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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1957
Page
4
Mrs Nation Anderson of near Alita died in a hospital here from injuries suffered in an automobile accident last week. She had been in a coma since the crash.
Charles Marquart 67 president of Marquart Concrete Block Waterloo died Sunday in a Cameron Missouri hotel while on a business trip. Funeral arrangements are being coordinated in Waterloo.
In Santa Monica California Yma Sumac wins a default interlocutory divorce from Moises Vivanco. Vivanco previously declared father of twins born to Sumac’s former social secretary. Sumac gains custody of their son Charles eight. Vivanco remains her manager earning half her income.
In Sioux City a mother, Beverly Hegaa, 26, carried her three children from a fire above a grocery store and was saved by firefighters after smoke inhalation. She was treated at St. Joseph's Hospital and released. Neighbors alerted firefighters. cause under investigation with about $250 damage.
Local briefs recap Atlantic community life with events from the Atlantic fire department meeting at city hall to residents visiting family, moving, studying, traveling, and working. Highlights include Keith Roland returning from Wentworth Academy, Marjorie Armstrong visiting from FBI Washington, and remodeling at Western Auto.
Reckless driving arrest reports echo at midnights in Atlantic with Kay Mortensen and Emil Gelberg facing hearings in John Budd’s justice court. California move noted for Jack Langley family. University of Iowa grads include Carol Hansen and Helen Longstreth among area locals. County board appoints Griswold’s Mrs. Laurence Lary to social welfare board and approves several purchases and staff actions. Bennie Williams hospitalized after a weekend car-truck crash near Fort Scott with other Williams family members injured but not hospitalized.
The article notes a traffic and equipment fine roundup with multiple individuals from Mt. Etna Council Bluffs and neighboring towns paying various sums. Fines range from 5 to 20 dollars plus costs for offenses including red light violations, over width, defective equipment, unsafe trailer chains, and transporting gasoline.
Richard Cook 17 and companion Rodney Osbahr 17 of Avoca were in a Ford of 1951 when it left highway 59 drove into a ditch three miles south of Avoca at 1 a.m. Cook was knocked unconscious and later transferred from Harlan to Jennie Edmundson in Council Bluffs with severe head injuries. Osbahr was treated at home for shock and could not explain how he reached his residence. The car was listed as a total loss.
Mr and Mrs Milford Mailander moved to the Stueterberg place recently purchased from Mrs Frank Will. Dr and Mrs Louis Alifini of Chicago spent the weekend at the Mike Metz home. Cut your speed when dusk falls you may have a life.
Fractured toe after a fall at home. multiple patients listed at Immanuel Lutheran in Omaha and Atlantic Memorial in Des Moines area. Names include Mrs. Ralph Fry and George Dixson, with others under observation or released from hospitals in Exira Bridgewater Griswold Grant Adair Anita and nearby communities.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr, the U.S. representative to the United Nations, rejected Khrushchev's view that future generations will live under Marxist socialism. Lodge spoke to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, arguing that socialism is contracting worldwide and opposing it as urged by Khrushchev.
A fragment references communism shrinking worldwide and attributes a line to Khrushchev about the Sahara Desert being named from a primitive term meaning wild land to cross. The text is cut and lacks full context.
Findings show death rates rise with smoking intensity from half a pack to two or more packs daily. Quitting light smoking for 10 years lowers risk close to nonsmokers. long-term quitters show 50 percent excess risk. Rural lung cancer deaths lower. other lung diseases higher among smokers. Also notes a two car crash in Earle Grove, CLARION, killing Leonard Steiz and injuring others.
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