Muscatine school chief A A Johnson retires after 37 years
Longtime Muscatine education leader Superintendent A A Johnson concludes a 37 year career, starting as assistant principal and serving as superintendent since 1937. Tributes pour in from the community as open house and reception honor his decades of service and the district’s growth.
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Muscatine Community College
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Muscatine Community
Newest Devil Is the Suburbanite by John Chamberlain
The piece argues the suburban move began decades before race issues rose, driven by economic growth and car access. It contends whites fled inner cities for safety and space, blaming not whites alone but historical forces, and highlights Greenwich's Lowell Weicker urging urban renewal planning to address blight while preserving suburban tax contributions.
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New York
Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
North
Middle West
America
Henry Ford
Westbrook Pegler
Cal Coolidge
John O'Hara
Harlem
Boston Post
Manhattan
New York Times
Lowell Weicker
Weicker
Mr. Weicker
Listening In On Crime The Wiretap Bill in Senate
The Crime Control Act approved in the Senate would allow federal and state authorities to obtain court orders for wiretaps and bugs for crimes including espionage murder kidnapping and bribery. It preserves safeguards but critics warn emergency taps risk abuse and claim rights safeguards are too weak.
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Supreme Court
New York
Berger
State Liquor Authority
Stewart
Harlan
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Black
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Slumber Clouded Thoughts by Joy Stilley
A columnist shares the struggle of waking to an uncertain day and identity amid sleep confusion. The piece blends humorous self reflection on attempting to track time with a dreamlike ride through restless nights, jet airplanes, and insomnia. The narrator muses that removing the clock might ease the cycle and end the late-night clock peering.
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Joy Stilley
New
York
Land of Nod
Heart attack or hiatal hernia confusion discussed
Dear Dr Motner explains differential diagnosis for heart attack versus hiatal hernia. An ECG and stomach X ray aid diagnosis. Warning: chest pain with breathless sensation warrants quick medical care. Also notes on Meniere’s disease and harelip cleft palate repairs.
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Jays
Vietnam Civil Affairs Appeal Seeks Help for Hamlets Orphanage
A Vietnam era letter urges local readers to send clothing hygiene items and school supplies to five hamlets and an orphanage in Phu Ba. Civil Affairs officer Robert M. Gerdts asks clubs churches and scouts to assist peace efforts by providing needed goods. The note also recalls a Muscatine World War I contingent of 87 men leaving for Camp Dodge in 1918 and asks for recognition in the paper’s 50 Years Ago column.
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First Marine Division
Phu‘ba
South Vietnam
NVA
Vietnam
Civil Affairs Office
Robert M. Gerdts
1St Medical Bn
FMF
FPO
San Francisco
Calif
Muscatine
Camp Dodge
Focal
Our Yesterdays and Local News Digest Through Time
A compact look back reveals past milestones: 75 years ago Mrs. T R Fitzgerald returned from Chicago. 50 years ago Ralph Althaus enlisted in the navy and headed to Puget Sound. 25 years ago Lutheran spring festival planned for June 27 and Mrs Agnes Flynn Everett died at Hershey hospital with Rainbow for Girls installation at the Masonic Temple. 10 years ago Larry Hiller won a $300 Federal Land Bank of Omaha scholarship.
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Journal
T. R. Fitzgerald
Chicago
Waukesha
Nesper, and Co's
Ralph Althaus
West Fourth Street
Davenport
Navy
Pugent Sound
Agnes Flynn Everett
Mfelong
Muscatine
Spring’ Street
Hershey Hospital
Muscatine Assembly
Order of Rainbow
Masonic Temple
Donna Weber
Louis’ Weber
Wapello
Larry Hiller
Keith Hiller
Federal Land Bank of Omaha
Today in History May 31 1968 Highlights
On this date 1793 the reign of terror began in the French Revolution. 1889 a flood at Johnstown Pa killed over 2000. 1910 Union of South Africa founded. 1916 Battle of Jutland. 1943 French naval squadron at Alexandria joined the Allies. 1951 Radio Moscow claimed television invented in 1870. 1962 Adolf Eichmann executed in Israel. Coty named De Gaulle premier. Pope John XXII near death. UN call for diplomacy.
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Associated’ Press
Johnstown
Union of South Africa
Jutland
Adolf Eichmann
Israel
Rene Coty
Charles de Gaulle
France
St. Peter's Square
Rome
John XXII
United States
Security Council
The Daily Prayer Verse and a Simple Suppliant Note
A devotional snippet cites Ephesians 2 3 and offers a short prayer to God the Father. It asks for faith to sustain life changes and for calmness and constant love in doing Thy will. The prayer closes with Our Father in heaven and Amen.
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