PARTY SUNNY AND HIGH OF 47 TODAY.
SNOW..2 TO 4 INCHES, IS IN THE TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING FORECAST.
THE MAQUOKETA FIREMEN WERE CALLED TO THREE PLACES YESTERDAY. FIRST..TO PUT OUT A FIRE IN A SEMI-TRUCK ON HIGHWAY 61....THEN AT 6 P.M. TO PUT OUT AN AIRPLANE ENGINE FIRE AT THE AIRPORT....AND SHORTLY AFTER ..A CALL THAT SOMEONE STRUCK A GAS PIPE OUTSIDE OWL FURNITURE AND FIREMEN WAITED UNTIL THE GAS WAS TURNED OFF. A 1976 TWIN ENGINE PLANE WAS BEING FILLED WITH FUEL WHEN THE PLANE ENGINE CAUGHT FIRE. ASSISTANT FIRE CHIEF AL MUHLHAUSEN WAS DRIVING PAST THE AIRPORT TOWARD MAQUOKETA WHEN THE CALL CAME....SO HE DROVE IN AND PUT THE FIRE OUT WITH AN EXTINGUISHER BEFORE FIRE TRUCKS ARRIVED. FIREMEN DID COOL OFF THE HOT SPOTS ON THE ENGINE WHEN THEY ARRIVED.
SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TONIGHT.
THREE BIRTHS:
A BOY TO BRIAN AND KATHRYN PISCH OF CEDAR RAPIDS, BORN SATURDAY. MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE DAVE AND MARY RIDER OF BALDWIN AND GREAT-GRANDPARENTS, MIKE AND EDNA RIDER OF MAQUOKETA.
A BOY, TO PETERAND KAYLA CARLSON OF MAQUOKETA, BORN LAST THURSDAY AT DUBUQUE HOSPITAL. MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE TONY AND KOREEN SCHORK OF MAQUOKETA AND PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE LOWELL AND BRENDA CARLSON OF RURAL MAQUOKETA.
A BOY BORN LAST SATURDAY TO BRIAN AND JENNIFER NABB OF PRESTON....BORN AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS. PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS ARE CHARLIE AND CATHY EASTERLY OF MAQUOKETA AND GREAT GRANDPARENTS ARE DON AND RUTH CASTEEL OF MAQUOKETA...MARY HELEN EASTERLY OF MAQUOKETA AND DOROTHY NABB OF MONMOUTH.
BILLY SCOTT, 72 OF WYOMING DIED LAST FRIDAY.
HE WORKED FOR CLINTON ENGINES FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, SUE, AND SEVERAL CHILDREN AND STEP-CHILDREN.
IN COLLEGE WRESTLING, IOWA AND IOWA STATE MET AT AMES YESTERDAY. IOWA STATE WAS LEADING THE MEET 15 TO 13 GOING IN TO THE FINAL MATCH. THE FINAL MATCH WOULD DETERMINE THE WINNER. AND..IT WAS UP TO HAWKEYE COLE PAPE OF MAQUOKETA, AT 168 POUNDS. PAPE LOST, WAS PINNED, AND GAVE IOWA STATE A 21 TO 13 VICTORY, THEIR FIRST VICTORY OVER IOWA IN 16 YEARS.
FRIDAY NIGHT, THE MAQUOKETA GIRLS OPENED WAMAC CONFERENCE PLAY WITH A ROAD WIN OVER GILBERTSVILLE DON BOSCO, 84 TO 29. BROOKE DAVIS SCORED 19 POINTS FOR THE CARDINALS. THEY PLAY AT MANCHESTER TOMORROW NIGHT.
THE MAQUOKETA BOYS HOST WEST DELAWARE OF MANCHESTER TOMORROW NIGHT AT THE MAQUOKETA GYM.
LAST SATURDAY, THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS WON A TOURNAMENT AT INDEPENDENCE. THE CARDINALS CROWNED 5 CHAMPIONS: CASEY STUART, JUST A FRESHMAN, AT 105 POUNDS...JON POLL AT 125....BOBBY KIRK AT 140....CHRIS HAHN AT 145....AND DANE PAPE AT 215. MAQUOKETA HAD 225 POINTS TO WIN THE EVENT AND INDEPENDENCE WAS SECOND WITH 175.
ABOUT 100 PEOPLE ATTENDED THE DANCE LAST NIGHT AT THE FAIRGROUNDS.
THANKS FOR THE VISIT.
DENNIS VOY
