Local News Briefs Highlight Rural and City Events
Top price at Omaha market as Charles Boeck brings best bid for 37 hogs. Atlantic driver fined ten dollars for stop sign violation. Denver educator Martene Poch visits for holidays with the Poch and family. Local prize recipients named from L and L Supply Christmas draw. Pelbert Le Roy Williams held on $400 bond after DWI arrest in Cass County. Colorado family joins in holiday visit to Council Bluffs. Christmas loot includes car thefts of binoculars and clothing. Two cars collide at Seventh and Chestnut. damage estimated at $125. Chamber of Commerce reports 1964 pledges rising. 157 members have paid. Thorvald Madsen, 80, dies in Council Bluffs. survivors listed. Unseasonably warm with 40 above at morning, warmer through Thursday. past week had subzero nights with recent snow.
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Iowa
Atlantic man jailed after auto accident
Robert Vale 19 of Atlantic is jailed in Pottawattamie County with $190 bond after a rear end collision on Iowa 92 west of Griswold. He faced three charges including reckless driving no license and improper registration. A 1947 Ford collided with Henry Maass 49 of Omaha truck causing total loss to Vales vehicle and about 2000 damage to the Swift and Company truck.
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Robert Vale
Atlantic
Pottawattamie
Avoca
Lell
Griswold
Vale
Henry Maass
Omaha
Iowa 92
Vale Auto
Maass
James Howell
Howell
Swift and Company
Farmer Apprehends Tree Thieves in Michigan
Mason Michigan AP farmer L Swaboda tracked a stolen pine tree to a nearby house and found three youths aged 11 13 and 6 who admitted taking the tree for Christmas. They said they lacked a father and linked the act to a habit from Kentucky. The farmer left the tree and Christmas wishes.
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Mason, Mich
L. Swaboda
Swaboda
Kentucky
Swoboda
Vietnamese born stepfather scarred by Kennedy feud
Vaschin Michael Bohan, 47, was given an eight year suspended prison term and fined after a scissor stabbing in Sioux City. The case stemmed from a dispute over the late President Kennedy involving his Russian-born stepfather.
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Sioux City
Vaschin
Michael Bohan
Kennedy
Iowa Republicans oppose immediate foreign aid vote
Washington AP reports Iowa Republicans joined the opposition to block immediate consideration of foreign aid. The roll call was 202 to 105, short of the two thirds needed. Rep Neal Smith, a Democrat from Iowa, supported immediate consideration. Republicans Bramwell Gross Jensen Hoeven and Kyl voted no, with Schwen gel absent.
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Washington
Iowa
Neal Smith
James Bramwell
H. R. Gross
Ben Jensen
Charles Hoeven
John Kyl
Fred Schwengel
Two Grimes Teens Hold Up Hi-Way Market for 325
Two youths about 18 robbed the Hi-Way Market in Grimes Monday night, escaping with 325 after a weapon was flashed. The proprietor mistook a toy gun for a real one before the robbers fled in a stolen car.
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Des Moines
Grimes
Clair H. Adrian
Adrian
Albia teen sentenced for beating father to Eldora
In Albia, 16 year old Harry Pierson was found guilty of assault with intent to commit great bodily injury. He is to be sent to the State Training School at Eldora but may spend Christmas with relatives before transfer. His father Edgar Pierson remains hospitalized in good condition.
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ALBIA
Eldora
Harry Pierson
Edgar Pierson
Atlantic Memorial Hospital Visitor Hours and Patient Updates
Visiting hours listed for Atlantic Memorial Hospital include first floor 1 to 2 30 and 7 to 4 38 p m and second and third floors 1 to 4 and 7 to 8 30 p m. Several named patients were admitted or released including Mrs Chris Nielsen 504 East Eighth Street Mrs Emma Lange Snydercourt Mrs Verlee Muller 508 Oak Street Mrs Arthur Wyllie Fontanelle Mrs Ruby Kirkpatrick Anita and Mrs Margaret Hedder Avoca.
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Atlantic Memorial
Hospitel
Atlantic Memorial Hospital
Chris Nielsen
East Eighth Street
Emma Lange
Snydercourt
Verlee Muller
Oak Street
Arthur Wyllie
Fontanelle
Ruby Kirkpatrick
Anita
Margaret Hedder
Avoca
Agnes Turner
Cedar Street
Melvern Reimer
Rt. 2
Omaha
Laura Rubr
Walnut Street
Claude Austin
Fairridge
Charles Blake
Clyde Trester
Edwin Kirchner
Haze Street
Ross Warne
Star Route
Terry Jensen
Cumberland
Tina Marie Kay
Maine
Collette Richter
Viota
Robert Stewart
Lewis
Frank Hutchins
Ethel Budd
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Charles Boeck
Robert C. Mayberry
Denver
Martene Poch
Mrs
Martin Poch
L&l Supply
Marvin Frederick
Extra
Frances Foster
Jimmy Nielsen
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Marie Euken
Dick Richter
Rose M. Petersen
OMVI
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Massena
Cass County
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K. C. Saemisch
Chestnut Street
Howard Scarf
Elm
William Wilcox
Chestnut
Seventh and
Chestnut Streets
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Chamber of Commerce
Chamber Board
Thorvald Madsen
Council Bluffs
Roundhouse
Council Bluffs Hospital
Elk Horn
Madsen
Clara Paulsen
Anna Hansen
Ethel Kilgore
Kimballton
Lydia Miller
Audubon
Ruth
Northwestern Roundhouse
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Lad
Grant David Wicker
Ray Wicker
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Red Oak
Charles Peterson
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