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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1952
Page
6
Iowa Rhodes scholarship meeting sets Wednesday in Iowa City to pick two delegates for the district committee. Eight district meetings are planned, including one in Des Moines, on the coming Saturday.
Fred J Groves a lifelong Massena resident died at Mercy hospital in Council Bluffs from a heart condition. Born October 23 1801 in Bear Grove township he married Grown and farmed nearby. Survived by widow two sons Robert and Claire a daughter Dale Pace eight grandchildren and one sister Mrs Paul Berker Funeral arrangements not yet set.
The Atlantic Methodist church was packed for the YMCA Christmas carol sing led by Rev. J. M. Steffenson with Mrs. Irvin Mueller at the piano. The Cass YMCA community chorus will perform Handel's Messiah next Sunday at the same church, directed by Rev. Steffenson and featuring Audrey Schoenene of Atlantic High School.
Reports list several individuals under medical care or transfer. Hans Claussen of Atlantic heads to University Hospitals Iowa City for observation after unspecified illness. Other patients include Erva Carter of Hancock at St Josephs Omaha from a stroke and Paul Denison of Pocahontas with a broken hip in Harlan.
The family expresses appreciation to friends and relatives for flowers, cards, and acts of kindness during the recent death of their father and grandfather Arnold Iaaborg. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Tucker and son, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Payne and children, and Mr. and Mrs. Leon Hessiou.
The Iowa Executive Council considered a proposal from the State Safety Department to spend 14 433 dollars to produce its own ammunition. The department cites current annual costs of 11 000 dollars and a need for more supplies, with divisions including the High Patrol and Bureau of Criminal Investigation and about 200 patrolmen and twelve state agents.
Two Iowa State College researchers Lester Yoder and B H Thomas announced a vitamin D like compound at a regional American Chemical Society meeting in Little Rock Arkansas. They said the substance may aid bone growth studies and shows laboratory promise against rickets.
Lukie Wright, 17, from Chicago, lost control near Joliet on Sunday. His car wrecked a utility pole and toppled 700 feet of power line carrying 16 000 volts, though he and three companions escaped injury.
A fire set in a car on Lukie's lot sparked a power outage on Joliet's East Side. Homes lacked heat for three hours and a radio station went off air for 20 minutes. Nurses manually operated an iron lung for 15 minutes. Wright was charged with reckless driving after claiming he was only going 20 mph from jail.
Itshak Ben Zvi, 68, Labor Party leader, elected Israel's second president on Monday. He will be sworn in Wednesday to succeed the late Dr. Chaim Weizmann, who died November 8. Ben Zvi won 62 votes on the third ballot in the 120 seat Knesset.
A blaze ripped through a two story frame barracks at the Rapid City Air Force Base killing five Air Force officers. Six others were burned and one officer fractured an ankle leaping from a second story window.
John E. Carter aged 26 from Vallejo California and formerly Des Moines was killed in a two car crash near Gothenburg Nebraska. He was traveling to Des Moines to join his wife and two children visiting her mother.
James Sinclair of Luckenbach Steamship Co. tells state crime probers that private truckers are driven off the New York waterfront by cut tires and other tactics. He says firms should load cargo with their own trucks but have been blocked, while public leaders from the AFL ILGA move cargo on and off docks. Witnesses portray the public loading system as a racket fueling waterfront gangsterism and higher shipping costs.
Funeral services were held for Mrs. David W. Wallace aged 90 in Independence at the “little White House” home in use by her family since the Civil War era. President Truman and Mrs. Truman attended, with Margaret Truman among those in seclusion at the mansion as the service proceeded. The President and staff had remained aboard the presidential train until Kansas City approached.
The Truman family hosts a small gathering at their home for members of the Truman and Wallace families.
The obituary notes that strict privacy governed the funeral arrangements with no flowers to be sent, reflecting the family's request for discretion.
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