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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1948
Page
4
Readers urged to take road signs at face value to reduce strain and enhance safety while driving. Officials emphasize following posted limits and directions to avoid accidents and improve overall road experience.
A gang of five machine gun robbers who held up a gambling joint and shot two officers escaped a major Cook County manhunt. Tracked to a home, one suspect Jerry Malleck, 23, admitted involvement. Loot about $1,000 found with abandoned car after pursuit from a Des Plaines river crossing.
The Eddy and Phares families thank the Elsie Berry nursing home neighbors and friends for the flowers and kindness during the sickness and death of our sister and aunt. Roy Eddy Mrs Carl Phares and Family.
Public safety reminder urges careful driving, urging patience on curves and hills to stay alive for tomorrow. Local publisher promotes News Telegraph want ads as a practical resource.
Local items report Mrs. E. B. Holton returned from Philadelphia where she was an alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention. Others include Mrs. Ray Asay returning to Stuart after eight months in Washington, Cpl. George Rains leaving for the South Pacific after a furlough, Glynn Warren buying the Maurice Brown building at 205 Walnut Street, and several residents attending the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Des Moines. Fireworks charges in Griswold court, a Notre Dame wedding guest from Davenport, visits of Des Moines residents, and graduation news from Chicago wrap the brief. Also noted are rainfall totals across several towns, cool weather forecast, and temperature reports.
The department of agriculture announces a method to grow yeast on juice pressed from ground limed citrus peel. The approach yields feed yeast rich in high quality protein and in the vitamin E complex.
SICK AND INJURED Out of Hospital. Mrs. Hattie Bartley of Atlantic released from Clarkson hospital in Omaha and recovering at her son's home. Hospital patients include Mrs. Lizzie Shepperd Formosa Kans Mra Homer Stewart 700 Maple St and Robert Essington of Extra. Dorleen Zoucha underwent tonsillectomy. Several others released over the weekend from Atlantic Griswold Cumberland Adair. Des Moines Lutheran hospital transfer for Mrs L O Davis. Peter Kurtenbach returns to duties after ear infection. Six Months in Hospital Griswold A H Doolittle much improved after Omaha hospital stay. Nyla Christensen daughter of Mr and Mrs Lars Christensen returned from Children's hospital Iowa City with knee bone infection and leg in cast.
National Board engineers warn that open flame gas and oil heaters pose serious home hazards. In heavy snows, gas poisoning caused by unvented heaters in closed rooms killed many in the Northeast as oxygen is depleted and carbon monoxide rises.
A recent patent describes making fruit juice with the fruit color without dyes. The process chills fresh juice to form fine ice crystals, then applies heat to separate liquid from the ice pulp, mills the solids, and reintroduces the colored pulp into the juice.
The Seaboard rail line between Wilmington and Hamlett North Carolina features the longest straight stretch in the United States over 70 miles without a curve.
A bridge theft attempt five miles south of Atlantic on Chestnut Street was misread. Sheriff reports that a crew using torches cut steel trusses to move the span as part of a county project to replace the old bridge with a new plate span under Supervisor E. E. Hastings.
Rock Island railroad timetable entries show eastbound and westbound trains with Rocket and Corn Belt Rocket numbers and local service. Indicates specific departure and arrival times including the 14 Local between Council Bluffs and West Des Moines and Audubon Branch trains serving Atlantic and Atlantis with listed times.
District Judge John Chalmers of Dubuque set to hear preliminary motions in an ouster suit against Buchanan county officials and Independence police chief. Defendants seek more specific petitions and individual trials. Plaintiffs seek removal over 12 counts of alleged misconduct including favoritism in liquor and gambling raids.
The record lists Overland Greyhound and Hawkeye Stages schedules with eastbound, southbound, and northbound departures from Union Bus Depot and Atlantic routes. It notes a non stop 2400 mile Atlantic flight by The Golden Plover from Nova Scotia to South America likely taking 48 hours. It mentions ruby throated hummingbirds crossing the Gulf of Mexico in a single 500 mile flight. It ends with a safety tip to slow down at dusk to save lives.
Casey William Lewis Wilson, 19, Omaha, son of Mr and Mrs Lewis Wilson and grandson of Mrs Olive Tharp Casey, died in a truck accident June 25 in Balto Cal. Body to be returned to Casey for burial. funeral arrangements not yet completed.
Reuters reported a catastrophic flood in Swatow area forcing 200000 to 300000 people from their homes. Entire families perished as waters swept away huts, with survivors moving toward Amoy and Foochow seeking refuge.
Scientists developed a process to remove odor-causing organisms from Limburger cheese while preserving taste. The breakthrough promises a milder-smelling product without altering its flavor profile.
Griswold couple Mr and Mrs Carl Jefferson and daughter from Oakland plan to relocate. Mr Jefferson will manage the Co Operative Telephone Co. here and Mrs Jefferson will replace Miss Minnie Scharf as Griswold third grade teacher.
Mr Jefferso, longtime assistant manager of the Oakland telephone system, has died. His decades of service to the city’s communications network were marked by steady leadership and a commitment to public service. Funeral arrangements were not available at this time.
J Edgar Hoover asserts that 8 to 90 percent of urban traffic accidents are caused by individuals who violate traffic laws. He frames lawbreakers as the direct source of most incidents in many large cities.
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