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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1946
Page
5
Pella scholar Lucille Kelley will head Central college biology for the 1946 47 year, succeeding Dr. W M Goldsmith. Summer session enrollment at Iowa State College reaches 3646, a postwar record with veterans making up over 70 percent of students.
Estes Park editor Jean Olson of Story City won first place for best editorial in a daily or weekly newspaper at the National Federation of Press Women contest, for work published in the Story City Herald. Alma Turnbull of Cedar Falls Daily Record won first place for best column at the federation's 10th annual convention. Drake University hires Winterset’s Earl L. Canfield as a mathematics instructor following his resignation as Winterset High School principal and band director.
Walter A. Sheaffer died after a long illness in Fort Madison Iowa at age 79. Born July 27 1867 in Bloomfield he founded the W A Sheaffer Pen Co in 1912 after working as a delivery boy and in jewelry and music stores in Bloomfield Centerville Bloomfield and Unionville Missouri He later ran a Bloomfield jewelry store and then a similar shop in Fort Madison Also Glen Seamon an Omaha bus driver was fined $15 plus costs for speeding on U S 71 nine miles south of Atlantic.
The forecast notes continued cool conditions tonight and Thursday with rain across the northeast portion.
At the United Nations Security Council the Polish delegation pressed for action against Franco Spain after Soviet Russia vetoed a proposal to refer the Spanish question to the General Assembly. Oscar Lange vowed new proposals to unite nations against Franco, while council adjourned until Monday. The UN Atomic Energy Commission met to discuss US plans for an international authority to control atomic energy and ban the atom bomb.
Investigators from Washington head to Mobile after 22 crew members suffer severe burns when mustard gas and phosgene escape from German aerial bombs loaded on a 3,860 ton cargo ship. The bombs, brought from Europe for experiments, released gas due to high hold temperatures.
A volunteer search party dragged the Iowa river near the Herrick home after Little Ann Herrick, 2, wandered from the front yard on the west bank of the Iowa river. The child is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Herrick, with a veteran father and British mother. Residents were alerted by a fire siren and the search began around noon yesterday.
Prague June 19 Eduard Benes was reelected president of Czechoslovakia by a unanimous vote of 298 MPs. Two members were absent.
Secretary of Commerce Wallace urged vigilance against inflation as OPA price control talks began in Congress. He warned weakening controls could trigger boom and bust, harming small business and potentially inviting monopolies as prices rise and raw materials grow scarcer.
London reporting that Moscow Radio denied claims of Russian troop concentration in southeastern Germany. No additional details given.
Brig. Gen. Walter T. Clement announced that U S Marines would help Chinese authorities maintain peace and order in Tsingtao if Communists attack the Shantung port. He did not say whether Marines would defend the city itself if forces advance on the port's defenses.
The Atlantic band directed by W. V. Hemphill will present the season opener at 8 15 tomorrow evening in the city park with a program spanning eight weeks including United Nations March King Golden Bears March and I See You Again among pieces by Yoder Lorenz King Gounod Weber and Coward and featuring national anthem.
A June 6 traffic count by the Iowa Highway Commission Safety Department finds the intersection at Seventh and Chestnut streets not meeting the 1,000 vehicles per hour for eight hours warrant. With 576 vehicles during the peak hour, officials still propose parking bans on Chestnut north of the intersection, lane markings for turns, a center line on Seventh, and speed enforcement to curb hill approaches and speeding near Maple and Walnut streets.
Flashy dressed Kim Sigler led the four way Republican gubernatorial primary in Michigan, with Lt. Gov. Vernon Brown, Raymond J. Kelly, and Detroit mayor Edward J. Jeffries trailing. Democratic nominee Murray D. Van Wagoner prevailed. In Massachusetts Maurice Tobin won Democratic renomination over Francis Harrigan. Lt. Gov. Robert Bradford and several incumbents faced no strong opposition. Kennedy led in the 11th district after a wide field, with the nomination seen as tantamount to election in that district.
Forty two passengers including Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh resumed their Pan American Constellation flight to England from Williamantic Conn after a pancake landing at Windham field. The aircraft had departed LaGuardia New York, engine trouble forced an emergency inbound approach, lead engine aflame detached near Plainfield near the Connecticut Rhode Island border.
Rain last night and this morning brings June total to 4.78 inches, 0.57 inch above normal, with 1.30 inches recorded recently. Osceola 1.85 and Des Moines 1.11 inches marked the day as flood threats eased in southern Iowa. Keosauqua crest 19.6 feet noted since 1903, with rivers rising then falling and crops inundated in Centerville Mystic area. Temperatures ranged from 30s to 107 in distant locales as storms, snow, and winds affected broader regions.
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled the state may sell the homestead of pensioner Charles Ragan of Anita to satisfy liens for old age assistance. He and his wife died earlier. the court upheld a Cass County verdict ordering sale to repay 3752 dollars, despite challenges by heirs. Justice John Mulroney authored the opinion.
Des Moines report details OPA action fixing a minimum price of 3 per 100 pounds for milk with 3.5 percent butterfat and a ceiling of 3.20 in Iowa for industrial dairy uses. Floyd L. Whittington, OPA district price executive, notes the policy and its scope.
Senator Eastland demands an open inquiry into the Supreme Court discord to remove four Roosevelt appointees and calls for all eight justices to testify. He backs a constitutional amendment curbing presidential appointments and awaits Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the measure.
Galena reports autopsy on Earlyn Bonnett 24 finds skull fracture presumed from blows. Body found in a slough near Galena after he vanished from East Dubuque home post discharge. Decomposition limited other findings. inquest planned likely Friday per Coroner Ray Bertsch.
Washington reports Rep Walter G Andrews aboard the USS Panamint near Bikini tests shifted the 18 year old draft dispute toward a senate house compromise. He supports a moratorium last resort while urging action before the end of the current extension act with final approval by both chambers likely after further talks.
Hanover, June 19. An explosion after a fire at an old salt mine ammo dump near Haengsen, 15 miles northeast of Hanover, follows a large underground fire. More than 100 Germans and displaced persons are believed dead. 80 Germans and 23 displaced workers were underground when the blast occurred. one British soldier on the surface injured. The mine contained about 10,000 tons of explosives across three levels.
President Truman conferred with the army and navy munitions board on industrial preparedness in case of another emergency. The board is tasked with stockpiling materials and maintaining a constantly modernized program to mobilize the nation's industrial machinery for government action when needed.
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