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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1949
Page
7
A public safety reminder urges drivers to slow down at dusk to reduce crash risk. Authorities emphasize reduced visibility and pedestrian activity during evening hours, urging caution on local streets and residential corridors.
Marty Weitzel, a Atlantic auto dealer, was removed from Jennie Edmundson hospital in Council Bluffs to Mercy hospital in Des Moines for examination by brain specialist Dr. Abbott after a week of illness. Darrell Anderson of Lewis had emergency appendectomy at Atlantic Memorial hospital and several relatives underwent procedures, while multiple others were treated and released for injuries and ailments at area hospitals.
Audubon Mrs Paul Fox underwent major surgery Saturday at Carroll hospital and expects about ten days of hospitalization. Mrs Herb Polkingham has bronchitis and pleurisy confined to home for ten days. Mrs Chester Chantry is in Des Moines Methodist hospital after a serious operation.
Back-Kyndesen and Hess couples exchanged vows in Sunday services at Extra Lutheran and Anita Methodist churches. Alice Back married Marvin Kyndesen in Exira with 150 guests. Marlene Laartz wed Charles Hess in Anita with 175 attendees. Both ceremonies featured classic vows, music, and receptions, followed by modest honeymoons.
Club calendar notes a Thursday meeting postponed to Wednesday June 15 with a deadline to reach the office by 16 a.m. on publication day. The calendar item preserves the shift and time constraint for members.
Garden party decor and a tea raise 8.70 for the World Council of Christian Women. The Lutheran Aid and many Anita group clubs, including the Nu-Pinochle and Union clubs, hold meetings with guests and birthday celebrations. Birthdays include Jane Fitzgerald and a Knud Hansen family reunion noted.
Elk Horn marks Pfc Leon Hansen's Fort Lewis service with a ceremony featuring Misa Kay Krots cello solo Dean Karns accompaniment junior choir and life membership pin for Mrs Frank Weimer A talk on WSCS Organization narrates insignia creation by officers Refreshments in Fellowship hall birthdays observed Bridge Club hosted by Mrs R R Arnett with Mrs Pearl Gardner as guest Mrs Homer Millhollin and Mrs Dorothy Woodruff top scorers next meeting set for Mrs Ruby Biggs warns to drive carefully last trip warning notes.
Ronald W. Butler 14 of Point Pleasant West Virginia won first prize in the national high school essay contest conducted by the National Father’s Day Committee and the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company. Second prize went to Nick Ryan 16 of Missouri Valley Iowa and third to Barbara Jean Allen 16 of Richmond Virginia. Subject was How Can Fathers Help Make Us Better Citizens.
A city bus crashed into a tree Saturday night in Iowa City injuring the driver Clarence Mahana 44 and three passengers Mary Agnes Tesar 63 Minnie Knoke 67 and Yvonne Franske 22 all hospitalized.
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