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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1949
Page
2
A safety advisory urges pedestrians to walk against traffic on open highways to improve visibility of approaching vehicles and reduce collision risk. Authorities stress using sidewalks where available and staying alert to oncoming traffic.
Joanne Crow hosted the Bear Grove Brownies meeting with six members and three guests. Janice Acker and Karen Paterson joined the demonstration team. Sha l Blake spoke on stain removal and fabrics. Mrs. Gilbert Lacey judged the better groomed girl contest with Sharol Blake and Janice Acker chosen to represent at rally day.
A special meeting was held at Janet Nelsons home on rally day. A music contest produced six perfect papers and Ruth Mae Nelson was selected to represent the club at the county rally day.
Anita Reid Wilson returned Friday from the Great Lakes naval training station after four years in the Marines. He expects to enter the Coyne Electrical School in Chicago in July. Start sooner drive slower live longer.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p m from McFadden funeral home for William H Freeman 72 Audubon county pioneer The Rev G I Zimmerman will officiate and burial will be in Maple Grove cemetery Freeman died Saturday at Carroll hospital of a heart ailment He had worked with his father on Audubon first electric light plant later managed a local telephone company and owned a restaurant He married Jessamin Hoover in 1919 and spent years in Casper Wyoming Surviving are his wife a brother John of Red Oak and a sister Ethel Berman of San Mateo California
Audubon coroner jury finds G W Stetzel died by accidental crush chest injury with no criminal negligence by Mrs Martin Kuntzweiler. Witnesses cite tree growth obscuring view at the crash site on County Road N near Edward Sunberg farm. Autopsy notes death from shock after the chest injury. County Attorney Dale Levin expects no charges.
A European diplomat says Soviet Deputy Premier Vyacheslav Molotov has been placed in charge of Russia’s policies in China and the Orient. The informant predicts Russia may shift from diplomatic aloofness toward the Chinese communists, though no confirmation from Moscow was available in Paris.
Ernest Curry, 35, on parole from Woodburn New York, is being returned to New York on a parole violation after an incident in which he charged eggs to the IGA store and was arrested in town. He is accompanied by J Denecke of Buffalo, state parole board representative, who waived extradition.
Funeral services were conducted at the Roland, Peacock & Baxter funeral home at 2 30 PM with Rev C S Linkletter officiating. Mrs Don Crewdson and Mrs Harold Taylor sang Beautiful Isle and In the Garden. Casket bearers were Wayne Camblin Rollie Ackerman Harry Richardson B R Bennett Wilka Sarsfield and Richard Brown. Interment followed at Oakwood Cemetery in Lewis.
A class of thirteen was confirmed at the Franklin township Lutheran church Sunday with Rev. Rodney Riese presiding. Members include Beulah Pond Phyllis Sandhorst Janice Tibben Marlys Claussen Janice Huddleson Kathryn Fitnchen Minnie Porter Earl Dinkin Glen Dinkla Emory Peterson Edwin Campen and Kenneth Karstens. The sermon drew from Proverbs 23 26 and a Sunday evening picnic followed.
The 1949 crop oats support price in Cass county is 69 cents per bushel, per Kenneth Neary, Cass AAA chairman. National averages list 69 cents for oats, 1.27 for rye, 1.09 for barley, and 2.09 per hundred for grain sorghums, all based on April 15 parity prices. Details available through the AAA office. notices cover 1950 wheat acreage allotment procedures for farms with absent wheat since 1947–49 seeds.
August Engelbrecht, 87, president emeritus of Wartburg College, died of a heart attack in Waverly yesterday. He served 24 years as president and 45 years with the college. Funeral services are planned for Wednesday afternoon in Waverly.
Senator Fulbright said the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the Atlantic pact and recommended ratification. He left the closed door session before adjournment of the meeting.
Local residents report many travel and work changes. Joan Bille and Iri Rogers moved to Omaha as nurse's aides at Clarkson hospital while Ruthen Herrick works at a Cotton shop there. Helen Jayne Betty Schwarzing and Ramona Williams leave for Omaha to enter a business college.
Mr and Mrs Alfred Moller of Maine welcomed a son at Atlantic Memorial hospital weighing 7 pounds 9% ounces born at 4 40 this morning. Mr and Mrs Wallace Bell of Walnut welcomed a daughter weighing 7 pounds 10% ounces born at 3 45 Sunday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Joe Buboltz of Lewis welcomed a son weighing 10 pounds 5% ounces born at the local hospital at 12 28 yesterday. Mr and Mrs Donald Brix of Atlantic welcomed a son weighing 8 pounds 1% ounces born Sunday morning at 7 42. The Sievers family of Atlantic welcomed a son arriving at 4 42 Saturday weighing 7 pounds 6% ounces.
Waterloo, L G Reynolds 43 fatally injured when car hit a Waterloo bridge on Highway 20. Ralston Randolph Kernen 28 and Carl Tyger 62 died in a light plane crash near Ralston. Davenport David Nelson 11 dies after stepping from rowboat into shallow water at Credit Island. Larry Stephenson two died after being run over by a truck near Riceville. funeral in Le Roy Minnesota.
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