27 Jun 1947
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1947
Page
1
A compact listing shows varied prices across items with values such as 60c 75c and several dollar figures including 1.60 3.00 6.00 5.00 2.76 3.25 1.78. The fragment captures pricing patterns without full item names or sources.
The article explains that advances in astronomy reveal many stars with orbiting planets, inferred by deviations in stellar motion. Mathematicians estimate planet sizes and numbers, suggesting countless worlds where life could arise, making our solar system a minute part of a vast universe.
The piece muses on a 1948 tax cut plan and ponders motives behind it. It notes Iowa flood damage, urges Red Cross swimming lessons, and warns that gambling and crime rise after war. It praises TVA repayment concepts and suggests an MVA for Missouri Valley. It critiques Hollywood ties to Bugs Siegel and Murder Inc.
Washington diary reports seven GOP senators including Wiley, Brooks, Buck, Baldwin, Cain, Ferguson and Morse face a 17 percent rent hike from a Westchester landlord. Five protest the increase while Morse and Cain do not. The rent rise requires DC rent control approval. A separate note describes a secret GOP plan to cut excise taxes and a profile of Everett Dirksen’s changing speaking style. The piece also mentions Truman veto politics and a brief on a Mundt bill amendment.
The poem reflects on postwar achievement and the belief that progress has filled the world with invention and songs. The speaker, recalling youth, questions what future courage and wisdom may still be needed and asserts the word is not finished.
Griswold officers were chosen Tuesday evening with Mrs. Mervin Albright as N G, Mrs. James Swope as Vice Grand, Mrs. H M Kirk as secretary, and Mrs. Cecil Shaffer as treasurer. Installation is planned for the July 1 meeting. Don’t drive if you drink.
In a casual New York note, the writer recalls a rogue rose bush that overtook a concrete wall with white and yellow blooms, praising its scent over cultivated varieties. He discusses Sally Hines in Oklahoma City preparing her book Good Manners in a Nutshell for Greenberg, recalling her rural teaching days and views on etiquette.
Guam June 27 A U S military commission heard Captain Hiroshi Iwanami the Truk hospital commandant describe preserving heads of four American prisoners and witnessing doctors boil heads as part of a trial of 19 Japanese for deaths by experiments. The testimony detailed eight victims two dying of shock after tourniquet tests two strangled after a dynamite blast and four dying from streptococcus injections.
The writer recounts a minor San Francisco earthquake felt for seconds without damage. They describe cool then 87 degree weather, celebrate San Francisco anniversaries, visit Santa Cruz, praise California outdoor life and climate, note Los Angeles gang toll, and praise city dining and hotels.
The Sacramento legislature adjourned after completing its labors including a new four and a half cent gasoline tax increase as part of the state highway program. Chinatown shops report improving merchandise and window displays after years of shortages while maritime strike settlements leave all parties hopeful for quick Bay Bridge transport talks.
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