09 Jun 1948
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1948
Page
1
Atlantic News Telegraphs urges subscribers not receiving the paper by evening to call before 7 PM at a specified number. It clarifies this is not the News Telegraph number and instructs to notify the office for changes, discontinuations, or delivery notices.
President Truman attended a dedication in Carey Idaho for Wilma Coates airport honoring a high school girl killed in a 1947 civilian plane crash. The ceremony featured a misstatement about the honoree prompting the girl's parents to correct the president.
Dwight Griswold, head of U S aid to Greece, says the country needs two million fewer people to avoid unrest. He warns that poverty in Greece, China, India and others fuels suffering and fighting and undermines world peace. A guaranteed reasonable standard of living is needed to prevent ongoing trouble.
The piece notes polls misfired on the Tawa election and cites Eduard Benes resigning as president of Czechoslovakia under communist pressure. It predicts a convention battle in Iowa to choose a secretary of state, where party bosses will decide the winner regardless of public vote.
Des Moines reports a sharp decline in diseased cattle imports and interstate movements after a state drive by the Department of Agriculture and Highway Patrol. Officers stop trucks entering towns to inspect health certificates, testing cattle from other states for bangs disease and bovine tuberculosis when certificates are missing. About 12 loads have been halted.
Drew Pearson reports Republican leadership kept the housing bill from coming out of Wolcott's banking and currency committee while Helen Gahagan Douglas pressed a discharge petition. The piece also covers secret service guarding the Truman train and wasteful defense procurement practices under Forrestal.
A speaker overhears a boastful man praising his grandchild as extraordinary. The listener, already a grandfather, cannot get a word in as the bragging continues about the baby’s hands and nose and the nurses’ praise. The piece ends with the grandpa noting his own four grandchildren unseen by the boastful narrator.
The Chicago Rock Island and Pacific railroad votes a 75 cent dividend on common stock payable July 15 to holders of record June 1. It also approves two quarterly $1.25 payments on preferred stock, payable Sept 30 and Dec 31 to holders of record Sept 10 and Dec 10.
Anita-Wayne Biggs, Arthur Miller and Jack Ruggles have joined the navy and reported for duty in San Diego California joining a wave of new recruits.
A New York newspaper writer recalls a long lunch with Bill Cullen, the 27-year-old CBS quiz master from Pittsburgh. Cullen, whose career spans radio and TV, shares his medical school detour, allergies, and a candid view of the life of a broadcasting star. The piece also mentions Evelyn Barkins’s new book I Love My Doctor and a note on Henry Ware Alten, an 86-year-old friend from the writer’s hometown who remains active despite blindness.
Premier Hasan Saka faces resignation as Turkey’s government falls under domestic economic policy criticism. Ismet Inonu asks Saka to form a new cabinet with possible changes in economics labor and agriculture portfolios. Neemeddin Sadak to remain foreign minister amid upheaval and reconstruction talks.
Elliott and Myron Lantz have purchased the building that contains the drug store and apartment owned by Mrs. Coye. The Lantzes plan to move into the apartment portion after closing.
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