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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1962
Page
5
McManus and Hanson are nominated as street and airport projects move forward. Fourteenth street from Olive to Plum, Cass avenue from Chestnut to Waddell, and airport improvements gain approvals with federal and state funding.
Gen Dwight D Eisenhower calls for substantial reductions in the nations 516 billion defense outlay at a Republican dinner. He says current spending reflects unjustified fears and relics of outmoded concepts, urging bipartisan support for trimming the budget.
Forest City AP report says pilot Harold Miller of the Forest City Municipal Airport was hospitalized with a head laceration a broken right leg and fractured ribs after his spray plane struck a power line and crashed into a pasture four miles southwest of Forest City. The Aeronca aircraft pulled down 2,275 feet of wartime steel cable reaching a farmhouse area. Roger Clement the pilot's assistant acted as flagman during passes over the Alvin Clauson farm and was distant from the crash.
Partly cloudy through Sunday with scattered thunderstorms in the northeast and central areas Saturday night. Cooler in the northwest with lows around 55 to the mid 60s southeast. Sunday brings widely scattered storms and cooler highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s from northwest to southeast, followed by a partly cloudy Monday.
The last British troops have left Jamaica marking 300 years of occupation. Sixty Royal Hampshire Regiment soldiers departed by plane after a 21 year tour. Local defense will be taken over by the West India regiment, soon renamed the Jamaica Regiment.
A planned Ozark Airlines pilot strike by 180 pilots was averted after late negotiations opened Friday and produced an agreement announced by federal mediator Frank Switzer. The union sought a 2 percent pay raise and pension contributions about 7 percent of payroll. details of the terms were not immediately available.
George Wagner of Adair died Friday night at Methodist Hospital Des Moines after eight days as a patient. He was married in 1910 to Verda Purvis and ran a department store for 55 years. Survived by wife, three daughters, two grandchildren, and a sister. Rites pending. Also note Jane Parker made Iowa State University dean’s list.
First violence since talks broke off between Detroit Plastic Company and Local 155 of the UAW. Police used nightsticks to clear a path as pickets halted a car at the plant gate near Roseville Michigan.
CORRECTIONVILLE AP The president of the Corn Belt State Bank escaped an armed bandit who tried to force him to drive to the bank. P S Hart described a pistol with a barrel as large as a stove pipe. The assailant fled. Hart had faced prior robberies with his wife tied up in 1958.
Chicago AP report says 200000 trainmen unions accuse railroads of provoking a nationwide strike after operators walked out of a bargaining session. Dispute centers on work rules seen as featherbedding with unsafe, inefficient transport cited as justification. Union says carriers push unilateral use of a presidential commission plan.
London reports Commonwealth Secretary Duncan Sandys said further talks will occur between Britain and India over New Delhi's proposed purchase of MIG jet fighters from the Soviet Union.
Miss Dollie Shannon, 86, of Des Moines, former Atlantic resident, died in Des Moines at 10 15 Friday night. She was sister of Mrs. H F Harris of Des Moines and aunt of Mrs. H O Henningsen of Atlantic. Mrs Harris was sister of E T Shannon and the late Mrs S H Kirk of Atlantic.
The U S President's Medal of Merit has been awarded to Thai army chief Gen. Chitti Navisthira for expanding the Royal Thai Army into a modern force aiding mutual security with the United States and the free world. Gen. Paul D. Harkins presented the award in Bangkok.
King Savang Vathana of Laos named a 19 man coalition cabinet led by neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma. Premier Boun Oum and ministers from his anti Communist Vientiane regime resigned earlier, clearing the way for a conservative neutralist and pro Communist coalition amid Cold War tensions.
In Webster AP report two 19 year old women Rosalie Ritter and Karen Phillis died when their car swerved across a rock road and struck a clump of trees north of here. Twila Gerard 21 suffered a broken leg and related injuries and was taken to Sigourney hospital in serious condition.
The Flight Engineers International Association AFL CIO said it would strike Eastern Air Lines and Pan American World Airways at 1 p.m. EST, rejecting a National Mediation Board offer to mediate, signaling a breakdown in two-year contract disputes. The board urged a Monday meeting to seek a peaceable settlement. Meanwhile President Kennedy nominated Edward J. McManus and William C. Hanson to U.S. district judgeships in Iowa, with confirmation pending.
Vicki Hobbs five year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Ernest Hobbs of Fort Madison died in a hospital Friday night from injuries after she darted into the street and was hit by a car driven by Ira L Smith eighty two of Montrose.
Manila reports a sequence of six earthquakes centered near Calapan about 85 miles southwest of the capital. The tremors were recorded today with details provided by the Daily Mirror.
Twelve inmates at the State Penitentiary in Fort Madison received certificates from the Iowa Commission for the Blind for transcribing books into braille or tape recording them. Director Kenneth Jernigan praised the prisoners as outstanding and noted the program aids blind students and the Lions Club Light Conservation Committee funded the work.
The Daily Mirror reports a sequence of six earthquakes struck Calapano eight miles southwest of Manila today with no casualties or damage reported.
A 25 car Model A caravan passed Atlantic on the way to the Model A Ford Club of America national meet in San Francisco. At Hjortshot Service station the group refueled and gathered travel tips. Riders included Mr and Mrs William Roemer of Lyndhurst New Jersey with children David and Judy and Eddie Arcaro with nephew Fred Viole of Bogota New Jersey. The caravan stopped for breakfast after leaving Des Moines and aims to spend the night in North Platte Nebraska. Arcaro noted he is not the famous jockey.
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