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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1973
Page
2
A know the candidates meeting for the Muscatine Community School District board of education election will be held at 7 30 p m Sept 4 at the Musser Public Library. Eight candidates will read statements then take questions from the audience. Open to the public, sponsored by the Muscatine League of Women Voters.
Members of the Muscatine Toastmasters club met Thursday at Kathy's with John McCormick presiding. Speakers covered topics from trading stamps to outdoor life and running routines, while awards went to McCormick for speaker and Horney for critic with Yankee and Doelling receiving topic and joke honors.
The Muscatine Chapter of the Izaak Walton League meets at 8 p.m. Thursday Sept. 6 for installation of new officers Ke n Miller president Don Suhl vice president Johan Newsmith secretary and Walter Lewis treasurer. New two year board members include Howard Stolley Ken Milder Vernon Webb Gere Batey John Boston Del Evans Lynn McCullough Kemmy Huber. John England fills an unexpired one year term. September events include public trapshoot at 9 a.m. Sept. 9 board meeting at p.m. Sept. 20 National Hunting and Fishing Day at 9 a.m. Sept. 22 and public trap shoot at 9 a.m. Sept. 30.
Associate Press writer reports Iowa schools face higher hot lunch prices and scarcer food, prompting use of meat substitutes and government commodities. Cedar Rapids 41 districts cite limited meat bids and shortages of canned peaches and pears due to freezes and floods. Schools plan frugal menus, some raising student prices while promising not to cut free lunch programs.
Miss Your Pawer We hope not but if your carrier fails to deliver call the Journal circulation department hours Mon Fri and Sat. Office hours listed Muscatine Journal published daily except Sundays and holidays by Lee Enterprises. Subscription rates shown for city carriers and mail delivery within various distances.
Muscatine will maintain telephone operation for the Jerry Lewis Labor Day telethon for Muscular Dystrophy. Telephones will be manned continuously from 10:15 p.m. Sunday to 9:30 p.m. Monday. The local number is 263 8592.
A Muscatine man, Francis Reinier, 46, was hospitalized in good condition after a fall from a garage roof behind 119 Roselawn Thursday about 11:35 am. He was taken to Muscatine General Hospital by Riley ambulance after the incident was reported.
Fred Schwengel of Davenport says he will not run for any elective office next year. The Republican, 65, will focus on leading the U.S. Capitol Historical Society in Washington. He first won a seat in 1954, served five terms, lost in 1964, won in 1966, then lost again in 1968 to Edward Mezvinsky.
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