Local News Briefs and Community Notes
Local items report Alana Reynolds starting work at Dale's Grocery and Rotary leaders Whitmore and Hill roving to San Francisco for the Rotary International convention. Californians Lehmann arrives for an indefinite stay. Sunday baseball doubleheader at Sunnyside park with 25 and 50 cent admission. Highway flooding and Creek overflow affect U.S. 6 east of Adair and near Wiota. Colfax visitors George Halliwill and Mrs Halliwill travel after a Maryville trip. Rotary meeting outlines hospital fund drive expansion. Phyllis Jean McEldowney graduates top fifty in a class of 380 in Duluth. Atlantic escapes floods while Nishnabotna and Troublesome Creek recede. Rain totals reach 1.11 inches. Weather cools with a 78 degree high. Ray Dwyer notes municipal plant matters.
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Atlantic
Towa
Nishnabotna
Electrical Plant Faces Peak Load After Boiler Out for Repairs
The plant warns that electric use yesterday neared maximum capacity while No. 2 boiler remains out. Authorities urge consumers to restrict usage as parts for a disabled stoker are not yet available and the boiler undergoes a full overhaul.
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Tendent
Funeral Notices for Mrs Hannah Patten
Mrs Hannah Jane Patten 82 died Wednesday at Iowa Methodist Hospital Des Moines. Funeral 2 pm Friday Adair Presbyterian Church burial Sunnyhill Adair. Survived by daughter Mrs Raymond Horn Gibson Ia four grandchildren two sisters two brothers and several nieces. Preceded by daughter Sarah and husband Frank J Patten.
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Hannah Patten
Adair
Adair Presbyterian Church
W Hannah Jane Patten
Iowa Methodist Hospital
Des Moines
J. M. Bloomquist
Sunnyhill Cemetery
Patten
Anita
Meredith
Emma Rowland
Greenfield
Panora
Shelby
Frank J. Patten
Adair Jeweler
Mrtten
Raymond Horn
Gibson
Sarah
W. H. Wagner
Frank McCord
West Des Moines
Robert Rowland
John M. Rowland
Independence
Presbyterian Church
Pythian Sisters
Eastern Star
PEO
Griswold Named Greek Aid Chief by Truman
Dwight Griswold former Nebraska governor was chosen to direct the U S economic mission in Greece under the Greek Turkish aid program. President Truman also named Richard F Allen as field director for the American relief program. Griswold, 53, previously directed internal affairs in postwar Germany and is to work with Gen Lucius Clay in Germany. Senate confirmation awaited.
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Washington
Dwight Griswold
Nebraska
Truman
United States
Greece
Truman Aso
Richard F. Allen
Red Cross
Europe
Griswold
Lucius Clay
Germany
Edwin C. Wilson
Senate
Gordon
Neb
Electric line foreman electrocuted in Nichols incident
Lee C. Anson age 39 line foreman for the Iowa Electric Co. was killed when he touched high tension wires at a Nichols substation after responding to a trouble call. He fell 12 to 15 feet from a platform to the ground.
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Nichols
Lee C. Anson
Iowa Electric Co
Anson
Atlantic Memorial Hospital Annex Campaign Under Way
Atlantic Memorial Hospital launches a fundraising drive to raise 150000 for a four story annex extending 105 feet north and south. Architects Weatherell and Harrison of Des Moines designed the expansion with new operating rooms maternity ward private rooms and upgraded services to serve Cass county veterans of World War II. Donor recognition includes leather bound veterans books bronze door plates shields and medallions with a memorial award for gifts of 24 or more.
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Atlantic Memorial Hospital
Wetherell & Harrison
Des Moines
Cass County
Dancer Tilly Losch seeks divorce from Earl of Carnarvon
In London on June 6 a petition by dancer Tilly Losch to end her 1939 marriage to the Earl of Carnarvon appears among undefended divorce cases slated for hearing. Start sooner drive slower live longer.
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London
Tilly Losch
Earl of Carnarvon
AWOL Soldier Rescued From Cavern Home Since 1942
Jesse W. Starr 30 of Count Claire near Clarksburg was captured after living in a cave he carved from a natural rock shelter since September 1942. Drafted eight months earlier he left the army to caveman life as his unit was sent overseas. Starr was found at a friend’s home in Harrison County and jailed.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Harrison County
Jesse W. Starr
Starr
Count Claire
New Pastor Raymond Ditlevson Leads First Baptist Atlantic
Rev. Raymond E. Ditlevson becomes pastor of First Baptist Atlantic delivering his first sermon last Sunday with wife Mrs. Ditlevson and 11 month old Paul. He previously led Bethel Baptist Marinette Wisconsin for four and a half years and holds degrees from Northwestern and Northern Baptist seminary.
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First Baptist Church
Raymond E. Ditlevson
Atlantic
Ditlevson
Paul
Iown
Marinette
Wis
Bethel Baptist Church
Ditlevaon
Northern Baptist Seminary
Chicago
Northwestern
Chicago Daily News
Triangle
Muncie
Ind
Wisconsin
Ditlerson
German Bride to Wed Eldorado Groom in Eldorado
Waterloo-Raymond Kuhn of Eldorado Illinois a World War II veteran will marry Miss Bina Elisabeth Schaab who traveled from Laudenbach Germany arriving last month. The couple planned the ceremony for Sunday evening in Eldorado with passage arranged through the consulates of both nations and Schaab flying from Frankfurt to New York.
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Waterloo
Raymond Kuhn
Eldorado, Ill
Germany
Bina Elisabeth Schaab
Laudenbach
Eldorado
Frankfurt
New York
Potatoes Selected by Use Are Described
The guide explains choosing firm clean potatoes with shallow eyes and no green spots. It notes that mealy varieties suit baking while waxy types hold their shape for salads and cooking.
Types of steel used in auto bodies and components
The article explains steel varieties in automobiles, noting cold rolled steel for exterior ports, hot rolled and strip steel for floor pans frames braces radius rods and running boards, cold drawn billets for drive shafts and screws, terne plate in gas tanks and sections in tires.
Columbus and the early note of rubber in Europe
A fragment notes that Columbus first observed rubber and its elastic properties, tracing its commercial use in Europe centuries later and connecting the term to a pencil market and a name.
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Columbus
Europe
Potato Calories Comparable to Apple or Banana
A medium sized potato contains roughly the same calories as a medium apple or a medium banana of similar size. This suggests potatoes provide similar energy content to common fruits when portion sizes are matched.
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Poplar
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Tom C. Whitmore
San Francisco
Whitmore
Atlantic Rotary Clubs
Rotary International
California
Robert K. Lehmann
Mentone
Cal
Kelse Beemisch
Lehmann
Dennis Saemisch
Sunnyside Park
Walnut
Atlantic Huntor Legion
Walnut Huntors
Legion Club
Iowa Highway Patrol
Turkey Creek
Wiota
Colfax
George Halliwill
Maryville
Marion Smith
Halliwill
Rotary
Hart Hill
Cha
Atantic Memorial Hospital Fund
Hotel Whitney
O. R. Patrick
Equitable Life of the
U. S
Phyllis Jean McEldowney
Duluth, Mian
J. Robert McEldowney
B. W. McEldowney
Hazel V. Kringel
Chris E. Kringel
Ray Dwyer
Atlantic Municipal Plant
Missouri Way
Martha O’driscoll
John Carradine
Eddie Dean
Greek Aid
Cave
Christensen
Christensen’s
Exira, Iowa
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