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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1963
Page
5
Robert Kra va, 27, of Clinton, accused of trying to set fire to a Clinton tavern after an argument with a bartender on December 5, was given a two year sentence in the Anamose Reformatory.
Earl Gordon of Atlantic joins the Iowa State Historical Society. Soren Nielsen wins top price on the Omaha hog market with 33 head. Mrs Jennie Campbell tours Long Beach California for the holidays. Bertha Kjar to Kansas City for Christmas. Bill Weston named Lenox Fertilizer plant manager. Pat Crawford appoints Ivan Shearman and Matt Mathisen as assistant chiefs. Genevieve Swelley Smith, long-time Atlantic resident, dies in Colton California. Harold Wesack’s 1961 Ford hits a steer on Iowa 90. steer killed. Zion Lutheran carolers visit 14 shut-ins with cookies and a social at church. Car-truck collision on Linn Street injures no one. damage minor. Three Illinois youths charged with petty larceny after gas theft caught at a Guthrie county roadblock. 1964 Chamber pledges totaled 146. pickup urged this week. Winter expected to bring subzero temps and snow flurries through the coming days.
Richard Hull of Atlantic has been awarded a $250 Iowa Master Farmers scholarship to Iowa State University as a freshman in agricultural journalism. He is a Atlantic High School graduate active in 4-H and FFA with multiple awards including the Iowa Farmer degree and champion demonstration team member.
Singing demonstrators gathered in drizzle outside the University of Texas dormitory housing Lynda Bird Johnson to protest campus segregation. Twenty students, including 12 African Americans, marched an hour before dispersing. officials said Dormitories remained unsegregated while other facilities were integrated.
AP reports seven Moslem priests and helpers were killed by Karen rebels near Moulmein. Government troops retook the area in a battle that left ten rebels dead and five soldiers dead. The 41 member party toured villages around Moulmein, about 200 miles southeast of Rangoon. The rebels are linked to the National Democratic United Front aligned with the Communist underground. Peace talks had broken off last month.
Hospital visiting hours are listed for Atlantic Memorial with first floor times and evening slots on other floors. Amos Young has returned home from Rochester after major surgery. Several patients were admitted or released from Atlantic Memorial including Hilda Stanberg, Clyde Traster, Ira Perry, Mrs. Blake, Esther Juhl, Mrs. Lothman, Delores Jean, Harvey Sager, and Denise Marshall.
Sioux City AP reports Michael Charles Topf, about 38, a local drug store operator, was involved in an incident. Details remain unclear as the report breaks off mid sentence.
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