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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1961
Page
1
President Kennedy directs stepped up distribution of food to U S needy and surplus shipments to famine affected countries. Benefits include more food for vulnerable populations and reduced surpluses, with risks of market disruption and misallocation. Proper handling aims to yield positive outcomes domestically and internationally.
The piece argues the U S farmer is losing political influence but remains strong economically. It suggests reduced political prestige could push farmers to leverage economic power, potentially drawing industrial leaders to agriculture and elevating farming to parity with other sectors. If politics yields less, economic pressure could yield greater gains.
The Atlantic News Telegraph plans a monthly farm magazine issued with the regular News Telegram distribution and reaching 8 600 farmers. It will cover rural routes from Stuart to Greenfield and Corning and extend through Pottawattamie and nearby towns with plans to gauge reader feedback and accept story submissions.
A Prairie City man is free on 1000 bond awaiting grand jury action after a federal complaint charged he sent a threatening letter to his former Air Force commander Clarence T. Jack 40 in a dispute tied to Col. Frederick Ploetz during his 1959 discharge. A separate note reports a space telescope project in Sugar Grove West Virginia will use over two million pounds of aluminum.
The Atlantic News Telegraph prints its publishing details and subscription prices. It lists carriers rates in Atlantic, Cass county, and surrounding counties, plus mail rates for Iowa, the U.S. and Canada.
A cautionary column explains that the body disposes of excess vitamin C but cannot shed excess vitamins A and D. Daily intakes well above recommended levels can cause bone, kidney, and blood calcium issues, with symptoms from fatigue to anemia. Readers are invited to send questions to Dr Fern.
In a contract bridge note, players using the Neapolitan Club system reached a grand slam in six diamonds with Italy pairs Chiaradia and Forquet among them. The artificial club bid implied at least 17 high card points while various partnerships pursued hearts and diamonds, with several reaching five diamonds or six diamonds.
Drew Pearson reports a House resolution by Dante Fascell backed by exiled Havana professors seeking a Free University of Cuba to promote intellectual freedom. Mundt in the Senate pursues a similar idea. Separately, Knox Kennedy aides suspect David Rockefeller influenced the Navy secretary selection against Franklin Roosevelt Jr. The piece notes Jackie Kennedy adjusting to the White House and Social Security card complaints.
A reflective poem warns that careless words can wound more than pain and that spiteful looks can turn friends into foes. It notes how hard it is to cure the hurt and reseed devotion once bitterness takes root and laments the ease of causing pain versus healing it.
Two government surveys released by the Kennedy administration show that U S prestige appeared to have declined in parts of the world in 1960 with space leadership and after the Paris summit, while the United States still led the Soviet Union in esteem.
In Topeka two lines buzzed as wives of released Air Force fliers, Mrs. John R. McKone and Mrs. Freeman B. Olmstead, arrived. A newsman trying to file a story paused when the operator cut in and then the line was claimed by the President.
A local petition opposes moving the post office to a new building at Fourth and Union streets. A postal service representative will speak at a public meeting in Griswold City Hall at 7 30 this evening. The present lease expires December 31 and a 100 by 120 foot site lease option is held on the southwest corner. Local sentiment favors keeping the current location.
The Rev. Rus sell Rausher 83 rector of All Souls Church Oklahoma City was selected as bishop coadjutor of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Nebraska. Native of Lockridge Iowa he is a graduate of Iowa Wesleyan College and has served parishes in Fort Madison Mount Pleasant and Iowa Falls.
In May Valley next week the Lions Club will replace marching mothers in soliciting for the March of Dimes. Mrs. Helen Myers, a volunteer, said the change is to prevent dog pack attacks as the roving dogs threaten the area.
Charles Tilghman of Eagle Grove won a $35,000 judgment from a Wright County District Court jury against the Chicago and North Western Railroad for injuries from a 1958 truck train collision.
Keosauqua voters approve a special election result 158 to 28 authorizing bonds of 14000 to acquire 99 acres of government land across the Des Moines River. City plans half as a garbage disposal site and the rest as recreation areas.
Atlantic residents on city carrier routes must report missing deliveries. If you live on East Side or West Side routes or in Highland, LaVista Place, Fairlawn, or Zurfluh Additions and have not received mail by 7 p.m., call the listed numbers for recheck and service.
Federal regulators open a stock sale probe in Des Moines as Iowa investigators join after prior state inquiries. The case involves Sheldon residents purchasing stock not registered federally or with the state, tied to plans of Northern Biochemical and Wyoming Oil Co. exchanges.
U S Air Force began a major airlift to Congo to halt famine among hundreds of thousands of refugees driven from their land by tribal warfare. Twenty transport planes based in France and West Germany will carry 1100 tons of supplies, solicited by the U N Food and Agriculture Organization, as President Kennedy announced from Washington.
A donor note calls for a substantial increase in contributions to ease the famine in the Congo. Details on how the supplies will be moved are not yet announced.
The Public Health Service granted Afton $12 068 toward a sewage disposal project totaling an estimated 42 928. The town will fund the remainder of the cost.
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