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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1940
Page
3
Sports World News reports Fred Haney guiding the St. Louis Browns toward first division respectability. Despite pre-season doubts about pitching, Haney’s managing is credited with incremental improvement as the Browns lose 9-4 to George Caster and fall from the top tier.
Audubon Iowa plans tennis lessons for high school age boys and girls next week. Ross McFadden will guide sessions at the Audubon Country Club courts from morning until 10 30 each Monday Wednesday and Friday during the summer playground program.
Who’s who of national track stars arrive in Fresno for the 52nd annual AAU meet at Fresno State. Michigan State’s Fehr the lone NCAA champion absent. entrants include nearly all last year’s Lincoln champions and many winners from Minneapolis showdown.
The marble shooting champion Douglas Opper man, hailed as the proudest in the United States, was crowned at a Genetdncent event. The New York World notes participation from 686 cities and cemeteries in the travial yard decorations as Casuelas of Pittsburgh, Pa., lives.
In Vilaukee Wisconsin on June 27 defending champion Hellen Dettweiler of Washington beat Kathryn Pearson of Houston in the Western Open women’s match. Dettweiler defeated Elizabeth Hicks and Pearson defeated Lilien Zech as first round play continued with Zaharias edging Phyllis Otte and Ochilree facing Casey.
Audubon Country Club will host a one day open golf tournament on July Fourth with a small entry fee. Prizes will be awarded for championship and consolation winners in each flight. Qualifying rounds may be played the morning of the Fourth. A bridge tournament for women will also be held on the same day.
Noted players and teams featured with mixed outcomes as Chapman and Athletics top Browne and Indians, DiMaggio drives runs for the Yankees, Gorsien collapses in ninth for the Red Sox over the Tigers, Thaynes falters in ninth as White Sox defeat the Senators.
Manchester Vic reports Bill Cordingly of Des Moines Harvard captain won the first round of match play at Ekwanok Country Club. He parred the nineteenth hole to defeat Bill Ransom of Southern California. Eastern colleges lead with 11 players in the second round.
The American League table shows Cleveland, Detroit, Boston, New York, St. Louis, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Washington with varying records. Wednesday results: New York 3 beat Cleveland 1. Boston 8 beat Detroit 1. Chicago 7 beat Washington 6. Philadelphia tied. The schedule lists Detroit at St. Louis as the only game tonight.
Philadelphia beat Pittsburgh 4 2 in the first game. Pittsburgh won 11 6 in the second game. Cincinnati faced Boston with rain. New York won 10 9 against St. Louis. Chicago at Brooklyn and New York at Philadelphia were scheduled for night action.
A fragmented list of baseball players and teams from the era. Mentions Davis and DiMaggio with Pirates, Rizzo and Mahan for Phillies, Judnich for Browns, Chapman for Athletics, Mize for Cardinals, Danning and J Moore for Giants, Cuccinello for Giants, and Foxx and Trosky as leading American and Indians players with counts noted.
Birmingham notes the convention endorsed the Roosevelt-Wallace farm program 100 percent and hints Des Moines hearings shaped the GOP stance. He cites Iowa farmers praising AAA and the Roosevelt program with broad support, contrasting it with Republican promises and campaign rhetoric.
The Methodists defeated the Christians 12 to 4 and the Catholics beat the Presbyterians 9 to 2 in the junior church league opening softball games at Sunnyside Park. Pagel pitched for the Methodists with Clitheroe catching. Dusty Rhodes pitched for the Christians with Epperly receiving. Hayes caught and P Waters pitched for the Catholics, with Lang pitching and Herbert catching for the Presbyterians.
The local Methodist group schedules a game against the Fifth Avenue Methodist church softball team of Council Bluffs next Monday evening on the local softball diamond.
Albert Hollen of Massena was seriously injured when he fell from a hay wagon and was impaled on a pitchfork handle. Fourteen stitches were required for a wound in his rein. Stockholders of Athletic Sales Display Cabinet Co appointed a temporary receiver at last night’s meeting.
Mr and Mrs Gerld B Bers proprietors of the Family Shoe Store announce they have purchased an interest in the Welch shoe store and will operate the store in partnership with Ira L Welch after July 15 The new store will be known as the Family Shoe Store A removal sale begins today at the Family and the remaining stock will be moved to the Welch building to combine stocks into a bigger Family Shoe Store
A L Bowen state director of public welfare was found guilty of gross omission of duty in the Manten o epidemic at Manteno State Hospital. Judge Bartley will sentence Bowen on July 11 with a possible $10,000 fine and removal from office.
Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 PM at the Massena Methodist Church for Ervin E Wollenhaupt Massena township farmer who was killed yesterday morning when he fell from a hay wagon Burial will be in Massena township cemetery Rev Lester Hall will officiate
The Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Junior Farm Bureau will dedicate Cass county's first wayside park at the junction of highways 2 and 71, 12 miles south of Atlantic. A 6:30 picnic supper will open the program, followed by talks by Kenneth Harris, Charles Rudolph, and Robert Clark of Ames.
Weekend visits across Bloomfield include Mr. and Mrs. Will Fortune and families. Jackie McComb of Burlington with Rev. C v Ellis visited, along with Crescent guests at the Walter Osborne home. Lena Cares and daughters from Tulsa stayed with Mrs. Ethel Neary and Nora Bacon. Bacon accompanied them home for an indefinite stay. Woodbine figures R J Hall and Ralph Hammock visited Irene Moore.
Those who desire extra copies of The Newe Telegraph should notify the office in advance so that the supply will not be exhausted.
M. H. Funk of 701 Hazel Street is able to be out again after several days illness and returns to daily activities.
At the Atlantic hospital Mrs Maurice Ostrus of Wiota and infant LeRoy Eugene were discharged. Gerald Wheeler of 510 West Fifth street was admitted for medical care. Henning Erickson of Griswold was brought in for lacerations from a WPA project injury. Frances Schreiner of Masena, a medical patient, was discharged. Henry Huffy former mayor of Lewis is seriously ill at home with a kidney ailment. Miss Hazel Mertz was taken to Jennie Edmundson hospital Council Bluffs for appendix operation.
In Casey Grace Butler recovers from appendectomy at Mercy hospital Des Moines. Nearby C A Roper and Harlan Overmeyer visit Q M Calbert who remains seriously ill after surgery at Town Methodist hospital. Anita Elmer Scholl ill and bedridden northeast of town. Mrs W H Wagner injured when chair tipped while cherry picking. confined to bed. Griswold Mrs William Peebles fell and was severely bruised. Phillip Croghan recovering well after major Omaha surgery. Mrs Mary Forsythe remains in critical condition at daughter Mrs R M Scott’s home.
Marilyn Brandes cut her left arm falling on a hoe and needed three stitches. Anna Peterson, patient at Clarkson Hospital Omaha, received several blood transfusions and is reported much improved. Betty Jean Scheffler returned home from Mercy Hospital Council Bluffs after appendix removal.
Kenneth Struble, son of Earl Struble, fractured his right arm above the wrist while cranking a car on Tuesday. Harvey Jensen remains home with summer flu, while his wife and son Harris have recovered. Mrs. Jessie Herrick shows improvement after a week of illness. Mrs. Joe Gearhart is slowly recovering and can sit up part of the time.
Griswold Iowa firemen responded to a forenoon blaze at Ira Potter’s home where a wash house heated by a recently lit stove burned entirely. The fire consumed the structure and its contents but nearby buildings were rescued from damage.
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