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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1959
Page
1
The piece argues that real wealth lies in ownership of property and productive assets during inflation. Money loses value while asset prices rise, favoring owners of stocks, machinery, and other holdings, and making annuities and cash holders losers. Debt becomes easier to pay, but inflation's end often causes a crash affecting all.
The piece notes how western hemisphere dictators prepare for exit by draining state funds and keeping nest eggs abroad. Batista fled to the Dominican Republic where he retains broad authority, while Argentina’s Peron heads there as a similar exiled figure. Exiled rulers attempt to foment trouble to regain power.
The piece notes Hoffa may push for enforceable labor laws and laments national delay. It reports Cuba’s Batista regime toppled and questions the victors’ ability to govern. It observes newspapers post holiday carry multiple death stories from accidents, fires, and explosions, warning readers to stay home during holidays.
A note describes an exhibit of antique clocks in Moore's Jewelry window. The clocks belong to Charley Kennedy of Guthrie Center, a former Guthrie County sheriff, with many pieces over a century old. The rest of the text reflects holiday weight gain and New Year reflections.
New York AP reports the Soviet Union’s Pioneer II mission placed a 3,239 pound mini planet into space. Depending on its orbit, it could circle the sun for millions of years and may return near Earth someday. The craft carries USSR January 1959 insignia. The text ends noting graves of Alexander Hamilton and Robert Fulton in Trinity Churchyard near Wall Street.
Atlantic News-Telegraph lists publication details and subscription rates. The paper notes editors, circulation, and offices, with pricing for in-town, Cass County, Iowa regions, and continental U S mail plans. It references affiliations with press associations and editorial groups.
Washington notes a flood of space czars multiplying paperwork and slowing missile satellite development. Civilian and military leaders clash over control with new positions and committees. Los Angeles clerks push age and sex discrimination ban in retail stores.
A brief verse questions life purpose and the rush for fame and wealth versus rest, dream, and faith. The piece explores finding meaning within the Master’s scheme while enjoying simple, pure joys. The text notes an old copyright marker and a legal line about aliens reporting address changes.
Cass county saw eight more marriages and two fewer divorces in 1958 than 1957, with 143 marriage licenses issued compared to 135 the prior year. Divorces totaled 26, down from 28 in 1957, amid a long-run pattern of fluctuating licenses and divorces recorded by Clerk C M Skipton.
Des Moines reports Gov. Loveless and other Iowa officials now on state payroll with $1000 annual increases. The 1957 Legislature approved the raises, effective June 1. The governor’s pay stands at $13,500 per year.
The column explains how a declarer uses a straight path to the goal while avoiding danger, illustrating a percentage play in a four notrump contract. It discusses choosing heart finesses and dummy play to maximize tricks, noting good technique often coincides with percentage play.
Fever ranks second only to pain as an illness indicator but doctors often misunderstand its origins and effect. Reducing fever does not guarantee recovery. the underlying disease may persist. Control may be essential when no specific therapy exists, and temperature tracking at home helps establish individual norms.
William Brown of Livingston New Jersey keeps two wheels from the first airplane to land at Newark Airport. He says he invented a device on the wheels that started them spinning before touchdown, a gesture that honors the historic arrival.
A raid on Friday yielded 22 pint bottles of liquor and 11 one ounce bottles. Clarence Main was charged with bootlegging and liquor where beer is sold and bound over to the Story County grand jury. Sheriff Ivan Shalley led the operation. Manila visit note: Abdul Rahman of Malaya begins a five day state visit.
Postal inspectors report a Creston incident where three youths aged 10 to 13 took a mail pouch from a Burlington depot. About $15,221 in cash was found at one home with an additional $697 recovered later, plus torn first class mail and checks. Investigators say some funds were spent on BB guns boots and lighters.
The Civil Aeronautics Board orders pilots aged 35 and older to undergo electrocardiographic heart tests in addition to existing medical exams. The requirement takes effect July 1 after several fatal heart incidents in flight or before takeoff.
The Iowa Highways Commission said Saturday that highways statewide are near normal with impacts only east of a line from Dubuque to Wapello where conditions range from spotted packed snow to fifty percent snow cover.
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