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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1963
Page
1
Senator John Shoeman advocates tax increases tied to Iowa’s rising prosperity to fund state needs. He argues growth in the economy should generate enough tax revenue and warns real property tax relief is unlikely. Support from many legislators is seen as essential to his plan.
A 1960s style reflection notes upheaval in Britain with a scandal involving a call girl and a fourteen year old prince drinking, while Russia and Kennedy era civil rights plans provoke debate. The piece advocates ethics courses in schools to curb self serving conduct and increase consideration for others.
The Presbyterian Synod of New York State approved a plan to establish a liberal arts college named after Dwight D. Eisenhower at Seneca Falls on Lake Cayuga. Funding of 1.2 million includes 1 million from an anonymous woman donor. The school will be non sectarian co educational and open September 1965.
Publication details for the Atlantic News Telegraph at 410 Walnut Street Atlantic Iowa with editors and associations listed. Subscription rates shown for local carrier by month and year and for mail across Cass and surrounding counties and beyond including Canada and the United States.
DREW PEARSON reports U S woman pilots press NASA chief Jim Webb to allow female astronauts amid Civil Rights push. JFK meets labor leaders on rights with A Philip Randolph urging full equality. Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark favors religion study. Rep William Onge seeks Haym Solomon nuclear submarine naming.
In a contract bridge problem by B Jay Becker, West leads clubs and East discards a diamond. Declarer plans on which suit to cash by deducing spade length from the play. He sequences diamonds and hearts to glean opponents’ distributions, then attempts a spade finesse with the jack to reach ten tricks, depending on whether East or West holds the queen.
A Des Moines office worker for Central Life Insurance Company is identified in records as a general office staff member. The entry notes the firm’s presence in Des Moines and the employee’s role within the local operation.
Ten years ago Mrs. Clayton Howell and two daughters of Onawa visited her mother in Elliott. Mrs. James Toler of Peoria Illinois visits with son Rex Toler and family. Twenty years ago Miss Lois Mills returned to Council Bluffs after visiting Massena. Evelyn Kempe of Casey now employed. Thirty years ago Mrs. Lulu Biggs of Massena vacationed from Slocum store duties. Dean Reynolds of Elliott stayed with Dr and Mrs E J Perley of Griswold. Fire Chief Hedgess traveled to Omaha for business and leisure. The American public received an average of 5.2 million dollars daily from insurers for hospital care in 1962.
A vignette on a house kept for fifteen years with a maid’s routine and guards of honor echoing sternly. It contrasts the orderly home with the need for deeper sustenance of love beyond mere furnishings and routine.
The public weighs when a steel labor pact will be accepted by major firms and approved by the union local. Key questions include whether the pact raises production costs and triggers price increases, and if job security provisions may set patterns for other industries.
Dr. M Brittain Moore Jr of the Public Health Service reports a nationwide resurgence of syphilis with as many as 1.2 million hidden cases. In 1962 there were about 124000 reported cases including over 21000 in infectious stages, the highest since 1950. Factors cited include urban growth, mobility, weakened family ties, tensions, and inadequate sex education.
Dwight Williams of Davenport is the new president of the Iowa Association of Professional Fire Fighters. Other officers include John Helming Cedar Rapids, Marvin Rochester Sioux City, Charles Ellis Charles City as vice presidents, and John Connors Des Moines as secretary-treasurer.
A 1968 syndicated health column discusses alcoholism as a disease requiring prevention diagnosis and treatment. It highlights teenage prevention the difficulty of diagnosis stages of alcoholism and the role of psychotherapy nutrition and medications including disulfiram and the Alcoholics Anonymous network in rehabilitation.
Mrs. Helen B. Henderson of Waterloo has been appointed field representative for the Iowa Association for Retarded Children to coordinate 73 local organizations across 84 counties. A former state association president, she was named by three governors to the Governor's Committee on Mental Health and has eight years on the Iowa Hospital Advisory Council.
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