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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1951
Page
2
The Adair Conservation club will meet Thursday at 8 p.m. in the VFW hall. The program will feature movies By Land I Live and Horizon United.
Al and Ivy Walsh former ABC entertainers will appear at the Atlantic high school auditorium Friday at 8 pm under the Atlantic Ministerial association sponsorship. The program supports veterans hospitals with Walsh speaking on Christian laymen helping hospitalized veterans. The couple will perform vocal and instrumental numbers. They tour the south and will entertain in Omaha and Council Bluffs before Atlantic. An admission is free with a free will offering welcomed.
A mother Mrs. Albert Plum and her two children George 9 and Charlotte 11 of Scranton died in a car train collision at a Scranton crossing. Carlyle F. Seegers 29 of Ocheyedan also died when crushed by a wheel after falling from a patrol wagon on Highway 14 north of Alison.
Sick and injured eaters hospitalized or treated in Omaha Des Moines Atlantic Massena Council Bluffs and other communities. Patients include Terry Drenner at Shriner Minneapolis. Bernard LeFleur Des Moines. John Taylor Cumberland. Miss Nancy Rattenberg Extra. Mrs H C Pollock and Mrs Lester Foss Atlantic area. Belva McGaffin and Bob Smiley at Oakdale. Fred Casady ill in Atlantic Memorial. John D Prawl Massena. Caroline Crow Mercy Council Bluffs. John Waters Rheumatic fever. Dick Follman St Catherine's Burns. Basil Chafa University Iowa City alumna recovering.
Funeral services for Roger F. Schuler were conducted at 2 p.m. at the Noble township Evangelical United Brethren church with Rev. Paul O. Pfaltzgraff officiating. Mrs. Clyde Schuler and Mrs. Pfaltzgraff sang Abide With Me and The Lord's Prayer. casket bearers included Clair, Max and Dean Schuler, Clifford Frank, Maurice Pelzer and James Pelter. Interment followed at Nubie Center cemetery.
A girl weighing 6 pounds 10 ounces was born to Mr and Mrs Leo Brindley of Anita at 3 20 this morning at Atlantic Memorial hospital. David Paul Armentraut Lenu and Mrs Wilbur Pierce announce the birth of their son David Paul born May 29 at Aberdeen Washington. The mother is the former Marjorie Pierce of Lewis.
The New York Times dispatch from Paris says President Truman ordered the U S Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean to back Eisenhower s Atlantic pact army. The move provides immediate naval support on his southern flank amid Allied command wrangles over Mediterranean leadership and scope.
Gov Beardsley disclosed Iowa spent 49857 dollars on Mississippi flood duty by national guardsmen in April. The expenses reflect statewide mobilization to assist flood relief efforts along the river.
Twenty three additional donors join the visit of the bloodmobile from the Omaha Red Cross to Atlantic next Tuesday. The drive increases volunteers to 102 of a 225 quota, per Red Cross chairwoman Mrs. Tom Clithero. Latest volunteers include Mrs. Lois Ackerman and others from Atlantic, Lewis, Maine, and Wiota.
A mass funeral was held today for six relatives swept to their deaths in the Des Moines river near Oskaloosa. Lyle Carl Postel, 28, of Waterloo, his mother Namie Davis Payne, 48, his three sons Richard 8 James 5 Stanley 1 and sister Mary Jane Postel 16 were among the deceased. Dorothy Postel 28 was also in the car.
Mrs. Postel was the sole survivor of a riding accident when the horse and rider plunged from a bridge into a swollen river. She was reported in fair condition at Mahaska hospital in Oskaloosa.
Washington reports U S combat casualties in Korea now total 68 362 with 10 198 killed 46 541 wounded and 11 613 missing based on family notifications through June 1.
Of the wounded, 1,202 have since died and 108 of the missing are known dead, raising total combat deaths to 11,503. The missing included 1,254 who have since returned to U. S. military control and 121 known prisoners of war, leaving 10,135 currently missing.
Princeton New Jersey graduates pick actress Elisabeth Taylor as their top desert island companion in a university poll. The result highlights Taylor as the leading celebrity amid campus enthusiasm and crowdsourced preferences.
A wartime appeal urges readers to donate blood for injured soldiers in Korea. The message highlights the critical need at field hospitals and thanks donors for support.
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