16 Jul 1947
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1947
Page
1
Atlantic News Telegraph urges readers to call 13673 before 7 PM to arrange evening delivery if they are missing their paper. For address changes, discontinuations, or other delivery notices, notify the office rather than the carrier.
The road map replaces old loafers as reliable directions, ending the era of uncertain local advice. Modern maps provide confident routes nationwide and even invite playful study of state maps for imagined trips, earning our full approval.
A magazine essay argues that natural selection applies to humans and warns that generous government aid and protection dull initiative. It contends Roosevelt era New Deal policies foster dependence, eroding freedom and self-reliance for the sake of rest and security.
The Pan American Highway is cited with the Alcan highway and Canal oil project as wartime waste. Promoted as an inland route to the Panama Canal, it zigzagged and even detoured 40 miles to pass a former Nicaragua president’s home, costing taxpayers 122 million dollars after an original estimate of 20 million. The piece urges finishing under normal conditions and praises a Chamber of Commerce welcome plan for new Atlantic residents.
News digest on Senate clashes over the Kansas City vote investigation led by Senator Langer of North Dakota. Bricker of Ohio pressed for a special committee while Langer refused to change his stance. Vandenberg defended Michigan against Joplin jabs as Truman cracked jokes with southern leaders during a White House visit.
Edgar A. Guest lampoons social climbers who chase status through costly living. He mocks the idea that extravagance brings happiness, arguing it leads to stress and digestive trouble. The verse warns against debt and overspending as causes of ulcers and ill health.
Don Knudson of Spencer, disabled in the war, fainted and fell into the water at the Arnolds Park state pier yesterday. Harold Hoffman Jr. of Webster City spotted the incident, pulled Knudson from the water, and administered artificial respiration.
The writer recounts returning from a two month trip to the Midwest and West Coast. He describes travel by train from San Francisco to Chicago, delays due to a freight wreck, and a final return to Washington D C. He recalls friends and places across Iowa including Ames Boone Boone and Marshalltown, and reflects on memories from a long life in the region. He notes Iowa towns and notable figures before praising the wartime and postwar contributions of these communities.
A nostalgic column recalls Dionne quintuplets in white dresses, laments radio and politics, then shifts to Stony Brook mills. It describes millers, a 200 pound Frank Schaefer, old millstones from pre Revolutionary times, and a mill pond boundary in Smithtown Brookhaven. The piece muses on millstones in biblical warnings and notes a 1946 yearbook reference.
Methodist Bishop W Anjie Smith of Oklahoma City warned in Des Moines that India could become the spark to start a world conflict if it divides and enters civil strife. He urged India to resolve its religious issues to become a great nation.
A prominent "committee for survival" gathers representatives from nearly all civic groups in Iowa City to urge passage of a Ferguson amendment strengthening the United Nations as a tool to prevent war and maintain world peace.
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