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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1963
Page
5
Nearly 100000 Africans cheered as Kenya declared independence in Nairobi at Freedom Stadium. Jomo Kenyatta waved a fly whisk as Britain relinquished East Africa's last colonial hold amid fears of frontier warfare, tribal rivalries, and economic hardship.
The Story City Community School District won approval for a 160000 bond issue by a 344 to 134 vote. Funds will build a high school addition and provide a site for an athletic field.
A collection of short items: Albert Borens travels to Saratoga for winter. Sheriff Magill attends Iowa Sheriff's association in Des Moines. Glen A Dinkla and Dorsey Shelton receive a marriage license. Dedication date for First Baptist church moves to Jan 19. Reflective Displays of Toledo Ohio gets permit for a highway sign. Farm Bureau District 9 directors to a training dinner at The Pines. Local drivers fined for traffic violations. Livestock sales results from King & Swope and others. Auto collision at Tenth and Olive with about $200 damage. U S Senate Edge visits Washington for Christmas with family. Former Atlantic farmer Dean Bartleson dies in Rayville. Blizzard conditions with extreme cold and high winds forecast, snow and drifting. detailed temp highs/lows and upcoming weather notes.
Camp Fairchance in Moundsville is being shut down after 18 years. Warden Otto C. Boles cites needed renovations and rising walkoff escapes as reasons for the closure.
A second slide in St. Joachim de Tourel Que. collapsed two houses into mud and swept four brothers in a truck and three other houses away. The first movement demolished a highway bridge and sent four homes into the St Lawrence River. Police evacuated ten houses as crews worked through the night.
Contracts totaling 387 955 17 were let by the Cass county board of supervisors for trestle piling and lumber. The Atlantic Lumber and Coal company won with 32 831 80 for piling and untreated lumber. Midwest Lumber of Lincoln received 5 123 37 for creosoted lumber. other bids came from Wheeler Lumber and Bridge West Des Moines Johnson Lumber Lincoln Green Bay Atlantic Century Bridge Council Bluffs Hughes Brothers Cedar Rapids.
A 22 year old Buddhist monk burned himself to death at a pagoda in Binh Dinh Province using gasoline as an oblation. Viet Nam Presse did not provide the monk's name. It marked the 11th self immolation in South Vietnam this year, seven linked to opposition to President Ngo Dinh Diem.
A Thursday blaze leveled the half block long Brown building housing G. and R. cafe and Runnells Recreation Hall on the first floor and Masonic Lodge on the second. Fire units from Mitchellville Prairie City Altoona Bloomfield Township and Pleasant Hill aided the Runnells volunteers as crews redirected hoses to protect adjacent homes and sheds.
At a Vatican audience, Pope Paul VI spoke to pilgrims from many lands, delivering a prayerful message and blessing during the audience in St. Peter's Square.
The Pope urged Catholics to prepare for Christmas with prayer, saying Pray well. He stressed the advice remains valid and especially fitting as the season approaches.
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