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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1949
Page
4
To accommodate crowds, Ma and Pa Kettle will run continuously on Saturday at the Atlantic starting 2 p m. A Dutch auction is described as a descending price auction where the first bidder to accept buys, opposed to a standard rising-price sale.
Forty to fifty farmers attend township meetings this week to study the corn borer situation. Six conferences planned for tomorrow and eight held today. Borer counts run 40 to 100 in infested fields with surveys up to 360. H E Codlin leads with assistants Leroy Adams Clarence Ford and Roger Christensen GI agriculture teachers Ross Brown Glen Marsden Frank Bailey and Ross Seckman assisting.
Mrs. Ralph Hammond of Atlantic has endured five consecutive Junes of mishaps. She broke her right wrist yesterday when stepping on a stool to hang curtains forcing cancellation of a California visit to her daughter. Previous Junes include a left wrist fracture in 195? and ankle sprains in 1945 1946 and 1948.
McKinley Ramsey of Chattanooga Tennessee wins the National Father's Day Committee title Worker Father of the Year. Ramsey, a World War I veteran, supports his family by selling cedar chests and is father to two daughters and two sons, both World War II veterans.
Three men are held in Princeton connection with the theft of lead bars and radioactive cobalt in a case traced by Geiger counters. Police say the lead from a university lab was worth about 300 dollars and one bar contained dangerous cobalt. The radioactive material was buried in a Trenton junk yard.
Circulators delivered to homes for blood donor drive and mobile unit visit on June 30. Waemer forecast shows warm Tuesday. Mrs. Flick visits Fremont Neb with her children and father. Seventh district rural carriers plan Sunnyside Park picnic with Senator Jay Codburn discussing road legislation. H. W. Nelson Jr. returns from California after family illness. George Sanny farm image near Maine shows hybrid seed corn and chickens. Fred Kahl arrested for bootlegging released on bond. Ohio: Robert Goeken released after making checks good. Chester Christian released on parole. Rita Genevieve Kuehn divorce suit filed. Rita supported by alimony. Various justice court fines listed. Joe Ryd Jr. charged with drunken driving. bond set at $400. Lustron steel home under construction by I. M. Block in LaVista Place.
Mr and Mrs Herb Green of Chicago will move into the present Block home at 11 East Twelfth street about Aug 1. Mrs Green is Rose Carolyn Block, and Mr Green will join Mr Block at the Central Loan company. Repainting and sliding interior doors will maximize wall and floor space.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, returning from six weeks in Western Europe, says continued Marshall Plan aid is absolutely essential to keep Europe stable. He notes ongoing tension in capitals as Cold War dynamics evolve and stresses economic cooperation as key to a united Europe.
The article traces table tennis origins to around 1008 with a British army officer legend in India who used a table and improvised equipment to play indoors. It notes the sport’s rise to official status in 1998 with the International Table Tennis Federation.
Mobile Alabama was the region’s sole seaport and a Spanish city until 1813 when control shifted. The note marks Mobile’s unique colonial status and timing of transition.
Don J. Mahler, Iowa Electric manager, told the Junior Chamber about a two year upgrade plan. The program fixes obsolete equipment at five regulator stations and adds three more, doubles regulator capacity, and installs about 20 000 feet of new mains to form a city loop. Gas is sourced from Northern National and delivered via a six inch main into the city.
The article notes a sharp shift in locomotive production from steam to diesel electric. One manufacturer reports diesel-electrics at 85 percent of last year’s output, up from 1046 percent—an extraordinary increase reflected across the industry.
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