County fair highlights and amateur talent contest
More than 900 projects entered as Cass county fair events run all week. 4 H and FFA awards at 7 30 p m then a 9 30 p m dance featuring the Krisinger band. Baby beeves sale and cherry pies at 9 30 a m Friday. Amateurs Cass area compete in Venita Rich contest with a Ted Mack audition prize in New York City. Queen of Conservation winners advance to regional Aug 29 and state Sept 17. Eight Cass girls compete Tuesday evening.
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FFA
Krisinger
Cass
New York City
Queen of Conservation
Cass County
Winton
Will Probe Wennerstrom Spy Arrest In Sweden
Premier Tage Erlander announced a comprehensive probe into the government's delay in arresting Col Stig Wennerstrom who confessed to spying for the Soviet Union for 15 years. The inquiry aims to determine how authorities handled the case amid mounting criticism.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Tage Erlander
Col
Stig Wennerstrom
Erlander
Wennerstrom
Soviet Union
Police Hurt In Race Uprising In Chicago South Side
In Chicago, about 100 officers faced a crowd of 500 white residents during a third night of racial disturbances near a white neighborhood block adjacent to a new two Negro family residence. Four officers were injured, one seriously, as arrests reached 33 including seven juveniles.
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Chicago
South Side
Louis Pete
Europe Vacation Sparks Local Reunions
Marlene Peck and Susie VanCleaver returned from a Europe vacation begun June 20. The roundup covers a truck overweight fine for Bob Maxwell of Grand Rapids, a Oakland and Atlantic couple obtaining a marriage license, hogs and cattle sales in Omaha markets, local jail time for a beer charge, vandalism at Cass county fairgrounds, and various community notices including awards, contracts, and weather summaries.
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Europe
Marlene Peck
Susie VanCleaver
Bob Maxwell
Grand Rapids, Mich
Justice of the Peace Court
Robert Boyd
Lewis
Cass County
Prison forged licenses prompt Iowa inquiry at Fort Madison
State officials seek count of phony licenses produced at the Iowa Penitentiary print shop. Warden Bennett said inmate Clifford Clark admitted forging for Gail Burkett of Des Moines, with Burkett paying $90 for a license claimed to expire next October but dated last October. Burkett faces traffic charges and is free on bond awaiting trial.
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Fort Madison
Iowa
John Bennett
Clifford Clark
Gail Burkett
Des Moines
Burkett
Bennett
Clark
Scott County
Four Injured In Crash At U S 6 and Iowa 414
Four people were injured in a multi-vehicle crash at the junction of U.S. 6 and Iowa 414. Tena Hensen 60 Sharon Gaunt 16 and Fred Fischer 18 were treated at Atlantic Memorial Hospital with conditions listed as fair for Hensen and Gaunt. John E. Osborn 27 was treated and released. Police said Hansen Hess and Fugisang were westbound while Fischer was eastbound. The Hansen car stopped to yield then was struck by the Fugisang semitrailer causing a chain collision ending with the Fischer vehicle going into a ditch. The semitrailer overturned north of U.S. 6 between two light poles.
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Iowa
Atlantic Memorial Hospital
Tena Hensen
East Fourth
Sharon Gaunt
Lewis
Fred Fischer
Snyder Trailer Court
John E. Osborn
Atlantic
Hansen
Miss Gaunt
Larry R. Hess
Moberly
Charles Fugisang
Fischer
Hess
Fugisang
Hansen Auto
Pirates used Virgin Islands as rendezvous in 18th century
The article lists Rum Island Dog Rock Fa jen Jerusalem Money Rock and Dead Man's Chest as sites pirates used for meetings in the 1700s. It also notes that in 1949 Americans brewed 46 cups per pound of coffee on average.
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Rum Island
Dog Rock
Fa Jen Jerusalem
Money Rock
Dead Man's Chest
Virgin Islands
Federal padlocks Colonial Supply and Oil Co assets
The federal government padlocked properties of the Colonial Supply and Oil Co of Des Moines for alleged non payment of 48000 in federal fuel taxes. Closed were four Des Moines service stations and one each at Hazleton Red Oak Council Bluffs and Creston with warehouses in Des Moines and Stuart and a gas plant at Menlo.
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DES Moines
Colonial Supply and Oil Co
Hazleton
Red Oak
Council Bluffs
Creston
Stuart
Menlo
Hospital Visiting Hours And Admissions At Atlantic Memorial
Sick and injured patients are listed with visiting hours on multiple floors. Mrs. Kenneth Turk returned home after surgery at Immanuel Lutheran hospital Omaha last Tuesday. Patients admitted include Nancy McLuen Anita and Carol Berge Lewis, among others. Robert Smith Granite Rock transferred after a recent car accident. several others discharged from Atlantic Memorial.
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Kenneth Turk
Immanuel Lutheran Hospital
Omaha
Atlantic Memorial Hospital
Nancy McLuen
Anita
Carol Berge
Lewis
Niles Blake
Gailen Berg
Anaheim
Cailif
Forres McCord
Palm Street
Ray Anderson
State Street
Robert Smith
Granite Rock
Atlantic Memorial
Chester Jamson
Kimbaliton
Charles Henley
West Sixth Street
Dean Smith
West Fourteenth Street
Marion Johnson Returned Home After Hospital Stay
At Home Lewis recounts Marion Johnson returning Friday from Methodist hospital in Des Moines after a week for a back therapy operation.
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Lewis
Marion Johnson
Methodist Hospital
Des Moines
Atlantic Woman's Father Dies in Omaha
Otto Sahn 76 of Omaha died at 7 p m Wednesday after months of illness. A Schleswig-Holstein native who came to the United States in 1924 he opened a barber shop in the Medical Arts building and had run it since. Surviving are daughter Mrs J F Moriarty of Atlantic son Bill Sahn of Omaha a stepdaughter Mrs Jack Thompson six grandchildren and two sisters in Germany. Funeral services tentatively set for Friday.
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Otto Sahn
Omaha
J. F. Moriarty
Hazel Street
Sahn
Medical Arts
United States
Schleswig
Holstein
Germany
Zell
Moriarty
Bill Sahn
Nye Attacks Anti Shaft Plan In Iowa Referendum Debate
Davenport AP Nye criticizes the Shaff plan as a bid to reverse democracy by letting the minority control. He spoke to Iowans Against the Shaft plan, formed to oppose the referendum set for December 3. He cites Farm Bureau and Iowa Manufacturers Association support for minimal reapportionment. plan would reduce Iowa to 99 House members and 58 Senate members elected by districts.
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Davenport
Frank Nye
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
House of Representatives
Senate
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Iowa City
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