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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1952
Page
2
The second annual Cherokee area soap box derby runs today with 52 youths from Iowa and Nebraska expected to compete. The winner earns a spot at the national derby in Akron.
Earl G. Johnson, longtime Marshalltown hotel manager at Hotel Tallcorn from 1949 to 1951, will be ordained a priest July 1 at St. Pauls Episcopal church in Harlan. He has preached there since last September and also serves as pastor of the Episcopal mission at Atlantic. The ceremony will include Rev. Kirby Webster of Marshalltown and Very Rev. Russell K. Johnson, dean of Trinity Cathedral in Davenport.
Griswold Mervin Weaver presents 45 pupils in a June 27 dance recital at the high school auditorium featuring A Week End on the Farm and A Trip Through Other Lands.
Mrs. Clayton Acker helps reveal details on Graham schol arships. Sidney and Glen Jones win this year, with Sidney a second cousin of Duane Acker and Duane and Ralph Keller being cousins from four years ago. Ted Herrmann of News Telegraph pictured in Rotarian. Bob Hope and Bing Crosby fund U S Olympic team. Bee swarm blocks Quality Shoe Shop sign. a retriever swallows a half dollar, recovered by vets.
Anita-Lloyd Kline, living south of Anita, sustained burns on both hands Sunday when a tractor he was working on caught fire. The blaze was extinguished by the Kline family. only minor damage occurred to the tractor and fuel barrels, with a crib and chicken house saved. Kline said gas splashed from rinsing a vacuum bowl into the manifold, igniting two gas lines and engulfing the tractor.
Funeral services for Mrs. Chas E Longstreet 67 of Red Oak will be at 10 a m Wednesday at Perryman funeral home Red Oak She died Sunday from complications after fracturing a hip in a June 10 fall She is survived by her husband Montgomery county clerk of court two sons Sam Longstreet San Gabriel California Rex Longstreet Shenandoah a brother Walter Root Atlantic a sister Mrs George Pawley Pasadena California and three grandchildren
Lewis Marian Wissler found four radios on a instrument last week on his father’s farm east of here prompting local curiosity about historical items unearthed near old farmstead.
A public advisory urges motorists to take it easy on the road and allow ample time for trips. It warns against speeding to avoid not reaching the destination safely.
Former senator Sinclair Weeks, chairman of the Republican Finance Committee, urged Senator Robert Taft to quit the presidential race and endorse Dwight Eisenhower. Taft called the suggestion ridiculous in Baltimore where he met Maryland delegates. Weeks said Eisenhower is the party’s best leader and the national committee member cited his administration and character.
In a bold appeal succeeding a hard fight, a speaker urges his ally Bob Taft to perform self denial and publicly support Eisenhower. The move is pitched to electrify the nation, unite the party, and secure victory amid evolving Chicago developments.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved bringing West Germany into the western defense alliance. It rejected a provision denying the president authority to send troops abroad without Congress. The protocol granting West Germany full NATO guarantees passed 9 to 1, with Sen. Hickenlooper the sole dissenter.
In remarks, Hickenlooper stressed the need for full Senate consideration of the interpretation and said he would seek a vote. Earlier, Secretary Acheson signed two pacts including a NATO agreement and a peace contract with West Germany, also signed by Britain and France.
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