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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1961
Page
7
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Gov. Norman A. Erbe questioned the wisdom of an $18 000 annual ceiling for all state mental health personnel except superintendents. The Legislative Interim Committee approved the cap affecting psychiatrists and staff across Board of Control facilities, with some doctors earning as high as 32 000. Supporters say the move keeps Iowa salaries competitive, while skeptics warn it could affect current staff and contracts.
Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda faces a Kennedy visit and asserts Liberal Democratic party stability after internal rifts that led to shelving a bill aimed at reducing political violence amid left wing demonstrations.
Several hundred pro-Castro students at Caracas University burned U S Ambassador Teodoro Moscoso s car as he viewed an exhibit. Police kept campus guards away per president Betancourt s policy while authorities blamed leftist leaders for the attack. Moscoso said the incident did not reflect Venezuelan sentiment.
Atlantic Garden club hosts the annual Flower Show this Saturday from noon to 4 30 in the court house assembly room with four divisions and a junior section for under 16. Judge will discuss entries at 2 30 followed by a silver tea.
Weather report indicates partly cloudy skies with continued cool temperatures through Friday. Forecast high around 65 to 70 degrees with a warmer spell expected later, as another front may bring light showers in the extended outlook.
The city council voted to condemn 1.12 acres owned by Mr. and Mrs. Claus Andersen at the west city limits for a new road linking U S 6 and Sixth Street. The plan also includes possible rights on the current road and notes a sewer line under it. A curb cut was granted to John Molgaard for Van's Chat and Chew at 703 Palm Street, and bids for a new street department tractor and backhoe are set for June 20.
Robert Hanrahan, 30, formerly of Red Oak and Shenandoah, is under guard at a hospital after a stolen car he was driving rolled over. He had no apparent injuries and is held for observation. Paroled May 5 from the Iowa Penitentiary for a 35 year habitual-criminal term. Sheriff says he stole a car Tuesday in Stansbury Missouri, abandoned it in Granite City, and stole a second car there.
The highway financing bill is expected to pass the Senate on Thursday with a billboard control extension added. A major floor battle centers on the two year extension of incentives for states to regulate billboards along the 41,000 mile interstate system. Proponents remain confident they will prevail.
Iowa State Secretary of Agriculture Clyde Spry dies at 72 from a heart attack at his Des Moines home. The Republican official, serving his sixth term, collapsed during dinner after a long day at the Statehouse, and was pronounced dead at Broadlawns Hospital. Spry is remembered for soil conservation work and leadership in farm groups. He is survived by his wife Luella and two sons. Governor Erbe and Linn pay tribute to his public service. Spry had recently attended a granddaughter’s event in Omaha.
Premier Khrushchev told Soviet people a Europe peace settlement must be reached this year while reaffirming Germany and Berlin policy. He urged West and East Germany to negotiate within six months on reunification and the future of West Berlin.
The United States rejected Khrushchev's suggestion to merge nuclear test ban talks with general disarmament. State Department spokesman Lincoln White said the U S is opposed and will respond in due course to the aide-memoire Khrushchev delivered at the Vienna meeting with President Kennedy.
President Kennedy’s backache is less severe and he still uses crutches but has less discomfort. He took a surprise two hour Potomac cruise with friends, dined aboard, and swam 35 minutes in the White House pool as prescribed exercise. He attended a Cabinet meeting and met Mayor Wagner, while planning to greet Mrs. Kennedy on her Greece vacation return and welcomed two ambassadors departing for posts.
Bruce Bishop, longtime employee at Gamble's, left Sunday to attend Northwest Missouri State College in Maryville. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Harold Bishop of 907 Hickory Street.
Irving C. Scarbeck 41 a second secretary at the U S Embassy in Warsaw was handcuffed after arrest on a Washington street for passing information affecting the security of the United States to a Polish communist agent Scarbeck a native of Brooklyn New York became a foreign service officer in 1956 and was assigned to Poland in 1958
DES MOINES AP The State Safety Department launches a driver improvement system. Violations after June 15 add one point each and three points in 12 months trigger a hearing. A credit of 12 months without violations offsets points. Suspension requires 30 days with 2 days notice, then points reset.
Yellow rain swept through scores of Massachusetts towns prompting wonder and fears of atomic fallout. The Audubon Society attributed the phenomenon to 90 degree heat that released Ping tree pollen, which the rain washed across the state.
U S Ambassador Harriman charged that two North Vietnamese troop units aided the Padong attack in Laos at a conference on Laos. He noted rebel incursions near the Laotian border risk splitting the royal government and accused Moscow of airlifting supplies to rebels.
U S District Judge Oren R Lewis rejected the Kennedy request to intervene in the Prince Edward County desegregation case. The government sought to enter as a plaintiff to prevent circumvention of the court order that led to the 1958 school closings.
Wallace Hardenbergh, 34, of Des Moines formerly of Atlantic, was killed when his car collided with a semi truck at the junction of highways 64 and 65 about 20 miles northeast of Des Moines. His wife Marilyn, 33, was critically injured. daughter Beth fractured, son Steven 11 less seriously hurt. The truck driver Larry Wright, 23, of Troy Mills, had minor injuries. Five hogs unaccounted after 124 hogs were loaded on the stock truck owned by Charles Kimball of Quasqueton. Funeral arrangements pending.
In Atlantic, Judgment - Challenge Feeds, Inc. won $687.26 against Edwin M. Hansen in district court. The award stems from a July 22, 1960 agreement.
Cedar Rapids AP report says Mary Jane LeMasters 40 head bookkeeper at Merchants National Bank pleaded guilty to three false entries totaling 14700 over about six years. Assistant U.S. District Attorney William R Crary said the scheme covered about 13 transactions with the first six years ago and the last earlier this year. Sentencing delayed pending further investigation.
The YMCA Council will run a charm school for girls aged ten to sixteen as part of the summer recreation program. High school and college girls assist, with sessions every Monday at 1 30 in the high school home economics room starting next Monday. Topics include preview of charm June 19 and charm in various settings through July 24.
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