14 Jan 1957
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1957
Page
1
A local reader reviews a excerpt from Mrs. Haze Severson Cartney’s In The Grey Rain about life in Japan during war. The sketches center on Yoshiko San a noble Japanese girl forced to menial work and show war's futility inspiring empathy for the Japanese people.
The current session faces record spending demands from state agencies. Democrats hint at curbing costs, but the session is expected to become the greatest spender in state history, unsettling the new governor and burdening taxpayers.
The piece argues Senate efforts to end the filibuster are slow but progress is seen as necessary. It criticizes opponents who resist change and notes no new liquor plan would likely improve outcomes. The Iowa system is praised as effective and liquor by the drink is deemed a step back to an abandoned saloon era.
Des Moines Governor elect Herschel Loveless told Iowa Democrats Sunday night he plans a 1957 Legislature agenda including alcoholic beverage control reapportionment of the Legislature expenditure cuts elimination of overlapping government combining 12 departments into four and reforms in personnel education commerce and industry tax revision highways safety agriculture labor water resources mental health and elder care He also signaled education reforms in school district reorganization school aids and higher education.
The Atlantic News-Telegraph lists publication evenings excluding Sundays under News-Telegraph Pub Corp with editor F. 2. Simpson. It provides contact and office details, and outlines subscription rates for local carrier and mail options inside Iowa Cass counties and nationwide, including Canadian addresses and various timeframes.
In a recorded broadcast a slip by Senator Knowland led to an unexpected early retirement pledge. The piece notes Nixon’s friction with Knowland, Hoover for president talk by McCarthy, and Meyer Schine’s criminal contempt conviction tied to antitrust issues.
A humorous verse about resisting temptation from a candy box and a reading chair, ending with a Norfolk, Virginia note about a department store sign promoting a “Dictionery” used home school or office.
Col Ralph A Lancaster was chosen Sunday by the House Republican patronage committee as sergeant at arms for the Iowa House of Representatives. The retired Army colonel also has long served as Iowa State Selective Service Director. He was selected over Phil A Estensen of Webster City, the prior sergeant at arms, with both men considered for the post or an assistant role. Other appointments included Assistant sergeant at arms C Floyd Aldrich bill clerk Fred McCracken Jr supply clerk Jessie Walker.
NO BUSINESS LOS ANGELES Weather forecaster Henry Weiss was late after his car stalled at a flooded intersection following a two inch rainstorm in Los Angeles. He arrived to the office to do mainly paperwork as the fire weather forecaster. Start sooner drive slower five longer.
Dr Irving G Nathanson suggests tranquilizing drugs before dental visits can relax patients and reduce apprehension by shifting brain impulses in the thalamus. The approach may raise pain thresholds and improve cooperation, but doctors should advise patients and consult their dentists before use.
The President is expected to open a broad review of money and credit, taxes, and inflation in the state of the union. The issue centers on the Federal Reserve's independence, credit access for small business, and possible tax relief versus continued high corporate taxes. Congress may hear a new study of monetary policies as the debate intensifies.
Dr. George Gamow told the San Diego American Rocket Society that freezing space pilots could suspend consciousness during long trips. He noted it would take 10 years at light speed to reach the nearest star and that thawing would occur by instruments on arrival. He said such freezing might be possible in the not too distant future.
History will mark the opening session as two Cedar Rapids girls Linda Nye and Clary Lou Illian join the pages roster. Linda serves in the Senate and Clary Lou in the House, believed to be the first girls to serve as pages in the Iowa Legislature.
A black Homburg prepared for President Eisenhower’s public inauguration on January 21 is the result of three months of work by hatters from ten countries. The international hat was built to fit Ike’s head and involved staged production across multiple nations.
Audubon veterinarian Dr J W Sutcliffe was reelected chairman of the Audubon County Memorial hospital board of trustees at the annual reorganizational meeting. Glen Aikman and Ted Simpson were named vice chairman and secretary respectively. The hospital reported gross income of 103 998 with 77 886 from patients fees and 26 112 from taxes. expenditures totaled 103 435, about 563 less.
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