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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1948
Page
2
Harold Evans, a Philadelphia Quaker named to serve as United Nations mayor for Jerusalem, announced he is returning to the United States immediately and leaving his post.
A report quotes Selly condemning Republicans for backing a private employer to break strikes. He accuses the GOP of showing contempt for workers and vows labor will remember the act.
Sergeant York is urged by readers through a weekly Iowa Republican Headquarters news column. Robert Klauer, secretary of the Iowa delegation at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, notes the shout from a bell boy as the scene unfolds in a crowded hotel lobby.
A bystander asks if a large man is Sgt Alvin York, the World War One hero, noting he looks heavier than the famous image. The man is identified as Willis B York of Madrid Iowa, sergeant at arms of the convention.
Des Moines reports donations of farm commodities will be collected next November for European relief through the Iowa committee on Christian Rural Overseas Program CROP. A statewide canvass was planned at yesterday’s meeting with Kirk Fox named chairman and officers elected including Rev. John Gorman as vice chairman Rev. Albert W. Farmer as state director John DeJong as treasurer and Clarence Wilson as publicity chairman.
The Agriculture Department reports that by the first quarter meat production fell seven percent from the previous year. Cattle slaughter dropped ten percent, calves one percent, hogs four percent and sheep and lambs seven percent. March production rose five percent from February but remained two percent below March 1947.
Audubon youths begin swimming classes Monday for boys at Harlan pool and Tuesday for girls. Sessions meet at the school house with Coach Dale Alderson overseeing daily recreation and baseball at the school ground. A wading pool at Memorial park for little children opens each weekday under Mrs. Dave Rasmussen. All projects fall under the city recreation program.
Eldora Toney, about 50, a member of the Negro Southernaires gospel quartet, died in a hospital after suffering a stroke during a Thursday night concert at a New Providence church. His wife in New York has been notified.
Noel Hansen, 16, received a bicycle from the Jerry Elliotts of Liscomb after finding and returning a purse to Mrs. Elliott. The purse held just over $30, and the gesture capped a wave of five lost purse incidents in Marshalltown over the past ten days.
Audubon News Briefs note Emma Krohn Mrs. George Olsen and son Robert of Atlantic return from a two week trip to New York and the East. Daisy Frick ends a Portland visit with granddaughter Barbara Childs. Rasmussen travels to Natchez and New Orleans for two weeks. Al Miller visits Winchester Va then plans New England and Montreal. Louise Green departs for Salt Lake City for two weeks. Gribble of Shafter visits Audubon relatives. Clyde Keith visits California. Noll couple moves to Seattle after visiting Johnsons. Mallonee family spends a month in Alberta and western national parks. Pray family from Seattle visits Audubon. M P Montgomery of Colusa visits Jensen Wright brothers and Stella Tague in Audubon.
Oberlin Ohio report says the Congregational Christian churches council approved a basis of union with the Evangelical and Reformed church to form a United Church of Christ with about 2 million members. Delegates voted 10 to 12 against as reports were debated and a 75 percent church approval is sought. A plebiscite showed 66.5 percent favored the merger.
transfers list shows multiple property deeds dated 1948 from Aden Odem, M Snyder, R W Steen, A Sien, Clarence Minor, Rasmussen, Whitney and others. parcels exchanged include blocks in Dickerson Keyes, Griswold, Atlantic and LaVista place with nominal sums and one dollar plus obligations. descriptions mention lots, vacated alleys, and tracts with common theme of real estate conveyances in the Atlantic neighborhood.
The Coptic church separated from other Christians in 451 A.D. after the Council of Chalcedon banished Patriarch Dioscorus of Alexandria and authorities in Constantinople installed a non-Coptic bishop at Alexandria.
Nearly five million children ride school buses in the United States, reflecting the scale of the nation's public transportation for students and the importance of the bus fleet in daily school life.
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