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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1950
Page
6
Eleven year old Bobby Hicks died from suffocation after a sandpit cave-in buried him while playing. His brother Eddie, ten, was rescued. Harrison County Coroner Harold Hennessey said no inquest is planned.
Fairbanks selects 23 year old Maxine Cothern as Fairbanks's Miss Alaska and Iowa State College junior weighs 118 pounds. She represents Fairbanks in the Miss America pageant.
A crowded inbound east Price Hill bus with about 60 passengers crashed into a tree injuring 15 people. Eleven were taken to hospitals as responders worked at the scene. The incident involved a large city bus during afternoon service in Cincinnati.
Justice Court fines Max Darling of Atlantic $3 plus costs for registration overload in Atlantic. Donny Girard visits Iowa City with his brother Del, a University of Iowa student. Dr. and Mrs. G. R. Miller hosted by the Becks at 601 Linn. Judge R. Kent Martin and others attend the state bar convention in Waterloo. The Minor family vacationing in Ogden Utah. Mrs. Minor attends the BP and Does convention. Myrtle Cody visits from Los Angeles after month with Camblins. Weekend guests at Ray Bell farm include Dora Hill and Eleanor Hemsith. Mrs. Ray Crum and son visit from Des Moines. Mrs. LeRoy Pratt and Connie Lee from Pasadena also in town. Rex Workman and Jeanne Christensen go to Ogden for the BP and Does convention with Mrs. Bevington of Kansas City. Fish Day draws 1500+ attendees near Cumberland. 500+ youths compete. J. J. Baxter returns from Los Angeles via Grand Canyon and Boulder Dam. Dale and Frederick Anderson attend University of Nebraska commencement. Dale in radio, Frederick in journalism. Royce Childs and family join from Wisconsin. plane trip met in Des Moines. Gene C. Mullstre receives gemology diploma from GIA in Los Angeles after four courses. Roy Preston returns from Madison. his daughter-in-law Billy Williams awaits doctor’s degree at Wisconsin. Sammy Preston visits from Iowa. Glen Highley and wife plan Colorado business trip and trailer living. future relocation to the South.
More than 5,000 people visited the Neiby furniture store opening. Visitors received flowers while women guests and children took home door prizes including a Frigidaire honor, a bedspread and a mattress. Ed Cambridge of Atlantic won a $200 college scholarship among twelve winners.
At the 83rd Simpson College commencement in Atlantic 23 southwest Iowans graduated. Named honorees include Lester John Hancock Mary Lou Kirk Dean G Newman Robert E Keller Joan Huffstadt Robert C Felker Paul M Wi Hamson and Robert D Stamp. Rev O F Cooley of Council Bluffs received the doctor of divinity degree.
General Services Administration invites sealed bids in triplicate for furnishing materials and performing sidewalk repairs at the U S Post Office in Atlantic Iowa. Bids due 2 p m June 15 1950. Specifications PB Div 5 dated March 20 1950 with addendum May 15 1944.
The blue whale is the largest sea mammal. It measures about 25 feet at birth and typically surpasses 70 feet within two years, reaching near 100 feet when fully grown.
Plymouth County sheriff says a young truck driver assaulted Jack Connolly of Elk Point after a dispute over a $16 towing fee. Connolly, 26, told officers his car was stuck in a ditch, the truck helped, then struck him, leaving him unconscious near a service station.
A compiled list of property transfers dated 1948 to 1960 featuring Emma Grulke Martha M Brehmer Harold F Lewis H O Henningsen Eloine Otto C H Cornell Fred H Wohlenhaus Fred Mills Davis Mills Chester Mills Emil Fries William Ballensiefer Lona Bailey Frank Gorman Guardian Jens Jensen Pearle Frank Lillie Hewitt Forest William Hoyt Genevieve Remien James Waters Roy Wohlenhaus John Seldera Mable Morton Anita I Levine Dale Linke Eggert Wiese Edith Brown Ida Von Motz and others. Transfers include lots in Bl 89 Bl 7 Bl 136 and other Atlantic additions and surrounding townships with values from $1.00 to $3333.24 and various notes of love and affection.
Policewoman Katheryn Barry a Narcotic Squad veteran dressed as a bobby soxer led an uptown New York raid on a marijuana den. She shot a suspect in the leg as he reached for his pocket becoming the first woman cop to wing someone in the line of duty.
Parcel listings include multiple transfers and deeds with names such as S. H. Rudolph Fredrick H. Nagel William M. Beyer Alma Beyer Dressler C. M. Skipp ton and Benjamin Reuzer among others. Amounts range from 1.00 to 200.00 with dates in 1950. Drive carefully this motor trip may be your last.
Nine individuals were confirmed in services held May 28 at Immanuel Lutheran Church. Names listed include Helver Strand skov Richard Mortensen Bhi lyn Andersen Magda Alberteen Colleen Nelson Verleek Christen sen Karma Overgaard Charlotte Savage and Gertrude Strandskov. Parties followed at their homes.
Des Moines attorney Fred C Heubner, 68, and former Republican state central committee member, died at a local hospital after a heart attack. He was a church leader and served on the unification committee that merged three Methodist branches in 1939.
The lure of lands rich in beaver drew traders and trappers along the Mississippi, nine Lawrence, and the Great Lakes, paving the way for the Hudson’s Bay Company and John Jacob Astor’s later fortune.
discarded powder puffs can be repurposed to apply shoe polish more evenly. this reuse reduces waste and provides a soft application method for leather footwear.
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