14 Feb 1948
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1948
Page
1
A journalish note recounts a Friday the 13th with bad luck for the NT staff including a paper deadline fiasco and a splinter injury to a pressman. An Elberton ad threats vigilante justice for a dog death, offering $10 for the killer to face the speaker. The piece mentions a hitchhiker born on February 13.
A historical notice lists the Atlantic News Telegraph publishing details, editors, affiliations, and carrier and mail subscription rates for Atlantic Iowa. It includes delivery instructions, phone numbers, and a reminder that evening delivery requires a call before 7 pm to a specified number.
The piece notes the recession is calming with no hysteria among business men or the public. Prices are leveling near current levels as commodity declines ease into retail. Farmers feel the downturn should be shared by labor and manufacturers, not borne by one group alone.
The article notes Senator Robert Taft advocating lower farm price supports in the heartland, likening the stance to an orange tie on St Patrick's Day. It credits courage and consistency but questions judgment and presidential prospects amid farmer sensitivities.
The death of E P Harrison, longtime publisher of the Oakland Acorn, is a blow to the community he served with honesty and industry. The mayor earns credit for fire safety efforts, while the street department improves winter driving conditions. A national magazine notes blood and thunder radio programs, urging a Sunday cleanup as movies ease some horrors.
Washington reports three senators objected to defense secretary Forrestal ordering top army navy and air force leaders to show statements to his office before release including testimony to congressional committees. Senator Gurney says he will bring the issue to the armed services committee urging full public disclosure by qualified speakers. Pedestrians are reminded to wear white at night.
Drew Pearson reports Harry S. Truman faced pressure from Ed Flynn to appoint Paul Rower to the SEC and Ed Hanrahan as chairman, amid Wall Street influence. The piece notes Flynn’s ties to firms, Hanrahan’s under Wall Street sway, and likely policy shifts against the holding act. Alice Roosevelt Longworth offers new Dewey phrasing, while Harlem votes and New York politics loom large ahead of 1949 mayoral focus.
A poetic collection by Edgar A Guest featuring verses on St Valentine grandpas and affectionate phrases. The lines blend playful bird and man courtship with timeless wishes to say I love you.
Audubon city council approves plans by Stanley Engineering of Muscatine for a new sewage disposal plant costing about 105000 dollars to be financed by a bond issue. The present plant, built in 1937, is described as entirely inadequate and work will start April 1 per City Clerk Stewart Linn.
Viota Rev M J O Connor and Mr and Mrs Mike Richter attend the funeral for Msgr F H Huesmann 85 pastor of Sacred Heart Church Templeton Most Rev Mueller auxiliary bishop presided at a requiem high mass attended by 83 priests The late pastor had officiated at the marriage of Mr and Mrs Richter and led Templeton’s parish for 81 years.
In Washington D C at the Lincoln Day dinner the speaker Rep Everett Dirkson Iowa page Devere Watson Council Bluffs and Rep Ben Jensen were present. John Short Balto Sun president. John Gwynne Waterloo also spoke. Also noted were home rule talks for Washington and a looming Republican tax bill. News from Shenandoah Harry Day dies and a ship crash near February 7 with one death and a survivor.
Sixty seven passengers survived a plane incident, praising divine mercy as they emerged shaken but alive. While many birds respond to hardships in winter, readers offer practical feeding tips for sparrows, juncos, and other species, amid commentary on butter prices and grain shipments to Europe. Virgil M. Hancher, president of the University of Iowa, is criticized for expelling all pets from veterans homes, a note released by McNaught Syndicate Inc.
Mrs Vera George recalls a 1912 Arkansas house near Foreman with a sturdy log cabin and a close high fence of heavy rails. She learned the fence hid one of the Taylors who escaped the jail after a murder at Jenkins Hill. Readers across states share clippings and reminiscences from Will Rogers’ funeral to farm tales and winter avocados.
A compact column recalls ordinary freight train impressions by youngsters, a Chicago basketball score of 80 to 78 with late lead changes, light snowfall, a Labrador paper carrier named Belle, FDS running out of gas and being towed to a station, and a radio segment featuring Mr and Mrs Maxton Strong and Grace Arnold on the Welcome Travelers program from Chicago.
The Des Moines city council approved permitting precut and other prebuilt houses if they meet durability standards, while withdrawing an order requiring city building commissioner Fred Heyer to deny such permits without council approval. A carpenters union representative warned the union would seek a court injunction to block construction of nonconforming homes under the city code.
Mrs Jo Kirkpatrick resigns after years as night telephone operator. Mrs Homer Hess, currently part time, will assume the position.
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