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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1963
Page
4
The body of Howard Knapp, 48, of Savanna Ill, who drowned when his boat capsized on Thanksgiving Day in the Mississippi River, was recovered Sunday about five miles south of Savanna. Extra copies of the Atlantic News Telegraph should be ordered in advance.
A nine member committee appointed by Gov Hughes and the State Board of Public Instruction will meet Thursday to elect a chair and receive briefings from Paul Johnston and George Moore. The group, tasked with studying vocational education and the federal manpower retraining program, will offer recommendations to state officials.
Davis serves as president of the Iowa Federation of Labor affiliated with AFL CIO. The brief notes his leadership role within the state labor movement and ties to national AFL CIO structures.
The Vatican Ecumenical Council began its final day of worship and ceremony on the second session with two days left before a nine month recess. Pope Paul VI has resumed the council, which Pope John XXIII called, and the prelates have acted in four areas while debating three of sixteen chemata. They approved two schema ta addressing worship reforms and mass communications media.
A surprise gathering at Brayton Lutheran church honored Mr. and Mrs. Donald Rold on their 25th anniversary with 267 attendees. Mrs. Rold, Ramona Andersen before marrying in Elk Horn in 1938, has four children and they’ve lived in Elk Horn and Brayton areas since marriage. December Bride announces Carolyn Schwartz to Mart Key with a 7:30 pm wedding planned for December 28.
The Baptist Mission group met on November 21 with Mrs. Robert Anderson guiding a lesson on How to Win Others attended by 12. Regina Pauley sang Do Lord. Lutheran Church Women met midweek with 20 members. Rev. Joe Sibert led discussion and members voted to remember shut-ins at Christmas. Caroling is planned for December 15.
Mr and Mrs Victor Grandt were honored at a November 23 shower at the Christian church. Hosts and helpers included Virginia Williams Julie Campbell Verlene Williams and Sylvia Dodge with punch and gift duties handled by others. A Leistad family dinner followed at the Lutheran church with about 100 guests while the Elk Horn Club met to share Christmas ideas and gifts.
Club calendar item notes Delta Zeta chapter meeting tonight with Mrs Clair Wohlenhaus at 8 o clock. Also mentions Royal Neighbors gathering Wednesday at 8 p.m. at IOOF hall with initiation and sack lunch. Thursday’s Helping Hand club dessert luncheon at 1 p.m. with Mrs Merrill Mayberry.
Howard Everson 31 of Lincoln Nebraska pleaded guilty to illegal possession of prescription drugs and manslaughter after his truck struck a stopped foreign car on Interstate 80 near Tipton. Four people died including Sgt. Robert Stultz and his family. He received one year in county jail on the drug charge and faces potential parole on the manslaughter case.
Mrs Gustie Mailander 82 of Holyoke Colorado died Thursday. Funeral services were held in Holyoke at 9:30 a.m. Survivors include two children Leo Mailander and Mrs Helen DeVore of Wood River Nebraska. Siblings Fred Ehrman Susie Ehrman Vincent Ehrman Harold Mailander Leona Thompson and two sisters Margaret Mailander Atlantic and Elizabeth Ehrman Wiota also survive.
Funeral services were held for Oscar A. Johnson at 3 30 p m Saturday at Roland funeral home with Rev Harold A Smith officiating. Casket bearers included Walter Anderson Ernest Willman Timmie Jamison Manny Barringer and Reed Anderson. Interment followed at Atlantic cemetery. Oliver F Joyce had services at 2 p m at Roland funeral home with Rev Anthony Blankers and Rev C W Hohanshelt officiating. Organ selections were No Night There and Going Home. Casket bearers were Wayne Ullerich Lloyd Berg Frank Jones Carlyle Schwartz John W Jones and Delmer Berg. Interment was in Wiota cemetery. Last rites for Carl Perkins were conducted November 26 at Greenfield's Bickford Murray funeral home with Rev Wilton Grant officiating. Casket bearers were Howard Parrott William H Fisher Albert Schalow Dean Rochholz LeRoy Rochholz and Jack Edwards of Adair and Orient respectively. Burial was in Old Union cemetery west of Orient with several Adair residents in attendance. Funeral services for Fred E Kessler, killed November 17 in a car truck crash near Creston, were held November 19 at Platte Center church with Rev Brown Garlock and Rev Donald Freeman officiating. Burial was in Grove Chapel cemetery. Surviving are his wife May Ann Johnson, two sons Reggie and Donald, daughter Barbara Sue, parents Mr and Mrs Howard Kessler of Kent, sisters Fayrene Kessler of Omaha and Janice of Kent, a brother James Kessler injured in the crash, and grandmother Mrs Earl Keefer of Creston.
Robert A Weatherington 40 was to be arraigned in General Sessions Court on an oral threat against President Johnson. Secret Service agents arrested him Saturday night at his home. He claimed a government discharge due to a nervous condition and alleged a news blackout involving the President and local bank heads.
Salina Kansas fire crews rushed to a reported basement blaze and found plastic baby pants smouldering on a floor furnace. Firefighters worked together to extinguish the embers and check for further danger.
Motorists are urged to obey Stop signs not Slow down as a fire report identifies the householder who reported his home on fire.
President elect Chung Hee Park calls on opponents to take a constructive stance to stabilize politics and ease the people’s economic burdens after his Democratic Republic party won 110 of 175 seats in the South Korean House.
A message from Mabel Darung expresses gratitude to relatives reachors and friends for flowers cards and visits while she was in the hospital.
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