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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1950
Page
4
The Poets Society of Town will gather in Waterloo for a Saturday program. A round table discussion starts at noon followed by luncheon. The afternoon features music and original poems read by poets present.
Kaynor, longtime publisher of the Ennevaburr Daily Record in Washington state, was elected president of the National Editorial Association on Tuesday. Born in Iowa, he began his newspaper career in Fort Dodge while a high school student and left Iowa in 1907.
Adair resident Adair-Rex Rourick suffered cuts and bruises on his forehead and wrist after his auto left Highway 25 just north of Highway 6, overturning on Guthrie Center road.
Local notes report health travel and legal items including Mrs G G deck returning to San Antonio. A Wilbur F Lantz fine for axle overload, marriage licenses issued to Lloyd A Kumm and Margaret Dudgeon and G W Bopp and Esth er Mathews, plus a Mason City wedding. Baseball and livestock results, savings bond totals, and warmer weather forecast accompany regional updates.
Forecast shows a chance of local thunder showers in the west portion with highs from 85 in the north to 90 in southern Iowa. Scattered thundershowers expected Thursday night and Friday with temperatures up to 90. Saturday to be mostly fair and cooler. Yesterday's high reached 86 in Sioux City and the Decorah low dropped to 46, while Atlantic recorded a 58 degree minimum.
Anita notes show Miss Dorothy Hamlin formerly of Anita married Virg Sanborn at the Methodist church in Menlo Saturday evening attended by Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Potter. Several local families hosted and guests traveled from nearby towns.
Massena social update lists guests at the Aden Wickey home including Ed Glynn of Omaha Eva Wickey and Clarence Follman family of Massena Laverne Westfall of Atlanta Nebraska visiting L C Westfall and family Merlin Holste reports at Westover Massachusetts awaiting July sail to England for three years Mrs Holste and children will stay with the Herb Holste home Maryann Cruise of Omaha visits Creston Dr J W Cruise and family host Creston family spending Sunday in Massena
The Eldeen 4-H girls held a three day camp at the Ray Nelson home with tents and buddy burner meals. They organized crafts games and recreation and prepared for the farm bureau program with a free Brayton movie and a vesper service closing Friday night.
Des Moines reports two year old Linda Lou Lamphere was hospitalized in good condition after swallowing turpentine. She was watching her father strip paint when she drank the solvent before he could intervene. The child is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Jack M Lamphere.
Advises taking it easy on the road with ample time and avoiding speeding to ensure reaching the destination safely. Emphasizes patience and cautious driving as a preventive precaution.
The state health department mails posting friendly rules to pool managers stressing education over discipline. Rules include showering before entering, washing feet, using toilets, excluding those with skin or communicable diseases, and sanitation steps like ear protection and cleaning suits after swimming.
Telephone lines for Bell Telephone are going underground to reduce hazards to flyers. The company completed 3,500 feet of underground cable starting 219 feet east of the field and crossing the airport. Electric cables are also being installed by Atlantic municipal utilities plant in the area.
Britain plans an active role in the campaign to seat Red China in the United Nations. U N Secretary General Trygve Lie said he will speak in London and Geneva to press a Russian backed plan. Britain had abstained on China questions and recognizes Peiping's government but has not exchanged diplomats.
Mrs. Lloyd Miller won the third flight and Mrs. Wally Powell took the seventh flight in the southwest Iowa women's golf tournament at Clarinda yesterday. About 40 women attended. At the Denison open day, Mrs. Jack Germain of Atlantic was low on 18 holes with 79 and Mrs. Harold Scott was second low in the nine hole event.
Des Moines reports warm weather to start summer with highs near 80 across most of Iowa after days of cold and wet conditions. Officials forecast a continued warm spell and light winds.
A youth identified as James William Anderson 20 of Council Bluffs Iowa was killed when a tractor trailer struck him near Angola Indiana early today He reportedly was hitchhiking west when the accident occurred.
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