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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1947
Page
6
The Library Board held its annual election Saturday naming Mrs. Albert Eshelman president Mrs. Orville Laird vice president Mrs. Mary Fagan secretary and Mrs. Dale Stennett treasurer in the results.
Dr. A. Shead, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Oklahoma, has had an article accepted by a magazine after seven years of waiting. Friends speculate the lengthy review influenced the title, which reads Microidentification of Cupric and Perchlorate fons as Cupric Pyridine Perchlorate. The piece's publication marks a milestone amid routine railroad crossing cautions in Norman.
Griswold Lions club held its meeting to install new officers and hear about a proposed Atlantic Memorial hospital wing. Dr M B Weir of Griswold conducted the ceremony naming C W Rodgers as president and a slate including R V Prokop, S Braden, L Rydquist as vice presidents with Lary as secretary and Wolf as treasurer. New directors are Geo Murburger Clarence Fetrow and J K R DeWitt.
Firefighters responded to a car blaze about 8 p m Thursday near the Sorn Sorensen residence south of town. The Emmett Johnston car caught fire while he was returning home and was badly damaged. Extra firemen were called to the scene.
Two World War II veterans, John W. Sherwood of 806 Pine Street and Tom L. Robinson of Des Moines, organize Atlantic Construction Company. They grade a new division at the E 8 Zurfluh property in southeast Atlantic and have operated in Audubon Cass Adair and Guthrie counties.
A female juror in the Overell yacht deaths case was attacked at her Santa Ana home by an unidentified intruder who warned of harsher results if the girl were found guilty. The assault delayed the second day of testimony as the juror and others face renewed security concerns amid ongoing deliberations for Louise Overell and her companion George Gollum in the parents’ slayings.
Sixteen Cass county 4-H boys and three leaders will attend the state 4-H boys’ short course at Iowa State College from June 30 to July 2. Delegates from Cass include Brighton, Atlantic. Jack Ohms, Pymosa. Jimmy Johnson, Atlantic. Wayne Olsen, Atlantic. Bill Pollock, Anita. Dean Coomes, Wiota. Carl Aldag, Atlantic. Don Berry, Cass. Bob Mundorf, Wis Bear Grove. Marvin Stiffens, Atlantic. Harold Pettinger, Cumberland. Duane Karstens, Massena. Donald Curry, Massena. Edna Stanford, Pelzer. George Kirchert, Griswold. Clifford Christensen, county president. Leaders are Cliff Hardie, Frank Bailey, and Lawrence Sothman. Theme is Learning to Live in a Changing World with speakers Allan B. Kline, Ray Turner, and H. H. Kildee.
Davenport Iowa June 26 hearing on a habeas corpus petition filed by Mrs Gertrude Dyer age 23 of Des Moines seeking custody of her six month old son Stephen Craig.
Judge W. W. Scott granted a continuance on June 11 after Mrs. Moyer testified that her former husband Marvin Moyer arranged the adoption of the child to Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Carleton of Davenport soon after birth. She claimed she had not seen the baby and did not fully understand a signed paper. Viota M Sgt and Mrs J V Seymour arrived safely in San Francisco Sunday after blizzards in Nevada and an earthquake shock. They are at John Seymour's home. Mrs Seymour phoned her parents, Mr and Mrs Mitt Bruner.
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