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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1957
Page
5
The Federated Women’s club sponsors the Red Cross program at the Avoca pool. Swimming lessons for one hundred fifty local children begin June 17. Bus transportation costs one dollar per child for the two week session.
Cass County remains far from its 192 unit blood quota with only 93 donors signed. The Red Cross mobile will visit Atlantic at the Elks club Thursday 12 to 6 pm. appointments via Red Cross or registrar Mrs. Gene Mallette. New donors include Lester Rhodes and others. giving a pint takes under an hour with a brief medical check and refreshments afterward.
Twenty two members and two guests met at Mrs. Charles Pigg’s home for a Congregational Women’s Fellowship afternoon. Mrs. Lyle Pigg led the program We the Family and Alma Beckwith spoke on Ghana. Mrs. Ralph Hammond reviewed church merger plans for June 25 in Cleveland. Zion Aid Society met at the church with forty five members and new member Mrs. Richard Borchardt. mite boxes to be brought to the July 5 gathering.
The marriage of Marcia Ann Carley and David Everhart was solemnized Saturday afternoon May 18 at St Mark's Lutheran Seattle with Rev. Olin G. Dasher officiating. The couple, both North High graduates, reside in Seattle where the bride's family hosted a reception. the groom works at Boeing.
Verdigris River flood near Coffeyville washes away part of a bridge and sweeps two Union Gas workers, Porter Graves and Roy Burdick, to their deaths. Severe storms fire tornado funnels across Kansas. gusts reach 90 mph near Hutchinson.
Anita Beyer and Mrs. Norman Paulsen of Anita are the parents of a boy born at 10 55 this morning at Atlantic Memorial hospital weighing 8 pounds 2 ounces.
Mr and Mrs Van Harris with the Gissibles and their daughters depart Tuesday for Bryan Texas where Roger Harris will receive his wings and commission as a lieutenant. A past dusk warning urges motorists to reduce speed to save lives.
Club calendar notices list events for the week including Tuesday Cheerful Workers meeting with Mrs. Lester Louis at the city club. Wednesday K Y N meeting with Mrs Freddie Reich at 2 p m. Congregational family picnics at Sunnyside park at 6 30 p m please bring own food and drink. Thursday Lotus Rebekah lodge meets at 8 p m at IOOF hall.
Sick and injured residents are listed with recent surgeries and hospitalizations. George Wyman underwent back surgery at Jennie Edmundson in Council Bluffs. George Dixson returned from Omaha after surgery. Troy Rhody was hospitalized in Colorado Springs with high blood pressure. Several others, including children, were treated at Atlantic Memorial and local facilities, with several released and others still hospitalized.
Funeral services set for Silas Skidmore of Rock Rapids who was injured in a one car accident near Lester on May 29 and died Saturday in a Sioux Falls hospital.
The Pollock family thanks neighbors Mrs. Ross Pollock and Ronald for their help in planning and planting their corn crop.
The De Witt weekly notes senior citizens age 60 plus who are skilled in needlework will vie for a first place plaque and share in a $167 prize at a farm service competition. The event runs August 23 to September 1 during the National Editorial Work convention in Washington, D.C.
The storm swept across Florida from St Petersburg to the Georgia line causing two drownings seven missing and five rescued. Perry near Tallahassee took the hardest hit with 11.6 inches of rain and about 200 families evacuated from a town of 3000. Crop damage was expected to be high.
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