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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1952
Page
3
In Babson Park Massachusetts Roger Babson warns that middle class professionals such as schoolmasters bookkeepers sales clerks doctors and clergy face financial decline. He notes salary erosion from 1935 39 levels and rising costs for education and living pushing families into debt despite some executives earning higher pay.
An analysis warns that teacher pay and white collar wages lag behind production workers, fueling shortages and discontent. The author argues inflation and weak work ethic, not just prices, hinder wages, calling for cooperation between employers and workers to solve the inflation problem.
Edward William Rabe a 64 year old retired farmer was found dead at his Griswold home Sunday morning by his son Lester. He apparently died of a heart attack and was born January 28 1888 in Noble township. He is survived by his son two daughters two sisters and his widow Sophia Maria Knust who died in 1940. Funeral services will be held at 2 pm Wednesday at St John Evangelical and Reformed church Noble township with burial in St John cemetery.
The steel seizure dispute in Congress halts pay for about 4,000,000 postal workers and other federal staff. The Post Office reports no funds remain to cover salaries, while Congress passes nearly one billion dollars for the rest of the fiscal year ending June 30, blocked in conference over a Senate provision restricting use of special appropriations for seized private property.
A series of medical cases and injuries are reported with patients treated at Atlantic Memorial and nearby facilities. Names include Fred Show Joe Cooper David Nelson Anna Malone and Leland Lensch among others with incidents from falls illnesses and an ankle sprain.
The New York Times reports Groton School in Groton Massachusetts may admit a Negro student for the first time in its 68 year history. Head master Rev John Crocker declined to confirm or deny, citing potential impact on the youth’s welfare. He added qualified Negro boys should attend such schools if available.
Johanna Christiansen of Elk Horn, wife of the late James Christiansen, died at Decorah hospital at 2:30 AM after four years as a patient and a prior hip injury. A Denmark native who settled in Elk Horn at age 14, she leaves five daughters Ida Lacy, Bruce Rudig, Laura DeWitt, L. C. Kuhm, and W. P. Fisher, and two sons Henry and Oscar. Funeral services are set for Wednesday at 2:30 PM at Elk Horn Lutheran Church, with burial in Elk Horn.
The Atlantic Chamber of Commerce farm tour, postponed by rain, will occur Wednesday with H Hl Kildee of Iowa State College as keynote speaker at a noon lunch. If rain persists, lunch moves to Atlantic Methodist church. The caravan departs from the Cadillac hotel at 9:30 to visit Donald Milford Nels Fuglsang and Harry McDermott farms to inspect hog feeding operations.
The United States Department of Commerce program sponsors a forage field day tour this summer. The second event will be at John Olsen farm on June 23. County implement dealers cooperate to demonstrate hay making processes during the forage day.
A cloudburst at 4 30 a m in the Massena vicinity flooded basements and washed fields badly with no wind or hail. Drivers are warned to take it easy on the road and allow extra travel time to reach destinations safely.
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