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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1952
Page
4
Advance orders urged for extra copies of the Atlantic News-Telegraph to meet demand, with readers encouraged to place requests ahead of publication.
Earl G Johnson formerly with Atlantic hotel and pastor at Holy Trinity and St Pauls Episcopal will be ordained Tuesday at 10 in the Harlan church. Bishop Gordon W Smith of Iowa will preside and Russell K Johnson will deliver the sermon. About 100 guests are expected for a luncheon by St Catherine's Guild. Four others are to be ordained deacons this week.
Mrs Roy Kloppenburg and son Kenneth travel to Randall Kansas to join husband and father Mr Kloppenburg who has been there weeks hauling wheat from Kansas wheat fields.
Local briefs report visits from Detroit and California travelers. Names include Mrs John Henderson Jack Henderson Martha Henderson Mrs Paul R Smith and daughter, Mr Mrs Albert B Morgan Miss Georgia Byrne and other families.
The forecast calls for warm humid weather Sunday with scattered afternoon showers. Atlantic read 82 after a low of 66. Thursday high 77. rainfall 1.26 inches. A 1940 Buick sedan owned by Anna White of Des Moines was damaged about 300 dollars after overturning in a ditch on U S 6 west of Anita around 2 AM following a theft in Des Moines at 11 PM Thursday. Two youths named Don Willis and Dick Johnson of Des Moines were detained but addresses did not match. The car ended up on its roof in the ditch after leaving the highway.
Donations to the fire prevention fund come from multiple contributors including 25 Atlantic Bottling Co and Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. totaling diverse amounts such as 15 from Weitzel Motor Co and Economy Shoe Store, 10 from Breese Oil station and several others like Howards and Joe Moore Produce.
Sandra Kay Roberts Grant is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Roberts born by Caesarean section at Omaha Clarkson hospital. Weighing under five pounds, she was placed in an incubator and the mother and baby were returned by ambulance to Cooper hospital rooms in Villisca. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Fred Roberts of Grant and Mrs. Dora Jones of Fruitland, Tenn.
In London influential Conservative members foresee Winston Churchill possibly resigning as British premier after Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in June. If he steps down, Anthony Eden, aged 85, is viewed as likely successor to assume the premiership.
Congress enacted the McCarran-Walter immigration and naturalization bill over President Truman’s veto. Senate override stood 57 to 26 and House 278 to 113-17, marking the first override since October 1951. The president opposed, calling the measure flawed and reminiscent of thought control.
Atlantic attorney Tom Gaffney was named county chairman with Mrs. Ruby McDermott of Anita as vice chairman at the Democratic central committee meeting after the party convention at the courthouse assembly room. Twenty six delegates were selected for state and district judicial conventions, with thirteen for each. Delegates named to the Des Moines state convention July 10 include Alvin Zellmer James Winston Harry McDermott Cecil Malone Fred Brown Vernon Nevens Tom Gaffney Bob Wilburn George Olsen Carl Sorensen Mrs Don Smiley of Atlantic Ellsworth Parker Carl Benson Mrs Ruby McDermott Vera Hook of Anita Mike Metz Harry Barnholdt and Mrs Constance Neary of Viota Geo Christensen Robert Goeken of Maine Robert Groves Robert Gore of Massena M R Hansen of Cumberland J E Swanson Frank Jorgensen and Mrs Edwin C Frederickson of Griswold. Delegates to the district judicial convention in Council Bluffs July 19 include Tom Gaffney Howard Rudolph Don Rees Alms Dutton Arlo Murray Mrs Robert Wilburn Dr J F Moriarty Mrs George Olsen of Atlantic Louie Hansen and Mayme Kay of Maine Mrs Lottie E Smithers of Anita and L R Rock and H M Reinig of Griswold. Delegates to the state judicial convention in Des Moines July 17 include Howard Rudolph Don Rees Mrs R B Shepard Clifton Pulock Ross Riggs Mrs Joe Metz Harold Zellmer and Mrs Mattie Hutchins of Atlantic Mrs Emil Retz of Wiota Mrs Ruby Anderson Mrs Hobart McCarty of Maine and Kathleen Waters of Massena.
Washington reports that Postmaster General Donaldson asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to grant another general advance in parcel post rates. The action aims to raise charges on parcel shipments across the service.
The petition does not specify the amount proposed for an increase in parcel post rates. It states that fourth class mail and parcel post are not paying their way, referencing last year’s 25 percent parcel post rate rise that took effect in October and increased total packaged mail charges by 100 million dollars annually. The law allows rate changes by Congress or the ICC.
Des Moines reports show 19 Iowa GOP delegates answering the Associated Press survey with no changes in presidential nominee preference since April 4. Taft and Eisenhower camps push, but delegates await the Chicago caucus July 7 to begin official balloting. George Faul predicts switches unlikely before delegates are settled in Chicago.
A list of delegates set to attend a Waterloo convention on August 1 includes John R. DeWitt Boyd Cambridge Dale Hioegh Kent Martin Lester Kluever John Budd Ray Yarham Reginald Larsen R W Cockshoot C H Carl Edward P Cole Richard Rudolph George Dalton Tom C Smith C S Jones Chas EF Walker Kenneth Jones Owen Meredith and others. The document continues from page one with additional names such as Mrs R Kent Martin C S Tompkins F D Simpson and Don Bice.
The United States today accused Soviet occupation authorities of widespread suppression of the free press in the Russian zone of Austria, marking a formal protest amid growing tensions over Allied control and media restrictions.
A Mexican divorce was granted here yesterday, separating Roberta Peters from Metropolitan Opera star Robert Merrill.
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