11 Jun 1949
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1949
Page
1
The piece argues communism faces resistance in postwar occupied countries as landowners and workers push back against Russian methods. It warns that worker dissatisfaction could lead to punitive actions by the Reds, who promised friendship but received opposition instead.
The piece argues that alcohol costs the United States 500 million in 1948 covering crimes accidents medical care and public- institution support for alcoholics. It asserts heavy drinking burdens taxpayers and justifies public regulation as the public’s business due to spillover costs.
Czech consuls in Chicago and Pittsburgh join others behind the iron curtain who request asylum in the United States to avoid return to lands where denying the nation can be punished by death. The piece argues crimes against government are punished more than crimes against individuals in totalitarian regimes.
Editorial briefs note the Red Cross swimming program starts July 11 at the Atlantic pool with a five week course of two lessons weekly. The initiative is valued for recreation and lasting personal benefit and aims to attract more participants this year.
Sweet bride of June is told her wedding day has arrived and vows begin. The poem notes joy in youth and promises of married life, children, and a home filled with love as time brings grace and faith through tears.
Maquoketa man Ralph Usher Jr aged 25 was killed in a 12 05 a m crash when his car struck a truck on Highway 61. Sheriff Lorin Felderman reported the car hit the truck fender spun and then the truck box broke loose and crushed the car leaving Usher alone.
Eva Bell Weld 78 died Friday at her daughter Velma Anderson’s home in Omaha after a lengthy illness. She lived in Massena 19 years and is survived by three daughters, a brother, ten grandchildren, and nine great grandchildren. Funeral services set for Monday at the Massena Methodist church with burial in Massena cemetery.
Mrs Edna Bailey and her son Kermit Bailey visited Woodbine on Friday to attend funeral services for Anita News-Telegraph Want Ads says, honoring the aunt.
The notice lists subscription rates for carriers and mail in various regions including Atlantic Cass County and U S Canada. Rates cover monthly, quarterly, semiannual, and annual terms with different prices for local and distant subscriptions. It also notes editors and affiliations for the Atlantic News Telegraph.
A narrator catalogs a dusty collection of old papers in a workshop box. The items span calendars, magazine issues, letters from family and friends, notices from publishers, and notices from media figures, revealing a life filled with literary projects and connections.
We extend heartfelt thanks for acts of kindness messages of sympathy and floral offerings received from friends and neighbors during the death of our husband and father Mrs Otto Mortensen and Family. Rodeo June 28 24 25 sponsored by Atlantic Saddle Club.
Washington reports Ambassador Lew Douglas, under orders from Secretary Acheson, persuaded Britain to delay recognizing the Chinese communist regime to await Canton’s fall. Meanwhile Harriman urges Britain to devalue the pound to curb a European financial crisis, while Cripps opposes devaluation. The note also covers Klansmen demanding accounting of Klan funds and Truman’s church attendance.
Anita Eleven neighbors replanted corn at Mrs Otto Mortensen farm on Tuesday after cutworms destroyed standing crop. Ten tractors with cultivators discs harrows and planters assisted across the acres. Funeral of Otto Mortensen followed his sudden death the prior week.
The senate has approved postmaster nominations for Iowa. James E. McMenamin of Dexter Thomas David Casey of Massena and George R. Patterson Jr. of Minden are named for key positions.
Rural firefighters were dispatched to the Alan DeKay residence at noon Friday where a pickup truck was on fire. No injuries reported as the blaze was contained at the Griswold scene.
Glenn H. Curtiss of Hammondsport New York made the first long distance flight in America in 1910 traveling from Albany to New York City.
Local high school boys Fritz Hansen Charley Goff Dick Cook and Marshall Iftner encountered a bear while camping in northern Minnesota. Flowers dominate this week with a double rose and an Easter lily blooming for the second time this spring. A New York City greeting arrives from the Earl Hortons. A rural quip defines Iowa humor and a story notes onions from England lineage. Burton Carl chases a circus circus elephant helps pull his car from a ditch after a storm tailed by an elephant.
Transfers show G N Collier to Beula C Jones and others, across several Atlantic and Griswold parcels, each for $1 and other consideration. Entities include Robert Butler, Burleigh Painter, C H Carl, D J Cornelison, John Westphalen, Floyd Young, Nellie Boorman, C Schwartz, Louis Edwards, Iva Putnam, William Boseck, Thos Cunningham, Effie Moreland, Gerald Brown, Florence Anderson, Olive Lewis, Ivan Noland, Oscar Carlson, Hetty South, Grace Arn, H O Beadle, Walter Blake, and Carl Harrison among others. Listings reference numerous lots and blocks in Atlantic, Griswold, Cumberland, and Mont Hemphill areas with dates in 1946 to 1949.
Mr and Mrs Dale Garside and their son William relocate to Burlington where Garside begins work as a telegraph and television operator. He recently completed a three course program in the field at an Omaha school.
If a closet lacks space for a hanging rod a shelf area can hold towel rods beneath the shelf to provide a hanging space for garments.
The 85 000 ton ocean liner Queen Mary completed the transatlantic crossing in three days twenty hours and forty two minutes, setting a speed record prior to the war.
In a 1949 column, Roger W. Babson urges readers to write their congressmen to cut government expenses to avoid increased taxes or debt. He warns of deficit financing as dangerous, cites Hoover recommendations, and stresses independence of workers and prudent fiscal policy.
A fishing vessel Sunset capsized off False Pass in the North Pacific near the Alaska Peninsula. Three men died, two are missing, four survived. coast guard headquarters reported. The disaster occurred near Unimak Island in the Aleutians. Watch for the Saddle Club Show.
Lavern Kuhle of Dubuque, 31, died after falling 50 feet from a scaffold on a new bridge under construction. He landed on brick pavement between two buildings as a fellow worker tried to save him. Police said the fall occurred from a higher bridge to a lower one ten feet below.
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