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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1950
Page
6
The Douglas Lucky Lindies 4-H club attended Rally Day at the Red Oak Christian church. Ha Negley won a blue ribbon in the senior good grooming contest while Marilyn Swanson earned a blue ribbon in the junior division.
City council approves the Atlantic State Bank and Whitney Loan & Trust bid for street improvement bonds of 4600 dollars. Mayor Robert Wilburn signs the contract after a May 26, 1960 council meeting. A lengthy list of city expenditures follows including police, labor, utilities, and paving costs across multiple funds.
Hog receipts about 200 with prices mostly 2 to 75 cents lower from Friday. Cattle receipts around 500 with steer and heifer prices drifting lower and top steers around 31.50. Sheep demand weaker with spring lambs and ewes showing declines. Chicago trade showed hogs steady to 50 cents lower, cattle and sheep easing, grains nudging higher on modest gains.
Receipts today estimated 35 000. week 31 000. year 28 500. actuals yesterday 34 000. Cover unloads at 2 Minnesota packing plants and 12 plants plus about 30 concentration yards in Iowa with some out-of-state shipping and country buying stations. Fairly active. Prices for butchers steady to higher. Sows mostly steady to 10 cents higher. Barrows and gilts good and steady.
A historical price table lists hog prices by weight class for boars sows and hogs. Prices per hundredweight range from 15.15 to 22.25 dollars with weight bands spanning 160 to 650 pounds and varying quotes for good and choice grades. Local market terms show mid-century commodity quoting.
Iowa State College released yesterday's field summary showing egg mass counts by area. Recommendations urge treatment when 50 or more egg masses are found per 100 plants on corn at 36 inches or more in height.
Mrs. Jean Beverly Steffey 23 sneaked her husband Henry 27 from a road camp where he served time for auto theft for an hour claiming loneliness. A municipal judge dismissed charges of aiding a fugitive. Steffey faces trial on escape charges. A deputy sheriff spotted the pair parked near the camp on May 28.
Wiota reports Sgt Kendall Theis traveled from Minneapolis to the Atterbury air force base in Indiana after a 23,000 mile cross country flight from New York to California. He stayed with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Fred Theis east of Wiota. Mrs Theis and Barbara visit Bangor Maine during his absence. Bernice Bruner of Cherry Point North Carolina is vacationing with her parents.
Mr and Mrs Milt Bruner connected to Cherry Point Marine base spend time with Dr Donald Osteme and family. Dr Ostrus, Iowa University dental grad, plans trips to Washington and New York before starting practice in Oxceda on August 1. Atlantic and Griswold links mark Sunday dinners with extended families.
Louise Haier visited from Denison at her daughter Mrs. Ben Brodersen’s home with Jeanne Mia and Margaret Altman also there. Ed Langer and Nite Wilson visited from Harrisonville and Des Moines guests stayed with relatives in Anita. Barbara Hollenbeck, a 1960 Anita High School graduate, works at an insurance office in Des Moines.
Jeanette Myrtle Brown earned a Bachelor of Science in home economics with a dietetics major at the University of Omaha on June 5. She expects to report for an internship at Colorado State Hospital in Pueblo on July 1 and will leave Omaha on June 26. Her father George Brown and aunt Mrs James Stapleton attended the ceremony.
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