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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1955
Page
5
Students report that textile industries migrating to the South have eliminated about 110,000 jobs in New England over four years. They note growth in electronics and metal working has more than offset the losses, while Indiana adds roughly 60,000 residents annually.
Marne residents spent weekends with relatives in Ida Grove and Des Moines visits occurred for Anderson, Trailer, and Warne families. Visits extended to Freemont and LeRoy Illinois, with notes on Opal Gress in charge of the post office. A church conference in Des Moines was attended by Rev Stefenson. The United States built about 2% billion dollars worth of public schools in 1954 and Indiana’s population exceeds 4% million.
Des Moines reports that Gov Leo Hoegh runs informal news conferences at 9:30 a.m. with reporters asking direct questions. He answers with prompt releases, uses no comment when needed, and lets stray events like flag handovers and fishing rod gifts punctuate the session before business resumes.
The item lists multiple regional visits: Ann Power of Greenfield to Joyce Carper. Edwin and Mrs Rengsard visiting Des Moines daughter. Jorgensen family at Audubon reunion. Molly Leslie visiting Emmetsburg sister. Mr and Mrs Sorensen celebrate silver anniversary in Coon Rapids. Lauritzen of Waukegan Ill visiting Curtis Wilsons. Herbert Wahlert Sr visiting son Bill Tespetra family. Susan Peterson visiting relatives in Elk Horn. other scattered travels noted.
Hilsabeek and son from Las Weiges Nebraska visit Chris Jensen family. Leroy Hensley von Scotty of Rawls with father Earl Hensley and sister Mrs Ronald St John accompany. Harold W Hansen and daughter Colen join Mrs Henry W Hansen Mrs Ethel Minerman and son Charles on two week vacation with relatives in Long Beach California.
A motorist drove into a Kings Mountain gas station and asked to have his gasoline tank removed after admitting he had been using it to stash change. Inside the tank the attendant found 25.95 in mixed coins. The man claimed the car had been sputtering and the money was saved to pay debts. authorities noted the odd sequence and planned further checks. The Mars Venus color observation appears unrelated to the incident.
Marshall County Historical Society plans to move the old Wetherbee rural school to the Central Iowa Fair for display and make it an annual exhibit. The 19th century school closed this spring as rural schools consolidated. Funds and volunteers are sought to finance the project with an estimated $1,500 cost.
OCR fragments show executors and heirs listed in a probate deed. Mentions include Ella Soper Robert E Maurice Tuttle and Raquel H Falconer with various sums and parcels described. Additional references name G Waters Ben Smiley Crawford Merriman and Whitney with unspecified roles in the estate.
The fragment notes that Marth was the first month of the year and mentions calendar changes by a writer Juttass Cae sar before 46 B C. It shifts to eyewear, stating about 34 percent of spectacles are bifocals or trifocals and an odd figure of cans opened per minute in the United States. It promotes Try News Telegraph Want Ads.
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