Home. Dr Claude W Coover of First Methodist led the service with organist Mrs George Holliday. Pallbearers were Charles Mathias John Mathias Walter Kettler and Birtie Brownfield. Burial followed in Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Carolyn K. Brownfield
Geo. M. Wittich
Claude W. Coover
First Methodist Church
George Holliday
Charles and
John Mathias
Walter Kettler
Birtie Brownfield
Memorial Park Cemetery
Memorial service planned for WWII dead at Oakland base
An Oakland military base will host a memorial service Friday honoring 400 World War II dead awaiting delivery to next of kin. Relatives have been invited. The deceased were moved from temporary Pacific battle area cemeteries.
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Oakland
Calif
Oakland Army Base
Pacific
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