20 Apr 1950
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1950
Page
1
The year’s federal deficit is expected to exceed one billion, far above Truman’s early forecast. Critics say the estimates are consistently low and politics drive deficits. The next year could see deficits surpass seven billion, with spending rising as income nears peak levels.
The Brookings Institute estimates a compulsory public health plan could cost between 6.6 million and 16 million dollars by 1900, while the government already runs deficits exceeding 96 billion annually. Proponents promise benefits, but critics warn of unsustainable expense and uncertain offsets in federal spending.
The Chicago Tribune reports two 48 year relief recipients from New York traveled abroad on a luxury liner. They paid their own way to Europe and returned on the same ship, later receiving $835 per month in relief aid while staying as guests of the relief agency. Taxpayers fund the arrangement, prompting irritation at public expense.
Community notes another attempt to fix the parking situation without meters. If successful, it will prove efforts beyond meters are useless. if not, shoppers may suffer while options for shopping areas are tested and adjusted.
A historical note discusses the Iowa Highway Commission clearing debt by November 1 and continuing highway expansion with potential federal aid. Mentions super highways across the state and the impact on public works, including concerns about vaccines and public health alongside transport projects.
Fragmentary text references Rupes numbers and phrases like Our s and Wer tane. Edgar A. Guest is mentioned in a garbled sentence. The readable parts suggest a literary or spoken word fragment with unclear context and no coherent event or outcome.
Mrs Maida Niles about 60 widow was struck by a Denver and Rio Grande Western trolley near Arvada after a bystander patted a dog on the tracks three miles northwest of town. The dog jumped aside as the trolley hit her. passengers pounded on windows but she could not move.
The Walnut junior class will stage the comedy Our Hearts Were Young and Gay next Wednesday evening in the Walnut school auditorium. Miss Leis Nelson directs a cast including Levons Holst Robert La frents Gayian Naist Norma Jean Pflugshaupt Jim Thissen Bur dette Grehmer Nina Koenig Dariens Gosttech Shirley Hoover Darlene Hass Margie Knuth Cordss Myers Shirley Zimmerman Robert Kay Kenneth Langbehn and Charles Parker.
Fragmentary OCR shows varied monthly and yearly rates including 1 month 1 year options and some dollar amounts for mail services. References to Canada and unspecified destinations appear in garbled text with no clear sender or recipient details.
The author recalls visiting notable places around Greater New York, noting there was no room left to chronicle these real points of interest amid the dens of iniquity previously described.
A long, opinionated tour through New York City sites including the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Columbia University, Hunter College, and the United Nations. The piece also covers theater visits, then-shifting views on McCarthy era politics and Budenz’s testimony on communist influence in American life. It mixes travel, culture, and political commentary.
A speaker laments ethnic bias claiming many street people in China and Washington belong to the yellow race. He asserts communists have driven many good citizens from their countries and welcomes them as fellow residents here.
Lewis and Mrs Earl Baird visited overnight with Norman Quinn in Ames and traveled to Kansas City to see James Smith. Miss Barbara Quinn, student at Kansas University, returned to campus after Easter break.
Columbus Ohio reports Jack Corbett former president of the El Paso club in the Arizona Texas league was suspended from baseball for using an ineligible player.
The article notes a Europe wide push by American publishers via ECA funds to exchange books, magazines, and films. A list of Western Germany and Holland best sellers includes The Merriam Webster Pocket Dictionary and The Sea Wolf, showing strong demand despite limited budgets. Pocket Books sold about 125000 dollars of titles under the ECA contract while US best sellers featured detective and adventure works.
English author Warwick Deeping died at his Weybridge home at age 73. He was born in England and wrote notable novels including Sorrell and Son Roper's Row and Old Wine and New.
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