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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1956
Page
5
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Iowa Rep. Riley Dietz reports his sailor son Riley Dietz Jr. has spent four weeks in a Concordia Kansas jail for a $90 reckless driving fine with $30 plus $4.30 costs. Dietz appeals for investigation by Gov. Hoegh and Rep. Schwengel, arguing time served should count toward the fine. The Kansas County Attorney says no jail credit is allowed, while Dietz notes Iowa law deducts daily jail credits.
The House approved a $3.8 billion foreign aid bill for the coming year, trimming Eisenhower’s request by more than a billion. The measure, larger than last year’s appropriation by about $1.1 billion, moves to the Senate where further cuts are expected. The final tally was 273 to 123 with a 147 to 52 vote to kill a near-total rewrite.
Mostly fair and warm Monday night with 67 to 78 degrees. Tuesday will be partly cloudy with widely scattered thundershowers in the west and north and highs from 85 to 90 in the northwest and 85 to 90 in the southeast. The outlook shows scattered showers or thunderstorms Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, then partly cloudy and cooler Wednesday.
Buenos Aires reports a swift crackdown as martial law nets Peronist rebels. Executions total 38 with many more to face retaliation. About 500 arrests sweep across Rosario Santa Fe Santiago del Estero and Corrientes amid uprisings in La Plata La Pampa and Rosario.
Seif Al Islam Badr Yemen’s young crown prince and premier travels to Moscow with a Yemenite trade delegation seeking economic aid. He meets Egypt’s Nasser before departure and is seen amid concerns he may be an easy target for Soviet influence as Yemen explores economic expansion.
The wife of a restaurant operator was shot in the left arm by an intruder who forced entry to the Green Tree Drive site early Monday. The couple, awakened around 2:30 a.m., confronted the suspect who fled in a car after three shots were fired. Mrs. Peterson was treated and to be released later Monday.
Cass County's Dairy Day set for Atlantic with Gov. Leo Hoegh as speaker at a 6 30 p m box dinner at the Cass County community center Proceeds support the 4 H and F F A fairgrounds The Dairy Princess will be crowned Ice cream bars will be handed out in Atlantic from 11 a m to 3 p m Master of ceremonies Raymond Cousins Griswold Program includes music and door prizes Fletcher Nichols Rt 1 leads the committee
Gen Curtis LeMay urged a $3.8 billion rise in Strategic Air Command funds for stepped-up B52 bomber production. Senate subcommittee chair Chavez disclosed the figure after LeMay testified in a closed session on the defense budget. The request, spanning four to five years, would push SAC totals toward five billion dollars to counter Soviet long-range bomber modernization.
Graveside services for Samuel Goss aged 78 a former Atlantic resident will be held Thursday at 2 p m in the Atlantic cemetery. He died Saturday in Penny'lly Minnesota son of Joseph Goss who once ran a local drug store. The body arrives in Atlantic by train Wednesday and will go to Roland funeral home.
Henry Bornholdt 21 of Wiota was injured with a broken right leg in a two car crash two miles south of Atlantic about 10 PM Saturday and sent to Methodist hospital in Omaha. Dixie Wardrip 18 of Atlantic and Martin Martinsen 19 of Red Oak suffered lacerations and bruises and were treated at Atlantic Memorial hospital. Wardrip sprained ankle and Martinsen a possible concussion. William Ross 20 of Red Oak was not hurt. The Bornholdt car, a 1956 model, collided with Martinsen’s after Bornholdt passed the other vehicle while Martinsen started a left turn. Damages were about $700 to the Bornholdt car and $900 to the Martinsen car.
Yugoslav President Tito arrived in Stalingrad with Khrushchev and Mikoyan to a 200000 strong crowd. An American reporter Betty Mase of Bronxville was swept into Mikoyan s car during the melee. She described the mob as wildly enthusiastic and uncontrollable. Similar scenes followed in Moscow and Leningrad during his Soviet tour.
In Key West, Ray Wraymond, 36, staggered ashore after a nine mile swim through rough seas to summon aid for three fellow survivors of a fishing boat wreck. The Golden K sank in a squall. a Navy helicopter found the other three survivors clinging to wreckage and a Coast Guard boat rescued them. Wraymond and Dorothy Snell, 35, and Winford Bennett, 39, were hospitalized. Frank Young required no medical care. All are Marathon, Florida residents.
Washington reports renewed speculation that President Eisenhower may seek a second term after his hospitalization. Doctors see no reason to change plans, while Hagerty focuses on recovery and a decisive late spring/early summer decision ahead of the Republican National Convention.
Farm Credit Des Moines two farmers qualify for state agricultural land tax credit on 1957 general school taxes and will be paid about 82 cents on the dollar. They previously received 99 8 cents on the dollar for 1956 taxes as general school taxes rose. A district Young Republicans meeting and dinner will be held at the Whitney hotel at 6:50 this evening.
James Thomas Kehler of Chicago admitted robbing the Milo Iowa branch of People's Trust and Savings Bank of 1400 dollars last Tuesday. He faces a life term if convicted. arrested near Hartington Nebraska after a stolen car tied to Dallas Iowa was found abandoned near Melcher.
Winterset reports the first drowning at the new Legion pool as Young Jr. 7, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Young of Martensdale, disappeared while at the pool with his mother on its opening day. Lifeguard Ueland found him in the 10 foot deep area. The mother had warned him away from deep water. The pool has been in operation for about 200 years.
President Eisenhower resumed light walking with minimal bed support at 9 30 am and sat in an easy chair for 15 minutes. Medical bulletins reported his condition excellent with stable vital signs and less discomfort than yesterday. He conferred with Sherman Adams on decisions including Nixon representing him at two events and kept the Annapolis youth fitness conference dates.
Overnight and weekend operations by French troops across Algeria left estimates of nationalist rebels killed at 250 as fighting spread from Constante near the northeast to Tlemcen in the west. In Paris Prime Minister Guy Mollet won Socialist backing while proposing Algerian elections and equality with France as a path to cease-fire negotiations.
Barbara Jo Johnson 17 of Woodhull was seriously injured when she fell 75 feet from a Mississippi River bluff near Burlington. She landed on rocks, received a tourniquet for a compound ankle fracture, and was treated at a Burlington hospital for shock and possible internal injuries.
President Eisenhower refused a Russian bid for all Joint Chiefs of Staff members to visit the Soviet Union. He opened the door for some to go later with ample time to study activities of interest, while emphasizing the decision was his. White House press secretary Hagerty announced the stance.
Funeral services are planned Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Roland funeral home in Atlantic for Mrs. Alpha S. Clure 71 of Wiota who died Saturday night. Rev. Harold Smith will officiate and burial will be in Evergreen cemetery at Anita. She was born April 19, 1885, in Beargrove township and married Ona Clure July 8, 1884, in Atlantic. She leaves her husband and a daughter Myrle Clure of Wiota. She was a member of the Wiota Methodist Church.
In Shrine Exhibition Hall members of the National Assn. of Meat and Wholesale Grocers showcased fried grasshoppers fried cactus worms muskrat and rattlesnake meat as part of a giant food industries exhibit during their 57th annual convention.
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