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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1956
Page
4
Mayor W M Rembough declared a water emergency in Lake View and sent letters to all users. He asked commercial consumers to minimize use and requested State Health Department approval to drill a new well as current wells prove inadequate.
Associated Press reports stormy conditions across Iowa with showers and thunderstorms in the northeast Monday night, rainfall totals topping 1.82 inches in Charles City and 1.40 inches in Delaware. Winds up to 70 mph downed lines and trees. Temperatures reach high 80s to 90s, with Red Oak at 97 for the state high and lows from the 60s to 70s across locations.
Grant briefs state Mr and Mrs Kenneth D Mueller attend a Bankers Life Insurance Co of Nebraska convention at Jackson Lake Lodge Moran Wyoming. Mueller is one of three agents in the area to win the expense paid trip for meeting a sales quota. Lawrence Golding visits from Northwestern University Evanston Illinois for a week at the Wahland home. Motorists urged to obey STOP signs and not drink and drive.
Visiting parents and relatives appear across the town with listings of residents hosting kin from Wichita Sioux City and Colorado Springs. Notable items include open house for a Sunnyside model home, a marriage license in Wiota, and a Farmers Savings Bank action dismissal in Massena.
Courts record fines for speeding and red light violations with several motorists paying five dollars. Keith Edquist bound over on forgery charge. Cass county bond sales reach 605,856 dollars. Preceptors and scholarships noted along with 4-H delegates at the Ames convention.
Continued warm and humid weather is forecast for Iowa tonight through Wednesday. Lows range from the 60s north to 70s south with highs Wed in the 80s northeast and 90s elsewhere. Northeastern areas may see some relief from heat with scattered showers tonight and Thursday, when the pattern remains hot with possible west showers. The local station logged a 96 degree noon reading with overnight low 71 and yesterday high 92.
Anita Boyd Williamson of Anita faces a charge for failing to stop at a stop sign after a collision with a car driven by Mrs Chester Van Aernam of Anita. The crash occurred at the intersection of two county roads three miles west of Adair on a Friday afternoon. Vehicle damage totaled 75 to the Williamson truck and 175 to the Van Aernam car with mail boxes damaged for 20.
The Rev and Mrs Trembly with daughter from New Jersey moved into the Marne parsonage on a Wednesday. Mrs William Blay and her daughters from Pueblo Colorado visited last week at the Max Ream home. in Des Moines Iowa Joan Van Arkel a 20 year old flying secretary with the Des Moines Flying Service is Iowa's candidate for Migs Airpower 1956 to be named at the Air Force Assn convention in New Orleans on August 15. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs John Arkel of near Prairie City.
Cooler air spreads from the Northeast into the Midwest with frost in northern New England and a record low 45 in Connecticut. Temperatures fall to near freezing in Maine and 40s in the mid Atlantic. thunderstorms rumble in the Central Plains and Mississippi Valley. A fundraising dance in Des Moines supports Herschel Loveless’s gubernatorial bid at Val Air Ballroom on July 30, held the eve of the Democratic state convention.
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