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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1963
Page
6
View shows West Liberty’s new fire station completed and ready this week. Construction on the $10,000 station began around the first week of the month, reflecting rapid progress and local investment in public safety.
Three men run for two vacancies on the Muscatine Community School district board. Incumbent John D. Baeger seeks re election alongside Elmer E Bloom and Robert T Walter. Voters in wards one two three vote at designated sites while ward four and fifth ward residents cast ballots at Lincoln and Franklin schools. The seven directors set wages district policy and oversee a budget over 1 million dollars serving more than 5000 students.
Muscatine Community College, announced by Dean James F Lopez, will begin both for credit and non credit courses next week. The first course, Introduction to Geography, offers three semester hours and meets Mondays 7 to 9 30 p m in room 4, starting Sept 9, with registration at the first class. Tuition is 10 dollars per semester hour for credit classes. non credit courses meet one night weekly for ten weeks with about 7 30 dollars tuition per course.
Rep H R B Gross says he will urge House action on a Senate passed bill raising top civil service pay to 20000 a year affecting about 150 employees with raises of 10000. He calls it sloppy legislation or favors for friends. Williams questions the 30000 figure. Bali volcano Bali Island eruption reported by Indonesian civil defense Red Cross awaiting detailed casualty and damage data.
Governor Harald Hughes announced he will appoint a special subcommittee to study water pollution in Iowa. He said the focus will be on lakes and streams and that current state laws on pollution were enacted.
Hazleton Pennsylvania reports a fresh collapse at the mine trapping Louis Bova aged 54 and two others. State officials refuse to risk more miners entering the weakened slope and continue surface drilling to reach the trio, but the rescue remains uncertain.
A subcommittee was formed to work with the Governor's Public Health Advisory Committee, appointed recently, as the state faces increased industrial waste problems, pesticide use, inadequate sewage treatment, and more urban residents.
Iowa City programs invite applications for an In Service Institute for Science Teachers at The State University of Iowa. Director Robert Yager announced 60 teachers will be chosen from applicants by Sept 15 with first meeting Sept 21. The NSF grant funds the three year program to raise science teaching skills and enable credit courses with tuition exemption, travel allowances, and a $10 book stipend.
Wayne J. White, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. White, 216 Grandview Ave, leaves for Cambridge Mass to enroll at Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He previously graduated from Hayes Catholic High in 1956, Muscatine Community College in 1958, and Iowa State University in 1961 with a BS in electrical engineering and was affiliated with Alpha Sigma Phi and honoraries Tau Beta Pi Eta Kappa Nu Phi Kappa Phi. He has worked since graduation as a systems engineer at IBM.
Two automobiles vanished Friday night from the Morgan Trucking Co yard at 1004 East Fifth. A 1956 model owned by William Hopp of 1002 Grand Avenue and a 1953 model owned by Richard Curry of Siegel Street, both Morgan drivers, were missing after office hours while keys were left in the cars. Hopp reported the theft at 9:55 p.m. Curry at 7:20 p.m. while loading cargo at the SS Heinz plant.
The Friendly tavern at 119 Lawa Avenue was ordered closed indefinitely by city sanitation superintendent Frank Anson Jr. He cited no restrooms and four days without facilities as the reason, stating old plumbing had been removed for replacement.
Pamela McRoberts of Muscatine is pledged as a member of Kappa Alpha Theta at Iowa State University in Ames. The Journal Friday misreported that she pledged Gamma Phi Beta.
Representatives of the Eastern Iowa Light and Power Co operative headed from Wilton will join more than 600 rural electric cooperative leaders from Illinois Iowa and Wisconsin at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Region V meeting in Springfield. Major speakers include George Shipley Clyde Ellis Albert Hauffe and Norman Clapp as the Springfield event opens a series of ten regional meetings this fall focusing on the future of rural electrification under the theme The Challenge.
The Muscatine county NFO will meet at the YWCA on Wednesday to hear reports on the NFO paravans and the grain committee. Ottumwa hosts the grain committee meeting with Ed Hoffbauer presiding. Johnson County NFO plans its annual home supper this Thursday at the 4H Fair grounds south of Iowa City starting at 5:30 p.m. NEC national president Oren Lee Staley will be the main speaker.
A Cedar Rapids panel discussion on urban land rural problems is set for Tuesday night from 7 30 to 9 30 est at SCPS Hall 3rd st and lth ave SE The event features three panels representing labor agriculture and clergy With participants including Yahor C Manley Bill Smith Roberts Manke Jim Bui Ne Clerry White and Rev John Moore The program opens with an invocation by Father White and introductions by John King and Ivan Struzynski Moore gives the benediction at the close
Two cars were damaged and driver Letis Molliday, 24, suffered lip and chin cuts after a collision at 6:30 p m Friday at the Milwaukee railroad crossing on Grandview Avenue. Molliday was southbound and struck the rear of a car driven by Robert Holliday, 24, of 1223 Grand Avenue. Police reported Holliday had stopped for traffic ahead while traveling southwest.
Muscatine's state liquor store will remain closed on Monday due to the school election. Manager Clifford Reinsager announces the temporary closure affecting shoppers and operations.
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