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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1962
Page
8
Des Moines AP reports a July 16 hearing to decide if D. W. Robie’s Bilston grain elevator license will be revoked after the Commerce Commission suspended it for a 5068 bushel corn shortage and missing records moved to Missouri leaving inspectors unable to verify inventory.
In Glen Rock New Jersey the high school held a secret graduation gala for 174 graduates. Parents funded transformed the auditorium into an exotic courtyard with minarets a fountain and live trees. Harry James and his band provided music. The event included a midnight lamb supper.
Breakfast for graduates hosted by 25 parents at 3 a.m. followed by an early swim at the municipal pool. Superintendent Eu gene Bradford put the cost at $15 per pupil totaling $2,610 covering the band decorations supper and door prizes. Parents used trading stamps for small Arabian sword favors. One graduate and her parents recall the night as unforgettable.
Msgr. P. N. McDermott, longtime Atlantic priest and former district organizer of the American Legion, marks his 80th birthday. A native of Ireland, he came to Cass county in 1909 and has served St Patrick’s in Massena and Atlantic since 1920. He earned monsignor status in 1950 and held many war and civic posts throughout his career.
The Atlantic News Telegram lists hospital admissions including Mrs. Clara Schirm Anita Lawrence Lothman Lewis and others. Discharges include Mrs. Floyd Chester Massena Mrs. Robert McLaren Massena and Mrs. Edward Jones with Michael Edward. Chris Christensen undergoing surgery at Clarkson Hospital in Omaha is reported as satisfactory. Extra copies of the paper are offered and a dusk driving alert is issued.
State Services for Crippled Children will hold a diagnostic and evaluation clinic at Lincoln school on June 27 for crippled youngsters from several Iowa counties. Open to patients under 21 with chronic conditions, the visit offers consults in pediatrics, orthopedics, pedodontia, psychology, speech and hearing, physical therapy, and more with no examination fee.
Funeral services for Mrs Emma Saint 79 will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Christian church in Elliott with Rev. Robert Jones officiating and burial in Waveland township cemetery. She was born in Wales in August 1882 and married James Saint in September 1908. Surviving are her husband two children Mrs Pearl Duncan and Harlan Saint five grandchildren a sister Esther Peterson and three brothers Nels A Peterson Ed Peterson and John Peterson. She died Sunday at Red Oak hospital.
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