The Muscatine Journal from Muscatine, Iowa • 8

1 II i 'Wednesday, April 12, 1950 THE MUSCATINE JOURNAl MUSCATINE. IOWA Paqe 8 Hercer County Summary Given Journal Camera Tells Story of Erosion I Damage Caused Rv Kincaid Creek: Other Drainaae Problems Are Created -j- Voters Reject Proposed Bonds AledTo. 111. Mercer county. voters; turned thumbs down oh a proposed $250,000 bond lasiae.

for imorovement of county. roads by ,1956 to 1871 in Tuesday's primary election, unofiiciai tiguros snow. In a major contest for nomina-tinns i A. Johnson of i Seaton. with 1619 votes, defeated Ross F.

Dahl sof oy for the republican nomination for' county superintendent of schools. It was the only contest in the GOP primary. Otherj republicans nominated; included James A. Allen of Aledo BUTTERNUT EE ITU THE ONLY MARKET GedifrMairket 610 CEDAR (SO EE VttS3 Of Ilursing Work At PIIIKJeeting Reports on individual cases and discussions on the recent county-wide x-ray program were the principal item taken up in a meeting of the Public Health Nursing association Tuesday night. i In her monthly statistical i re-port; Public Health Nurse Margaret Matheson reported the, association had handled 75 new cases during the month of March and 1 73 cases were i closed during the same period.

Miss Matheson also reported the association had made 592 nursing Visits during March" and had visited 483 homes. A classification ot visits showed there were 197 non communicable 22 "orthopedic cases, two venereal cases. 29 communicable six" tuberculosis antepartum cases, 55 post partum cases and 89 cases Of infants oyer one month. Vjjsits clifcsed unaer "health supervision" included 50 cases, infanta over one month; 35 cases, pre school; 23 cases, school; -56 cases, adult; 14 visits where party waslnd hi Classification' of, office interviews listed in, the report included three antepartum cases, two) postpartum cases, two cases of infant over one month, 29 non communicable two venereal caseji, tuberculosis cases, two comjxiunicable case4i Three office interviews on cases bf infants? over one 'month were jelassed under "health Conditions given for discharge of closed cases were: improved, seven; i unimproved, four; recovered, 60; dead, two. 1 Riad the Want Ads todayf STREET its Here is what erosion does.

i Thirty-five' years ago a man could ride on horseback without ducking his head through the opening that J. Harold Furnas is measuring. i Joday you would have trouble crawling through. The ceiling oi concrete bridge; I is only two feet above a huge accumulation of silt. Another flood or two bringing rn.

ripnhsits and the conduit un der the bridge will be plugged for sure. The Journal photograph points up a situation is. costing fariYiers of the Kmcaid creek wa tershed i'and of drainage district No. 13 thousands or aoiiars every yearj I 1 I is la situation that in a iet.s spectacular fashion, perhaps, i is bemg duplicated in many otner places I in Muscatine county and Iowa. Villain in this particular dram3 is Kincaid creek.

Ordinarily this little stream is harmless, causing no trouble at all as it goes about its main business of beautifying the landscape and pr-oviding a pleasant setting for picnickers. Eut whenever a heavy rain. ocJ Curs in -the 2.200 acres that comprise, the i watershed, Kincaid creek forgets its harmless ways and starts' carrying loads and loads of troulble. l.aden rich top soil; torn from' the sloping fields', the creek roars down out of the blutls. But' as i the swollen stream PIN SCHEDULE A 4'ti-aT.

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Officials of drainage district No. 13 are concerned about the heavy silting of the creek, and Muscatine slough, all a part of an elaborate drainage ditch system traversing the island. Every year or two the district must, go to jccmsiderable exense to dredge out the Kincaid ditch. Some ot the silt that isj carried as far as the slough retards the flow of water there. "Worst silting occurs where the stream passes under the Milwaukee bridge and through near-by Furnas farm.

Joining with the drainage' district in a study of the protlem are members of the soil conservation' staff here, officials', of the Milwaukee railroad andmembers of the Muscatine county board of supervisors. I I One solution proposed is the construction; of af large silting basin on a series'' of such basins that would retard the flow of water and cause the creek to drop its burden of- silt before reaching the bottom 'land. These' silting basins would, it is hoped slow, down the passage of flood waters to a period of 24 hours, or longer in contrast to theproesnt movement of floods A MOW for county judge; O. Lee of Aledoi for county clerk; Robert Cadle for sheriff; and Fay R. Murcock for treasurer.

a democratic party write-in contest for sheriff, Forrest A. Mannon of New Boston, with 164 won over' William McNeil of Aledo, who got 133 C. H. Thoman, Aledo superintendent of schools, was nominated as candidate for county superintendent of schools; Meredith Davis of- Aledo for county judge; and Don Erickson for county treasurer. There were no demo- rratin candidates for clerk, i if Cooked celery may be served in a variety of ways.

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Muscatine Stars Atjl.STC Honored AtiKiwanisFeed Wtilt Kochneff, Fred Have-mann, Frank Whitely and Dave Funk: were special guests of the Kiwanis' club at the' banquet held lor the high schpoi basketball squad Monday nighty Thfcse four boys 1 and Charlie Riekiwho was unable to be present at the banquet, brought Muscatine fame through' Iowa State Teacher's College athletics during tine past season. Fathers of the bojs were also special guests. 1 1 Ramsdell Victor In Ring Battle i 1 '1 ji Ted Ramsdell won a split decision from Don Logan of Davenport the fifth bout on the Legion I fight card here Monday niehtL -7 ThE story of the fight was inadvertently omitted from; Tuesday's Journal. 1 The fight, one of the best, of the evening, featured the two boys slugging 'it outi all the way with first round going to Logan, the second to Ramsdell and the third also to the Muscatine boy. i infints, sizes 5i3 to 8 children, sizes 8Hfto 11 Misses, sizes 11 4 to i boys, sizes 6 women, sizes 5 to 9 men, sires to 12 $4.95 $6.95 $7.50 $9.95 $11,95 $13.95 1 fti I) 1 v- max? iMl iTO LIVE BETTER ELECTRI 1 f- 1 i 1 'PLAN 1 1 'I -J 111 Xcs Hi''.

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