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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1947
Page
4
A committee amended a resolution by Rep. Talle Reda propos ing the Veterans Administration acquire and run a surplus army hospital facility. The change narrows the scope from a government takeover to alternative actions under study.
A series of society notes lists visitors and travel as locals host guests from Los Angeles Fairfield Omaha and Chicago with movements to Lincoln Neb U S 6 detours after flood damage near Oakland and a Spirit Lake encampment visit by regional figures.
Rock Island trains have resumed service while Burlington trains reroute through the line. The Rock Island runs one to two hours late due to soft tracks as the eastbound Rocket, due at 1 17 this morning, arrived about 9 45. Nearby, several local notes cover visitors and court fines, plus camp and family news.
Atlantic visitors include Mrs Frits Wilcox and her son Stevie from Palo Alto Calif visiting relatives in town. A hydrant replacement paused water service and boiler parts shipment delayed due to Midwestern floods. Re- enlistments and California arrivals are noted along with travel woes from storms and a plane delay. Weather calls for sun then clouds with possible showers later in the state and near normal temperatures.
Floods clogged waterways drowning crops including wheat potatoes sugar beets oats and other grains. Government plans to export wheat to Europe face setbacks as crop damage lowers returns and complicates funding. In Kansas City grocer Harold Claybrooks fished in Main Street gutters pulling two catfish and four perch from waterlogged sewers after heavy rain.
A two-plane crash during a training flight near Council Bluffs killed Second Lt. Paul H. Black 26 of Lincoln Nebraska. Lt. Col. Frank Galla gher of El Paso Texas parachuted to safety. Both served with the 173rd National Guard Squadron based at Lincoln.
The senate voted 68 to 26 to sustain the house override of President Truman in pushing the Taft Hartley act into law. The house had earlier approved 331 to 83 to overturn the veto of the Wagner act overhaul, enacting far reaching limits on union activities.
In Tomkinsville Kentucky on Sunday night 25 year old Robert Bates a member of a prominent southern Kentucky family was held on murder charges in the slaying of his parents Dr and Mrs J C Bates chiropractors in Monroe County The county attorney said Bates who served in Europe after the war claimed he did not remember the incident after his arrest Sheriff Felin Ford reported the bodies were found yesterday in the county seat town of 1450 residents
The Japanese government seeks to use DDT powder to raise coal production. The National Coal Production Committee plans distributing 200000 cases of delousers to coal miners hoping for better sleep and more productive digging.
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