20 Jun 1950
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1950
Page
1
The National Committee on Traffic Safety cites speeding and drunk driving as leading causes of highway crashes. Education is reducing accidents while punishment appears ineffective in Town.Suggestions include impounding cars, jail time, and revoking licenses. Iowa's $300 fine is deemed insufficient to deter drinkers or speeders.
Los Angeles struggles with roving hoodlums wrecking property and assaulting people for thrills. Authorities admit police are stretched, recalling a past period when navy and marines quelled the trouble for a night with forceful action, a drastic method not endorsed for general use but effective when official control fails.
The article notes today’s heavy traffic wears out old highways and describes ongoing experiments to find roads able to carry future loads. Rubberized paving is the latest test, with results suggesting future roads will be costlier and require higher license fees and gasoline taxes.
A column narrates a visit by Mr and Mrs Gene Anderson with border patrol anecdotes, border-impacts, and comments on river crossings. It also highlights June as brides month, a Spirit Lake catch by Don Hamers, a late night alley incident with drinking teens, and local candidacy for Queen of the Soil with Valda Frank, plus remarks on Atlantic’s streets.
Publication data shows costs and mailing rules for Atlantic Views Talograph and News Telegraph, with editor F D Simpson and various association memberships. Rates cover carriers, in-state and out-of-state mail options, and international Canada pricing.
The article charges Georgia Congressman John S. Wood with shielding Hollywood figures. It alleges Louis B. Mayer paid a large fee to Dunlap of Gainesville to influence the un American activities committee and delayed Hollywood probes. It recalls Wood later faced GOP probes and evidence suggesting omitted testimony.
A description of communities where shade trees arch overhead to create a continuous green tunnel. The text emphasizes the shade library effect, the street canopy, and the aesthetic and ecological value of mature trees in urban corridors.
Three new charges filed against Harry C. Paine Jr. in justice court include resisting arrest, assault with intent to do great bodily harm, and escape. Paine, 27, an escapee from Clarinda state hospital, is in Hollywood, California, after a June 8 escape when deputies attempted to arrest him in front of Mary DeWitt’s home.
A separate larceny of a motor vehicle charge has already been filed against Paine. The report notes the ongoing case and Paine’s alleged involvement in the auto theft incident.
Walnut-Phyllis J. Jessen infant daughter of Mr and Mrs LaVern Jessen of Walnut died Sunday at a local hospital Survivors include parents a brother Dennis a sister Dianna grandparents Mr and Mrs Emery Mercer of Carson and Mrs Anna Carson of Omaha Committal rites were held Monday afternoon in Walnut Hill cemetery Rev Eugene Harrison of St Johns Lutheran Church officiated Meyer Funeral Home was in charge Pedestrians always wear something white when walking the highways at night
The Goebbels Diaries case involves journalists Frank Mason and Louis Lochner who published translations with Hoover Library permission while the government later claimed ownership. George Sokolsky contrasts their fine with the Jaffe fine in the Amerasia case, questioning denazification linkages and property rights.
At seventy-eight, he shows vigor and grit, wearing younger peers out with commands to hurry. His face bears time’s lines yet his eyes sparkle with youth, and friends call him General Grant.
Officials ordered a recount of votes in the Republican nomination race for state representative. In the official canvass on Tuesday Earl G. Ryan edged Plymat by 17 votes, 5 201 to 5 274.
Des Moines attorney William Plymat asks the Polk County board of supervisors to order a recount in a disputed election. The move follows requests for review of ballots and results claimed by Plymat and his clients. Local officials have not yet announced a date for any recount action.
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