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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1947
Page
5
A brief notice lists Alcoholics Anonymous contact Box 15 in Cumberland Iowa for confidential information and local meeting details.
In Chicago on June 11 a two year old, Donald Bararo, tumbled from an open window sill about 26 feet to the ground while playing cowboy. His mother, Mrs. Josephine Bararo, alerted police. Detectives Joseph Tye and Lawrence O'Keefe found the child uninjured aside from a slight forehead cut.
The Veterans Administration will cut about 6,100 employees from its payroll to meet a 210,000 employment ceiling set by President Truman. The reductions will be completed by August 1.
Floodwaters from the Missouri and Mississippi rivers surge toward Hannibal Missouri with about 120000 acres at risk if a levee fails. evacuations underway across three states as Glasgow to Boonville area floods stretch, homeless estimates rise and rail and road travel halt.
General Electric received an order from Iowa State College Ames for an atom smashing synchrotron able to produce 70 000 000 electron volts. Delivery of all parts will take more than a year. The accelerator will duplicate the size and energy of the unit at GE and will be used jointly by physics chemistry and electrical engineering departments.
New York reports an extensive summer lineup with ABC airings starting June 25 featuring Eddie Albert in Comedy Romance and June 26 presenting Edward Arnold in Mr. President a White House era drama. NBC schedules July 2 a Dennis Day replacement Col Flack and July 3 Gramps a domestic comedy drama during Aldrich family vacation. Also noted is Rev William A Evans chosen moderator for Minnesota Presbyterian synod meeting opening in St Paul.
Moscow reports the presidium of the supreme Soviet issued decrees outlining four secret categories: military, economic, discoveries and non military improvements, plus a misc category. Penalties reach up to 200 years in labor camps for disclosure and for losing state secret documents. Death penalty for national security violators was abolished on May 27, 1947.
Officials urge drivers to follow road signs accurately to reduce strain and prevent accidents. Emphasizes attentiveness to warning, speed limit, and direction indicators for safer travel.
Governor Robert D Blue awarded five valor honors for saving lives from drowning in Des Moines with about 30 attendees. Four previously scheduled awards will be given during state fair week. Recipients included Calvin Bolton, 19, serving in the navy on Saipan, and Arthur Gaffney, 34, Decorah.
M. D. Pressell, 86, of Lake Park, Phillip Lord, 16, of Des Moines, and Donald Hanson, 18, of Callender, were honored with gold lapel pins and framed certificates describing the deeds for which the awards were made.
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