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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1951
Page
2
Mr and Mrs Virgil Jacobsen and Mr and Mrs Willie Jacobsen visited relatives in Nysted over the weekend.
Marne residents shared weekend visits with Des Moines guests Lela Keyes and Dorothy, and Chariton native Mr. Crocker. Wayne Carver and Bobby Reason traveled Wednesday to Alexandria Minnesota for a vacation. Hannah Shahan Robert Reason Leonard Smith and Harry Anderson joined Emma Schmidt in Atlantic Wednesday for her birthday. Clinton Shahan family and Hannah Shahan spent Sunday in Merrill with the Wayne Sha.
Karen Shahan is noted as visiting there for two weeks and returning home with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Majerus and a Ottawa Illinois family. They had previously visited with Karen’s sister Mrs. Arnold Johnson and her family.
Lewis and Mrs Elmer Swope plus son Gordon return from a month in the southwestern states. Delbert Craig and family with Mrs Charles Crabtree of Twin Falls Idaho visit Mrs Craig's mother Mrs Margaret Hartness and sister Mrs Lyle Ingram. A R Petruici and family of Miami Springs Fla visit her father Wilbur Woodward and other relatives and friends here.
Mrs Dora Eisterhold of Jefferson City Missouri visits near Wiota with three daughters Sr M Merwin of St Louis Sr M Corona of Belleville and Mrs Louise Mengwasser. The family then visits sister Mrs Gilbert Rau in Portsmouth. A Sunday gathering of about 50 relatives from Austin Minnesota attended including brothers Herman and George Eisterhold.
Mrs J F Perdue learns her sister Reva Purcell aged 45 died suddenly Monday in Portland Oregon. Funeral rites were held there today.
Babson cites national average teacher salaries of about 2500 per year for experienced staff and notes over half a million have left public schools since 1940. He contrasts these wages with broad spending in liquor and churches, highlights regional differences, and recalls a teaching couple he met in a small apartment.
A writer argues for universal involvement in education. It cites families strained by wages, teachers juggling work and home duties, and high taxes on educators. The piece calls for higher teacher and minister salaries, a revival of citizen interest, and honest government savings redirected to schools and churches.
AdaIr news lists a steady stream of visitors and relatives this week. Mrs L O Sparling and Miss Kate Krumm traveled to Des Moines to see the Veterans hospital and spent the evening with Max Mounts in Dexter. Ralph Eckhardt and son Ralph from Macomb Illinois visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs L O Carney, this week along with Alex Lee of West Bend visiting. On Monday they toured Des Moines to see Jack Jean with the Bruins, attending a Cub Bruins game. Mrs Earl Walker of Tulsa Oklahoma visits Gen Graham and family, with Mrs Chas Graham entertaining. Other guests included Ross Fleming Sharon Anderson Mamie Graham of Bells Garden California Merri Trailer and Charles M of Atlantic. Sunday and Monday visitors to Wauneta Jones included Ledora Cross of Fairborn Ohio and H M Carpenter of Tipp City Ohio, plus Boyd Largent of Oakland California and Bruce Largents of West Des Moines, visiting Roy Bechtels and other relatives.
New York report states Leroy A. Wilson, 50, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, died yesterday.
Woodward state hospital officials planned a daylong inquiry into the scalding deaths of two Des Moines girls, Carroll Bennett aged five and Judy Hustad aged six, who were pushed into a bath by an older patient Tuesday night. Coroner Garland Hancock previously ruled Helen Atkins, a 21-year-old former Fairfield inmate, responsible. Dr. Charles Graves would conduct a final psychiatric examination to assess insanity.
North Korea urges punishment for UN and South Korean leaders as war criminals in notes to the UN Security Council and Assembly. Pyongyang broadcasts also call for end of foreign troops and safe return of civilians, framing actions as aggression. A second broadcast vows communist victory to protect Korea and China.
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