14 Dec 1949
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1949
Page
1
The text argues that welfare state expansion threatens individual liberty and free enterprise. It cites rising government spending since World War II and fears centralized control over citizens. The piece maintains the U.S. will move toward socialism unless citizens resist and preserve democratic government.
The piece notes that U S foreign trade is likely to fall as war era needs wane. It cites food reliance, rising self sufficiency, and rival industries reducing demand for American goods. It adds limited export control and consumer purchasing power as further dampening factors.
A garbled item discusses taxes rising postwar, a call for tighter investigations, and policing issues about car thefts. Mentions a $5 000 salary with $448 in taxes and concerns over coffee prices, without clear attribution or coherent narrative.
A poem fragment depicting skid row as a blighted city region of squalor and despair. It laments the neglect of the forgotten by society and contrasts fortune with limited pity and aid. The verse condemns waste and degraded lives amid urban decline.
Bloomington reporters describe a mock irrigation by mail plan as a playful response to a water shortage in New York City. WITS and television staff note water flowing and draft a rail-based irrigation plan, sending a five gallon water can to Mayor William O'Dwyer amid a shaving joke.
Large attendance at the District 100F meeting with participants from Easton Mal Conseil Blotte Daniel Atha Andubon Chainda Tartan Red Oak Shenandoah Adel Oakland Perry Knoxville Chariton Des Moines Missouri Valley Afton Stuart Atlantis. Candidates initiated included John Campbell Charles Foster Jolmer Smith Gus Schwa Harvey Duskindi Parry Richardson. Auxiliary degrees conferred. fortieth anniversary noted for LOoP member. dinner served by Hawkeye Encampment Auxiliary.
George Cocoonais of Des Moines will succeed Barnes as director of the state tax county property tax division on January 1. The transition sets a new leadership line for the county property division and tax administration in the capital city.
The Atlantic News-Telegraph lists publication details, editor contact numbers, and post office status. It sets subscription prices by carrier and mail for Cass and adjoining counties, elsewhere in Iowa, U. S. outside Iowa, and Canada with terms for various durations.
Drew Pearson notes slow action on the long delayed perjury case involving John Maragon and Clyde Huey. He argues the department protects big figures and relies on press or congressional pressure to move. The column cites Alger Hiss and questions department independence and political influence.
This column traces investigations by the House Un-American Activities Committee and later the Senate into political scandals. It highlights Andrew May and Parnell Thomas receiving jail sentences, Brewster committee findings, and prosecutions by the Justice Department and FBI in treason cases, despite no high ranking Democrats or Republicans being charged in some inquiries.
Des Moines, Francis Earl Byers 29 faces kidnapping charges after his bride of one day, Helen Lavonte Herrick 19, testified he forced her on a trip through Colorado and New York. She said he kept her in captivity and drew a gun. Byers denied using a gun or forcing marriage. Herrick also alleges a forged blood test certificate to obtain the marriage license in Pekamah.
A 1949 King Features piece skewers fundraisers as capitalist rites where tickets buy meals and speakers while guests mingle with dais honors. It mocks the gag humor, declares the event a capitalist trap, and condemns charity as a social ritual tied to taxes and class.
Church of Christ held a women’s day with Mrs. Robert Green presiding over worship. Elders included Mrs. Katherine Brewer and Mrs. Henry Michaels, deaconesses named, and Dr. C H Plopper of Des Moines unable to attend due to weather. Rev C S Linkletter spoke on a Christian world project crusade influence.
District Judge C Edwin Moore ruled the county board correctly found beer and justice should not be dispensed in the same room. He denied Earl Rinehart’s petition to restore his revoked beer permit after the county cited his tavern grocery store as a combined justice court and drinking area.
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