18 Apr 1964
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1964
Page
1
The column critiques de Gaulle’s surgery report and rising federal spending, notes Viet Nam war reporting contrasts, and laments trash in city streets. It also comments on weather shifts from heat to chill and mentions mockingbirds and cardinals moving north while reflecting on war crime trials and civic responsibility.
A lively column recounts local happenings including Jon Riggs 9 returning to school with an artificial limb in progress and active play, a moth er on the Ed Carlton farm missing calf after a storm, and a letter praising Denis Reed for breaking a mile record at an Iowa indoor track meet with wishes for Drake Relays.
The message offers congratulations for spring race efforts and encouragement to continue strong performance. It signs off from coach Mick Anderson.
President Johnson pressed for quick passage of the civil rights bill as Senate debate stretched into day 33. Dixie captains led by Sen. John Stennis and allied senators prepared extended sessions while Sen. Lister Hill vowed to block the measure.
Lloyd John Welsh, 34, of Webster City waived to the Polk County grand jury on charges of shoplifting merchandise including more than 100 phonograph records from Des Moines stores. Welsh, who says he operates a Webster City music shop, was arrested March 5 in a Katz Drug Co. store.
The Atlantic Views telegraph lists subscription rates for Atlantic Iowa and surrounding areas. Rates cover monthly, quarterly, semiannual, and annual plans by carrier, mail, and out-of-state deliveries, with different prices for Canada and outside Iowa. Publication notes include editor and office details.
Drew Pearson's column cites confidential Defense Department records on Korea arguing the United States had only twenty atomic bombs in 1950 and could not locate large Chinese troop concentrations. The piece quotes Gen George Stratemeyer and Gen Hoyt Vandenberg and notes air reconnaissance failed to find targets, challenging the idea that 30 to 50 A bombs would have won Korea.
British nurses report frequent static shocks from touching beds and pillows while making hospital beds. The Nursing Mirror quotes EM Banfield and Hilda Griffiths noting nylon underwear and plastic bed covers as contributing factors. An Royal College of Nursing official says shocks are brief and not harmful. EPWORTH: Bernard Anstoetter, 28, dies when his tractor rolls down a 125 foot embankment. body found by wife.
The article examines using point counts to choose play in a four spades contract after West opens with a weak notrump. It describes entering dummy, handling diamonds, and guessing whether to drop the jack or king depending on Bast's holdings, linking tricks to known suits and point totals.
Washington AP reports that an increase in basic Social Security retirement payments appears likely this year as part of broader health plan talks. Committee divisions on medical care aside, a rise could align with anti poverty goals and ease older folk whose benefits have not risen since 1959.
Ten years ago Judy Shoeman daughter of Dr and Mrs J D Shoeman of Atlantic has been elected president of Pullman hall at Colorado Woman's College in Denver for the coming year. A remodeling job is underway this week at Central cafe in Massena. Miss Charlotte Hyndman daughter of the Cecil Hyn dmans of Cumberland and a freshman at the Omaha Bubble Institute will appear with the traveling choir on its spring tour. The ice cream and creamery department of the Harlan Produce company has been sold to the Beatrice Creamery company of Beatrice Neb which was given possession today. Jens P Kiergaard of Audubon county drew the day's top at 16 at Omaha with a shipment of 1 205 pound steers. Robert E Rogers Cumberland stationed at Camp Mills Tacoma Wash has been promoted to corporal.
Sue Eckhardt, a junior, will head the Girl Reserves at Avoca High School for 1934 35. Work on remodeling and redecorating the Suter grocery at South and Walnut streets is nearing completion.
Ray Warren Osborne, 36, charged with the slayings of Inez Malloy and her daughter Norma Malloy Widick, both formerly of Fort Dodge Iowa, has his arraignment postponed until next Wednesday after bodies were found in the Nevada desert near Las Vegas.
Des Moines Gov Harold Hughes calls for better cooperation among state departments and their regional offices. He urged uniform regional divisions where practicable to reduce duplication and suggested colocated offices to improve interagency collaboration.
A syndicated health column notes hyperbaric or high oxygen pressure chambers show promise in treating severe infections like clostridium welchii gangrene, burns, and even aiding cancer therapy. Reports cite University of Amsterdam cases restoring limbs and faster toxicity reduction, with broader studies and a New York Academy of Sciences symposium endorsing potential in heart, lung, and cancer treatment.
GOP candidate Evan Hultman urged Iowa lawmakers to create a statewide disaster plan and a disaster fund to coordinate emergency responses after the Yorktown tornado. He charged Gov. Harold Hughes with futility and spoke at a Civil Air Patrol dinner. Hughes urged local rebuilding efforts after the same storm that killed one woman and damaged most buildings.
Basilios Younoulis a 26 year old former Greek exchange student in Hamilton Ohio had a charge of turning in a false fire alarm dismissed. He testified he pulled the alarm on April 5 to light his pipe and claimed Greek alarm boxes double as lighters explaining the practice.
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