A WINTERY DAY TODAY. SO MUCH FOR THE WEATHER. NO SNOW THOUGH.

SUNDAY, MAQUOKETA POLICE OFFICER JT THOMPSON WAS SPRAYED BY A SKUNK THAT HE WAS TRYING TO GET OUT OF THE KENT AND MARGO SHOUSE GARAGE
IN MAQUOKETA. THE OFFICER THEN USED A SHOVEL TO PUSH IT OUT OF THE GARAGE AND IT WENT UNDER A DECK NEXT DOOR. THOMPSON CHASED IT OUT
FROM UNDER THE DECK AND SHOT IT. HE SAID IT APPEARED TO BE SICK.
IT WILL PROBABLY BE A COSTLY INCIDENT. IF THEY CAN'T GET THE SMELL
OUT OF THE UNIFORM, IT WILL COST AROUND $1,200 FOR AN ENTIRE NEW UNIFORM AND ASSOCIATED LEATHER. THE SQUAD CAR HAS THE ODOR AS THOMPSON DROVE IT BACK TO THE POLICE STATION. THEY ARE USING FEBREZE AND LETTING IT AIR OUT WITH WINDOWS OPEN. IT IS AIR OUT TIME ALSO FOR HIS SHOES. NOW WITH COLDER WEATHER, KEEP YOUR GARAGE DOOR CLOSED AS
KORANDA SAID THERE ARE A LOT OF SKUNKS IN THE CITY. THERE HAS BEEN AN INCREASE IN SKUNK REPORTS IN TOWN. KORANDA SAID THE POLICE ARE NOT EXTERMINATORS. HE SAID THE BEST ADVICE IS IF YOU FIND A SKUNK IN YOUR GARAGE, OPEN THE DOOR AND PUT SOME FOOD OUT AS BAIT. THE SKUNK
WILL COME OUT TO EAT.

THE IOWA INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW ASSOCIATION HAS INDUCTED MAQUOKETA NATIVE AND NOBEL LAUREATE PHYSICIST ROBERT MILLIKAN INTO THE IOWA INVENTOR'S HALL OF FAME. MAQUOKETA SCHOOL SUPT. KIM HUCKSTADT WAS AT THE AWARDS CEREMONY AND ACCEPPTED THE AWARD.
THE MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL CHAPTER OF THE NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY IS NAMED IN HONOR OF MILLIKAN. MILLIKAN'S FAMILY MOVED TO MAQUOKETA WHEN HE WAS 7 AND HE GRADUATED FROM MHS IN 1886. HE IS KNOWN FOR HIS OIL-DROP EXPERIMENT CONDUCTED IN 1909 WHICH MEASURED THE ELEMENTARY CHARGE OR THE CHARGE OF AN ELECTRON. IN 1923, HE RECEIVED THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS. THE PLAQUE PRESENTED TO HUCKSTADT WILL BE PLACED AT THE MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL.

FROM A MAQUOKETA SKUNK TO A MAQUOKETA NOBEL PRIZE WINNER....I COVER IT ALL HERE ON THE DAILY REPORT.

KEEP WARM!

DENNIS VOY

TOM WATTERS OF FULTON, COMMANDER
OF THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS,
O'CONNOR-REGENWETHER POST 3633 IN MAQUOKETA, ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY THE WINNERS OF THE VFW'S "PATRIOT'S PEN"
MIDDLE SCHOOL ESSAY WRITING CONTEST.
THERE WERE 28 ENTRIES. THE THEME OF THE NATIONAL CONTEST THIS YEAR:
"DOES PATRIOTISM STILL MATTER?"
THE WINNING 300-WORD ESSAY WAS
WRITTEN BY REESE RUPPERT, AGE 13 AND IN 7TH GRADE AT THE MAQUOKETA MIDDLE SCHOOL. HIS PARENTS ARE KENT AND VICKI RUPERT OF MAQUOKETA. HE WILL
RECEIVE A $150 SAVINGS BOND FROM THE
LOCAL VFW CLUB AND HIS ENTRY WILL NOW BE JUDGED IN DISTRICT COMPETITION.
EVENTUALLY, THE STATE WINNER WILL
RECEIVE AN ALL-EXPENSE TRIP TO WASHINGTON, D.C. EARLY NEXT YEAR AND THE CHANCE FOR A NATIONAL PRIZE.
CLICK-ON PHOTO TO ENLARGE IT.
PHOTO BY DENNIS VOY